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Vancouver city digest

SUMMARY: "Vancouver City Digest" was a "talking magazine" series produced in Vancouver in 1977. It featured stories about Vancouver city and B.C. provincial politics and public affairs; information about upcoming public events and public services; reviews of consumer products; etc. It included readings from recent newspaper editorials and columns and magazine articles; interviews; and special features. It appears that episodes were about 90 minutes long. They were also broadcast on Vancouver Co-Op Radio on Sunday afternoons. The BC Archives holds five or six programs.

Stability and change in electoral patterns: the case of the 1972 British Columbia provincial election in Vancouver / Dennis Rumley

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Dennis Rumley titled "Stability and change in electoral patterns: the case of the 1972 British Columbia provincial election in Vancouver. " 1975. xii, 265 leaves: figs., maps, tables. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of British Columbia, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 212-231. Canadian theses on microfiche, 25258.

The planning decision-making process of Vancouver's False Creek: a case study 1968-1974 / Frederick Joseph Elligott

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Frederick Joseph Elligott titled "The planning decision-making process of Vancouver's False Creek: a case study 1968-1974." 1976. viii, 205 [i.e. 201] leaves: illus., maps. [Leaves 24a, 43a, 172a, 185a and 193a inserted]. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1977. Vita. [Includes abstract]. Bibliography: leaves 185a - 193. Canadian theses on microfiche, 32458.

False Creek Development: a study of the actions and interactions of the three levels of government as they affected public and private development of the waterway and its land basin / Dennis Michael Churchill

The item is a typescript copy of a thesis of Dennis Michael Churchill entitled "False Creek Development: a study of the actions and interactions of the three levels of government as they affected public and private development of the waterway and its land basin." ix, 234 leaves: maps. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1953. Bibliography: Leaves 231-234.

Mrs. L. Ashton interview

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.

Correspondence and papers

Series consists of Alderman Wilson's correspondence and papers pertaining to his anti-Oriental stand during the years 1938-1942. It also includes papers, briefs and pamphlets concerning the Oriental situation in British Columbia and the West Coast of North America; school exercise book containing Sunday School picnic accounts and church camp accounts for various years during the 1930s.

Early Vancouver : reminiscences

SUMMARY: "Early Vancouver Reminiscences" includes recollections of the following: the origins of the Salishan people, the coming of the "white people", the smallpox epidemic, and Indigenous villages in Stanley Park and the Vancouver area (described by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mrs.George); descriptions of Vancouver after the 1886 fire, the arrival of the first trains, road building, eviction of native people from Stanley Park, and the dedication of the park (by Sam Walker, Captain Canessa, Chief Khahtsahlano, and Carl Timms); dredging and construction work on False Creek, Granville Island, and various bridges over False Creek (by Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton); 1912 politics, IWW competing with Salvation Army for streetcorner audience, Mayor Findlay, labour meetings, descriptions of bars and ;saloons (by [Reuben Hamilton? and Captain Canessa); local characters "Lazy George","Pacific Slope", and Tommy Roberts (by Sam Walker); the Kitsilano district and the Greer land dispute (by Chief Khahtsahlano); the "Komagata Maru" incident, World War One, conscription, post-war strikes, and construction of the old Second Narrows Bridge (by Captain Canessa and Carl Timms); Gerry McGeer as a youth and as a politician, and his opponent Lyle Telford (by Reuben Hamilton).

Local area planning : [parts one and two]

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0002/1 SUMMARY: A special report on local area planning in Vancouver. Incudes interviews with Ron Youngberg, head planner; Jock Craigg, Kensington area resident; Harry Anderson, retired carpenter; and George Puil, alderman.

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0002/2 SUMMARY: Includes interviews with alderman George Puil, alderman Helen Boyce and alderman Marguerite Ford.;

Marianne Linnell interview

SUMMARY: Vancouver alderman, Marion Linnell, who served under four mayors, discusses Vancouver politics and municipal political party platforms.;

Sunday closing, Vancouver

SUMMARY: City of Vancouver alderman and merchant Harry Hammer. Other aldermen speaking are George Puil, Bernice Gerard, Doug Little, and Harry Rankin.;

COPE profile : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: In preparation for the Vancouver civic elections, Gary Macuse profiles the Committee of Progressive Electors. Speakers are Jacques Khouri and Harry Rankin.;

City hall report, [1979?]-05-02 : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: Topics covered are: Sunday closings; library hours; Gypsy moth spraying. Speakers are: Doug Little, George Puil, Anne Diano, speaker for Vancouver Public Library Staff Association; Doug Little, Warnett Kennedy; George Puil; Harry Rankin; Jack Volrich; and Mr. Fleischman, senior assistant deputy minister, Agriculture Canada.

City hall report, 1979-04-10 : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: Topics discussed are: DERA grant application; policeman for city hall. Speakers are: Doug Little, alderman; Marguerite Ford, alderman; Harry Rankin, alderman; Doug Little again.;

City hall report, 1979-04-04 : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: Topics discussed are: remand centre; floating homes; public delegations; transportation of the handicapped, Speakers; Mike Harcourt, alderman on remand centre; Stanley Burke, spokesman for floating home community; Mrs. Clyne on floating home community; Harry Rankin, alderman, on handicapped transportation; Warnett Kennedy, alderman, on public delegations.

City hall report, 1979-02-08 : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: Report on a special community meeting regarding the expansion of the Glad Tidings Temple, Vancouver. The speakers are: Pastor Maureen Gaglardi; Bunny McDermid, Riley Park NIP Committee representative; Don Johnson, Kensington NIP committee representative; and Oscar Banfield, chairman of the community meeting.;

City hall report, 1979-??-?? : [audio clips]

SUMMARY: Topic is the proposed downtown remand centre for Vancouver. Rev. Art Griffin, pastor of First United Church, Vancouver, discusses the Downtown Clergy Association's concerns about the project.;

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