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Title: Culture and Language Loss Due to Internment - Interview with Judy Hanazawa
Contributor(s): Hanazawa, Judy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Judy talks about the impact of the Japanese internment during the Second World War, two of the most impactful being the loss of language and culture.
Extent: 00:01:07
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Racism, World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Doing Something Tangible to Address Past Wrongs - Interview with Grace Eiko Thomson
Contributor(s): Thomson, Grace Eiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Grace talks about how society can address past wrongs through education.
Extent: 00:01:49
Subject(s): Reparations for historical injustices, Japanese Canadians, World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Education
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Dramatic Events - Interview with Charlie Locke
Contributor(s): Locke, Charlie (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1981-08
Language: English
Description: Charlie speaks about the dramatic sinking of the ship he worked on, his family history in sailing and during WWII, his religious beliefs, and the German prisoner of war camps in Ontario.
Extent: 00:25:02, 00:25:02
Subject(s): Disasters, Sailing, World War, 1939-1945, Religion, Prisoners of war, Germans
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: The End of the War - Interview with Jack Ford:
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: The end of World War II brought revelry and celebration into the streets of Downtown Vancouver. “Trucks where … every inch of the truck was full with people … they were blowin’ the horn and yelling and hugging and kissing”.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Immigrating to Vancouver from Croatia - Interview with Lolita Sartorello:
Contributor(s): Sartorello, Lolita (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-06
Language: English
Description: Lolita Sartorello tells how she arrived in Vancouver from her home in Croatia. She had been slated to be sent to any number of cities as a refugee. She recalls how lucky she felt when she was sent to Vancouver. She moved to the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:02:32
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Impacts of WWII - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In the traumatic time of WWII; rationing, blackouts, and wartime propaganda impacted young lives. We had the rationing, we had food shortages; you couldn't get a new tube of toothpaste unless you turned in an old tube of toothpaste.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Food supply, Blackouts in war
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment - Interview with Sue Miyamoto
Contributor(s): Miyamoto, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Sue talks about her early life in Steveston and being sent to an internment camp in New Denver.
Extent: 00:01:25
Subject(s): Japanese Canadian Internment, World War, 1939-1945, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Life in Canada After the War - Interview with Milda Burkhardt
Contributor(s): Burkhardt, Milda, Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Milda speaks about her experiences during the period after WWII where her family experienced difficult times in Czechoslovakia and Austria. After a couple years she came to Canada by boat and worked for a long time as a waitress in Victoria, British Columbia. She had been in Vancouver 2 days at the time of the recording.
Extent: 00:20:54, 00:20:54
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Waitresses, Typhoid fever, Death, Discrimination
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:31:42, 00:31:42
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:29:29, 00:29:29
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of DTES.
Extent: 00:32:44, 00:32:44
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Pearl Harbor Changed Everything - 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 how everything changed for Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Extent: 00:04:14
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools, World War, 1939-1945, University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 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: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to British Columbia to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:32:51, 00:32:51
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to BC to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:28:43, 00:28:43
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Vancouver During the Depression - Interview with John Bileck (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Bileck, John (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983-07-25
Language: English
Description: John speaks extensively of his experiences during the Depression as an unemployed worker in Vancouver. He hitched a ride on a train down to BC to look for work in the logging camps and mills. He attended the many meetings in Vancouver, experienced the relief camps, saw numerous speakers such as Norman Bethune and Emma Goldman. John also worked on the docks during WWII.
Extent: 00:14:10, 00:14:10
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929, Docks, Logging, Labour unions, Speeches, addresses, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Wartime Memories - Interview with Tom Holmes:
Contributor(s): Holmes, Tom (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Tom describes his memories of wartime and the Japanese internment during World War II.
Extent: 00:02:35
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Wearing Many Hats - Interview with Charlie Bartlett (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Bartlett, Charlie (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Charlie speaks about moving around North America and Australia with his family, working as a tomato picker, hand logger, hat delivery boy during the depression, the docks during WWII, different places around Vancouver and his opinions of hat culture.
Extent: 00:30:02, 00:30:02
Subject(s): Docks, Hats, Labour unions, Restaurants, Parks, Sports, Drug addiction, Logging, World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Wearing Many Hats - Interview with Charlie Bartlett (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Bartlett, Charlie (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1982
Language: English
Description: Charlie speaks about moving around North America and Australia with his family, working as a tomato picker, hand logger, hat delivery boy during the depression, the docks during WWII, different places around Vancouver and his opinions of hat culture.
Extent: 00:38:24, 00:38:24
Subject(s): Docks, Hats, Labour unions, Restaurants, Parks, Sports, Drug addiction, Logging, World War, 1939-1945, Depressions - 1929
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Carnegie Stories