Book Reference List for Community Research Room

(For books / binders / articles found on the shelving units)

CUMBERLAND GENERAL INFORMATION

Cumberland: The Decline of a City –Marge Groves

Cumberland News: Souvenir Edition 1899

Cumberland Report

Cumberland History - Sweep ’74

Cumberland Newspapers Selected Articles -1897-1904

Cumberland Nickname – (1998)

Up! Magazine “Cumberland B.C Shows other resource towns how its done”

Cumberland Heritage Walks and Sites

Cumberland Soccer

Cumberland BC 1871-1971

Beautiful British Columbia Magazine –Cumberland: Dark past to Bright Future.

100 Flaming Years: The Cumberland Volunteer Fire Department-Majorie J. Eugene

Royal Bank of Canada 1904-1994

Cumberland Schools 1898-1931 from Newspapers

The Story of a Nation: Defining moments in History

Cumberland Census 1911

Cumberland Census 1901

Names of Previous Cumberland Students (Files in Elementary School)

Cumberland Heritage: A selected History of People, Buildings, Institutions, and Sites-by Jennifer Nell Barr Navy Blue Binder

Trophies: Our Winners-Red Binder

Addresses in Cumberland-Navy blue Binder

Addresses and Descriptions –Cumberland X2 Teal and Black Binders

Cemetery Records

Cumberland Cemetery Records- From Comox Valley Family History Society

Cemetery Records- Teal Binder

Burial Records of the Roman Catholic Section of Cumberland Graveyard (2 copies)

Cemetery Index (Red Folder)

Burial Records of Protestant Section of Cumberland Graveyard – (Gordon Wagner & Teresa Allen p.1992)

Baptism, Marriage, Burial Records of the Anglican Church – (Gordon Wagner, Loretta Jensen & Teresa Allen p.1992)

City of Courtenay Cemetery Records – (Jackelaine Gray & Gordon Wagner p.1994)

Burial Records of Both Sections of Cumberland Municipal Graveyard –( Gordon Wagner and Teresa Allen p.1992)

Labour Movement

The Working Image - A Photographic History of Women and Work in BC-From Women’s Labour History Project

Yellow Knife Mine and Mill Local 802 –By Barney Mcguire

Labour Union History - (unknown author)

Trial Transcript - Wellington 21st March 1891 – Author Unknown

The Struggle - A Brief History of Local Labour Movement and the Rossland Miners Union Hall- (Ross Jordan p.1995)

An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour Movement 1800-1979 (Edward Seymour)

Union Store - Retail Clerks International Association

Sweat and Struggle - Working Class Struggle in Canada – (Jack Scott)

Mayday – A graphic History Of Protest A Better Life – (Bruce Lowther)

The Winnipeg Strike 1919 – (Mcnaugh & Berceson p.1974)

Fighting for Labour - Four Decades of Work in BC (1910-1950)

They Died for you - A Brief History of the Canadian Labour Martyrs 1903-2006- (Larry Gambone and DJ Alperovitz )

The Great Vancouver Island Coal Stroke 1913 – (Jack Kavanagh)

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Workers Memorial Programme and Song Book 1986

Workers Memorial Support Booklet

Yours in Revolt -A Play (Susan Mayse – Mar 7 1994)

Their Own History: Women’s Contribution to the Labour Movement in BC – (Betty Griffin and Susan Lockhart )

Mining

Light at the End of the Tunnel - A History of the Tunnel and rock Workers Union of BC –Local 168

History 205 - Historical Archeology field project – No.8 Mine, Cumberland BC – (Kevin Cooper 1988)

British Columbia’s Coal History to 1891- (Gallacher)

When Coal Was King - Ladysmith and the Coal Mining Industry on Vancouver Island – (John R. Hinde)

Mine and Mill - The History of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in Canada Since 1895- (Mike Solski and John Smaller)

The Mine Development Process – Placer Development Limited

Beautiful British Columbia –Cumberland - Dark Past to Bright Future

Fire boss Coal Mining Course- For Third Class Certificate of Competency Spawn of Coal Dust: A History of Roslyn (1886-1995)

Cumberland British Columbia 1871-1971

Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir Limited First Annual Report – (1911)

From Coal Mine to Castle - The Story of the Dunsmuir’s on Vancouver Island – (James Audain)

The Encyclopedia of Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of British Columbia – (T.W. Paterson)

Copy of Mining Magazine –from Mining Association of Canada

Mining in BC 1989 –From Mining Association of British Columbia

Boss Whistle - The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember – (Lynne Bowen)

Scrapbook of Mine Ruins and Locations (Beige Binder with Orange tree photo on spine)

Coal Dust Grins - Portraits of Canadian Coal Miners – (Lawrence Chrisima)

Workers Memorial Day Scrapbook 1986

6th Annual Miners Memorial Day Scrapbook 1991

Miners Memorial Day Scrapbook 1989

Colonization and Community - The Vancouver Island Coal Field and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class – (John Douglas Belshaw)

Cumberland/Union Vancouver Island Coal Mining – (John Tobacco Homer)

Chinese/Chinatown/Chinese Communities

Chinese Names Index

Memories of Cumberland Chinatown – (Phillip C.P. Lowe)

Cumberland Chinese Research Index –Prepared by Constance Lowe

From China to Canada - A History of Chinese Communities in Canada – (Wickberg, Con, Con, Johnson, Willmott)

The Sea of Sterile Mountains - The Chinese in British Columbia – (James Morton)

Jumbo’s Cabin - A brief History on its Historical Importance Cumberland Chinatown - A Retrospective – (Constance Lowe) (X2) An Examination of Oriental Communities and Their Relationship with the White Population

Ethnic Conflict in Context - Cumberland British Columbia 1880-1940- (Gayel A. Horsfall)

The Politics of Racism - Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War- (Ann Gomer Sunahara)

Cumberland Chinatown – (Judy Hagen)

The Chinese Diaspora

Chinese Watercolor – (Stephen Lowe)

Beautiful British Columbia Travel - Bright Moon on Chinatown

The Art of - (Stephen Lowe)

Booklet of Chinese Photographs (X2)

First Son - Portraits of C.D Hoy- (Faith Moosang)

Japanese/ Japanese communities/Japanese Towns

Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada 1891-1941- (Michiko Midge Ayukawa) (X2)

Japanese Business, No.5 Japanese Town, Bevan, Royston, Minto

Powell Street Monogatari – (A. Katsuyoshi Morita)

Bah-Chan’s Story - thoughts and Recollections of a Japanese Canadian Growing Up in Canada – (Yoshimi Susan Maikawa)

The Enemy That Never Was - An Account of Deplorable Treatment Inflicted on Japanese Canadians During World War Two (Ken Aldachi)

Research Paper on Japanese Women in Canada (Burgundy Folder)

Pacific Northwest Quarterly –From the Scholarly Journal of Northwest History –Issue 1999- 2000

Names of C.E.S Japanese Students –Compiled at Empire Days 89th Celebration

Hands across the Pacific - Japan in British Columbia 1889-1989 -Consulate General of Japan, Vancouver The Politics of Racism – (Ann Gomer Sunahara)

Issei - Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers – (Gordon G. Nakayana)

The Saito Families of Cumberland BC - The Ancestors and Decedents

Museum 1985- Cumberland Japanese Research Index –Prepared for B.C Heritage Trust by Constance Lowe

No.1 Japanese Town - Establishing a Context for the Preservation of the Saito House – (Kelsey chandler and Lisa Gordon)

Japanese War Veteran’s Info (Blue Binder)

Nikkei Legacy - The Story of Japanese Canadians From Settlement to Today- (Toyotakata)

Sashin: Japanese Canadian Photography to 1942

Years of Sorrow- Years of Shame - The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War Two- (Barry Broadfoot)

Booklet of Japanese Photos (Grey Folder)

Past Reflections – (Toru Marguya in a Letter to Mrs. Egger)

Japanese Canadian Pupils 1921 on – Compiled for 89th Empire Day Celebration

Memories of Cumberland No. 1 Japanese Town

The Vancouver Island Nikkei Society Telephone Directory

Regional Vancouver Island ( Comox Valley, BC, Union Bay, Fanny Bay, Bevan, Minto and More):

Minto - 1867-1967- Margaret Egger

Land of Plenty - A History of the Comox District – ( D.EIsenor, W.N McInnis, E.G Stephens, D.E Watson)

For Our Children - A History of Comox Valley Schools 1870-1980

Voices from Courtenay Past – (Betty Annand)

A Comox Harbour History – (Lloyd Bailey) 1992 The Wilderness Profound – (Richard Somerset Mackie)

Heritage Impact Assessment – (2014 Report)

Field Books of Comox Valley Surveys – (George F. Drabble) –Land Surveyor 1870-1901 – Transcribed by Gordon Wagner

The History of Tle-Tla-Tay (Royston) –Royston Centennial Committee

Union Bay United Community Church -1906-2006

The Comox Harbour History – (Lloyd Bailey)

Whoever Givers Us Bread – (Lynne Bowen)

Whistle up the Inlet - The Union Steamship Story – (Gerald A. Ruston)

Union Bay Post Office Heritage Restoration (black folder)

Voices from Bevan – (Betty Annand)

Shingles and Shells - A History of Fanny Bay – (Arv Olson)

Comox Valley Memories – (Judy Hagan)

South Wellington: Stories from the Past – South Wellington Historical Committee

Comox Valley - Its Pioneers Parts I-VIII –Compilation Compiled by Comox Valley Teachers in 1950’s

Historic Hornby Island – (Margery Corrigall)

Island Renaissance

British Columbia Archives – (Buckham Papers)

Annotated Bibliography of Education History in BC – (Valerie M.E. Giles)

A Travelers Guide - historic British Columbia – (Rosemary Neering)

Whoever gives us Bread- (Lynn Bowen)

Camera Workers - The BC Photographers Directory 1958-1900 – (David Mattison)

Nanaimo Retrospective - The First Century – (Nanaimo Historical Society)

Making the News - The Times Colonist Look at 150 Years of History From the Sidelines - 1896-1996-Victorica West Athletic Association – (Dave Unwin)

Women’s History Institute- History

On To Ottawa: Proposal

On To Ottawa: Script

Ghost Town Trails of Vancouver Island- (T.W Patterson)

The Comox Valley - A Pictorial Essay- (John Stigant and Ron Egan)

Vancouver Island Portrait of a Past – (Rodger Touchie)

Wish You Were Here - Life on Vancouver Island in Historical Postcards- (Peter Grant)

The Long Distance Feeling - A History of BC Telecommunications Workers Union – (Elaine Bernard)

57 Years in the Comox Valley – (Eric Duncan)

The History of the T.U.C 1868-1968 - A Pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution Illustrated with Contemporary Prints, Documents, and Photographs

Westcoast Reign – The British Columbia Soccer Championships 1892 – 1905 (Robert Janning)

Family Histories:

The Vass Vendetta- (G. Wagner)

Modified Register for James Patrick Clarke

Family Research Data Sheets

Sommerville Family Booklet 2001 (Navy blue Binder)

BC Archives Buckham Papers

A.F Buckham Collection

Biographies: The Life and times of Joseph Mcphee: Courtenay’s Founding Father- (Ian J.M. Kennedy)

Ginger – (Nathan Schmidt Grade 10 Isfeld Student 2001)

A Brief Bio of Edward Walker

Ginger - The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin – (Susan Mayse)

Robert Dunsmuir - Laird of the Mines – (Lynne Bowen)

Tommy Douglas - building the New Society- (Dave Margoshes)

Biography of John Earl Bannerman –(Cindy Bannerman)

If it hadn’t been for Henry - The Teaching Career of Henry Watson – (Donna Grinnell)

The Adamson Journal – (Robert Sydney Adamson)

Ginger Goodwin Information – (Susan Mayse)

The Art and Soul of Alfred Kristiansen

The Wilderness Profound- Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia – (Richard Sommerset Mackie)

Bill Johnson Collection

Ardoon - A Family History: The Story of James Quinn and Elizabeth Graham –their Ancestors, Children and Decedents – (Kiera Quinn Lockyer)

Interviews and Autobiographies:

Coal Dust in my Blood – (Bill Johnstone)

Interviews – Purple Binder

Autobiography – Black Binder

Trains, Railways and Logging:

Collieries Railway of the Comox Valley – (Patrick O. Hinde)

Survey and Construction of the CNPR on Vancouver Island 1910-1914 – (Robert M. Danielson)

Vancouver Island Coal Mining Steam Locomotives Vancouver Island Railroads – (Robert D. Turner)

Logging by Rail - the British Columbia Story – (Robert D. turner)

Loggers of the BC Coast- (Hands Knapp)

School Photo/Class Photo Binders

Courtenay Class Photos 1925-1969 – White Binder

Courtenay Schools – Blue Binder

Cumberland High schools – Ex; Minto, Bevan – Black Binder

Cumberland Public Schools – Black Binder

Tsolum School – Blue Binder

Comox Schools – Purple Binder

Arden/ Glacier View – Blue Binder

Dove Creek, Headquarters, Oyster River, Merville – Green Binder