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Title: Books and Bridge - Interview with Florence Beytin
Contributor(s): Beytin, Florence (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-21
Language: English
Description: Florence describes finding connection and making friends through books and bridge.
Extent: 00:03:56
Subject(s): Books and reading, Contract bridge, Community centres, Kerrisdale Community Centre, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, VanDusen Botanical Display Gardens, Jewish Canadians
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Class Trips - Interview with Barb Mikulec
Contributor(s): Mikulec, Barb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-08
Language: English
Description: Barb remembers taking her Emily Carr Elementary School students to the future site of VanDusen Garden for free skating on the ponds.
Extent: 00:01:30
Subject(s): VanDusen Botanical Display Gardens, Skating, Emily Carr Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in Shaughnessy - 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 has fond memories of her childhood in Shaughnessy, despite her sister's polio. In this neighbourhood, churches and social clubs played a significant role in bringing neighbours together.
Extent: 00:05:22
Subject(s): Poliomyelitis - History, Churches, Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church (Vancouver, B.C.), St. John's Shaughnessy Anglican Church, Women - Societies and clubs, Georgian Club (Vancouver, B.C.), Walking, Social interaction, Communities
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Place With No Fences - Interview with Peter Hatfield:
Contributor(s): Hatfield, Peter (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-07-23
Language: English
Description: Peter Hatfield raised his family in Shaughnessy, and remembers it as a very open, friendly neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:01:16
Subject(s): Communities, Community relations, Family
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Rock Music - Interview with Herb Torrance:
Contributor(s): Torrance, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-13
Language: English
Description: Herb Torrance gives a first hand account of the arrival of rock and roll in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:18
Subject(s): Rock music, Teenagers, Kerrisdale Arena (Stadium : Vancouver, B.C.), Orpheum Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.), Creative community, Music
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Secrets - Interview with Florence Beytin:
Contributor(s): Beytin, Florence (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-21
Language: English
Description: At 102 and going strong, Florence agrees to reveal her three secrets.
Extent: 00:03:15
Subject(s): Aging - Prevention, Health, Jewish Canadians
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City