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Title: Fire at waterfront lumberyard:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Fires – Waterfront lumberyard.
Subject(s): Fires, Lumber-yards
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Fire at waterfront lumberyard:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Fires – Waterfront lumberyard.
Subject(s): Fires, Fireboats, Lumber-yards
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Fire at waterfront lumberyard:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Fires – Waterfront lumberyard.
Subject(s): Fires, Fireboats, Lumber-yards
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Fire at waterfront lumberyard:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Fires – Waterfront lumberyard.
Subject(s): Fires, Lumber-yards
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Five Cent Movies - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira remembers getting 10 cents from his mother as a child and how he'd buy a bag of peanuts for 5 cents and go to the Star Theatre on Main Street and watch a movie for 5 cents.
Extent: 00:00:36
Subject(s): Childhood, Motion picture theatres, Amusements
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: For the Love of Tugboats - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: All my friends were teaming up with boys and I wasn't; I was down in False Creek, hitching rides on tugboats. I was crazy about tugboats.
Extent: 00:04:40
Subject(s): Boats and boating, Booms (Log transportation), Tugboats, Money
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: From the East Midlands to Iona Island - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Terry Slack emigrated from Great Britain in 1948 with his family, some of the earliest settlers on Iona Island. It was certainly a period of adjustment.
Extent: 00:06:10
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Fishing boats, Boatbuilding, Japanese Canadians
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Fruit Trees - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack describes the shared housing he lived in as a child and some of the features of the Georgia Street area at the time.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fun and Games in Dunbar - Interview with Shelagh Smith
Contributor(s): Smith, Shelagh (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Shelagh Smith has fond recollections of childhood activities in Dunbar - roller skating, hopscotch and even an impromptu parade or two.
Extent: 00:04:03
Subject(s): Games, World War, 1939-1945 - Children, Lord Byng Secondary School, High schools, Schools, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Fun in Collingwood - Interview with Shirley Mexter and Bev Graham:
Contributor(s): Mexter, Shirley (Interviewee), Graham, Bev (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Sisters Shirley and Bev talk about the notable places and fun activities they enjoyed while growing up in Collingwood in the 1940s.
Extent: 00:02:55
Subject(s): Parks, Childhood, Sports, Restaurants, Street-railroads, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Generations in South Hill - Interview with Lorne Findlay and Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee), Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Lorne Findlay moved to the South Hill area in 1947. Decades later, his daughter Susan Faehndrich-Findlay followed in her father's footsteps, but didn't realize quite how closely. Part of the South Hill Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:02:34
Subject(s): Dwellings - Remodelling, House construction, Building trades
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1910s, 1940s, 1990s
Collection: Story City

Title: Gordon House - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In October 1942, the old Crofton House School becomes Gordon House; an important hang out and refuge for West End kids. What we would do in the evenings, we’d go to Gordon House where there was sports, there was boxing, there was basketball, there was arts and crafts, painting; that sort of thing.
Extent: 00:01:22
Subject(s): Housing, Playing, Sports, Gordon House (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Growing Up in a Neighbourhood Full of Parks and Beaches - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann describes the simple pleasures of her West End childhood; being able to explore the parks and beaches while growing up there.
Extent: 00:00:58
Subject(s): Housing, Parks, Beaches, Bison, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Growing Up in Ahousat - Interview with Susan Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Susan (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: Susan Adamson speaks about her life growing up in Ahousat, British Columbia, her family background, her relationships, and her reasons for coming to the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver and her experiences there.
Extent: 00:30:45, 00:30:45
Subject(s): Fishing, Marriage, Alcoholism, Family, Children, Family violence, Residential schools, Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools, Indigenous peoples
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

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: Growing Up in Kitsilano - Interview with Fay Fergusson
Contributor(s): Fergusson, Fay (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-28
Language: English
Description: Fay describes family life and the fun of growing up in Kitsilano.
Extent: 00:04:19
Subject(s): Childhood, Children with disabilities, Social interaction, People with disabilities
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in the West End - Interview with Edward Turner
Contributor(s): Turner, Edward (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Edward remembers west end boarding houses and swimming at Lumberman's Arch and the Chrystal pool.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Pools, Swimming, Crystal Pool (Vancouver, B.C.), Housing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in Vancouver in the 30s - Interview with Jimmy Moses
Contributor(s): Johnson, George (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: George speaks about growing up in Vancouver during the Depression, taking part in the Kitsilano Boy Band, going to university, and the mayor selling baby bonds for the new City Hall.
Extent: 00:29:22, 00:29:22
Subject(s): Depressions - 1929, Beaches, Musical instruments, Trumpet, Police brutality, Food relief, Squatter settlements
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Growing Up in West Point Grey - Interview with Marion Reid
Contributor(s): Reid, Marion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Marion describes growing up in West Point Grey and the day a tortoise showed up on her family's lawn.
Extent: 00:03:20
Subject(s): Communities, Childhood, Sports, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Harrows on the Narrows - Interview with Lorne Findlay:
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Before the Second Narrows and Lion's Gate Bridges were constructed, getting to the North Shore could be an adventure.
Extent: 00:00:43
Subject(s): Bridges
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City