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Interview with Dennis Brown by Eric Damer September 18, 2012 - Track 3

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory308

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1944-1960

Length: 0:09:21

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Dennis Brown's memories of reconnecting with his wife Cice (Chandler) Brown on the interurban tram. He discusses his job history and tells the story of single-handedly clearing land for their family home.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Dennis Brown's memories of reconnecting with his wife Cice (Chandler) Brown on the interurban tram. He discusses his job history and tells the story of single-handedly clearing land for their family home.

Date Range: 1944-1960

Photo Info: Dennis Brown (far left) with his wife Cice (Chandler) Brown (far right) and their five children, [1964]. Item no. 549-018.

Length: 0:09:21

Names: Brown, Cice Chandler

Subjects: Land Clearing

Interviewer: Damer, Eric

Interview Date: September 18, 2012

Scope and Content: Recording is an interview with Dennis Brown conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, September 18, 2012. Major theme discussed: life in Burnaby during the war years.

Biographical Notes: Dennis Brown’s family moved from North Vancouver to South Burnaby, near Central Park, in 1941. Dennis finished his high school in Burnaby and enlisted in the air force, completing basic training. He returned to Burnaby looking for work and found employment stoking the boiler of a cargo ship. He and a friend spent the next year sailing around the world. When Dennis returned to Burnaby, he found work at a local shingle mill, married Cice Chandler and began work on a new home at Willingdon and Imperial. He and Cice had two children in 1948 and 1950, and three more in the later nineteen-fifties. By this time, Dennis had retrained as an accountant and worked in several large businesses in Vancouver. In their later years, both Dennis and Cice were active in the restoration of the Parker Carousel and Interurban 1223 (now on display at the Burnaby Village Museum) and both were honoured independently with “Citizen of the Year” awards. Cice (Chandler) Brown was, additionally, Honourary Reeve of the Burnaby Village Museum.

Total Tracks: 5

Total Length: 0:43:57

Interviewee Name: Brown, Dennis

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

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History Project series

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Images

Dennis Brown (far left) with his wife Cice (Chandler) Brown (far right) and their five children, [1964]. Item no. 549-018. thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track three of recording of interview with Dennis Brown

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS171-005/MSS171-005_Track_3.mp3

Members of the Love and Whiting families

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19791

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [191-]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Love and Whiting families gathered together in a clearing surrounded by trees and bushes. People standing are identified L to R as; Esther Love Stanley, Martha "Dot" (Love) Brandrith, George Love, Thomas Robert "Bob" Love and Annie (Love) Whiting. The two young girls se…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Love and Whiting families gathered together in a clearing surrounded by trees and bushes. People standing are identified L to R as; Esther Love Stanley, Martha "Dot" (Love) Brandrith, George Love, Thomas Robert "Bob" Love and Annie (Love) Whiting. The two young girls seated on the ground are identified as Hannah "Girlie" (Love) Barnes and Edith Whiting. Two young boys are seated on the ground to the left. The women are wearing blouses and long skirts, the men are wearing shirts and ties, Bob Love is wearing a cap and both Dot and Edith are wearing hats. Edith Whiting has her hair done in pig tails with ribbons and is holding a baby on her lap.

Names: Love Family; Stanley, Esther Love; Brandrith, Martha Dorothy “Dot” Love; Love, George Richard; Love, Thomas "Bob" Robert; Whiting, Annie Elizabeth Love; Barnes, Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love; Clayton, Edith Annie Whiting; Whiting Family

Accession Code: BV022.32.213

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [191-]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: City of Burnaby Archives - see ID: 204-594; See also BV022.32.126

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-04-18

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1); Sticker adhered to top of photograph reads: "Sefl, Dot, George, Bob, Annie/ Girlie, Edith & boys.

Images

Members of the Love and Whiting families, [191-] thumbnail