 His talks with J.S.Matthew, the first City Archivist of Vancouver, are transcribed in "Conversations with Khahtsahlano", 1932-1954, and are now available to read online.They discussed "everything from area history, legends, and traditions like the Potlatch, to food preparations and plants for medicine" These records were designed to follow the work of Oliver Wells, with whom August Jack had also collaborated to record his personal stories and history in the book "Squamish Legends… The First People" (1966), published by Oliver Wells and Domanic Charlie, who operated a cafe in North Vancouver and displayed August Jack's carvings.