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Title: 28 People in a Rooming House - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie recounts the living conditions and the various rooming houses from her childhood in the West End.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Family
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

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: Downtown Eastside, a Creative Community - Interview with Gilles Cyrenne:
Contributor(s): Cyrenne, Gilles (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-10
Language: English
Description: Gilles describes all the vibrant creative activities found in the Downtown Eastside, the Heart of the City Festival, and his upcoming book of poetry.
Extent: 00:02:21
Subject(s): Poetry, Artists, Artists' studios, Housing, Gentrification, Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Small business, Creative community
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Finding a Home - Interview with Harbjan Athwal:
Contributor(s): Athwal, Harbjan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-03
Language: English
Description: Harbjan talks about how difficult it was to get her first home here.
Extent: 00:02:39
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Housing, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Indo-Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Friendly Faces - Interview with Dianna Deyholos
Contributor(s): Deyholos, Dianna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-17
Language: English
Description: Dianna explains the importance of living in a supportive, friendly community.
Extent: 0:02:36
Subject(s): Public housing, Housing, Communities, Social interaction
Location(s): Victoria-Fraserview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Fruit Trees - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack describes the shared housing he lived in as a child and some of the features of the Georgia Street area at the time.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Gordon House - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In October 1942, the old Crofton House School becomes Gordon House; an important hang out and refuge for West End kids. What we would do in the evenings, we’d go to Gordon House where there was sports, there was boxing, there was basketball, there was arts and crafts, painting; that sort of thing.
Extent: 00:01:22
Subject(s): Housing, Playing, Sports, Gordon House (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Growing Up in a Neighbourhood Full of Parks and Beaches - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann describes the simple pleasures of her West End childhood; being able to explore the parks and beaches while growing up there.
Extent: 00:00:58
Subject(s): Housing, Parks, Beaches, Bison, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Growing Up in the West End - Interview with Edward Turner
Contributor(s): Turner, Edward (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Edward remembers west end boarding houses and swimming at Lumberman's Arch and the Chrystal pool.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Pools, Swimming, Crystal Pool (Vancouver, B.C.), Housing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Houses of Suites - Interview with Glenn & Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee), Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Two different houses converted to suites, and how the neighbourhood changed around them.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): Family, Money, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Yards
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Wanted That House! - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson's story of buying her first house in Vancouver's Little Italy shows how different Vancouver was in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:03:35
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Housing, Money, Loans
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kits City House - Interview with Chris:
Contributor(s): Chris (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-07-26
Language: English
Description: Chris talks about moving to Vancouver from the United Kingdom and the convenience of her Kitsilano neighbourhood. Recorded at The Drum Is Calling Festival.
Extent: 00:00:39
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Housing, Walkability
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living on the Beach - Interview with John Toochin
Contributor(s): Toochin, John (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Beach treasures fund the fun of kids who make the most of living near the beach.
Extent: 00:01:14
Subject(s): Family, Money, Beaches, Fish and chips, Housing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

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: Mangia! Mangia! Feeding the Neighbourhood - Interview with Vince Chessa
Contributor(s): Chessa, Vince (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Memories of how food came from shop or truck or garden to table as one mother finds happiness in feeding everyone she is able to.
Extent: 00:03:04
Subject(s): Family, Animals, Food, Living conditions, Housing
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Ocean Towers - Interview with Ed Hayashi:
Contributor(s): Hayashi, Ed (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Ed Hayashi describes the first home he lived in after he got married. He also talks about working on one of the first highrises in Vancouver in 1957.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Carpentry, Apartments, Housing, Ocean Towers (Residence)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Detention Helped My Math - Interview with Herb Nolan
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Herb's recounts many long remembered things from his time at the King George High School [1913-1963] in Vancouver's West End.
Extent: 00:03:42
Subject(s): Housing, Teachers, King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Setting Down Roots in Renfrew - Interview with Donna Chan:
Contributor(s): Chan, Donna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-25
Language: English
Description: Donna talks about how her family came to live in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood 32 years ago, and what attracted them to the area when they were looking for a house.
Extent: 00:00:57
Subject(s): Family, Walkability, Housing, Neighbourhoods
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City