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Title: 1946 Earthquake - Interview with Wayne Gatley:
Contributor(s): Gatley, Wayne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-27
Language: English
Description: Wayne recalls the 1946 earthquake, one of his earliest memories.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Earthquakes, Family, Childhood
Location(s): Marpole
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: B.C. Royal Cafe - Interview with Wail Wong
Contributor(s): Wong, Wail (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Wail Wong reminisces about restaurants that he frequented as a child.
Extent: 00:00:26
Subject(s): B.C. Royal Cafe, Childhood, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Chinese Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Childhood Freedom - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the freedom children had in Vancouver back in the 1940s to explore unsupervised, places like Stanley Park and Hastings Park (Pacific National Exhibition grounds).
Extent: 00:00:24
Subject(s): Childhood, Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Childhood in Kitsilano - Interview with Robin Crocker:
Contributor(s): Crocker, Robin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: Robin Crocker recalls the games of his childhood in Kitsilano.
Extent: 00:02:29
Subject(s): Childhood, Games, Active life enthusiasts, Parks
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Five Cent Movies - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira remembers getting 10 cents from his mother as a child and how he'd buy a bag of peanuts for 5 cents and go to the Star Theatre on Main Street and watch a movie for 5 cents.
Extent: 00:00:36
Subject(s): Childhood, Motion picture theatres, Amusements
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Free Rein of the City - Interview with Ron Pollock:
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron talks about the free rein he had as a child in the 1960s visiting Vancouver for family shopping trips to Woodward's.
Extent: 00:00:51
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Childhood, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Woodward's Stores Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Fun in Collingwood - Interview with Shirley Mexter and Bev Graham:
Contributor(s): Mexter, Shirley (Interviewee), Graham, Bev (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Sisters Shirley and Bev talk about the notable places and fun activities they enjoyed while growing up in Collingwood in the 1940s.
Extent: 00:02:55
Subject(s): Parks, Childhood, Sports, Restaurants, Street-railroads, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in Kitsilano - Interview with Fay Fergusson
Contributor(s): Fergusson, Fay (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-11-28
Language: English
Description: Fay describes family life and the fun of growing up in Kitsilano.
Extent: 00:04:19
Subject(s): Childhood, Children with disabilities, Social interaction, People with disabilities
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Growing Up in West Point Grey - Interview with Marion Reid
Contributor(s): Reid, Marion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Marion describes growing up in West Point Grey and the day a tortoise showed up on her family's lawn.
Extent: 00:03:20
Subject(s): Communities, Childhood, Sports, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Homelessness - Interview with Katherine Kosta
Contributor(s): Kosta, Katherine (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1973-06-19
Language: English
Description: Katherine speaks about living through the Depression, hotels and theatres around Vancouver, and her experience with homelessness and general precarity.
Extent: 00:32:35, 00:32:35
Subject(s): Depressions - 1929, Homelessness, Police, Family, Childhood, Theatres, Hotels, Street entertainers, Shelters for the homeless, Vancouver (B.C.) - Politics and government
Location(s): Downtown
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Many Memories - Interview with Olive McEwan:
Contributor(s): McEwan, Olive (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: Lifetime Little Mountain resident Olive McEwan, l gives us a quick overview of all her strongest memories of growing up in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:44
Subject(s): Childhood, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vaccines, False Creek Shipyards
Location(s): Riley Park
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of Kerrisdale - Interview with Joy Stuart:
Contributor(s): Stuart, Joy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Joy remembers family life in the Dunbar/Kerrisdale area and the pleasure she found in needlework.
Extent: 00:02:56
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Creative community, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Needlework, Childhood, Shopping, Small business
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Days - Interview with Herb Torrance
Contributor(s): Torrance, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-13
Language: English
Description: Herb talks about growing up in Vancouver during the years of WW II and just after.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): Childhood, Lord Tennyson Elementary School (Vancouver, B.C.), 1912, World War, 1939-1945, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Experiences - Interview with Olivia Cheung
Contributor(s): Cheung, Olivia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Cheung's school experience - taking the bus and raising her hand to answer questions in class.
Extent: 00:01:38
Subject(s): Elementary schools, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers, Childhood, School children, Schools, Chinese Canadians, David Oppenheimer Elementary School
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: School Experiences - Interview with Sue Lum
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Sue Lum talks about her childhood experiences attending Strathcona Elementary School.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Elementary schools, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Chinese Canadians, Childhood, Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Second Narrows Bridge Collapse, 1958 - Interview with Gary Poirier
Contributor(s): Poirier, Gary (Interviewee), Kimbel, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1984-04-28
Language: English
Description: Gary, a former iron worker who grew up around Strathcona and the West End, survived the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge in 1958, the present day Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, and volunteered at the Carnegie Centre.
Extent: 00:31:28, 00:31:28
Subject(s): Childhood, Bars (Drinking establishments), Family, Iron and steel workers, Carnivals, Second Narrows Bridge Collapse, 1958, Volunteers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Snow Time - Interview with Rita MacKay:
Contributor(s): MacKay, Rita (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: In the 1930s, Rita MacKay and her friends played many games. Sledding down Heather Hill was a thrill she still remembers clearly.
Extent: 00:01:04
Subject(s): Childhood, Sledding, Games, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): South Cambie
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Tag, the Aquarium, and Playgrounds - Interview with Ocean and Orion Clarke
Contributor(s): Clarke, Ocean (Interviewee), Clarke, Orion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Eight-year-old Ocean and his younger brother Orion share some of their favourite activities.
Extent: 00:01:27
Subject(s): Childhood, Playgrounds, Swings, Birthdays, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City