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Interview with Betty Blair by Eric Damer October 17, 2012 - Track 6
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory301
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1939-2012
- Length
- 0:10:46
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Betty (Warburton) (Atkinson) Blair's memories of popular culture activities that she has enjoyed. Betty discusses listening to the radio, singing around the piano and going out to the theatre as a girl. She also mentions her more recent pottery practice.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Betty (Warburton) (Atkinson) Blair's memories of popular culture activities that she has enjoyed. Betty discusses listening to the radio, singing around the piano and going out to the theatre as a girl. She also mentions her more recent pottery practice.
- Date Range
- 1939-2012
- Photo Info
- Graduating class at Burnaby South High School; Betty Warburton is third from the right in the front row, [1942 or 1943]. Item no. BV004.82.5.
- Length
- 0:10:46
- Subjects
- Recreational Activities
- Interviewer
- Damer, Eric
- Interview Date
- October 17, 2012
- Scope and Content
- Recording is an interview with Betty (Warburton) (Atkinson) Blair conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, October 17, 2012. Major theme discussed: life in Burnaby during the war years.
- Biographical Notes
- Betty Warburton (later Atkinson) (later Blair) was born in 1926 and grew up at three different locations on Frederick Avenue in Burnaby. She went to school in Burnaby; first at Kingsway West for two years, then Nelson Avenue and then Burnaby South High School where she completed senior matriculation. After graduation, Betty worked for a few years in Vancouver before marrying her first husband Don Atkinson and raising their children in Burnaby. Betty (Warburton) (Atkinson) Blair has participated in a range of activities from hiking and Girl Guides to volunteer arthritis care. By the nineteen-sixties she had began to learn pottery and take lessons at Mather House in Burnaby.
- Total Tracks
- 6
- Total Length
- 0:59:03
- Interviewee Name
- Blair, Betty Warburton Atkinson
- 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.
- Collection/Fonds
- Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds
- Transcript Available
- None
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
Images
![Graduating class at Burnaby South High School; Betty Warburton is third from the right in the front row, [1942 or 1943]. Item no. BV004.82.5. thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/2000/200400820005.jpg)
Audio Tracks
Track six of recording of interview with Betty Blair
Track six of recording of interview with Betty Blair
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS171-003/MSS171-003_Track_6.mp3
Ranger weekend
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4567
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- May 24, 1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of Sea Rangers gathered together on a grassy knowle looking with a large body of water in the background. Rangers are identified in the Back Row L to R as Denise Davies, Sandra Smilie, Barb B., Barb F., Cheryl Lyn Trewin and in the Front Row L to R as Charlotte and Kathy Ander…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of Sea Rangers gathered together on a grassy knowle looking with a large body of water in the background. Rangers are identified in the Back Row L to R as Denise Davies, Sandra Smilie, Barb B., Barb F., Cheryl Lyn Trewin and in the Front Row L to R as Charlotte and Kathy Anderson.
- Accession Code
- BV015.36.105
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- May 24, 1965
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Loose photographs and slides arranged by Kathryn Raadsheer nee Hardy.
- Notes
- Title based on content of photograph
Images
![Weekend at Camp Olave, [1965] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2015/2015_0036_0104_001.jpg?width=280)
Weekend at Camp Olave
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4566
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1965]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Girl Guides and Rangers at a weekend camp at Camp Olave on the Sunshine Coast. Girls are identified in the Back Row L to R as Denise Davies (in Ranger uniform), ?,?, ?, Ruth Crookall, ?, ?, Ranger Karen MacWaters and in the Front Row L to R as Joyce Crookall, Cheryl Lynn Trewin, Kath…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Girl Guides and Rangers at a weekend camp at Camp Olave on the Sunshine Coast. Girls are identified in the Back Row L to R as Denise Davies (in Ranger uniform), ?,?, ?, Ruth Crookall, ?, ?, Ranger Karen MacWaters and in the Front Row L to R as Joyce Crookall, Cheryl Lynn Trewin, Kathleen Anderson, ?, ?.
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Davies, Denise
- Crookall, Ruth
- MacWaters, Karen
- Trewin, Cheryl Lynn
- Crookall, Joyce
- Anderson, Kathleen
- Accession Code
- BV015.36.104
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1965]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Loose photographs and slides arranged by Kathryn Raadsheer nee Hardy.
- Notes
- Title based on content of photograph
Images
![Weekend at Camp Olave, [1965] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2015/2015_0036_0104_001.jpg)