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Summary: This portion of the interview is about Maureen Olofson’s volunteer activities with the Swedish Canadian Rest Home Association and Dania Homes Society, which includes giving talks to seniors about Burnaby Mountain parks. She also talks about kinds of accessible activities that people can do on Burna…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Maureen Olofson’s volunteer activities with the Swedish Canadian Rest Home Association and Dania Homes Society, which includes giving talks to seniors about Burnaby Mountain parks. She also talks about kinds of accessible activities that people can do on Burnaby Mountain.

Date Range: 2000-2015

Length: 0:05:09

Names: Swedish Canadian Rest Home and Manor; Dania Home

Subjects: Recreational Activities; Geographic Features - Parks; Persons - Volunteers; Persons - Seniors

Geographic Access: Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area

Interviewer: Bossort, Kathy

Interview Date: October 14, 2015

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Maureen Olofson conducted by Kathy Bossort. Maureen Olofson was one of 23 participants interviewed as part of the Community Heritage Commission’s Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project. The interview is mainly about Maureen Olofson’s memories of growing up on her parent’s Burnaby Mountain mink ranch between 1942 and 1950 and about the operation of the farm. She also talks about her parents’ history, her teaching career, and her thoughts about the beauty and value of Burnaby Mountain’s natural area.

Biographical Notes: Maureen Olofson was born 1938 in Glote, Harjedalen, Sweden, to Axel (1906-1998) and Kerstin Margareta (1906-1980). Axel and Kerstin Olofson, who had separately immigrated to Canada in 1928 and 1913 respectively, married in Canada and then returned to Sweden where Maureen was born. They moved to Burnaby in 1942 with their daughters Maureen and Anita Lea, and bought land and a mink ranch on Burnaby Mountain with their partners Gus Skofteby and Karin Ericksson (Kerstin’s sister). The GAK Fur Farm, located in the old Hastings Grove subdivision on 4th Avenue near Curtis Street, was one of the largest mink ranches in BC, an award winning operation with over 1200 mink animals. In 1950 the partners sold the land and the Olofson family moved to rented homes on Sperling Avenue. In 1952 Axel sold the last of his minks and opened a sporting goods store on Hastings Street. In 1954 the family moved to North Vancouver where Axel Olofson reestablished his sports business. Maureen attended Sperling Avenue School from Gr. 1 to Gr. 8 and Burnaby North High School to Gr. 11, completing school in North Vancouver, before going to UBC where she trained as a teacher. She returned to Burnaby in 1977 to teach, retiring in 1997. She is a volunteer with the Swedish Canadian Rest Home Association and the Dania Homes Society. Maureen continues to enjoy activities on Burnaby Mountain and works toward preserving the natural beauty of the mountain.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 1:19:04

Interviewee Name: Olofson, B. Maureen

Interview Location: Maureen Olofson's home in Burnaby

Interviewer Bio: Kathy Bossort is a retired archivist living in Ladner, BC. She worked at the Delta Museum and Archives after graduating from SLAIS (UBC) in 2001 with Masters degrees in library science and archival studies. Kathy grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and, prior to this career change, she lived in the West Kootenays, earning her living as a cook for BC tourist lodges and work camps. She continues to be interested in oral histories as a way to fill the gaps in the written record and bring richer meaning to history.

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project series

Media Type: Sound Recording

Audio Tracks

Track seven of interview with Maureen Olofson

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Class reunion 1912-22

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [bewteen 1940 and 1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 cm x 18 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a school reunion for the class of 1912-1922. Former students, wearing name tags, sit in the desks of a classroom. The school is unidentified.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [bewteen 1940 and 1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Easthope family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 cm x 18 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 451-033

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2003-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of a school reunion for the class of 1912-1922. Former students, wearing name tags, sit in the desks of a classroom. The school is unidentified.

Subjects: Persons - Students

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Writing in white on verso of photograph reads: "[illegible] School class 1912-22"

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Class reunion 1912-22, [bewteen 1940 and 1960] thumbnail

Digney family at Bonsor Avenue and family outings

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1946 and 1947]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (13 min., 10 sec.) : digital,col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 15. Film footage opens with Andy and Alice Digney in the yard of the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue and their son Ernest Frank (Dig) and his wife Dorothy (Dot) with thier infant son Paul at age 6 months and later as a toddler wi…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1946 and 1947]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (13 min., 10 sec.) : digital,col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-15

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 15. Film footage opens with Andy and Alice Digney in the yard of the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue and their son Ernest Frank (Dig) and his wife Dorothy (Dot) with thier infant son Paul at age 6 months and later as a toddler with a variety of family members. Footage also includes a view of Prince George, family members with Elephants and ponies from the Bible Brothers Circus, the Crystal Pool and Butchart Gardens in Victoria. The film closes with Paul, grandpa Dig and the family dog, Nero back in the yard of their home on Bonsor Avenue.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Animals; Animals - Horses; Animals - Dogs

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney, Paul; Digney, Dorothy; Digney, Alice

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Digney family at Bonsor Avenue and family outings, [between 1946 and 1947]

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Friends come for coffee

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1945]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Scope and Content: Photograph of Aune and Gus Rintanen sitting at their "all purpose table" with friends; Lil Pasanen, Helmi Rowe, and Mr. Pasanen (standing). Gus Rintanen was working on the cement chimney at the time, as his ladder and bucket are visible in the photograph. The Rintanen family lived on the Burrard …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1945]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Trudi Tuomi subseries

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

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 337-005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1996-20

Scope and Content: Photograph of Aune and Gus Rintanen sitting at their "all purpose table" with friends; Lil Pasanen, Helmi Rowe, and Mr. Pasanen (standing). Gus Rintanen was working on the cement chimney at the time, as his ladder and bucket are visible in the photograph. The Rintanen family lived on the Burrard Inlet squatters' site known as Crabtown.

Subjects: Persons - Residents - Squatters; Furniture

Names: Rintanen, Aune; Rintanen, Gus; Pasanen, Lil; Roine, Helmi

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on accession information; Print is a colour copy of a sepia original

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Friends come for coffee, [between 1937 and 1945] thumbnail

Fund-Raising at Central Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [194-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.6 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a booth at Central Park oval (note the grandstand) set up in order to raise money for the creation of Forglen (Forest Glen) Park. A sign reads, "Forest Glenn Community Association / Help Our Park."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [194-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.6 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of a booth at Central Park oval (note the grandstand) set up in order to raise money for the creation of Forglen (Forest Glen) Park. A sign reads, "Forest Glenn Community Association / Help Our Park."

Subjects: Persons - Crowds; Events - Fundraising

Names: Forest Glenn Community Association

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Central Park; Imperial Street

Street Address: 3883 Imperial Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Fund-Raising at Central Park, [194-] (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail

Hazel Peterson photographs

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880-2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: ca. 60 photographs : b&w and col. -- 2 prints : col. illustrations

Scope and Content: File consists of loose photographs of Hazel Peterson (nee Erickson), as well as photographs of her family and parents, Charles and Amanda Erickson, and her husband, Edwin Peterson. Photographs are from all stages of Hazel Peterson's life, including infancy and childhood and later years of her life,…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880-2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Hazel Peterson subseries

Physical Description: ca. 60 photographs : b&w and col. -- 2 prints : col. illustrations

Material Details: Some photographs remain in frames or paper covers.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 504-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2000-08

Scope and Content: File consists of loose photographs of Hazel Peterson (nee Erickson), as well as photographs of her family and parents, Charles and Amanda Erickson, and her husband, Edwin Peterson. Photographs are from all stages of Hazel Peterson's life, including infancy and childhood and later years of her life, including a trip to Hawaii in 1982. File includes studio portraits, cartes de visites, postcards, and some illustrations.

Subjects: Travel; Persons - Children

Names: Peterson, Hazel; Peterson, Edwin

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on content of file; Note on verso of 504-022 reads: "This was taken several years ago / Your niece / Hazel Petersen (at left)"; Note on verso of 504-027 reads: "Hazel Erickson Peterson"; Note on verso of 504-028 reads: "all of us except Ethel" and identifies the siblings in the photo; Note on verso of 504-029 reads: "not such a bad picture considering" and identifies the people in the photo.; Note on verso of 504-030 reads: "Agnus McDonald" and "Touch up outline of deer"; Note on envelope for 504-039:504-041 reads: "Hazel Petersen resided at Dania Home, Burnaby, for 20 years before her death shortly before her 100th birthday."

Investment in Youth

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946

Collection/Fonds: Norm Henderson collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film reel [19 min, 37 sec] : kodak kodachrome, col., sd.; 16mm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a motion picture film entitled 'Investment in Youth'. The film was created between October 1945 and March 15, 1946 and had its first public screening in April of 1946 at the North Burnaby High School with The Deputy Minister of Education of British Columbia, Dr. F.T. Fairey in atte…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946

Collection/Fonds: Norm Henderson collection

Physical Description: 1 film reel [19 min, 37 sec] : kodak kodachrome, col., sd.; 16mm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 565-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-33

Scope and Content: Item consists of a motion picture film entitled 'Investment in Youth'. The film was created between October 1945 and March 15, 1946 and had its first public screening in April of 1946 at the North Burnaby High School with The Deputy Minister of Education of British Columbia, Dr. F.T. Fairey in attendance. It was produced for the Burnaby School Board as one method of demonstrating the importance of education as well as pointing out the need for school improvements. The depression of the 1930s left Burnaby in a difficult position with limited school construction and during World War II there were little resources for maintenance. Ken West was the producer and amateur cinematographer while Vancouver teacher, Roth Gordon assisted with the cinematography as well as providing technical assistance. The script was written by Norman D. MacDonald, who was the principal of Burnaby South High School while Inspector of Burnaby Schools, Cliff G. Brown, provided the overall supervision and idea for the production. Norm Henderson worked as a student assistant during the filming and assisted with much of the sound work. The speed of the film was ASA 2 ( artifical lighting) to 4 (natural lighting). As a result many of the sets had to have outside lighting. A 16 mm Bolex camera was used to film the entire production with sound being added later.

History: Norm Henderson came from Saskatchewan to Burnaby with his parents in December of 1940 to visit his grandmothers. Norm and his parents stayed on and bought the Old Orchard Auto Park on the corner of Kingsway and Willingdon Avenue, which they ran until 1944. Norm attended Burnaby South High School from 1941 to 1947, during which time he was involved in the production of the Burnaby School Board film; “Investment in Youth." In 1945 Norm got a part time job at Woodward’s Department Store in Vancouver where he worked until he went into teacher training at Vancouver Normal School in the early nineteen-fifties. Kathleen MacFarlane (later Henderson) was born in 1929 and grew up in Vancouver. Kathleen also went through teacher training at Vancouver Normal School. Norm Henderson and Kathleen MacFarlane were married in 1953 and moved to a small suite located at Patterson Avenue and Kingsway in Burnaby. Norm taught at Gilmore Avenue School and Kathleen taught at Nelson Avenue Elementary School. Norm was a member of West Burnaby United Church from 1941 until he and Kathleen moved to Richmond in 1959.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools; Persons - Children

Names: Henderson, Norm; Burnaby School Board; West, Ken; Gordon, Roth; MacDonald, N.D.

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Gordon, Roth; West, Ken

Responsibility: Burnaby School Board

Notes: Transcribed title

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Video

Investment in Youth, 1946

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Jack Nichols at the parade

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 24, 1946 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.8 x 4.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.1 x 26.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Jack Nichols in costume for a May Day parade. He is standing on a vacant lot between Nelson Avenue and Royal Oak Avenue beside a wagon decorated with a picture of a lion.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 24, 1946 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.8 x 4.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.1 x 26.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-752

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Jack Nichols in costume for a May Day parade. He is standing on a vacant lot between Nelson Avenue and Royal Oak Avenue beside a wagon decorated with a picture of a lion.

Subjects: Clothing - Costumes; Persons - Crowds; Events - May Day; Events - Parades; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Nichols, Jack

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue; Royal Oak Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Jack Nichols at the parade, May 24, 1946 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

New house

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 cm x 18 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the newly-built Easthope family home at 6671 Halifax Street. Photograph is comprised of two photographs glued together to create a panorama image of the exterior of the house and surrounding property.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1946

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Easthope family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 cm x 18 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 451-034

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2003-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of the newly-built Easthope family home at 6671 Halifax Street. Photograph is comprised of two photographs glued together to create a panorama image of the exterior of the house and surrounding property.

Subjects: Persons - Students

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "New house 1946. 6671 Halifax St. Burnaby, BC"; Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "View from iddle of 1 acre lot towards south"

Geographic Access: Halifax Street

Street Address: 6671 Halifax Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Lochdale (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lochdale Area

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Amendment to the Municipal Elections Act to Provide for the Right to Vote for Persons of British East Indian and Chinese Origin

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Applications for Persons Willing to Volunteer with the Air Raid Patrol (ARP) and Volunteer Fire Department

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Collection of Garbage from Indigent Persons

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Compassionate Allowances to Indigent Persons whose Property is to be Sold at the 1947 Tax Sale

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Persons on Relief

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Persons on Relief in Burnaby

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Persons with Disabilities Benefits

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Preparation of Bylaw to Cover Municipal Inspection of All Businesses and Persons Engaged in the Handling of Food

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Recommendation that a Burnaby Rehabilitation Committee be Set Up to Assist in the Matter of the Rehabilitation of Persons Being Discharged from the Armed Forces

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Resolution of the Union of BC Municipalities Proposing and Amendment to the Elections Act to Provide for the Right of Persons of British Indian Origin to Vote

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Social Allowance for Persons Admitted to Hospitals

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Interview with Maureen Olofson by Kathy Bossort October 14, 2015 - Track 7

Audio Tracks

Class reunion 1912-22

Images

Digney family at Bonsor Avenue and family outings

Images

Video

Friends come for coffee

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Fund-Raising at Central Park

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Hazel Peterson photographs

Investment in Youth

Images

Video

Jack Nichols at the parade

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New house

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