CALL NUMBER: T3134:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Abraham Gurevich discusses background: born 1901 in Russia; came to Canada at age 24 to join other family members; skilled locksmith and gunsmith but found job only washing dishes. Daughter Rita Goldberg: attended Strathcona School, 1936; recalls Miss Schooley and one other teacher. Gurevich in cattle business in 1930, went broke, peddled junk by horse and wagon. No job, no money but family never on relief; he made enough to eat. Discussion of: Hobo jungles on False Creek; Rabbi Pastinsky; Kosher butcher shops on Georgia; Sabbath day customs; mother's non-automatic washer; home-made pickles and sauerkraut. TRACK 2: Gurevich was a good wine maker- sold it for Passover. Peddling with horse. Buying Model T truck and going into fruit and vegetable vending. Second Hand store for 28 years, bought for $46.00. Strathcona in 1924 mostly Jewish; as more immigrants came, Jews moved out, synagogue moved to 19th Street. Gurevich family did not leave until 1944, when homes were getting run down and drinking problems were more evident. Italians bootlegging but good neighbours. Weekly outings to Stanley Park, lunch in suitcases, then later by truck. Violin found while junk peddling; gave to Rita; Rita's sister took music lessons at Ukrainian Hall. Tough black kids in area. Live chickens from Chinatown. Wood and coal furnace, then sawdust. Gurevich for 42 years member of Jewish Burian Society: dresses bodies, keeps vigil; discusses Jewish burial customs. CALL NUMBER: T3134:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of the Zionist organization in neighbourhood on Hastings Street that was really a youth group. World War II does not affect family. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1970s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Al Izen discusses background: parents came from Poland, ca. 1906; grew up at 666 Keefer St.; father a tailor with a shop in 300 block East Hastings; Orthodox family; brief description of interior of synagogue (Schara Tzedeck); Kosher butcher; Jewish school; Rabbi Patinsky; no racial discrimination because all poor. Depression wages and cost of living: family felt the pinch but managed. Father's second-hand store, Izen Brothers on Cordova Street. Uncle's store on Main Street, also second-hand. Observation car post-WWI. First jobs: wages, prices then, and working conditions (no social security). Health care. TRACK 2: Discusses A.T.A.: Jewish organization for under-16s. Ball games on Powell Street grounds. No transients, all-Japanese pre-war. Japanese evacuation during WWII: Japanese response to it; white response; primacy of religion during his childhood; marriage and moving out of neighbourhood; Russians and Poles came in; Dr. Snider, dentist, who has old photographs; Ben Patinsky. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Yugoslavian community RECORDED: Sechelt (B.C.), 1977-08-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lucas discusses: Strathcona School system and teachers at Strathcona, especially Miss Fanny Grant; learning English and Yugoslavian languages; Nurse McLellan; diets of students at Strathcona; selling peanuts with his brother; Japanese baseball team; cutting logs for firewood; Japanese on Powell St.; memories of the Depression -- shantytown, breadlines, soup kitchen; his paper route for the 'Sun'; racial/ethnic relations in Strathcona neighbourhood; sports in the neighbourhood- track, basketball, soccer; Japanese evacuation during WW II. TRACK 2: Mr. Lucas discusses: ethnicity of neighbours; crime in neighbourhood; good influence of Strathcona School. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1896-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Angelo Branca discusses background and childhood: father in gold rush, 1896; father's import business; learning of his background through oral history, 1911, as father returns to Italy briefly; deliveries as child for grocery store; mucky sidewalks at Hastings and Main; games as a child; teachers at school; discipline in the home and at school; sense of humour of teachers; change of his ;vocation to law on father's advice; singing at Italian dinners; sister as a singer. TRACK 2: Discusses: physical work and chores; Italian picnics; lack of existing documentation of Italians in Vancouver; immigrants coming being those who needed new opportunity; Mr. Branca's father's reason for immigrating; story-telling amongst his father's friends; San Carlo opera company coming to Vancouver; the Avenue Theatre; Charles E. Royal players at Empress Theatre; early movie theatres; seeing opera recently in Verona; Italy; Italian banquets in Vancouver; his sister as a talented singer.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Powell St. grounds; Burnaby farm; family; schooling; early success in law profession; assimilation of Italians into Canada; Fathers at Sacred Heart school; description of church interiors at Easter and Christmas; father's import business; speech making; Italian language. TRACK 2: Discusses: philosophical sayings and proverbs in Italian, and the poetry of learning them; discipline in the home; notes changes in parental guidance since WW II; brief history of union of the provinces of Italy; Strathcona residents from Veneto and Udine area; small community problems; community ;pride and jealousy; retention of ethnic customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: manual labour by first minority groups; discrimination problems; Janet Smith case of 1924; False Creek prior to WW I; maps of area viewed; location of family's home in area; street; cars, hotels and theatres; first Woodward store; Crosetti, Branca and Tosi stores on Main Street; stores at corner of Union and Princess Street; area of Water St., 70 years ago; Europe Hotel; Angelo Calori. TRACK 2: Discusses: sewage outlet at foot of Raymur St.; reclamation of False Creek park; builder of Union Street homes in 1900s; Hogan's Alley; distribution of brothels in area; police control and toleration of them; lack of crime in area; rum running; bootlegging.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Branca discusses: lawyers in '20s and '30s who influenced him; his first car, a Russell-Knight (?); early driving conditions in Vancouver; learning to box from George Paris; boxing in general; his father's business partner, John Crosetti; Branca's father as a colourful character. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T1173:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Husband's impressions of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the west coast PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Husband speaks about his family; his father came to farm on the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1905 and his grandfather operated the dogfish refinery at Skidegate. He recalls his childhood; on the islands, early homesteaders, life on the islands, employment opportunities, settlers, island personality traits and the clergy. TRACK 2: Arthur Husband continues with recollections about island characters, wildlife of the islands, birds, ousels, ravens, personal reflections, the islander personality, skeletons and burial sites, education and schooling, early life, climate and employment.

CALL NUMBER: T1173:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Husband's impressions of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the west coast PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Husband speaks about his impressions of life in Vancouver during the depression, a description of the Queen Charlotte Islands, climate, vegetation, industries, logging, mining, fishing, the fishermans co-op and the whaling industry. TRACK 2: Mr. Husband continues with thoughts about the changes in the Queen Charlotte Islands, earthquakes and tidal waves and the future of the islands.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-06-17 [or 18?] SUMMARY: A commemmoration of Vancouver's Bloody Sunday (1938), recorded and/or broadcast 1978-06-18 or 19.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-01-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wong discusses background: born 1896; moving to Canada, 1911; what Vancouver was like in the early years of the twentieth century; living on Keefer Street; brother's laundry business; Chinatown; going back to China in 1919, but returning to Canada 1921. Mr. Wong and his brother built a new, bigger laundry business. Describes laundry business. Discusses what life was like for early Chinese in Vancouver. Few women in early Chinatown. Flu epidemic of 1918. TRACK 2: Discusses: medicines used by Chinese herbalists; the Depression -- hard times for many Chinese businesses; his opinion of urban renewal; Chinatown on Carrall St. in 1911; Chinese opera house. (End of interview);

SUMMARY: A documentary sound program about Dr. J. Lyle Telford, radio populist and CCF politician, including excerpts from Telford's radio addresses and interviews with Harold Winch and others. The program was produced by Emmanuel Ronse.

The item consists of an audio interview with Edith Stephens recorded in Vancouver, B.C. on August 27, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Edith Stephens was born in Nanaimo, B.C. on January 8, 1906. She lived in Nanaimo until she was 5. Moved to Vancouver in 1911 because her dad had worked in the coal mines and he got rheumatism from the compressed air. He started a window-cleaning business in Vancouver. The Murray family had 7 children, of which Mrs. Stephens was the eldest. Her family moved around a lot from one rented house to another in the downtown Vancouver area (Howe, Melville, Hornby) and then bought a home on Harwood Street. Describes her home on Harwood Street and the chores her mother carried out in raising 7 children. Though the family always had electricity, it was mainly for light. The cooking stove was wood and coal, and laundry was done in a water-powered washing machine. Describes a typical day for her mother. Also describes her own chores within the family. As the oldest child she was expected to stay home from school on Mondays, washdays, to help look after the younger children. She attended Central School, Aberdeen School, and Dawson School. She did not attend high school because her father held that girls only get married, so why do they need an education? She took domestic science around the age of 11 or 12. Describes what she learned.

Track 2: Continues discussion on domestic science class. She started working for wages at the age of 15, working in a candy factory, the B.C. Electric lunch counter, and the Hotel Vancouver laundry. She married at the age of 19 in 1925. She set up her home in Vancouver. She talks a lot about the Depression. Her family was without a steady income for 6 to 7 years. How they survived: relief, raising chickens, church and community donations. Talks about the soup kitchen set up by the principal, Mr. Smith, in her children's school. It was run by volunteer help from the mothers in the community.

CALL NUMBER: T3588:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Effie Jones : The Housewives' League RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Effie Jones was born in England and spent years of her youth in Wales, where she came into contact with the miners' struggles of the early 20th century. She came to Canada in 1919 and married, settling with her husband in Vancouver. Mr. Jones worked for BC Telephone. The Jones' home was the only one in the neighbourhood with a telephone during the Depression, and became a centre for people looking for work. They also had a vegetable garden and many chickens, as well as steady work, and helped to support many of their less fortunate friends and neighbours. Mrs. Jones began her political work with the CCF as a local executive member. Her experience with the CCF left her disillusioned and she left the CCF for the more active Communist Party. She worked in the Housewives' League, transforming it from a Liberal club into an organisation with branches across Canada. TRACK 2: The League worked on support for the Post Office occupation in 1938 -- the defense of the men arrested in the occupation, fighting evictions, and mobilizing to put people's belongings back into their homes. CALL NUMBER: T3588:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: When the war began, the Housewives League fought for soldiers' wives to receive an adequate and regular allowance. Effie Jones almost won the mayoral race in 1947. She ran for civic positions in later elections as well. She celebrated her 90th birthday in 1979. [TRACK 2: blank?]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-29 SUMMARY: Effie Jones discusses Vancouver civic politics and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elisa Negrin discusses: her parents' Italian background; parents' first jobs in Vancouver; garden and animals on Atlantic Street; looking after cows; manure used in medicine and other folk remedies; butchering at home; fodder for cows; barn at Atlantic Street house. TRACK 2: Mutual help in the neighbourhood. Police in the neighbourhood during the Depression. Transients in the Depression.; Relations of girls with neighbourhood boys and transients. Chores and schools. Helping with midwifery in the neighbourhood.;

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: work and her attitude during her teens in the Depression; school life -- activities, ethnic groups; mutual help in the neighbourhood and attitudes of ethnic groups toward each other and neighbourhood problems; languages spoken in the neighbourhood; trees and sidewalks and proposed changes in the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Taking in borders in the Depression. Credit from stores. Attitudes toward teachers. Prevalence of TB in the war years. Other diseases: diphtheria, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever. (End of interview);

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-11-30 SUMMARY: Musician and broadcaster Fred Bass discusses his experiences in the early days of radio in Vancouver. TRACK 1: Use of shortwave equipment by CKWX for location broadcasts; Indian legends broadcast from Stanley Park. His background and start in broadcasting, CKWX, 1928. Children's show, "Uncle Jerry", taken over by Bass. Radio auctions to raise relief funds during Depression. CKWX programming. Mystique of early radio. CKWX started [as CFDC] in Nanaimo, ca, 1923, by Arthur "Sparks" Holstead; move to Vancouver, 1925. Earle Kelly, "Mr. Good Evening". Attitude to early radio work. Remote hookups at C;PR Station. CKWX coverage of local events. Will Reeder. "The Lumberjacks" radio program. Bass did vaudeville in New Westminster in the 1920s. Dick Diespecker of CJOR. Changes in CKWX management: Taylor, Pearson and Carson. TRACK 2: Continues discussion of TPC. Early CKWX transmitter and studio locations. Broadcast from a café in New Westminster. Radio in 1928. YMCA opening story. Radio training course offered by CKWX and UBC. CKMO and Sprott-Shaw College. CKWX record library, set up by Bass. Availability of talent in early days. Bass' "man-in-the-street" interviews; how they started. Memorabilia. "Personal" nature of early radio. Soccer broadcasts. Long-range reception of CKWX. Bass in show business for 70 years. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3132:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Soon discusses background: born Canton 1908; immigrated 1921 on CPR boat with relatives; paid $ 500 head tax; held in Immigration Building for 3 weeks; Chinese 'a political football' prior to 1947. Early life for Fred Soon in B.C.: jobs limited to labour work in mills, on farms, in laundries, etc; sister-in-law not accepted into nurse's training in B.C. in 1950; attended Strathcona School to learn English; then Britannia; father made him take one year commercial course at John Oliver so he could run his own business; first lived in 'community house'; help clan associations offered Chinese. TRACK 2: More on Soon's life in Strathcona neighbourhood: grocery store during Depression then shipyard work at Burrard Shipyards building Liberty ships during WW II (considered a good job;); post-war grocery store then shingle mill work; active in IWA union as Chinese organizer; unions discriminatory in early days, but later changed mind.; CALL NUMBER: T3132:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1921-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses the expropriation of his house on Pender Street for urban renewal: he refused to sell to City Hall because they would not give him replacement value only market value (unfair because area had been designated for clearance so property values had dropped); refused to go to arbitration; had to move out due to stress on wife but he never completely abandoned house; house was demolished without his consent on morning in 1967; went through three lawyers, none of whom could help him. TRACK 2: More on expropriation of house: third lawyer that represented him settled for Fred Soon without telling him first; Soon refused to accept money which was kept in trust by lawyer until just before his death when Fred Soon had to take it. Soon was active in early formation of SPOTA; labels ;urban renewal 'urban destruction'; points out basic errors in City Hall's program. Describes Depression jobs and how labour contractors worked. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2680:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gil Tiveron: born in Italy, 1909; came to Canada, 1911; first house on Union Street. Ted Hovi: born in Washington state to Finnish parents, 1909; moved to Vancouver, 1922; house on Keefe. Scandinavian boarders; conditions during the Depression; Powell River smokestack job; longshoremen's' strike 1935; Vancouver riot. Tiveron: crowd on Hastings in 1930s. TRACK 2: Tiveron: Hastings St (con;t'd). Hovi: Ballantyne Pier Riot [1935]. Tiveron: memories of Italian community; Strathcona School; Chinese vs. Italians; Chinese and Japanese; teachers and discipline. Hovi: Strathcona teachers and discipline. Hovi and Tiveron: youthful adventures; whore houses; prostitution and bootlegging; street vendors; theatres. CALL NUMBER: T2680:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hovi and Tiveron: movies and theatres; dances at Silver Slipper and Parish Hall; other ethnic groups- Finns, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Ukrainians, Poles; neighbourhood characters; leaving the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Hovi and Tiveron identify pictures: synagogue; Spencer's stable; Pini's Spaghetti House; theatres; Croatian Hall; Hogan's Alley; city market near Westminster Bridge; Morrow's Wood and Coal; False Creek flats. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2800:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gloria Harris discusses background: father emigrated from Russia via Germany, mother from Budapest in 1909 &1911; met and married in Vancouver. Immigrant observations on Montreal St: Strathcona a melting pot; details of neighbours' music, religious practices, help in times of illness. Learning English. Discrimination. Depression: helping the young unemployed off the freights; father's difficulties in getting work; cases of poverty. TRACK 2: Jewish organizations helping immigrants in '20s and later. Religious life: holiday rituals, Schara Tzedeck synagogue, Friday night hom ritual. McLean Park and United Church summer programs. School incident involving anti-Semitism. Seen as 'foreign' when trying to get work. Strathcona School: teachers, school nurse, eye tests. World War II for the Chinese and Japanese. CALL NUMBER: T2800:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Describes local gangs giving local girls protection. Brothel next door in late '40s and how she got it closed. Meeting prostitutes while working in bottle shop at age 13. Other brothels on Union Street. Views on prostitution. Bootlegging: frequency of; social functions of; European custom; first visit to local bootlegger; bootlegging to finance children's' higher education. Russian loggers boarding at friend's house. Russian and Ukrainian music. Russian and Ukrainian halls. TRACK 2: Discusses: school May Day at Powell Street grounds; riot on Hastings Street; 1939 Declaration of War; radio newscasts and newspaper extras; radio programs of the '40s; Italian boys in Canadian Army; Anglicization vs. retaining heritage; stereotypes of Jews. CALL NUMBER: T2800:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gloria Harris discusses neighbourhood characters: Mrs. Cibular, Mr. Marino, retarded men, teacher Miss Sutherland. Bootlegging to finance education. Degeneration of neighbourhood ca. 1949; neighbours moving out. Immigrants of '50s. Inter-racial relations and jobs according to nationality. Importance of education. TRACK 2: Discusses: burial practices; Rabbi Pastinsky; and importance of radio in daily life. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3131:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gordon Won Cumyow discusses background: born in Vancouver; father was Won Cumyow; switch of surname from Won to Cumyow; grandparents came by sailing boat in 1850s; grandfather ran supply store for gold rush miners in Fort Douglas; later moved to New Westminster; father was first Chinese born in Canada (possibly); also was first Chinese court interpreter; spoke Chinook as well. Discusses: gambling -- now syndicate gambling forbidden, but not so in those days; also Chinese lottery was very popular; it was later suppressed by Magistrate Oscar Orr who gave jail sentences; assault cases more frequent in old days- due to white drunks; Vancouver's Chinatown not as criminally organized as San Francisco's. TRACK 2: Discusses: pre-franchise ban on Chinese entering certain professions; medicine did not discriminate -- early Chinese doctors got training in U.S.; Gordon Cumyow studied law for 3 years but was not allowed to article. Mr. Cumyow gives a brief history of the relationship between Freemasons and Kuomingtang: an attempted coup of Freemasons by young Chinese immigrants. Stricter laws and more integrity on police force here prevented Vancouver from being like San Francisco re fighting tongs and gangsterism. Describes: raids on gambling clubs in old days and techniques for slowing down police (evidence hidden in v-joint planking in room; spring locks on doors and lookout; narrow corridor prevented police from battering down door); number of contemporary social clubs are really gambling clubs. Opium sold across the counter in father's days: vaults used to keep it in.; CALL NUMBER: T3131:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Life of early Chinese in Vancouver: hopheads in Steveston canneries- daily routine of smoking, floating walk; opium users mostly older people, so it did not affect their health; western liquor desirable; Chinese liquor used for medicinal purposes; servant girls brought over as daughters- badly mistreated in Victoria where Manchu teaching held sway; Methodist Church started refuge for abus;ed girls; Victoria's Chinese held to old customs longer than Vancouver's; value of learning English; going to Chinese school by streetcar; Chinatown in those days was dark, shoddy locale; gives physical description of Chinatown terrain. Describes Chinese opera: little scenery; magnificent costumes; codified gestures narrate plot. TRACK 2: More on split between Freemasons and Kuomintang: killing in a sawmill. Discusses: 1907 race riot; 1923 Exclusion Act; Depression days- CBA soup kitchens, Chinese helped themselves; Powell Street- relations with Japanese, evacuation of Japanese, Chinese buying up Japanese property, Japanese fishing settlement on Mayne Island; World War II for Chinese-Canadians -- opportunity to gain vote, nephews joined U.S. Forces because they were accepted earlier there, good medical and educational advantages. Changes in Notorial Society.; CALL NUMBER: T3131:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gordon Won Cumyow discusses: ties with mainland China and money being sent here from Chinese-Canadians; new immigrants learning English; dialects surrounding city of Canton learned in trade by Cantonese merchants; Mandarin now official language; calligraphy being nationally simplified. (End of interview)

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-06 SUMMARY: Grace MacInnis discusses Japanese-Canadians during WW II, and comments on civic politics in Vancouver in the 1930s.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-06 SUMMARY: Harold Griffin discusses Vancouver civic politics in the 1930s.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-05 SUMMARY: Harold Winch discusses the take-over of the Vancouver Post Office and Bloody Sunday, 1938.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest times. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "In 1931 There Were Jungles In Vancouver" by Brenda White, is a story of the Depression.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1937 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Interviewees introduce themselves: both Mrs. Bianco and Mrs. Negrin born in Vancouver (1911 and 1917 respectively). Mrs. Trono born in Italy in 1895. (Mrs. Trono does not speak much on the tape). Mrs. Bianco's father, Piccolo, emigrated with pregnant wife in 1910-11: first two houses lived in on Prior St; dispute with neighbour McDonald over empty lot used as garden; boccia in back alley; poker-playing for days at a time; story of woman who put glass in sandwiches. Mrs. Negrin's father, Martini, a born traveller, emigrated to North America after trips to other countries: first home in stable on Union Street; later moved to Grove (Atlantic); six girls in family, mother took in boarders; father used empty lot to raise cows and chickens; dairying in 1925; court case over stolen chickens; minimal social welfare available; kids' chores. Mrs. Bianco's jobs helping mother with milk and cheese sales -- dairies stepped in (1935-36) to stop them from keeping cows. Mrs. Negrin was herdswoman on Flats. Mrs. Bianco recalls men loitering on Flats, chasing lost cows. Saturday night bootlegging and dancing with men. TRACK 2: Mrs. Negrin recalls Barnum and Bailey Circus on Flats, ca. 1926, when Italians made a lot of money selling their wine to circus crews, and Italian kids got into circus free. Mrs. Bianco recalls fight in their house in late '20s. Father started bootlegging as longshoremen take up wine drinking; friends wanted some, invited to house, wanted more, ended up buying drinks. Story of getting arrested for bootlegging when sister was 19, she was 25: she took rap for sister; wore new dress to trial; judge's quick retort. Trains coming in would sell booze off flats. 1918 flu epidemic: many neighbours died. Mrs. Negrin recalls bodies 4-5 feet high in Hogan's Alley. Mrs. Negrin recalls helping mother as midwife. Gathering stray cows before going to dance; herding route; pound man; barn on Atlantic Street. Depression: men coming up from flats for food and water.

CALL NUMBER: T3130:0001
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : Ukrainian-Canadians
PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1950
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rosie Bezubiak: parents immigrated 1897 from Ukraine; took up farming in Alberta; farm lost during Depression; Rosie, her husband and daughter Hannah move to Vancouver 1929. Rosie did housework for 25 cents an hour in Shaughnessy and Dunbar; her husband worked as a logger. Jobs were scarce, and there were 5 children in all. Discusses poverty, many moves, and relief. The Polowys (Ed's parents and 3 children) moved from Edmonton to Vancouver in 1930; his father began first delicatessen east of Main Street and made his own Ukrainian sausage; family lived in back of store; hard times but always enough to eat; details of store work, making sausages. Ukrainian Hall had many musical concerts. Discussion of musicians in Buzubiak family. TRACK 2: Princess St. house for Bezubiaks: room, rent, neighbours, bootlegging across street and raids. Safe neighbourhood for women. Details of local gangs, their behaviour. Describes a local fight with U.S. Marines, making revenge and visits to Kerrisdale. Life in Strathcona neighbourhood: street games; zoot-suiters; differences between Strathcona and Seymour school gangs; Ed courting Hannah; many kids around Bezubiak home; organized athletics; Pro-Rec program in schools and local halls and churches; Lorne's childhood paper route; hop-picking at Sardis.

CALL NUMBER: T3130:0002
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : Ukrainian-Canadians
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Life in Strathcona neighbourhood: more on hop-picking in summers as children; Camp Alexander at Crescent Beach; Hannah and sisters working at Carnegie Public Library; Ed's paper route along waterfront and float-house camp; swimming and fishing at foot of Heatley; Japantown -- bigger than Chinatown; Hannah's visit to Japanese Church; Japanese evacuation -- Hastings Park, selling possessions; blackouts and Air Raid Wardens (Lorne was one); ethnic slur words learned at Britannia; discrimination at Templeton and Britannia against East End kids, ethnic minorities; longshoremen's strike -- Polowy store invaded by police horse; role of Ukrainian Hall in 1938 Unemployment March and occupation of post-office; wounded cared for by Dr. Telford; Hall originally "Ukrainian Labourers and Farmers Temple", part of national organization, closed down by government in 1944 for 4 years; ties with Russians, Finns, and Yugoslavs. TRACK 2: Strathcona neighbourhood: Christmas in neighbourhood; beginning of CCF Party -- the Winches, meetings at Powell Street grounds, May Day parades; Andrew Roddan; Father Cooper of St. James; St. James work among youth, Reverend Whitehead, Mrs. Jane; Welfare Office and day care; evictions in neighbourhood and how neighbours helped; characters of the area -- Sam Barrett, junk men, ice man, Crazy Mary, a major, Frenchie, Mr. Zanata. Dr. Fox a good neighbourhood doctor; Yucho Chow the portrait maker. [End of interview]

CALL NUMBER: T2700:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Eurasian girl growing up in Mount Pleasant and Strathcona neighbourhoods PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ivy McAdams talks about some random recollections: born Ivy Kaji in 1920 of Japanese-Canadian father and British mother; father's background in Japan and Canada; father's service in WW I; his death in 1928; Ivy's schooling in Mount Pleasant area; difficult conditions of childhood because of mother's TB; racist taunts; Orientals in Mount Pleasant; East Indians; becoming a part of the Chinese community; dances for Japanese-Canadians; Powell Street; Japanese baths. TRACK 2: More recollections: public baths; problems in WW II; end of schooling at Fairview Commerce; move to Strathcona in 1938-39; she and her brother were only Eurasians at school; conditions in the Depression; youthful activities and living quarters; conditions in WW II; evacuation; permit to visit mother until her death in 1942; refusal to register as an enemy alien. CALL NUMBER: T2700:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese-Canadians in Strathcona : WW II and evacuation PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 & 06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ivy McAdams discusses: her arrest for refusing to register as an enemy alien in World War II; an exception being made in the case of herself and her brother; conditions for Japanese and Italians during World War II. TRACK 2: Discusses: Japanese evacuation; stores along Powell Street closed; description of Powell Street's Japanese stores; description of Japanese reaction and social life there; panic sales as evacuation approached; response of Japanese to evacuation. CALL NUMBER: T2700:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese and Chinese-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1950 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Japanese evacuation (cont'd); property never returned; fear of reprisals; support of friends; evacuation of children a cause of her mother's death; Powell Street after evacuation; Shanghai Theatre in Chinatown; Sam Kee building; Chinese opera; Chinese women; immigration policy for Chinese; work and social life among the Chinese; occidental interest in Chinese businesses and restaurants; Chinese school; myths about the dangers of Chinatown; help from a Chinese friend of the family; Chinese hostility to East Indians and whites. TRACK 2: Discusses: the raising of Chinese children; problems with the new generation of Hong Kong immigrants; Cordova and Hastings Streets in the 1940s; skid row; crime and prostitution; prostitution in Chinatown; few Indians in the area; gypsies around Main and Prior; Japanese Day feasts. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the First United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1919-[no date] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jean McDuff landed in Vancouver 07-Jul-1919 from Scotland to join husband; stayed with Mrs. West; attended Mothers Meeting at Turner Institute; quilting there. Attended Fircom, First United Community House, at Georgia and Campbell; Miss Goddard taught gym classes there; deaconesses lived in White Shield social club there. First United Church: making stews for breadline from donated food. Roy Stobie (student minister) helped Rev. Roddan take food down to mud flats where men lived in cardboard shacks. She saw unemployed men marching on Woodward's and invading Hudson's Bay. Post Office occupation. Men invaded church while she was at camp. Roddan had invited Mayor McGeer to speak; McGeer had read riot act, so the men came in to protest. City Hall welfare handouts. More on HBC demonstrations. Men coming off trains came up to First United for stew. They fed perhaps 1,000 men a day. Mr. Redburn initiated Saturday Night Fellowship meetings; fed 200 men a night. Fellowship meetings started in late 1930s, still carried on. Early ministers at First United (post 1919): Craig, Roberts, McIntyre, Dr. Telford. Roddan came from Port Arthur because he'd heard of First United's welfare work. Family man, 7 children. Stayed for 20 years. Jolly personality. More on Roddan and Stobie carrying stew to the flats. Roddan made men write home to mothers. Present ministers' work. Church camp. TRACK 2: More on church camp: her cabin, using pump, improvements at camp, building Jubilee Hall, boat story. Life at camp, geography there. Describes buildings at Hastings and Gore in the 1920s. New church building erected 1936. Rev. Roddan's preaching style. Cooking at church and camp. Hobo jungle on flats again; another one under Georgia Viaduct. Georgia Street streetcar. Union Street became Adanac Street. Story of being looked for in Chinatown. Quilting women. Ladies' Aid: she vice-president, Mrs. Hunter president -- two big Scots women. (End of interview)

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-11-24 SUMMARY: Musician and broadcaster John Avison discusses his experiences in the early days of radio in Vancouver. TRACK 1: First performance on radio, at CKWX. Greater Vancouver Radio Listeners League. Early radio sets and listening. CFYC, operated by International Bible Students. CJOR, at St. Julien Apartment Hotel. Province station CKCD and phantom station CHLS; his duties as music director there. Christmas fund shows; other programming. Theatre organ. Calangis family, musicians. Earle Kelly. His first radio performance on CKMO. CKCD/CHLS: relationship, hours of operation, his work there. Also played on CNRV. Trans-Canada radio network broadcasts. His attitude to radio as a youngster. Pianists Ronnie Matthews and Alec Templeton. Charlie Defieux's plays on CJOR. Barney Potts. Vancouver speakeasies. Len Chamberlain and other dance band leaders in Vancouver; popular clubs and venues. His work at CNRV, and his start as a conductor. CRCV people. Recollection of Andrew Allan. TRACK 2: Vancouver's pre-war eminence in radio production; programs originating there. Why he left art school; his education. CFYC station locations; International Bible Students Ass'n. Radio evangelists, including Aimee Semple McPherson and Father Devine. Rev. Andrew Roddan on Vancouver. Dr. Lyle Telford. Early equipment: carbon microphone, etc. Popularity of radio personalities. Beginning as conductor of CBC Vancouver; Chamber Orchestra. Alien artists during WW2. 33 -1/3 rpm discs invented in Vancouver [?]. Served in army during WW2, but conducted orchestra while on leave. AR bond drive shows. "Blooper" stories. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2618:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Crosetti discusses background: born in Cumberland, B.C., 1902; father's grocery store, Europe Grocery; parents' migration from Genoa, Italy via the U.S. to Vancouver. Discusses: origin of Branca and Crosetti stores; ethnic groups in the neighbourhood; favourite play places; dances; theatres; sports- lacrosse, hockey, skating. Describes: the False Creek area; interurban streetcars; False Creek fill-in; swimming at Jericho Beach; CN station; fishing and rafting on False Creek. TRACK 2: Discusses: cows in the neighbourhood; activities of a 13 year old in store; Mrs. Alexander; street vendors; neighbourhood characters; lack of crime; red light district; soap, gas and water works; schooling -- Strathcona School, King Edward High; Anglo-Saxons in neighbourhood; sports; theatres; visiting circuses; Hobo jungle; early jobs; wartime harbour explosion. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-12 & 21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on wartime harbour explosion. Recollections of hunger marches, demonstrations in the Depression. Longshoremen's' strike 1935. TRACK 2: Discusses: Rev. Robbins (?) of the United Church; relief offices in the Depression; interior of Crosetti's Europe Grocery store; street cars; home garden; wood and coal stove; Prior St. cabins; bawdy houses; bootlegging. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Angelo Calori, the Hotel Europe and the Sons of Italy. Origins of various fraternal organizations. Columbus Day dances. Marathon race story. Reasons for long-term residency. Birds in the area. Rats and mice. Main Street. Comments on neighbourhood photos: circus parade; Westminster Bridge; Imperial Theatre; dredging of False Creek. TRACK 2: Comments on photos: gas stations; undertakers; Hogan's Alley; Strathcona School; Main St.; Chinatown; fire hall. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-21 SUMMARY: Mr. Crosetti comments on photographs about Strathcona neighbourhood. Not transcribed.

SUMMARY: A documentary sound program about Dr. J. Lyle Telford, radio populist and CCF politician, including excerpts from Telford's radio addresses of the 1930s. The program was produced by Emmanuel Ronse and broadcast by CFRO-FM (Vancouver Co-Operative Radio) around 1979.