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Seaforth School subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1945] (date of original)-1951
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
Photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of Seaforth School classes ca. 1945-1951.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1945] (date of original)-1951
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Seaforth School subseries
Physical Description
Photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1997-14
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of Seaforth School classes ca. 1945-1951.
Media Type
Photograph
Creator
Seaforth School
Notes
PC355
Title based on contents of subseries
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Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1953-1993
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. Photographs depict students participating in various classroom activities and field trips.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1953-1993
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1990-12
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. Photographs depict students participating in various classroom activities and field trips.
History
Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten was established in 1955. The school was spearheaded by a group of mothers who felt that four and five year olds would benefit from a preschool. In February of that year, they met with the President of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and two members from the Helper's Committee of the Cooperative Play Group Association. They began meeting weekly to plan the opening of a local play group. On March 26, the group held a salvage drive to raise funds for equipment, and, with the help of the fathers, raised $142.00. They continued to raise funds though bingo, teas, and dances. Fathers made a stove, kitchen cabinets, easels, hand carved animals, screens, shelves and a wash stand. The Cooperative Kindergarten opened April 18, 1955 with an enrollment of 23 children. Lucy Emma Brown is considered the founder of the school, teaching kindergarten from the school's beginning in 1955 until it closed in 1968.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten
Notes
PC246, MSS050
Title based on contents and creator of subseries
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Trudi Tuomi subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1937 and 1945]-1996
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1937 and 1945]-1996
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Trudi Tuomi subseries
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1996-20
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
History
Gustav and Aune Rintanen came to Vancouver from a mixed farm on the prairies in 1936 with the hopes of finding employment. The couple had two children: nine year old Aili (later Topalian) and eight year old Trudi (later Tuomi), when they moved to a “squatters shack” at North Burnaby’s waterfront Crabtown community in 1937. They paid 50 dollars for their two-room cabin, which was built on a platform and supported by pilings. Though the squatters’ homes that ran along the Inlet were commonly referred to as shacks and Crabtown a slum, in reality they were very neatly kept homes in a community. Crabtown residents rallied together to build a water supply system and trails up the steep bluff with stairs and banisters so children could go to school safely. Before Gustav found a job, he “busied himself with fixing up the place”: building a new chimney, railing, wood shed, clothes line and sauna for his family. By 1940, he was working at the mill near Windermere pool (now New Brighton Park). Aune worked as a dishwasher and prep cook at Ye Olde English Fish and Chips in downtown Vancouver. In 1946, they sold the cabin for two hundred dollars and moved to a small house. All Crabtown squatters were eventually evicted in 1959.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Tuomi, Trudi Rintanen
Notes
Title based on contents and creator of subseries
PC337, MSS144
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