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Interview with Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright 1992 - Track 3
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4637
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- July 8 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Oral History collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 audio cassette (0:08:49 min)
- Scope and Content
- Track 3: This portion of the recording pertains to entertainment, food, school, and music. Jean discusses the importance of music as entertainment, which everyone participated in. She notes that her family always had visitors, for meals or to stay. Jean describes how her mother maintained a kitchen…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Oral History collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 audio cassette (0:08:49 min)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Teresa Ballentine Interviewee: Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright (later Jean McCallum and later Jean Hogg) Total Number of Tracks: 6 Total Length of all Tracks: 1:09:29
- Scope and Content
- Track 3: This portion of the recording pertains to entertainment, food, school, and music. Jean discusses the importance of music as entertainment, which everyone participated in. She notes that her family always had visitors, for meals or to stay. Jean describes how her mother maintained a kitchen garden and domestic livestock, and what her mother did with the surplus. She talks about attending Gilmore Avenue School, relating how classes were held in various off-site locations when enrollment exceeded capacity. She also mentions attending the high school on Rosser Avenue. Jean talks of joining the school band in high school, playing the cornet. She describes becoming a member of the National Juvenile Band, playing concerts in many places, including the British Columbia Penitentiary.
- History
- Recording is an interview with Jean Hogg conducted by her daughter Teresa Ballentine. Jean talks about her life as a resident of Burnaby from her childhood in the 1910s to widowhood in the 1960s. Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright was born in Burnaby in August 1915, two years after her family moved to 3871 East Pender Street. She was one of five children of Joseph Wright and Wilhelmina Williams. Her first husband was Walter Angus McCallum, who she was married to from 1940-1965; they raised two daughters: June and Teresa. Her second husband's last name was Hogg.
- Creator
- Ballentine, Teresa
- Accession Code
- BV018.17.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- July 8 1992
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Notes
- Title based on content of sound recording
- Label on audio cassette case reads: "Jean & Terry / Re / Jeans Memories & / Her Life History"
- Label on Side A of audio cassette reads: "Jean Hogg - Memories / 1"
- Label on Side B of audio cassette reads: "Jean Hogg Memories / 2"
Audio Tracks
Interview with Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright 1992 - Track 3, July 8 1992
Interview with Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright 1992 - Track 3, July 8 1992
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2018_0017_0001_003.mp3
National Juvenile Band
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35414
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1931 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the National Juvenile Band on the Vancouver Courthouse steps. Leader: Arthur Delamont. Somewhere in the picture is Jean Wright who played the cornet. Jean (later Jean McCallum and later Jean Hogg) was the daughter of Joseph Wright and Wilhelmina Wright. Also in the picture is Dal …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1931 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-271
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the National Juvenile Band on the Vancouver Courthouse steps. Leader: Arthur Delamont. Somewhere in the picture is Jean Wright who played the cornet. Jean (later Jean McCallum and later Jean Hogg) was the daughter of Joseph Wright and Wilhelmina Wright. Also in the picture is Dal Richards, clarinettist, and three Nicholson children who were neighbours of the Wrights.
- Subjects
- Organizations - Bands
- Musical Instruments
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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