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- Title
- Family, Work, and Living in the Downtown Eastside - Interview with Ruth Kelner (nee Albrecht)
- Contributor(s)
- Kelner, Ruth (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Language
- English
- Description
- Ruth speaks about work, her family, and living in the Downtown Eastside. Additional voice is James Gorman.
- Extent
- 00:18:00, 00:18:00
- Subject(s)
- Employment, Children, Death, Gangs, Skid row
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Collection
- Carnegie Stories
- Title
- Farmer's Daughter - Interview with Edna Peters
- Contributor(s)
- Peters, Edna (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 1983-02-05
- Language
- English
- Description
- A farmer's daughter from Ontario, Edna outlived two husbands to become a great-grandmother living, working, and socializing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
- Extent
- 00:25:09, 00:25:09
- Subject(s)
- Marriage, Death, Children, Agriculture, Natural remedies
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Collection
- Carnegie Stories
- 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