Search results
Search Results
Displaying (1 - 20 of 20)
- 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