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Title: Blossom Season - Interview with Toshio Sato:
Contributor(s): Sato, Toshiro (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Toshio talks about cherry blossoms, here in Vancouver and in Japan.
Extent: 00:01:17
Subject(s): Flowering cherries, Trees
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Child with sled:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: A child stands in the snow beside a small sled. Snow covers the ground and trees.
Subject(s): Winter, Children - Playing outdoors, Trees
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: The Difference a Tree Can Make - Katherine Ruffen
Contributor(s): Ruffen, Katherine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: A tree can anchor a neighbourhood and make a house a home, just ask Katherine Ruffen, who has become very attached to her tree and is curious to know more about its origins.
Extent: 00:01:03
Subject(s): Trees, High schools, John Oliver Secondary School (Vancouver, B.C.), Schools
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Langara Area Was Forest - Interview with Vivian Beciaris
Contributor(s): Beciaris, Vivian (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Vivian speaks about the winters of the 1960s and 1970s, and how the area around 49th and Ontario was forest in those days.
Extent: 00:00:18
Subject(s): Winter, Children, Trees, Community development
Location(s): Oakridge
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Scene in Stanley Park
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Scene along fenced roadway in Stanley Park. There is a large tree in the middle of the road. Hand-tinted.
Subject(s): Roads, Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Trees
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Snow-covered tree stump:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Snow-covered tree stump. Mountains visible in the background. Hand-tinted.
Subject(s): Trees, Winter
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Snow in Stanley Park
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Snow in Stanley Park - Woman and child under trees
Subject(s): Trees, Winter, Women, Children - Playing outdoors, Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.)
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: The Trees of Maple Grove Park - Interview with Isaac Elias:
Contributor(s): Elias, Isaac (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-14
Language: English
Description: Isaac Elias has fond memories of the trees of Kerrisdale's Maple Grove Park.
Extent: 00:00:57
Subject(s): Parks, Trees, Playgrounds, Children, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1990s
Collection: Story City

Title: Two women, a man, and a small child on a trail in Stanley Park:
Contributor(s): Frank, Leonard (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1914
Description: Two women, a man, and a small child on a trail in Stanley Park.
Subject(s): Trails, Parks, Trees, Forests and forestry, Hats, Fashion
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1910s
Collection: Leonard Frank Collection

Title: We Were Street Smart - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob recalls his experiences growing up in the West End and seeing a number of significant changes over the years as the area developed from single family housing to rooming houses and high-rise apartments.
Extent: 00:04:39
Subject(s): Housing, Housing, Living conditions, Gentrification, Trees
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Winter at English Bay
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1907
Description: Winter at English Bay. Snow covering ground and trees. "A Winter Sun."
Subject(s): Trees, Winter, English Bay (Vancouver, B.C.)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

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