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Title: School Experiences - Interview with Olivia Cheung
Contributor(s): Cheung, Olivia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Cheung's school experience - taking the bus and raising her hand to answer questions in class.
Extent: 00:01:38
Subject(s): Elementary schools, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers, Childhood, School children, Schools, Chinese Canadians, David Oppenheimer Elementary School
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1960s
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: School for the Deaf and Blind - Interview with Richard Barr:
Contributor(s): Barr, Richard (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-26
Language: English
Description: Richard explains how he got involved in the School for the Deaf and the Blind.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Jericho Hill Provincial School for the Deaf and Blind, Schools, Teachers
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Stories and Histories - Interview with Jackie Byrn
Contributor(s): Byrn, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-22
Language: English
Description: Jackie Byrn developed a passion for historical research as a child, when the stories she was told in school about relations between Canada's first peoples and the Catholic Church sat very poorly with her.
Extent: 00:07:05
Subject(s): Indigenous peoples, High schools, Schools, Vancouver Public Library - Dunbar Branch, Catholic Church, History, Museums, Little Flower Academy, Convent of the Sacred Heart (Vancouver, B.C.), Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Sunday School - Interview with Sue Lum:
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Sue Lum reminisces about attending Sunday School on Keefer Street.
Extent: 01:07
Subject(s): Schools, Christmas songs, Community schools, Concerts, Sunday schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 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

Title: Teaching at the Greek School - 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 spent most of her life supporting her husband, but she also trained to be a teacher in Greece and took great pleasure in teaching the Greek language at Vancouver's local Greek school for two years.
Extent: 00:01:20
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Language and languages, Employment, Children of immigrants - Education, Schools, Teachers
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Teaching English - Interview with Anna Terrana:
Contributor(s): Terrana, Anna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Teaching English to Italian newcomers at St Francis of Assisi.
Extent: 0:05:10
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Vancouver, B.C.), Immigrants - Experience, Immigrants - Employment, Teachers, Schools, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Teaching High School in Vancouver - Interview with Lilian Lind:
Contributor(s): Lind, Lilian (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Lilian remembers moving to Canada and starting her teaching career.
Extent: 00:02:26
Subject(s): Scottish Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, High schools, Teachers, Schools
Location(s): Killarney
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Teaching Kindergarten - Interview with Megan Balmer:
Contributor(s): Balmer, Megan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-24
Language: English
Description: Megan shares her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Teachers, Schools, Employment
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: That Old Rock Building: King George High School - Interview with Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Delaine talks about the various renovations made to the old high school and the tenderness she feels toward that "old rock building" that was the King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:01:48
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Teachers, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: A Walk in the West End - Interview with Gary Pennington:
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: The old streets, the old places; likes walking through the old neighbourhood; points of interest are noted from Burrard Street, Davie Street, and more.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Guardian angels, Fish and chips, Housing, Sylvia Hotel, Holly Lodge, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Washrooms - Interviews with Konstantin Nikolaou:
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Being a new immigrant as a child in Vancouver schools and having to figure out how the washroom stalls worked.
Extent: 00:00:52
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Children, Schools
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: West Side Schools - Interview with Marion Reid
Contributor(s): Reid, Marion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Marion describes memories of Queen Mary Elementary school and Lord Byng Secondary School.
Extent: 00:02:43
Subject(s): Schools, High schools, Elementary schools, Children, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Active life enthusiasts, Lord Byng Secondary School, Queen Mary Elementary School
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Working in the Lumber Business - Interview with Harjit Dhillan and Manjit S. Dhillan:
Contributor(s): Dhillan, Harjit (Interviewee), Dhillan, Manjit S. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-03
Language: English
Description: Harjit Dhillan and Manjit S. Dhillan discuss their experiences working in the lumber business in the 1950s and attending night school.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Adult education, Indo-Canadians, Employment, Schools
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

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