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Wendy Wickwire Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Wendy Wickwire, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Wickwire talks about her interdisciplinary background and how she began studying indigenous history in BC. Wickwire also talks about her experience doing field research, her relationships with research participants, and how she approaches her research in order to minimize western bias.

Jean L. Briggs Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Jean L. Briggs for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Briggs talks about her childhood and her education at Vassar College, Boston University, and Harvard. Predominantly, Briggs discusses her experience doing 17 months of fieldwork in remote northern Inuit communities, and her work at Memorial University in Newfoundland.

Heather Harris Interview

Interview with Metis anthropologist, Dr. Heather Harris, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." The interview was conducted by Ainly’s research assistant Anna-Stina Kjellstrom. Harris talks about how as a Cree-metis woman, she became interested in anthropology through hearing oral histories from her family. She touches on the value of oral histories as authoritative sources of information, access she had to informants in communities, and conceptions of knowledge and expertise in indigenous communities compared to Western views.

Nancy J. Turner Interview

Interview with ethnobotanist, Dr. Nancy Turner, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Turner talks about her family and early academic career in botany, and explains how she started doing ethnobotany. Turner also discusses her research interests and experiences collaborating with linguists, and indigenous partners to produce plant guides. Ainley and Turner discuss historical conceptions of Western science in contrast with indigenous knowledge.

Delaney Barton Interview

Interview with Delaney Barton for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Barton talks about her time living and teaching in the northern Yukon town, Old Crow. She discusses adjusting to the remoteness of the town, and the cultural differences she experienced.

Beryl Amaron Interview

Interview with Beryl Amaron for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." The interview was conducted by Ainly’s research assistant Anna-Stina Kjellstrom. Amaron talks about her MA thesis, "More than Useable Tools: Towards and appreciation of Ne?kepx Fibre Technology as a Significant Expression of Culture." She explains her focus on women’s work, gender divisions she observed in the community, and difficulties she had while conducting her fieldwork.

Jane Young Interview

Interview with ethnobotanist, Dr. Jane Young, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Young begins by explaining how she became interested in studying ethnobotany, and her experience working with research participants in the field. Ainly and Young also discuss environmental conservation, the methodology of ethnobotanical interviews, and how society’s value of ethnobotany has changed over time.

Elinor M. Kartzmark Interview

Interview with chemist, Dr. Elinor Kartzmark for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Kartzmark explains growing up in rural Manitoba, attending the University of Winnipeg, and later teaching at that same university. They discuss how gender and adopting a child affected Kartzmark’s professional career.

Building of Change Project fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR355
  • Fonds
  • 2000-2002

Fonds consists of project files including correspondence, funding, proposals, newspaper clippings, research papers; journals and notebook; scrapbook entitled "Building of Change: the process exposed"; oral history interview tapes; video recordings. Audio cassettes included records interviews with: Jacquie Ackerly, Sharon Chow, Harrinder Dhillon, Dorothy Livingston, Norrie Preston, and Joan Russo.

Building of Change Project

Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia / EKOS Communications video history collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR447
  • Collection
  • 2000; 2006-2008

Collection consists of video history interviews with park pioneers, as well as some events, created by EKOS Communications in partnership with the Elders Council for Parks of British Columbia [http://www.elderscouncilforparks.org] to commemorate the 100th anniversary of BC Parks in 2011.

The Elders Council is an independent society, whose members are retired parks system employees and conservation advocates who have dedicated a significant portion of their lives to parks and protected areas in BC. These interviews served as source material for the documentary BC Parks: Celebrating 100 Years of Recreation and Protection. [http://ekoscommunications.com/node/723]

EKOS Communications first launched in 2005 as ekostv.com with the goal of creating Canada's first independent new media channel. ekostv was re-envisioned in 2007 as EKOS Communications, Inc. which providing environmental education and communication services. Clients included Parks Canada, BC Parks, Natural Resources Canada, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Metro Vancouver, and Union of BC Municipalities. EKOS Communications™ services included project management, video production, audio production, web design and development, community animation, group process and facilitation, research and writing, communications strategy, communications consultation, environmental education, curriculum design, development and evaluation.

In December 2010, EKOS Communications Inc. dissolved and was re-formed as EKOS Communications under the sole proprietorship of creator, president and executive producer Rick Searle. As of April 2011, other chief officers of EKOS Communications included Creative Director/Writer Starr Munro, Editor/Shooter Richard Fulop, and Webmaster Prarie Blake. EKOS Communications™ stated mission is "to assist with the rapid advancement of ecological literacy and sustainability through environmental education and communication; Combining video, audio, animation, and print with new media innovations, EKOS Communications connects people more deeply with each other to work together for the betterment of the planet."

Standard questions were used in most of the interviews and included dates of employment/association with BC Parks, parks worked in, greatest challenges, accomplishments and regrets, lessons learned, hopes for provincial park system today and mentors.

Interviewers included Rick Searle. Interviewees: Bob Ahrens, Victor Bopp, Bert Brink, Luc Campeau, Ric Careless, Jim Delikatny, Yorke Edwards, Ken Farquharson, Milt Goddard, Don Gough, Herb Green, Gordon MacDonald, Ed Mankelow, Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Tom Moore, Denis Gorman, David Stirling, Bob Williams and John Woodworth.

Elders Council for Parks in British Columbia

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