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- Title
- A Big Shake Up - Interview with Lorne Findlay:
- Contributor(s)
- Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-02-20
- Language
- English
- Description
- Lorne Findlay moved from a tiny town in the Okanagan to "the big city." Soon after arriving, he found himself welcomed into a home in South Hill, where there were several notable events, including the 1947 earthquake. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
- Extent
- 00:04:00
- Subject(s)
- Migrants - Experience, Foster parents, Earthquakes
- Location(s)
- Sunset
- Time Period
- 1940s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- Keeping Home - Interview with Irene Maas:
- Contributor(s)
- Maas, Irene (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-05-12
- Language
- English
- Description
- Irene Maas recalls the early days of her adult life - settling into a Collingwood home with her husband, having children and then losing her husband while her children were still young. Widowed, she kept her home and added to it as a foster parent.
- Extent
- 00:02:20
- Subject(s)
- Family, Children, Foster parents, Widows
- Location(s)
- Renfrew-Collingwood
- Time Period
- 1940s
- Collection
- Story City