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Title: 1930s Occupations and Protests - Interview with Willis Shaparla (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Shaparla, Willis (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1984
Language: English
Description: Willis recalls the occupations and protests of the 1930s in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:34:36, 00:34:36
Subject(s): On to Ottawa trek, Bloody Sunday (1938), Depressions - 1929, Protests, Occupations, Labour unions, Police
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: 1930s Occupations and Protests - Interview with Willis Shaparla (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Shaparla, Willis (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1984
Language: English
Description: Willis recalls the occupations and protests of the 1930s in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:29:34, 00:29:34
Subject(s): On to Ottawa trek, Bloody Sunday (1938), Depressions - 1929, Protests, Occupations, Labour unions, Police
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: 1930s Occupations and Protests - Interview with Willis Shaparla (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Shaparla, Willis (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1984
Language: English
Description: Willis recalls the occupations and protests of the 1930s in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:03:09, 00:03:09
Subject(s): On to Ottawa trek, Bloody Sunday (1938), Depressions - 1929, Protests, Occupations, Labour unions, Police
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Changing Times, Changing Professions - Interview with Ralph Radford
Contributor(s): Radford, Ralph (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-08-27
Language: English
Description: Ralph talks about his time working in a 1920s dance hall, then in business, journalism, and mining during the Depression. He also speaks about his wife, his retirement, and post-retirement work.
Extent: 00:30:24
Subject(s): Music, Mining, Depressions - 1929, Retirement, Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

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: Homelessness - Interview with Katherine Kosta
Contributor(s): Kosta, Katherine (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1973-06-19
Language: English
Description: Katherine speaks about living through the Depression, hotels and theatres around Vancouver, and her experience with homelessness and general precarity.
Extent: 00:32:35, 00:32:35
Subject(s): Depressions - 1929, Homelessness, Police, Family, Childhood, Theatres, Hotels, Street entertainers, Shelters for the homeless, Vancouver (B.C.) - Politics and government
Location(s): Downtown
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Living and Working - Interview with Margaret Furey
Contributor(s): Furey, Margaret (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-08-20
Language: English
Description: Margaret Furey speaks about her years living in and working away from Vancouver. She covers her experiences during the Depression, issues with housing, and ongoing illness and its impact on her relationship with her daughter.
Extent: 00:41:32, 00:41:32
Subject(s): Teaching, Depressions - 1929, Child care, Children, Diabetes, Poverty
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to British Columbia to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:32:51, 00:32:51
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to BC to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:28:43, 00:28:43
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to BC to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:14:10, 00:14:10
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Wearing Many Hats - Interview with Charlie Bartlett (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Bartlett, Charlie (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Charlie speaks about moving around North America and Australia with his family, working as a tomato picker, hand logger, hat delivery boy during the depression, the docks during WWII, different places around Vancouver and his opinions of hat culture.
Extent: 00:30:02, 00:30:02
Subject(s): Docks, Hats, Labour unions, Restaurants, Parks, Sports, Drug addiction, Logging, World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Wearing Many Hats - Interview with Charlie Bartlett (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Bartlett, Charlie (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Charlie speaks about moving around North America and Australia with his family, working as a tomato picker, hand logger, hat delivery boy during the depression, the docks during WWII, different places around Vancouver and his opinions of hat culture.
Extent: 00:38:24, 00:38:24
Subject(s): Docks, Hats, Labour unions, Restaurants, Parks, Sports, Drug addiction, Logging, World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories