Talk about my early days in Nanaimo

Audio recording and transcript of Elmer Blackstaff's 1979 interview with Myrtle Bergren for the Coal Tyee History Project. Blackstaff talks about his father's emigration from London and subsequent journey across Canada on the CPR to Vancouver Island. He shares his mother's memories of the explosion in the #1 Esplanade Mine on May 3, 1887, and talks about his own experience working in the same mine before its closure in 1938.