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Title: Beach Afternoons - Interview with Herb Nolan
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Enjoying the beaches around Stanley Park can yield more than just a good time swimming. We would swim from English Bay right around to Third Beach by the bridge and back again, and it used to take about three hours of swimming, but easy swimming you know: breast stroke, side stroke, crawl.
Extent: 00:04:10
Subject(s): English Bay (Vancouver, B.C.), Swimming, Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Second Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Third Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Exploring and Playing in the Magic Square Mile - Interview with Bob Adamson:
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob describes the fun he and his friends had living on the sands of English Bay, exploring the trails of Stanley Park, learning to golf and swim and waiting for the nine o'clock gun to go off.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Playing, Sports, Swimming, Beaches, Golf, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fun in Tatlow Park - Interview with Dora Coutts
Contributor(s): Coutts, Dora (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Dora describes Tatlow Park, building boats to put in the creek and going to the beaches to swim and fish.
Extent: 00:02:45
Subject(s): Beaches, Parks, Tatlow Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Swimming, Fishing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in South Vancouver - Interview with Arthur Schultz and Olave Schultz
Contributor(s): Schultz, Arthur (Interviewee), Schultz, Olave (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Arthur describes growing up in South Vancouver; the Boys club, going to Kits Beach and The Vancouver Sun free swimming program at Lumberman's Arch.
Extent: 00:01:25
Subject(s): Boys - Societies and clubs, Kits Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Swimming, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

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: Kits Beach - Interview with Emiko Kordyback
Contributor(s): Kordyback, Emiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Emiko talks briefly about swimming at Kits Beach.
Extent: 00:00:27
Subject(s): Swimming, Kits Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

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: A Magical Place - 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 lively, joyful atmosphere of the West End and Downtown.
Extent: 00:03:05
Subject(s): Music, Picnics, Swimming, Active life enthusiasts, Creative community
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Outdoor Life - Interview with Rosalina Rodriguez:
Contributor(s): Rodriguez, Rosalina (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-19
Language: English
Description: Rosalina talks about some of the things she likes about Vancouver: good transportation, cycling, hiking, swimming, going to the beach, and eating sushi.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): Hiking, Swimming, Cycling, Active life enthusiasts, Outdoor recreation
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Swimming race at English Bay:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Many people line the beach (background) as men dive off a platform in the foreground. The partially visible bathing pavilion was built in 1905. "Swimming races. Vancouver, B.C. Timms".
Subject(s): Diving, Swimming, Crowds
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Women and children swimming at Lux's Ranch in Beaton:
Contributor(s): Gunterman, Ida Madeline Warner (Mattie) (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1902
Description: Hazel Beaton, standing at extreme left; Jean Denny Beaton, seated center-left with child in her lap; Grant Denny Beaton, in Jean's lap; Henry Gunterman, standing at center with his knees showing; May Beaton, behind Henry to the right. Used for no. 2348.
Subject(s): Swimming, Women, Manners and customs, Children, Portraits, Group, Beaton, Jean Denny, Beaton, Hazel Denny, Beaton, Grant Denny, Beaton, Mary
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Mattie Gunterman Collection