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Interview with Norman Dowad
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19638
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (wav) (61 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (61 min., 37 sec.)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Norman Dowad conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on August 14, 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:14:38 Norm shares biographical information about himself and background information on the Dowad family. Norm conveys information …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Many Voices Project Interviews subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (wav) (61 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (61 min., 37 sec.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Eric Damer Interviewee: Norman Dowad Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: August 14, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:14:37 Digital master recording (wav) was converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Norman Dowad conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on August 14, 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:14:38 Norm shares biographical information about himself and background information on the Dowad family. Norm conveys information about his grandfather Samuel Dowad's immigration to Canada and his father Wilfred Dowad's military service and successes as a property developer. 00:14:39 – 00:17:26 Norm provides background information on his mother’s side of the family. 00:17:27 – 00:31:36 Norm talks about his childhood, growing up in the Deer Lake neighbourhood, his early education in Burnaby and sports that he played. 00:31:37 – 00:39:59 Norm talks about his educational experiences attending Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall law school and information regarding his law career. 00:40:00 – 00:45:03 Norm reflects on his childhood growing up in Burnaby and on his experiences and relationships as a student and in his career as a lawyer. 00:45:04 – 01:01:37 Norm talks about his siblings and shares information about family property development projects as well as career and business successes. In closing he talks about research that he’s done through Archives Canada on his grandfather Sam Dowad and father Wilfred Dowad.
- History
- Interviewee biography: Normam Dowad was born and rasied in Burnaby. Norm graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary School, Simon Fraser University for one year, and obtained his law degree from York University. Norman began practicing law in 1974 years and has his own law practice that he operates out of Vancouver as of 2023. Interviewer biography: Eric Damer is a Burnaby Village Museum Interpreter, Museum Registrar, Researcher and Blacksmith. Eric pounded hot steel for the first time in 1977 in junior high. Fifteen years later, he joined Burnaby Village Museum where he has smithed for three decades. He also provides historical research for museum exhibits and special projects. Outside the museum, Eric is a social historian with a special interest in educational history.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Agriculture - Farms
- Education
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Migration
- Sports
- Sports - Football
- Wars - World War, 1939-1945
- Names
- Dowad, Norman W. "Norm"
- Dowad, Samuel Esper "Sam"
- Dowad, Wilfred "Wilf"
- Dowad, Naomi "Mamie" David
- Dowad, Martha Elias Shaheen
- Dowad, Kathleen "Kay"
- Rideout, Dr. John Anthony
- Burnaby Central Secondary School
- Douglas Road School
- W. Dowad Limited
- Responsibility
- Damer, Eric
- Geographic Access
- Buckingham Avenue
- Deer Lake
- Street Address
- 5533 Buckingham Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV023.16.16
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Transcription available
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Interview with Norman Dowad, [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023
Interview with Norman Dowad, [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2023_0016_0016_002.mp3![Janet Shankie standing against side of house, [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2015/2015_0040_0033.jpg?width=280)
Janet Shankie standing against side of house
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription5600
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpg)
- Scope and Content
- Full length photograph of young woman, Janet Shankie Bower, standing besidde the Thomas and Bertha Shankie family home on Barker Avenue. Janet wears a plaid knee-length skirt, white blouse and waist-length cardigan. She wears pearl earrings.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpg)
- Scope and Content
- Full length photograph of young woman, Janet Shankie Bower, standing besidde the Thomas and Bertha Shankie family home on Barker Avenue. Janet wears a plaid knee-length skirt, white blouse and waist-length cardigan. She wears pearl earrings.
- Names
- Bower, Janet Shankie
- Geographic Access
- Barker Avenue
- Street Address
- 5515 Barker Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV015.40.33
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 300
- Scan Date
- 09-Sep-18
- Notes
- Title based on annotations on digital file name
- Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor
Images
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Philips family in snow
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19088
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 10 Mar. 1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Earl and Adell Philips family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Philips family standing in the snow in the yard of their home located at 5877 Barker Avenue. Earl and Adell Philips are identified standing behind their children identified left to right as: Cory, Lorayne and Judith Philips.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Earl and Adell Philips family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Philips family standing in the snow in the yard of their home located at 5877 Barker Avenue. Earl and Adell Philips are identified standing behind their children identified left to right as: Cory, Lorayne and Judith Philips.
- Subjects
- Natural Phenomena - Snow
- Geographic Access
- Barker Avenue
- Street Address
- 5877 Barker Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV022.11.6
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 10 Mar. 1951
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Earl, Adell / Cory, Lorayne, Judith / Mar 10, 1951 / Barker Avenue / #80"
- Note in blue ink on bottom recto of photograph reads: "March 10-1951"
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