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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early East Vancouver and Bowen iIsland PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2?: Came to Vancouver is 1912; lived on Hastings town site; appearance of this area; schooling at Hastings, and Britannia High; leisure activities; shopping areas; marriage; newspapers and radio stations; average day in his childhood; Burnaby; trips to Seattle; wildlife around Vancouver; Chinese peddlars; obtaining food; raising chickens; conditions during the Depression.

SUMMARY: Air check of a musical variety radio show sponsored by Nabob Foods Ltd. and produced at Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre for broadcast on the CBC radio network. Off-air recording.

CALL NUMBER: T2351:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early Vancouver from 1901 ; Nursing in the 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1901-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from Nova Scotia to Vancouver in 1901; hard times during the early years in Vancouver; farm at Granville and Broadway; childhood memories; Kitsilano Beach; chores; schooling; and graduation from John Oliver; studying nursing at St. Paul's; economic and health conditions in the Depression; drug problems; West End; medical procedures.

CALL NUMBER: T2351:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1901-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2?: Treatment of tuberculosis in the 1920s; sounds of early Vancouver; junk dealers; wild life; Stanley Park and the endowment lands; early fashions; newspapers; radio; automobiles; politics; changes after the Second World War.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early Shaughnessy Heights and English Bay PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-20 SUMMARY: Family background in Nova Scotia; moved west in 1908; first home on Davie Street; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; moved to Shaughnessy Heights; growing up there; Bowen Island; West Vancouver; life; in Shaughnessy Heights; police; Ku Klux Klan; Indian peddlars; her father's grocery store; Christmas celebrations; Point Grey; South Vancouver and Kerrisdale as bush; First World War conditions; Kitsilano; leisure activities; streetcar strikes; stores; early Stanley Park; changes in the city; Second World War; explosion of ammunition ship explosion [the "Green Hill Park"]; high school education.

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: In a radio speech, Vancouver Mayor G.G. McGeer appeals to citizens to subscribe to an issue of Baby Bonds to fund the construction of a new City Hall. He discusses the need for new building; how the site was chosen; pros and cons of other sites. Refers to recent relief camp strike; alleged Communist influence. Need to put men to work. Interest and tax advantage of bond subscription. [SIDE 2: blank.]

Part 1 (16:00) & 2 (3:46).

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of Vancouver and region PERIOD COVERED: 1892-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Born on a farm in Ladner in 1892; growing up and attending school on Lulu Island; Chinese residents; move to Eburne; discovery of Indian relics; moved to Granville Street and 60th; father's background; father's work building the BC Electric Railway; Granville Street and trips to downtown Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Comments about Anderson Island and fishing on the Fraser River; English Bay; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; ships and shipping; summers at Bowen Island; anecdotes about life around Vancouver; marriage in the 1920s; work in hotels and the hotel strike in the 1930s; modelling; the Cordova Street shopping area.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of early Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: More about Marpole excavation; West Vancouver; end of the Second World War; early strikes; visiting circus; safe streets; tea parties; calling children; wild life; family worries; Harrison Hot Springs; comments on First Narrows Bridge; Mayor McGeer; Grouse Mountain. [Note: BC Archives does not hold a copy of T2350:0003 and the contents of this recording are not available]

Sound recording is on track 1 of each recording only; track 2 is blank.

SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rhoda McGibbon : East Vancouver in the 1930s - joining Social Credit in the 1940s PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Rhoda McGibbon discusses her family background. Growing up in the east end of Vancouver in the 1930s. How she and her husband joined the Social Credit Party in 1946.;

SUMMARY: "These records of The Vancouver Soundscape complement a book of the same name and together they constitute Document no. 5 of the World Soundscape Project, Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser Universit;y, Burnaby 2, B.C., Canada." Record 1, side 1: Shoreline and harbour. Record 1, side 2: Signals and soundmarks. Record 2, side 1: A conversation piece. Record 2, side 2: On acoustic design.;