Interview with Clarence Hamilton

Audio recording and transcript of Clarence Hamilton's 1979 interview with Bernard McNicholl for the Coal Tyee History Project. Hamilton describes the various jobs he had working in the coal mining industry, in which he started when he was 15 years old. He talks about his impressions of the Vancouver Island Coal Miners' Strike and he shares his thoughts about the Granby Mine and townsite. He reflects on growing up and going to school in South Wellington and Extension and then later living in Nanaimo. Hamilton's wife, Laura, also contributes to the interview, and both of the Hamiltons share their thoughts on Nanaimo's red-light district and on the city's Chinese and Japanese communities.