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Title: A Child's Local Market
Contributor(s): Derkson, Roland (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Extent: 00:06:14
Subject(s): Small business, Grocers, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Riley Park
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Coming to Vancouver - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio:
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about his family's journey to Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:40
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians, Kalena's Shoes (Vancouver, B.C.), Family-owned business enterprises, Small business
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Commercial Drive Over Time - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio:
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about the changes that have occurred on Commercial Drive over the years.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Family-owned business enterprises, Small business, Kalena's Shoes (Vancouver, B.C.)
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Esson's Family Bakery - Interview with Sharon Esson
Contributor(s): Esson, Sharon (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-19
Language: English
Description: Sharon tells about the Esson's Family Bakery in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:56
Subject(s): Bakers and bakeries, Bakeries, Small business, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1910s, 1960s, 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Everyone Was a Character - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio:
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about the character of the people on The Drive when he was growing up.
Extent: 00:01:34
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Small business, Social interaction, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Family Bakery - Interview with Anna-Maria Kapetanakis:
Contributor(s): Kapetanakis, Anna-Maria (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Anna-Maria Kapetanakis tells the story of her family's arrival to Vancouver from Greece and the bakery they ran in order to survive in the 1970s.
Extent: 00:03:17
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Family-owned business enterprises, Pastry - Filo, Bakeries, Small business
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The Family Business - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis:
Contributor(s): Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Leo Balatsas ran his downtown service station for decades. His daughter, Nikki Roussanidis, worked there as a teen, and remembers it as a thriving small business and a lively hangout for Greek immigrants.
Extent: 00:01:15
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Immigrants - Employment, Teenagers, Service stations, Greek Canadians, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The Family Businesses - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James ()
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson recalls the early days of both the family's businesses - an Italian newspaper and a travel agency.
Extent: 00:04:00
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Small business, Family-owned business enterprises, Newspapers, Travel agencies
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Family Restaurant - Interview with Georgia Demiris, Bill Demiris, and Susie Demiris Miceli:
Contributor(s): Demiris, Georgia (Interviewee), Demiris, Bill (Interviewee), Miceli, Suse Demiris (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: The Demiris family talk about the family's restaurant, Vassilis Taverna in the heart of Vancouver's Greek community.
Extent: 00:03:06
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Restaurants, Vassilis Taverna (Restaurant), Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Hanging Out on the Drive - Interview with Konstantin Nikolaou
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Konstantin Nikolaou speaks about hanging out at Roma's Bar with the Italians during his high school lunch breaks.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Teenagers, Restaurants, Family-owned business enterprises, Greek Canadians, Italian Canadians, Britannia Secondary School, High schools, Schools
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment - Interview with Sue Miyamoto
Contributor(s): Miyamoto, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Sue talks about her early life in Steveston and being sent to an internment camp in New Denver.
Extent: 00:01:25
Subject(s): Japanese Canadian Internment, World War, 1939-1945, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Journey to Canada - Interview with Mando and Christos Christodoulou:
Contributor(s): Christodoulou, Mando (Interviewee), Christodoulou, Christos (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Mando and Christos Christodoulou each tell how they ended up in Vancouver from Greece and their restaurant Mandos.
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Restaurants, Employment, Family, Family-owned business enterprises, Cooks, Barbers
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Journey to Vancouver - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena speaks about her parents' journey to Vancouver and starting a life.
Extent: 0:00:47
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians, Immigrants - Employment, Family-owned business enterprises, Family
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kitsilano and Romios Greek Taverna - Interview with Andreas Arvanitis:
Contributor(s): Arvanitis, Andreas (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Andreas talks about his working life in Vancouver, particularly his time running Kitsilano and Romios Greek Taverna.
Extent: 00:01:12
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Small business, Immigrants - Experience, Family-owned business enterprises, Family, Restaurants
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1990s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Language Non-Barrier - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena's family's experience with learning or not-learning English and how it affected their experience of Commercial Drive and Vancouver.
Extent: 0:02:53
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, English language, Italian Canadians, Children of immigrants - Education, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Life in Chinatown - Interview with Olivia Cheung:
Contributor(s): Cheung, Olivia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Olivia Cheung speaks about her childhood in Chinatown and the beginnings of Maxim's Bakery.
Extent: 00:03:06
Subject(s): Maxim's Bakery, Chinese restaurants, Family-owned business enterprises, Immigrants - Experience
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Modern Silk Company - Interview with Larry Wong
Contributor(s): Wong, Larry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015-07-28
Language: English
Description: Larry Wong speaks about his father's business, Modern Silk Company, including its success and significance in Vancouver's Chinatown.
Extent: 00:01:29
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Modern Silk Company, Buildings, Small business, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Chinatown
Time Period: 1910s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Starting a Business - Interview with Dino Kourtessis:
Contributor(s): Kourtessis, Dino (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Dino's restaurant was one of twelve businesses who opened their doors on Granville Island in 1979.
Extent: 00:02:21
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Small business, Restaurants, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1970s, 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: When He Died Everyone Cried - Interview with Roula Liaskas:
Contributor(s): Liaskas, Roula (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Roula Liaskas speaks about how her husband gave many new Greek immigrants jobs at his business Pashos Services on Hornby Street, he also brought them to work on the Community Centre when it was still in progress.
Extent: 00:01:19
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Hellenic Community of Vancouver (Community Centre), Family-owned business enterprises, Communities
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s, 2000s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Working on Italian Day 1982 - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena recalls working with her grandfather at Kalena's Shoes the during Italian Day festival and the events of Italian Day 1982 when Italy won the World Cup.
Extent: 0:02:07
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Festivals, Italian Day (Festival), World Cup (Soccer), Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Story City