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Title: Church Buildings - Interview with Marion Man and Gregory Helem
Contributor(s): Man, Marion (Interviewee), Helem, Gregory (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Marion Man talks about churches in Chinatown, including one that is over 100 years old and is still existing at Gore and Pender Streets. Marion continues by talking more about the church that is now called the Strathcona Church and also about the St. Francis Xavier School in Strathcona.
Extent: 00:02:06
Subject(s): Schools, Chinese Canadians, Church buildings, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Elementary schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Lasting Strathcona Connections - Interview with Judy Hanazawa
Contributor(s): Hanazawa, Judy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Judy talks about the strong and lasting connections she has with the Strathcona community.
Extent: 00:04:30
Subject(s): School children, Racism, Multiculturalism, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of Strathcona School - Interview with Eva Scherger
Contributor(s): Scherger, Eva (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Eva Scherger was born in the 1920s and grew up in Strathcona. Here, she recalls her days at Strathcona School and some of the school's history. Note: Ms. Scherger's recollection that Strathcona School was briefly used for a hospital for Japanese families during the flu epidemic during WWI is accurate; King Edward Secondary was used as a temporary hospital for the rest of the populace during this time.
Extent: 00:01:54
Subject(s): Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Influenza, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1910s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Pearl Harbor Changed Everything - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about how everything changed for Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Extent: 00:04:14
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools, World War, 1939-1945, University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Experiences - Interview with Larry Wong
Contributor(s): Wong, Larry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Larry Wong talks about Vancouver's Chinese schools, and how Strathcona School was as a tolerant multicultural place. He also mentions seeing his first interracial kiss at a school play.
Extent: 00:03:03
Subject(s): Elementary schools, Schools, Chinese, Multiculturalism, Ping pong, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Schools, Chinese Canadians
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1970s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: School Experiences - Interview with Sue Lum
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Sue Lum talks about her childhood experiences attending Strathcona Elementary School.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Elementary schools, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Chinese Canadians, Childhood, Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Teaching at Strathcona - Interview with Ted Watkins
Contributor(s): Ted Watkins (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-12-23
Language: English
Description: Ted discusses his experience teaching at Strathcona Elementary School.
Extent: 00:03:21
Subject(s): Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Schools, Elementary schools, Multiculturalism, Teachers, Books and reading
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City