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Camping at Sechelt

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of five young girls standing together outside of a tent. The girls were camping at Sechelt and three of the girls are identified L to R as: Kate Barker, Alice Ellett and Florence Nuttall.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Series: Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 11 cm

Material Details: Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Kate_Barker,_Alice, / Alice_ Ellett / Florence_Nuttall / &_?_/ Outside_our / Tent - Sechelt / 1926"

Scope and Content: Photograph of five young girls standing together outside of a tent. The girls were camping at Sechelt and three of the girls are identified L to R as: Kate Barker, Alice Ellett and Florence Nuttall.

Subjects: Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs; Recreational Activities - Camping

Names: Barker, Kate; Ellett, Alice; Nuttall, Florence; Girl Guides of Canada

Accession Code: BV015.35.297

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1926

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Photograph is part of scrapbook BV015.35.166

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Cooks?

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of five young girls holding cooking untensils and gathered together outside of a tent. Three of the girls are identified as Alice Ellett, Kate Barker and Florence Nuttall.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Series: Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 11 cm

Material Details: Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Cooks? / Alice,_Florence_Nuttall / (Fluff) / Kate_Barker_?_/ Sechelt_1926"

Scope and Content: Photograph of five young girls holding cooking untensils and gathered together outside of a tent. Three of the girls are identified as Alice Ellett, Kate Barker and Florence Nuttall.

Other Title Information: Transcribed title

Subjects: Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs; Recreational Activities - Camping

Names: Barker, Kate; Ellett, Alice; Nuttall, Florence; Girl Guides of Canada

Accession Code: BV015.35.298

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1926

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Photograph is part of scrapbook BV015.35.166

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Interview with Elsie Ansdell by Eric Damer September 18, 2012 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1927-1938

Length: 0:08:14

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell's early memories of recreational activities and daily life as a young person in Burnaby (activities include swimming, skating and going to the movies). She mentions Frank Walsh's Garage and discusses photographs of Brown-John Truc…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell's early memories of recreational activities and daily life as a young person in Burnaby (activities include swimming, skating and going to the movies). She mentions Frank Walsh's Garage and discusses photographs of Brown-John Trucking, "the blasting stump" and Burns Acreage.

Date Range: 1927-1938

Photo Info: Elsie Brown-John (bottom, far right) with her class at Kitchener Street School, [1936]. Item no. 549-001.

Length: 0:08:14

Subjects: Recreational Activities - Swimming

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Damer, Eric

Interview Date: September 18, 2012

Scope and Content: Recording is an interview with early Burnaby resident Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, September 18, 2012. Major themes discussed are: settling in Burnaby and the early years of the Brown-John family.

Biographical Notes: Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell’s father, a trained carpenter and cabinet maker, Victor Brown-John came to Canada from Wales in 1910. He cleared three lots at Napier and Gilmore Streets and built a two-roomed house. In 1912, he was joined by his wife and two eldest sons, Victor and Archie. Twin boys, Frank and Roy, were born in 1914 in the Burnaby home and their fifth son, Clive, was born in 1915. From 1916 to 1919 Victor John-Brown left Burnaby to serve overseas. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) was born in 1921. Her younger brother, Gwyn "Jerry" was born in 1923. In 1925 Victor Brown-John suffered a fatal accident while working as a longshoreman in Northern British Columbia. Elsie attended Kitchener Elementary and North Burnaby High School. She married during the Second World War and moved to South Burnaby to raise her family whilst continuing to work in various department stores both in Vancouver and Burnaby.

Total Tracks: 4

Total Length: 33:02

Interviewee Name: Ansdell, Elsie Brown-John

Interview Location: Burnaby Village Museum

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.