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- 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
- 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
- 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