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Title: Building Your Community - Interview with Katherine Ruffen:
Contributor(s): Ruffen, Katherine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Katherine Ruffen was one of the earliest members of South Hill Neighbours, a society dedicated to building a strong, safe community. She describes some of their activities. Part of the Inside Stories program from the South Hill Neighbourhood House
Extent: 00:02:35
Subject(s): South Hill Neighbours, Associations, institutions, etc., Communities, Community relations
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

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: Generations in South Hill - Interview with Lorne Findlay and Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee), Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Lorne Findlay moved to the South Hill area in 1947. Decades later, his daughter Susan Faehndrich-Findlay followed in her father's footsteps, but didn't realize quite how closely. Part of the South Hill Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:02:34
Subject(s): Dwellings - Remodelling, House construction, Building trades
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1910s, 1940s, 1990s
Collection: Story City

Title: Life in South Hill - Interview with Katherine Ruffen:
Contributor(s): Ruffen, Katherine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Katherine Ruffen shares her observations about the general character of South Hill, and the features that brought Katherine to the neighbourhood in the 1970s. She describes the many changes to the business district on Fraser Street. Recorded with the Inside Stories program from the South Hill Neighbourhood House.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Small business, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Mennonite in Vancouver - Interview with Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
Contributor(s): Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Susan Faehndrich-Findlay's knowledge of German helped her bond with a Mennonite Neighbour. The South Hill area was once heavily populated with Mennonites who had fled persecution around the world. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:02:16
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Refugees, German Canadians, Mennonites
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s, 1990s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Royal Canadian Legion in South Hill - Interview with Kevin Digby
Contributor(s): Digby, Kevin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Kevin Digby's grandparents were instrumental in opening of the South Hill Branch of the Canadian Royal Legion. Part of the Inside Stories program of the South Hill Neighbourhood House.
Extent: 00:01:53
Subject(s): Remembrance Day, Parades, Royal Canadian Legion. Branch 16 (South Vancouver), Volunteers
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Transformation of Fraser Street - Interview with Susan Faehndrich-Findlay:
Contributor(s): Faehndrich-Findlay, Susan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: There has been notable turnover on Fraser Street, once the centre of a Mennonite German neighbourhood. Susan Faehndrich-Findlay remembers some of the previous businesses, and shares a tale of the (possible) origins of Grimm's sausages. Part of the South Hill Neighbourhood House Inside Stories program. Note: the tale of Grimm's sausages has not been substantiated.
Extent: 00:01:30
Subject(s): Small business, Delicatessens, Bakeries, Grimm's Fine Foods, Breka Bakery & Cafe
Location(s): Sunset
Collection: Story City