Resources

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
SAMPLE-MEDIA-RELEASE-FORM-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.