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Title: A.H. Timms Commercial Printer
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1928
Description: A.H. Timms' printing business at 236 East 14th Avenue. Also exists as a lantern slide (66974).
Subject(s): Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - East 14th Avenue, Dwellings, Snow, Winter, Timms & Company, Automobiles
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: B.C. Express Wagons and Trucks outside CPR Station
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1921-1922
Description: B.C. Express Wagons and Trucks outside CPR Station
Subject(s): Horse-drawn vehicles, Trucks, Buildings, B.C. Express Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection, Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Changing Times, Changing Professions - Interview with Ralph Radford
Contributor(s): Radford, Ralph (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-08-27
Language: English
Description: Ralph talks about his time working in a 1920s dance hall, then in business, journalism, and mining during the Depression. He also speaks about his wife, his retirement, and post-retirement work.
Extent: 00:30:24
Subject(s): Music, Mining, Depressions - 1929, Retirement, Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Chinese Men Laying CPR Track Near Glenogle:
Contributor(s): Unknown (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1924
Description: Chinese Men Laying CPR Track Near Glenogle.
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Railroads - Employees, Railroad construction workers, Railroads - Track, Railroads - Rolling-stock
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: CPR and CNR Bridges Over the Fraser River:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: CPR and CNR Bridges Over the Fraser River
Subject(s): Bridges, Rivers, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Canadian National Railway, Trestles
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection, Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Dump truck clearing snow
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1928
Description: Dump truck clearing snow on East 14th Avenue. Also exists as a lantern slide (67770).
Subject(s): Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - East 14th Avenue, Snow, Winter, Dwellings, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Dump trucks
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Group of men in CPR freight yards
Contributor(s): Knight, Rolf (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1930-1932
Description: Group of men in CPR freight yards
Subject(s): Railroads - Freight-cars, Railroads - Yards, Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Growing Up in Early 20th Century Vancouver - Interview with Robert Bruce (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bruce, Robert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Robert Bruce grew up in early 20th century Vancouver and describes the how the city looked and what he did as a youth. He also mentions the First Nations people who lived on reserves in and around the city, watching the prisoners used to clear land, the construction of Carnegie, and his work building boats.
Extent: 00:30:34, 00:30:34
Subject(s): First Nations - Reservations, Hunting, Animals, Business enterprises, Circus, Boatbuilding
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Growing Up in Early 20th Century Vancouver - Interview with Robert Bruce (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bruce, Robert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Robert Bruce grew up in early 20th century Vancouver and describes the how the city looked and what he did as a youth. He also mentions the First Nations people who lived on reserves in and around the city, watching the prisoners used to clear land, the construction of Carnegie, and his work building boats.
Extent: 00:27:05, 00:27:05
Subject(s): First Nations - Reservations, Hunting, Animals, Business enterprises, Circus, Boatbuilding
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Growing Up in Early 20th Century Vancouver - Interview with Robert Bruce (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bruce, Robert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Extent: 00:20:16, 00:20:16
Subject(s): First Nations - Reservations, Hunting, Animals, Business enterprises, Circus, Boatbuilding
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Growing Up in Hastings-Sunrise - Interview with Margery
Contributor(s): Margery (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Margery talks about MacDonald School and her dog, Rover.
Extent: 00:01:42
Subject(s): Dogs, Sir William Macdonald Elementary School, Street-railroads, Teachers, Children, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in Kitsilano - Interview with Eileen McRae
Contributor(s): McRae, Eileen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Eileen talks about her family life growing up in Kitsilano, teaching school for forty years and holidays on Cultus Lake.
Extent: 00:02:45
Subject(s): Schools, Teachers
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Ice skating on Lost Lagoon:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Men, women and children ice skating on Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park.
Subject(s): Winter sports, Skating, Manners and customs, Snow
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Japanese Canadian Neighbours and the Celtic Cannery - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Japanese immigrants made up an large part of the Southlands community from the late 19th to the mid 20th Century, attracted by the opportunity to work at the Celtic Cannery. Terry Slack, long time Dunbar-Southlands resident, relates a story he heard from members of the McCleery family (original white settlers in the Dunbar Southlands area) that sheds light on why the Celtic Cannery (pronounced with a soft "C") may have changed its name from Keltic Cannery. Note: the story of the Cannery is unverified.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Japanese Canadians, Celtic Cannery
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kitsilano Beach with men and women in the West End in distance:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1921
Description: View of Kitsilano Beach - West End in distance - men, women and children. Old Photo Number not available.
Subject(s): Men, Children, Women
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Locie Pushing Flat Cars
Contributor(s): Paull, Albert (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1926-04-05
Description: Locie pulling flat cars loaded with logs at Brooks-Scanlon-O'Brien Co., Stillwater. See also 1568A.
Subject(s): Railroads - Trains, Log transportation, Brooks-Scanlon-O'Brien Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Locomotives
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Long-time Resident of Chinatown - Interview with S.G. Wing (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Wing, S.G. (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Speakers in English talk to and translate for S.G. Wing who recounts (sometimes in English) his experiences as a Chinese immigrant in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:32:41, 00:32:41
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Emigration and immigration
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Long-time Resident of Chinatown - Interview with S.G. Wing (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Wing, S.G. (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Speakers in English talk to and translate for S.G. Wing who recounts (sometimes in English) his experiences as a Chinese immigrant in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:24:00, 00:24:00
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Emigration and immigration
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Philip Timms
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1927-08
Description: Portrait of Philip Timms standing with his walking stick on a snow-covered incline in Garibaldi Park. Photo taken for the Vancouver Natural History Society. Also exists as a lantern slide (67224).
Subject(s): Photographers, Timms, Philip Thomas, 1874-1973, Vancouver Natural History Society, Portraits
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Philip Timms
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1927-08
Description: Philip Timms holding a can of melted ice for drinking water at Black Tusk Ridge in Garibaldi Park. Also exists as a lantern slide (66842).
Subject(s): Photographers, Timms, Philip Thomas, 1874-1973, Portraits
Time Period: 1920s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection