"Burnaby Village Museum" found 3 records

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Aili (Rintanen) Topalian's memories of her early life in Burnaby. Aili discusses family friends, Maplewood flats in North Vancovuer, the waterfront at Burrard Inlet, owning Bantam Roosters and an Alsatian dog. She mentions some of the more challenging aspec…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Aili (Rintanen) Topalian's memories of her early life in Burnaby. Aili discusses family friends, Maplewood flats in North Vancovuer, the waterfront at Burrard Inlet, owning Bantam Roosters and an Alsatian dog. She mentions some of the more challenging aspects of Crabtown.

Date Range: 1937-1979

Photo Info: Aili Rintanen (later Topalian) holding cat, next to her sister who has a rooster in her arms, [1937]. Item no. 337-003.

Length: 0:10:15

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Damer, Eric

Interview Date: October 11, 2012

Scope and Content: Recording is an interview with Aili (Rintanen) Topalian conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, October 11, 2012. Major theme discussed: growing up in Crabtown.

Biographical Notes: Aili Rintanen (later Topalian) came to British Columbia in 1936 from a homestead near Burnt Lake, Alberta. After a few months in Vancouver and then a Burnaby apartment, the Rintanens moved to a house on the Burrard Inlet. The family lived over the water, in a house built on a deck, secured to the top of pilings that were sunk deep into the sand. Aili's mother Aune Rintanen found work at a fish and chip shop in downtown Vancouver and her father Gus Rintanen worked in a nearby mill. Aili and her sister Trudi (later Tuomi), attended school in Burnaby. For nine years the Rintanens created a home for themselves in an area now called Crabtown, although no one living there called it that.

Total Tracks: 4

Total Length: 0:39:00

Interviewee Name: Topalian, Aili Rintanen

Interview Location: Interviewee's residence

Interviewer Bio: Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History Project series

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Images

Aili Rintanen (later Topalian) holding cat, next to her sister who has a rooster in her arms, [1937]. Item no. 337-003. thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track four of recording of interview with Aili Topalian

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS171-028/MSS171-028_Track_4.mp3

Love farmhouse dining room

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9925

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1966 and 1970]

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the Love farmhouse dining room with a large picture window and open doorway into a living room with a television set in the corner. The living room off of the dining room was once closed in and used as a bedroom for Jesse and Martha Love and was restored after the hous…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm print

Material Details: Copy print was made from re-photographing an original colour slide

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the Love farmhouse dining room with a large picture window and open doorway into a living room with a television set in the corner. The living room off of the dining room was once closed in and used as a bedroom for Jesse and Martha Love and was restored after the house was moved from it's location of 7651 Cumberland Street (Address pre 1960: 1390 Cumberland Road) to the Burnaby Village Museum in 1988. This photograph was taken while Elsie Hughes (nee Love), her husband John Hughes and son Brent Hughes lived in the house. Elsie is the daughter of Sarah (nee Love) and William Parker. Sarah and William purchased the house in 1928, shortly after the death of Sarah's father, Jesse Love. Sarah and William Parker lived in the house with their three children, Albert, Bill and Elsie. William Parker died in 1961 and Sarah continued to live in the house until 1966 before selling it to her daughter Elsie and son in law John Hughes. Elsie and John lived in the house with their son Brent until 1971.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage

Geographic Access: Cumberland Street

Street Address: 7651 Cumberland Street

Accession Code: BV019.3.10

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1966 and 1970]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 31-Jan-2019

Scale: 96

Photographer: Parker, Albert "Bert"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; See also BV992.15.8

Images

Love farmhouse dining room, [between 1966 and 1970] thumbnail

Love farmhouse kitchen

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9916

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1966 and 1970]

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the Love farmhouse kitchen. while Elsie (nee Love) Hughes, her husband John and son Brent lived in the house. A large dining table sits in the forefront of the photograph and a wood stove sits against the back wall with a wooden drying rack suspended over top and an el…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm print

Material Details: Copy print was made from re-photographing an original colour slide

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the Love farmhouse kitchen. while Elsie (nee Love) Hughes, her husband John and son Brent lived in the house. A large dining table sits in the forefront of the photograph and a wood stove sits against the back wall with a wooden drying rack suspended over top and an electric stove to the right. The house was located at 7651 Cumberland Street (Address pre 1960: 1390 Cumberland Road) and was moved from its original site to the Burnaby Village Museum in 1988 and designated a Municipal Heritage Landmark in 1992. Elsie is the daughter of Sarah (nee Love) and William Parker. Sarah and William purchased the house in 1928, shortly after the death of Sarah's father, Jesse Love. Sarah and William Parker lived in the house with their three children, Albert, Bill and Elsie. William Parker died in 1961 and Sarah continued to live in the house until 1966 before selling it to her daughter Elsie and son in law John Hughes. Elsie and John lived in the house with their son Brent until 1971.