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Title: Summers in MacLean Park - Interview with Eva Scherger
Contributor(s): Scherger, Eva (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: During the summers, Ms. Scherger and her friends and siblings spent the greater part of their time at MacLean Park. Two favourite pastimes were baseball (noted opponents were Helen and Marge Callahan, who went on to the U.S. women's professional league during wartime and inspire the movie A League of Their Own) and end-of-summer performances given at Brockton Point by kids from all around Vancouver.
Extent: 00:03:38
Subject(s): Games, MacLean Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Parks, Baseball, Callaghan, Marge, Callaghan, Helen, Sports, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Sunday School - Interview with Sue Lum:
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Sue Lum reminisces about attending Sunday School on Keefer Street.
Extent: 01:07
Subject(s): Schools, Christmas songs, Community schools, Concerts, Sunday schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Teaching at Strathcona - Interview with Ted Watkins
Contributor(s): Ted Watkins (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-12-23
Language: English
Description: Ted discusses his experience teaching at Strathcona Elementary School.
Extent: 00:03:21
Subject(s): Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Schools, Elementary schools, Multiculturalism, Teachers, Books and reading
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Understand Your Past - Interview with Grace Eiko Thomson:
Contributor(s): Thomson, Grace Eiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Grace talks about how younger people today are working to understand and address issues of the past, especially in areas like the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:00:54
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Education, Youth, Volunteers
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Uprooted Again, Japanese Internment - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the experiences of Japanese-Canadians who were interned to camps during the Second World War and the experiences of Japanese-Canadians who had to follow their parents back to Japan when they were forced to leave Canada.
Extent: 00:02:04
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, War
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Visiting and Living in Strathcona - Interview with Ron Pollock
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron talks about living in the Strathcona neighbourhood, visiting the Union Market (a social hub of Strathcona), and connecting with other locals.
Extent: 00:02:51
Subject(s): Social interaction, Grocers, Small business, Union Market
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Volunteering in the Community - Interview with Earl Sunshine:
Contributor(s): Sunshine, Earl (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Earl Sunshine talks about his volunteer work with Positive Living Society of British Columbia.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Positive Living Society of British Columbia, Volunteers
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s
Collection: Story City

Title: Wanting to Be Helpful - Interview with Chris
Contributor(s): Chris (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-07-26
Language: English
Description: Chris talks about her volunteer work with the Unitarian Church of Vancouver providing meals to people in the Downtown Eastside (DTES).
Extent: 00:00:51
Subject(s): Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Volunteers, Downtown Eastside (Vancouver B.C.)
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City