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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: High School Memories: King George High School - Interview with Delaine and Glenn Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Delanie and Glenn Mackenzie recount their experiences at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Wanted to Stay In School Forever - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie shares memories of her years at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:00:42
Subject(s): Sports, Teachers, High schools, Schools, King George High School [1913-1963], Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: It Was a Good School - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann Frost talks about the activities of the students at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:03:48
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, Sports, High schools, Schools, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: It's All About the Language - Interview with Helen Michael:
Contributor(s): Michael, Helen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: Greek
Description: Helen identifies the retention of the Greek languages as one of the most important ways of keeping a connection with her culture. Interview conducted in Greek. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:04:24
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Greek language, Socrates Greek Cultural School, Schools, Immigrants - Experience
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment and Returning to Vancouver - Interview with Lurana Kikuko Tasaka
Contributor(s): Tasaka, Lurana Kikuko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Lurana Tasaka explains leaving Vancouver to live in Greenwood during the internment of Japanese Canadians and then returning when she was 17. She goes on to tell us some of her favourite activities as a teen.
Extent: 00:02:17
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, King Edward High School, High schools, Schools, Racism, Catholic Church, Dance, Teenagers, Schools
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Community Gatherings - 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 various places where the Japanese community has gatherings.
Extent: 00:01:20
Subject(s): Social interaction, Church buildings, Reparations for historical injustices, Vancouver Japanese Language School, Tonari Gumi (Japanese Community Volunteers Association), Community relations, Communities, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Language School - 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 her experience as a child attending the Japanese Language School in Strathcona in the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent: 00:00:26
Subject(s): Vancouver Japanese Language School, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kindergarten Children Sing at Greek National Day
Contributor(s): Sophia Karasouli-Milobar (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 2001-03-25
Description: Sophia Karasouli-Milobar's son's kindergarten class in 2001 singing during the celebrations for Greek National Day (March 25) at the Hellenic Community Centre.
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, School children, Greek Independence Day, Schools
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 2000s
Collection: Hellenic 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: Raising Children in East Vancouver - Interview with Nancy Wu:
Contributor(s): Wu, Nancy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Nancy describes her perspective on raising kids and the challenges of the East Side and West Side divide.
Extent: 00:02:11
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Parenthood, Neighbourhoods, Schools
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Raising Children - Interview with Sam Zhu:
Contributor(s): Zhu, Sam (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Sam Zhu discusses the differences between Chinese and Canadian education systems and his experiences raising his children in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:27
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Parenting, Education, Schools
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 2000s
Collection: Story City

Title: Safety for Kids - Interview with Sean Blackman
Contributor(s): Blackman, Sean (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Sean recalls how physical injuries at school were not as much of a priority when he was a kid.
Extent: 00:01:30
Subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, Elementary schools, Schools, Lord Tennyson Elementary School (Vancouver, B.C.), 1912, Parks
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Saving the Stained Glass Windows of King George High School - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack talks about the efforts to save and use in commemorations the windows from the King George High School [1913-1963] in Vancouver's West End.
Extent: 00:00:31
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: School, Church, Community - Interview with Kumi Kakinuma
Contributor(s): Kakinuma, Kumi (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Kumi shares her thoughts on schools and the friendliness of people on the East side of Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:08
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Vancouver, B.C.), Elementary schools, Schools, Social interaction, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Days - Interview with Herb Torrance
Contributor(s): Torrance, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-13
Language: English
Description: Herb talks about growing up in Vancouver during the years of WW II and just after.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): Childhood, Lord Tennyson Elementary School (Vancouver, B.C.), 1912, World War, 1939-1945, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
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: 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