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University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Library Special Collections and Archives Doug and Joyce Cox Research Collection
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Lake Boats Reference

File contains transcribed newspaper articles from the Penticton Herald, tear sheets, notes and information on ships. Interview notes with Bill Gutteridge, 1991. Interview notes with Bill Crossley, 1991.

Brent family collection

Biographical sketch
Alexander Theodore “Sandy” Brent (1912-1990) was as lifelong resident of the South Okanagan. After the death of his mother in the influenza epidemic of 1918, he and his siblings (Frederick (Eddie), Mary, Alice, Margaret and Donald) were raised by his grandparents at the Shingle Creek Ranch. Brent married Harriet Morgan and together they raised two sons (Kenneth (b. 1942) and George (b. 1945). His sister Alice married Hal Tweddle; she and her family is photographically documented in the Richter and Tweddle families collection.
The Brent’s lived variously in Allen Grove, St. Andrews by the Lake, and Penticton. Sandy Brent worked in ranching, hard rock mining (Nickel Plate mine above Hedley), logging, and finally as a foreman and later superintendent for the Hatfield family’s Interior Contracting Company.

Scope and content
Subseries consists of recorded interviews and transcripts of recorded interviews. Not all audio recordings associated with transcripts are extant; likewise, not all audio tapes have an associated transcript. Content of interviews includes personal reminiscences, descriptions of photographs, and family histories. Subseries also includes a suite of interviews with his sisters, Alice, and Margaret.

B&W negs #1 Brent family Allen Grove Keremeos Nickel Plate Mascot Mine Princeton Blakeburn

File contains negatives and contact sheets. Photo labels within indicate Tweddle, Richter, Stelkia, Barcelo, Estabrooks families; John Acland, Billy Kruger, Lennie Pierre, Joe Bromley, Charlie Armstrong, Pat Wright, Sandy Brent. Contains photographs interfiled with Doug Cox photos. This file may have a strong correspondence with subseries 1.3-22: Penticton Indian Band.

Charlie Armstrong, + Stelkia family Inkameep (Oliver) Marron Valley Penticton Reserve. Alternative title: Charlie Armstrong Marron Valley. Alternative title: Charlie Armstrong of Marron Valley and the Stelkia family of Inkameep

File contains photographs. Contains labels indicating Kruger, Stelkia, Eneas, Armstrong famililes. Photos have been separated. This file may have a strong correspondence with subseries 1.3-21: Brent Family Collection.

Doug Cox research materials

Series consists of Doug Cox’s collecting activity carried out in support of his writing. Points of origin are predominantly the southern interior of British Columbia. Collections acquired are primarily composed of photographic material, secondarily of textual material, with interviews and associated transcripts created to correspond with the main locations and activities of the collection. Contents depict and describe a variety of scenes and settings, primarily concerning industry and infrastructure, family life, city scenes, and landscapes during the first half of the twentieth century. Many photocopies of images exist with annotations by original donor identifying human subjects, their relationships, and their locations.

KVR/CPR Railroad

File consists of 3 folders. Contains photographs and tear sheets from Okanagan Similkameen Tulameen. Contains some Doug Cox photos, interfiled.

Naramata album

File consists of 3 folders. Includes copy of "Naramata Summerland, Appledale and Peachland in the Famous Okanagan Valley British Columbia Canada” and ephemera.

Historical mining research collection

Subseries consists of collected materials with pertinence to the mining industry in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Kootenay, Boundary, and Similkameen regions of British Columbia.
Includes collected photographs, clippings, government publications, maps (mineral claims) and textual records.

Ranching heritage of BC. (All areas) 36 sheets @ 20 Approximately 700 slides). Alternative title: British Columbia Ranching heritage Okanagan Similkameen Nicola/Douglas Lake Kamloops Cariboo, Kootenays Peace River

File contains photographs. Contains labels indicating John Bibby, Bill Arnold, Lorna Rounds, Ralph Overton, Fred Phelps, Tony and George Chapman, Joseph Pierre, Herb Allen, Harvey Kusler; Henry Dennis; BX Ranch, Ellis Ranch, Thomas Ranch, Chuchuwaya Ranch; Hawthorne family of OK Falls, Richter family of Similkameen and Allen Grove.

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