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- Title
- Before Dominion Day Parade 1979:
- Contributor(s)
- Effie Karapidakis (Contributor)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1979-07-01
- Description
- Before the Dominion Day parade, Main Street and Alexander, 1979
- Subject(s)
- Greek Canadians, Dominion Day, Parades
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1970s
- Collection
- Hellenic Stories, Story City
- Title
- Business and Cultural Shifts - Interview with Albert Tsang
- Contributor(s)
- Tsang, Albert (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- moving image
- Date Created
- 2015
- Language
- Cantonese
- Description
- Albert Tsang talks about the time when Chinatown used to be the only place you could shop for Chinese goods. Tsang explains why he thinks Chinese businesses are outside of Chinatown now and addresses complaints about outside cultures starting businesses in Chinatown. Interview conducted in Cantonese. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
- Extent
- 00:01:40
- Subject(s)
- Western businesses, Cultural shifts, Multiculturalism, Chinese restaurants, Chinese Canadians, Businesses
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 2010s
- Collection
- Chinatown Stories, Story City
- Title
- Carnegie Library
- Contributor(s)
- Timms, Philip (Photographer)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1932
- Description
- The Carnegie Library and City Hall at Main and Hastings. There are several pedestrians on the sidewalks, and a streetcar and the Vancouver City Public Market in the background at left. Also exists as a lantern slide (66953).
- Subject(s)
- Public libraries, Buildings, Street-railroads, Streets, City Hall (Vancouver, B.C.), Pedestrians, Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1930s
- Collection
- Philip Timms Collection
- Title
- Changes in the Riley Park Neighbourhood - Interview with Art Bomke
- Contributor(s)
- Bomke, Art (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-06-17
- Language
- English
- Description
- Art talks about some of the changes he's seen during his 40+ years living in the Riley Park neighbourhood.
- Extent
- 00:01:19
- Subject(s)
- American Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Gentrification, Grocery trade, Safeway Stores, Nesters Markets, Restaurants, Nightlife
- Location(s)
- Riley Park
- Time Period
- 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- City Hall and Carnegie Library
- Contributor(s)
- Timms, Philip (Photographer)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1904
- Description
- Near south west corner of Hastings Street and Main Street (Westminster Avenue until 1910). Carnegie Library on corner (right) and city hall next door. Wagons and snow.
- Subject(s)
- Public libraries, Buildings, Winter, Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch, City Hall (Vancouver, B.C.), Horse-drawn vehicles
- Time Period
- 1900s
- Collection
- Philip Timms Collection
- Title
- Snow at Main and 14th
- Contributor(s)
- Timms, Philip (Photographer)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1910
- Description
- Snowbanks near Main and East 14th Avenue. Houses are visible in the background.
- Subject(s)
- Dwellings, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - Main Street, Mount Pleasant (Vancouver, B.C.), Winter, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - East 14th Avenue
- Location(s)
- Mount Pleasant
- Time Period
- 1900s
- Collection
- Philip Timms Collection