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Presentation of 3 proficiency badges and 17 golden bars
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4817
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- April 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19.5 x 24.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken on April 7th, 1948 of the "Presentation of 3 Proficiency Badges and 17 Golden Bars". The item is a group photograph of twenty two Brownies and three Girl Guide leaders in uniforms in front of an unidentified church in Burnaby. The Girl Guide leaders are standing behind the girls an…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 19.5 x 24.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken on April 7th, 1948 of the "Presentation of 3 Proficiency Badges and 17 Golden Bars". The item is a group photograph of twenty two Brownies and three Girl Guide leaders in uniforms in front of an unidentified church in Burnaby. The Girl Guide leaders are standing behind the girls and are identified from L to R as: Betty McPherson, Mrs. Coupland and Mrs. Hebron. The Brownies are seated on the steps in front of the Girl Guide leaders and are identified first row L to R: Dianne Smith, June Walker, __, __, Sheila McRae, Judy Beatty; second row L to R : Grace Martin, __,Lorna Steele, __, Norma Davidson, Joan Bates, ___,___; third row L to R : ___, Doreen Hayward, ___, ___, Ethel Smedley, Marilyn Cooper.
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Ceremonies - Awards
- Buildings - Religious - Churches
- Names
- 5th Burnaby Brownie Pack
- Bate, May
- Girl Guides of Canada
- McPherson, Betty
- Hebron, Kathleen Billingham
- Bates, Joan
- McRae, Sheila
- Walker, June
- Beatty, Judy
- Steele, Lorna
- Davidson, Norma
- Smith, Dianne
- Martin, Grace
- Hayward, Doreen
- Smedley, Ethel
- Cooper, Marilyn
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.169
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- April 1948
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- October 22, 2020
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Transcribed title from page of scrapbook
- Photograph is a part of original scrapbook page from "5th Brownie Pack" 1948-1965 Item BV015.35.156
Images
![West Burnaby United Church, [1948] (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/315/315-109.jpg?width=280)
West Burnaby United Church
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36754
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1948] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the laying of the cornerstone of West Burnaby United Church. The cornerstone reads, "West Burnaby United Church Erected to the Glory of God 1948."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1948] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.6 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 315-109
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1994-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the laying of the cornerstone of West Burnaby United Church. The cornerstone reads, "West Burnaby United Church Erected to the Glory of God 1948."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Sussex Avenue
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 6050 Sussex Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
Images
![West Burnaby United Church, [1948] (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/315/315-109.jpg)
Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 10
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory525
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1989-1990
- Length
- 00:06:41
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics
- Date Range
- 1989-1990
- Length
- 00:06:41
- Subjects
- Celebrations - Centennial
- Ceremonial Artifacts - Totem Poles
- Woodworking Tools and Equipment
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- February 27, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.
- Total Tracks
- 11
- Total Length
- 01:34:10
- Interviewee Name
- Miyashita, Toki
- Interviewer Bio
- Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.
- Collection/Fonds
- SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds
- Transcript Available
- Transcript available
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Web Notes
- Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.
Audio Tracks
Track ten of interview with Toki Miyashita
Track ten of interview with Toki Miyashita
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_10.mp3