Audio Interviews with Maillardville Pioneers

The following audio clips and transcripts are from interviews with Maillardville pioneers, recorded in 1972 as part of the Vancouver Oral History Project. The interviewer is Cheryl Pierson.

Mrs. Beaudoin Proulx - Recorded March 29, 1972

Audio Clip (3:40 min.) | Transcript 
Remembers early buildings and going to school in Maillardville, circa 1909.

Mrs. Yvonne Paré - Recorded April 12, 1972

Audio Clip  (3:42 min.) | Transcript 
Talks about transportation in early Maillardville and New Westminster.

Mr. Hercules Lamoureux - Recorded April 26, 1972

Audio Clip 1 (1:51 min.) | Transcript
Segment 1: reminisces about early Maillardville.

Audio Clip 2 (3:58 min.) | Transcript
Segment 2: describes the development of Maillardville and the early fire department.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hammond - Recorded May 2, 1972

Audio Clip (3:05 min.) | Transcript 
Recall their earliest memories of Maillardville.

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In-Library Reference Collection

The complete Maillardville interviews are available on compact disc for loan from the Coquitlam Public Library; the transcripts are in the reference collection. The contents of each are as follows:  

Mrs. Marie Lizee, April 18, 1972, interview #28

2 booklets, 2 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral history Project, 1972
Life during the Depression era.

Mr. Arthur Laverdure, April 20 and 25, 1972, interview #30

4 booklets, 4 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Experiences in early Maillardville as well as during the two World Wars and the Great Depression.

Mr. Hercules Lamoureux, April 26, 1972, interview #50

2 booklets, 2 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Early life and customs in Maillardville and working conditions at Fraser Mills in the 1910's.

Mr. Jean-Baptiste (Johnny) Decaire, April 10, 1972, interview #21

1 booklet, 1 compact disc
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Early settlement in Maillardville

Mr. Arthur Coutu, May 9, 1972, interview #65

2 booklets, 2 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Accounts of the first strike at Fraser Mills and the working conditions there in those days.

Mr. & Mrs. Leo Hammond, May 2, 1972, interview #54

2 booklets, 2 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Early Maillardville, as well as accounts of the first strike at Fraser Mills and the women's role in it.

Mrs. Yvonne Paré, April 12, 1972, interview #18

1 booklet, 1 compact disc
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Growing up in Maillardville.

Mrs. Beaudoin Proulx, March 29, 1972, interview #13

2 booklets, 2 compact discs
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
Experiences in early Maillardville as well as during the two World Wars and the Great Depression.

Mr. Maurice Thomas, March 5, 1972, interview #144

1 compact disc
Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Oral History Project, 1972
A history of the Crown-Zellerbach sawmill.

These recorded interviews are from the British Columbia Archives and are provided for study purposes only. They must not be copied without the permission of the copyright holder.

Digitization of these interviews, in 2004, was made possible through a grant from the Coquitlam-Maillardville Heritage Trust.