THE STORY OF OLD MAN COURTENAY: A Tall Tale
written and performed by Dan Vie for our Old Time Winter Dance, December 2013
Old Man Courtenay
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
A list compiled as starting points for the students
QUESTIONS FOR ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
SAMPLE MEDIA RELEASE FORM
The permission form created for this project
Aerial Photos 1937 / 1957 / 1977
Courtenay Today (2014)
BOOKS
THE COMOX VALLEY
Voices from Courtenay Past – Betty Annand
Land of Plenty: a History of the Comox District
Isenor, McInnis and Stephens
The Life and Times of Joseph McPhee
Ian Kennedy
Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company
Richard Mackie
http://www.rsmackie.com
Now You’re Logging
Bus Griffiths
Broken Ground – Jack Hodgins
a novel of WW1 veterans in Portuguese Creek
http://www.jackhodgins.ca
Boss Whistle – The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember
Lynne Bowen
http://www.lynnebowen.ca/
Comox Valley Memories – Judy Hagen
See Judy’s “Hunt for History” video programmes in the Courtenay Museum
Escape to Gold Mountain – A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
David H.T. Wong
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS
Raincoast Chronicles
Stories and History of the BC Coast
Remembering the Farm
Allan Anderson
Voice of the Pioneer
Bill McNeil
Transcripts from long-running CBC radio show
Ten Lost Years 1929-1939
Memories of Canadians who Survived the Depression
Barry Broadfoot
The Foxfire book series
founded in 1966 for students to document rural Appalachian residents
http://www.foxfire.org
Hard Times – Studs Terkel
Masterful oral historian; his books include ‘Working’ and ‘Hope Dies Last’.
Opening Doors: In Vancouver’s East End
Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter
Islands In the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
Sheila Harrington and Judi Stenson (2005)
a community mapping process with 17 island communities
METHODS
Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting Intergenerational Oral History Projects
Angela Zusman
Doing Oral History – Don Ritchie
The Oral History Reader – Robert Perks
Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Valerie Yow
Books may be out of print. Check the library and museum archives.
Second Page Books has a local history section.