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Title: A Day in Coal Harbour - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: There was plenty of entertainment for kids when they ventured to Coal Harbour.
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): Housing, Money, Boats and boating, Canneries, Railroads - Yards, Shipyards, Active life enthusiasts, Playing
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Docked vessels at Johnson Wharf:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1907
Description: Tugs and others with McCulloch and Senator (belonging to Bostock and Abbott) the two nearest at Johnson wharf in the snow.
Subject(s): Tugboats, Boats and boating, Winter, Johnson Wharf Company, Limited, Bostock & Abbott, McCulloch (Boat), Senator (Boat)
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Exploring Expo from the Water:
Contributor(s): Bader, Bill (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1986
Description: Three men ride in a boat on False Creek during Expo 86. The Ontario Pavilion can be seen in the background.
Subject(s): Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Expo 86 - Ontario Pavilion, Boats and boating
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

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: Ivanhoe Tug - Interview with Ralph Huntley
Contributor(s): Huntley, Ralph (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-04-30
Language: English
Description: Ralph recounts his experiences working on the historic tug, the Ivanhoe, at Expo 86.
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Ivanhoe (Boat), Boats and boating, Tugboats
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

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: McGavin's Bakery Picnic:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1939
Description: Picnic - "Lady Cecilia".
Subject(s): Bakers and bakeries, Boats and boating, Portraits, Group, Picnics, McGavin's Bakeries Limited
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: Philip Timms' boat
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Two men, two women and a young girl standing on a dock beside Philip Timms' boat.
Subject(s): Photographers, Timms, Philip Thomas, 1874-1973, Boats and boating
Time Period: 1910s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Recovery of fishboat "Pacific Clipper":
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Marine. “Pacific Clipper” fishboat overturns.
Subject(s): Fishing boats - Accidents, Boats and boating, Pacific Clipper (Ship)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Recovery of fishboat "Pacific Clipper":
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Marine. “Pacific Clipper” fishboat overturns.
Subject(s): Fishing boats - Accidents, Boats and boating, Pacific Clipper (Ship)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Recovery of fishboat "Pacific Clipper":
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Marine. “Pacific Clipper” fishboat overturns, recovering one dead body, rescue workers.
Subject(s): Fishing boats - Accidents, Boats and boating, Pacific Clipper (Ship)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Recovery of fishboat "Pacific Clipper":
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Marine. “Pacific Clipper” fishboat overturns, recovering one dead body, rescue workers.
Subject(s): Fishing boats - Accidents, Boats and boating, Pacific Clipper (Ship)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Recovery of fishboat "Pacific Clipper":
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Marine. “Pacific Clipper” fishboat overturns, recovering one dead body, rescue workers.
Subject(s): Fishing boats - Accidents, Boats and boating, Pacific Clipper (Ship)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: RivTow Boom Boats Performing on False Creek
Contributor(s): Bogyo, Donna (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1986
Description: Little work boats perform the 'Dozer Boat Ballet' on False Creek during Expo 86. The program highlighted the seafaring 'workhorses' of British Columbia's logging industry.
Subject(s): Boats and boating, Towboats, Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.)
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
Extent: 00:00:43
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
Extent: 00:01:47
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with John Toochin
Contributor(s): Toochin, John (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
Extent: 00:00:52
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Stan Brook
Contributor(s): Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
Extent: 00:01:50
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Two views at Britannia Beach
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Left image: Two children standing on the front porch of a home in Britannia Beach. There is a thin layer of snow on the ground. Right image: The boat, "Autogo", in Britannia harbour.
Subject(s): Harbours, Autogo (Boat), Winter, Boats and boating, Dwellings
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection