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Title: Last trip for B.C. Electric Railway observation car:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1950-09-17
Description: Last trip for B.C. Electric Railway observation car. Photo series 81424 - C
Subject(s): Crowds, Parades, Street-railroads - Cars, British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Learning the Horn - Interview with Gordon Spratt:
Contributor(s): Spratt, Gordon (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Gordon recalls buying and learning to play his first trombone.
Extent: 00:03:41
Subject(s): Music, Creative community
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Life in Canada After the War - Interview with Milda Burkhardt
Contributor(s): Burkhardt, Milda, Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Milda speaks about her experiences during the period after WWII where her family experienced difficult times in Czechoslovakia and Austria. After a couple years she came to Canada by boat and worked for a long time as a waitress in Victoria, British Columbia. She had been in Vancouver 2 days at the time of the recording.
Extent: 00:20:54, 00:20:54
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Waitresses, Typhoid fever, Death, Discrimination
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:31:42, 00:31:42
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:29:29, 00:29:29
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of DTES.
Extent: 00:32:44, 00:32:44
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living in Chinatown - Interview with Randall Yip
Contributor(s): Yip, Randall (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Randall talks about his early memories of living in Vancouver's Chinatown and his family living in the Wing Sang Building.
Extent: 00:01:26
Subject(s): Nightclubs, Family, Hospitals, Ho Ho Chop Suey Ltd. (Restaurant), Chinese Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Living on the Beach - Interview with John Toochin
Contributor(s): Toochin, John (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Beach treasures fund the fun of kids who make the most of living near the beach.
Extent: 00:01:14
Subject(s): Family, Money, Beaches, Fish and chips, Housing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living with the Monkeys in Stanley Park - Interview with Stan Brook
Contributor(s): Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Everything you ever wanted to know about growing up in Stanley Park in the 30s and 40s. Across the road from the yacht club they had buffaloes; and when we were kids, we used to bullfight the buffaloes, until they got within about 100 yards and then we'd be over the fence again!
Extent: 00:06:21
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Animals, Boats and boating, King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950, Nine O'Clock Gun - Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Marion Malkin Memorial Bowl - Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Vegetable truck, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Swimming, Street-railroads, Indigenous peoples, Active life enthusiasts, Playing
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Local Businesses of Lower Dunbar - Interview with Shelagh Smith
Contributor(s): Smith, Shelagh (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Small local businesses make good neighbours; Shelagh Smith recalls local retailers keeping an eye out for wayward youngsters.
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): Small business, Grocery stores, Piggly Wiggly B.C. Limited, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Magical Place - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack talks about the lively, joyful atmosphere of the West End and Downtown.
Extent: 00:03:05
Subject(s): Music, Picnics, Swimming, Active life enthusiasts, Creative community
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Mangia! Mangia! Feeding the Neighbourhood - Interview with Vince Chessa
Contributor(s): Chessa, Vince (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Memories of how food came from shop or truck or garden to table as one mother finds happiness in feeding everyone she is able to.
Extent: 00:03:04
Subject(s): Family, Animals, Food, Living conditions, Housing
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Many Memories - Interview with Olive McEwan:
Contributor(s): McEwan, Olive (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: Lifetime Little Mountain resident Olive McEwan, l gives us a quick overview of all her strongest memories of growing up in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:44
Subject(s): Childhood, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vaccines, False Creek Shipyards
Location(s): Riley Park
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of a Marpole Childhood - Interview with Wayne Gatley:
Contributor(s): Gatley, Wayne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-27
Language: English
Description: Wayne remembers what it was like growing up in the Marpole neighbourhood in the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent: 00:01:41
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Fire stations, Church membership, United Church of Canada
Location(s): Marpole
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of Strathcona School - Interview with Eva Scherger
Contributor(s): Scherger, Eva (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Eva Scherger was born in the 1920s and grew up in Strathcona. Here, she recalls her days at Strathcona School and some of the school's history. Note: Ms. Scherger's recollection that Strathcona School was briefly used for a hospital for Japanese families during the flu epidemic during WWI is accurate; King Edward Secondary was used as a temporary hospital for the rest of the populace during this time.
Extent: 00:01:54
Subject(s): Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Influenza, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1910s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of the Marine Building - Interview with Jackie Byrn:
Contributor(s): Byrn, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: One of Jackie Byrn's most enduring memories was attending a photo shoot at the landmark Marine Building at the age of 8. That one day had lasting effects on her life.
Extent: 00:03:18
Subject(s): Women photographers, Photography, Marine Building
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Mennonite in Vancouver - Interview with Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
Contributor(s): Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Susan Faehndrich-Findlay's knowledge of German helped her bond with a Mennonite Neighbour. The South Hill area was once heavily populated with Mennonites who had fled persecution around the world. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:02:16
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, German Canadians, Mennonites
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s, 1990s
Collection: Story City

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Dal Richards at home:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer), Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1948-11-01
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Dal Richards at home.
Subject(s): Weddings, Family, Portraits, Richards, Dallas Murray (Dal), 1918-
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection