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Anne Peers on the steps

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted on album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Anne Peers and three dolls sitting on the step of an unidentified home.This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's house on Deer Lake Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted on album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-415

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Anne Peers and three dolls sitting on the step of an unidentified home.This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's house on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Latham, Anne Peers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6570 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Anne Peers on the steps, [1933] thumbnail

Anne Peers with a puppy

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Anne Peers posing on the front steps of an unidentified house with a puppy and three dolls. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-416

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Anne Peers posing on the front steps of an unidentified house with a puppy and three dolls. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls; Animals - Dogs

Names: Peers Family; Latham, Anne Peers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6570 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Anne Peers with a puppy, [1933] thumbnail

Annie Hill with Babs Peers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1937]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Annie Hill standing beside her granddaughter, Babs Peers. Babs Peers is holding a doll who is attired in a winter coat and hat similar to what Babs herself is wearing, while her grandmother Annie is dressed in a long fur coat and is holding a purse.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1937]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-427

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Annie Hill standing beside her granddaughter, Babs Peers. Babs Peers is holding a doll who is attired in a winter coat and hat similar to what Babs herself is wearing, while her grandmother Annie is dressed in a long fur coat and is holding a purse.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick; Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Annie Hill with Babs Peers, [1937] thumbnail

Babs Peers with a doll

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Babs Peers on the front steps of a home in Vancouver at 2nd and Tolmie, with a doll sitting beside her.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-426

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Babs Peers on the front steps of a home in Vancouver at 2nd and Tolmie, with a doll sitting beside her.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Babs Peers with a doll, [1938] thumbnail

Babs Peers with baby carriage

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1939]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Babs Peers, pushing a baby carriage carrying a doll on the lawn of 4606 West 2nd and Tolmie, Point Grey Vancouver. Babs is the daughter of Kitty and Bob Peers.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1939]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-972

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Babs Peers, pushing a baby carriage carrying a doll on the lawn of 4606 West 2nd and Tolmie, Point Grey Vancouver. Babs is the daughter of Kitty and Bob Peers.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Babs Peers with baby carriage, [1939] thumbnail

Catherine Mary Corner

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.0 x 6.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Catherine Mary Corner (later Levins) as a small girl in a playsuit with a doll under her arm. She is standing beside a dog and a cat in an orchard, probably in Kelowna, at her parents' home. Catherine Mary Corner Levins' mother was Edna Bateman Corner, eldest daughter of Edwin W. Bat…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Series: Bateman family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.0 x 6.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Catherine Mary Corner (later Levins) as a small girl in a playsuit with a doll under her arm. She is standing beside a dog and a cat in an orchard, probably in Kelowna, at her parents' home. Catherine Mary Corner Levins' mother was Edna Bateman Corner, eldest daughter of Edwin W. Bateman, the builder of the house "Elworth" at Burnaby Village Museum.

Subjects: Animals - Cats; Animals - Dogs; Toys - Dolls; Agriculture - Orchards

Names: Levins, Catherine Mary Corner

Accession Code: HV975.120.9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1930]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 800

Scan Date: 2023-06-13

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; The information on the scope and content of the photograph is taken from the acquisition record which was prepared after a conversation with the donor

Images

Jackson family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1933 (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.2 x 10.6 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of sister and brother, Vera and Ron Jackson, outside their family home at 3507 Booth Avenue (old street number), north of Kingsway.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1933 (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 ; 8.2 x 10.6 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-096

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of sister and brother, Vera and Ron Jackson, outside their family home at 3507 Booth Avenue (old street number), north of Kingsway.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Jackson, Ronald Harold "Ron"; Pel, Vera Rose Jackson

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Booth Avenue

Street Address: 5926 Booth Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Jackson family, 1933 (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail

Peers children

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of the three Peers children; Robert, Babs and Anne. Babs has a doll on her lap and Anne has a book. These are Bob and Kitty Peers' children. Photograph was taken in Vancouver, BC.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-033

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of the three Peers children; Robert, Babs and Anne. Babs has a doll on her lap and Anne has a book. These are Bob and Kitty Peers' children. Photograph was taken in Vancouver, BC.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls; Documentary Artifacts - Books

Names: Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"; Latham, Anne Peers; Peers, Robert C.K.

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Wadds, George T.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Williamson family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the completed Williamson family home at 6965 Antrim Avenue. Pictured (left to right) Marjorie Williamson and Elsie Williamson, daughters of Mr. Williamson and Mrs. Minnie Williamson, who built the home.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-261

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the completed Williamson family home at 6965 Antrim Avenue. Pictured (left to right) Marjorie Williamson and Elsie Williamson, daughters of Mr. Williamson and Mrs. Minnie Williamson, who built the home.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls

Names: Williamson, Elsie; Williamson, Marjorie

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Antrim Avenue

Street Address: 6965 Antrim Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Windsor Area

Images

Williamson family home, 1930 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Ina and Joyce Stanley on May Day

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ina (Stanley) Shankie standing next to her younger sister Joyce (Stanley) Warner. The girls are dressed for May Day celebrations. Ina Stanley is dressed as a May Princess, wearing a white cape and holding a basket of flowers and Joyce has decorated her doll carriage with crepe paper f…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ina (Stanley) Shankie standing next to her younger sister Joyce (Stanley) Warner. The girls are dressed for May Day celebrations. Ina Stanley is dressed as a May Princess, wearing a white cape and holding a basket of flowers and Joyce has decorated her doll carriage with crepe paper for the event. The event is taking place in Port Moody.

Subjects: Events - May Day

Names: Shankie, Ina Esther Stanley; Warner, Joyce Stanley

Accession Code: BV022.32.650

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1937

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-08-29

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 2 (BV032.22.431); Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Ina as maid of / honor & / Joyce with / decoratged doll / buggy"; Note in white ink on album page reads: "INA & JOYCE"

Images

Ina and Joyce Stanley on May Day, 1937 thumbnail

Ramsey family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916 (date of original) -1999

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual record and graphic material

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a photocopied certificate of birth for Eva Lilian Ramsey [Ramsay] as well as handwritten accounts of Ramsey family history and two family photographs.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916 (date of original) -1999

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Ramsey family subseries

Physical Description: Textual record and graphic material

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1999-19

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a photocopied certificate of birth for Eva Lilian Ramsey [Ramsay] as well as handwritten accounts of Ramsey family history and two family photographs.

History: Edwin Ramsey came to Canada from Scotland when he was about 11 years old. He was given farmland and quickly became an avid farmer. Edwin Ramsey married Annie Plummer circa 1893. This was Annie Plummer’s second marriage. In the early years of their marriage, Edwin and Annie lived in Orange Ridge, Manitoba and operated a store and post office. Their first child, Queenie, was born November 11, 1895. Albert Edwin "Bert" Ramsey was born January 27, 1898. Eva Lilian Ramsey was born January 24, 1900. Jessica “Jessie” Ramsey was born two years later. The Ramseys then headed to New Westminster. By 1905 they had bought "the Park” (what is now Robert Burnaby Park) from Mr. Wintermute for $4,000 cash. They moved into a large house already constructed on the property. The park was full of apple trees, a garden, pigs, two cows, horses and a buggy and wagon with a barn near the second street entrance. By now, the eldest, Queenie was enrolled at Burnaby’s first school. Twins Ernest “Ernie” and Dorothy “Doll” were born in 1906. Eva started at Edmonds School in 1908 when it was just built. Her siblings Queenie, Bert, Jeanie, Ernie and Doll all attended the school as well. In 1909 the Ramseys sold the park to Mr. Vidal of New Westminster and his syndicate along with a portable mill to Pemberton & Sons and received enough money to buy six lots on 12th Avenue where they built a large house. Gordon “Gord” Ramsey was born in that house in 1909. Soon after, they sold the house and moved to Blaine for six months, then on to Bellingham where they remained until Edwin and Annie divorced in 1914. Edwin moved alone to Alberta and Annie moved back to Burnaby with their children. Bert began attending the University of British Columbia where he studied to become a doctor. He joined the army in May of 1916, went to war and was killed at Vimy Ridge on April 12, 1917 at the age of 19. As Mr. Vital and his syndicate were to go to war as captains, Mr. Vital gave up the park property and Annie was able to take it back. Unfortunately, the new initiative of taxing wild lands caused Annie to lose the park property through tax sale proceedings. She then entered into a lease agreement with Burnaby which allowed her to stay on at "the Park." With twelve years of piano training, Annie was considered a talented musician and played the piano at St. Alban’s church for many years. Annie Ramsey died on October 3, 1926. Jessica, Dorothy and Queenie all moved to the United States. Gordon married a woman named Irene. Eva married William “Bill” Anderson at the St. Stephen’s Church in New Westminster on July 7, 1919. She and Bill were the first couple to marry there. They held their wedding reception at “the Park.” In 1921, Bill and Eva bought a home at 723 Second Street for $2450. They had one daughter, Dorothy "Dot" Anderson. Dot later married Robert V. “Bob” Douglas. Eva died in 1995.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Ramsay, Eva Lillian

Notes: PC399 and MSS154; Title based on contents of subseries; Certificate reads "Ramsay" although the family continuously spelt their name "Ramsey"

Eleanor and Louise Irwin with cousins

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1931] (date of original), copied 2004

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Eleanor and Louise Irwin with their cousins Bill and Bert and an unidentified girl. Eleanor (Nelson) Irwin is second from the left and Louise Irwin is holding a doll. The group is standing in the yard of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill. The screened in porch and flower…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Irwin family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Eleanor and Louise Irwin with their cousins Bill and Bert and an unidentified girl. Eleanor (Nelson) Irwin is second from the left and Louise Irwin is holding a doll. The group is standing in the yard of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill. The screened in porch and flower bed are visible behind them.

Subjects: Persons - Children

Names: Barnet Mill; Barnet Lumber Company; Irwin, Louise; Nelson, Eleanor Irwin

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.85

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1931] (date of original), copied 2004

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Mountain Area

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Date of photograph based on birth dates for Eleanor and Louise Irwin

Images

Eleanor and Louise Irwin with cousins, [1931] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Esther, Leonard and Girlie Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1940] (date of original), copied 1998

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm (oval image)

Scope and Content: Oval photograph portrait of the three youngest children of Jesse and Martha (Leonard) Love, identified from left to right as: Esther, Leonard and Hannah (Girlie). The two girls are wearing light coloured dresses and have large ribbons in their hair. Both girls are holding a flower bouquets, Hannah …

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love family photographs subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm (oval image)

Scope and Content: Oval photograph portrait of the three youngest children of Jesse and Martha (Leonard) Love, identified from left to right as: Esther, Leonard and Hannah (Girlie). The two girls are wearing light coloured dresses and have large ribbons in their hair. Both girls are holding a flower bouquets, Hannah is holding a doll and Leonard is wearing a suit and tie. Jesse and Martha Love lived at 1360 Cumberland Road in Burnaby and raised eleven children.

Names: Stanley, Esther Love; Love, John Leonard; Barnes, Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love

Accession Code: BV018.41.171

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1930 and 1940] (date of original), copied 1998

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Scan Resolution: 2400

Scan Date: 4-Mar-2019

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy print accompanying

Images

Esther, Leonard and Girlie Love, [between 1930 and 1940] (date of original), copied 1998 thumbnail

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1900-1946

Length: 00:07:05

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, and her Oikawa grandparent’s immigration to BC and settlement on Lion and Don Islands at the mouth of the Fraser River. She describes how the family was moved to the internment camp “The Orchard” in New Denver,…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, and her Oikawa grandparent’s immigration to BC and settlement on Lion and Don Islands at the mouth of the Fraser River. She describes how the family was moved to the internment camp “The Orchard” in New Denver, but managed to find a place to live outside the camp where her grandmother grew a large garden from seeds brought in the seams of her clothing. She notes that the Lion Islands were named Oikawa-shima by the Japanese settlers.

Date Range: 1900-1946

Length: 00:07:05

Subjects: Wars - World War, 1939-1945; Persons - Japanese Canadians

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

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

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 one of interview with Toki Miyashita

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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 7

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1930-1990

Length: 00:13:56

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s memories of the internment, separation of her father from the family to work on road camps, where she was born in Richmond at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, confiscation of home in 1942, eventual Redress, and lingering feelings of fear and dis…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s memories of the internment, separation of her father from the family to work on road camps, where she was born in Richmond at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, confiscation of home in 1942, eventual Redress, and lingering feelings of fear and distrust in her family. She also talks about visiting Hiroshima on her trip to Japan in 1980

Date Range: 1930-1990

Length: 00:13:56

Subjects: Wars - World War, 1939-1945; Persons - Japanese Canadians

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

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

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 seven of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_7.mp3

Julie Evans

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88230

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1929 and 1939] (date of original), copied [200-]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy print ; 12.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Julie Evans picking blossoms from a tree and a child holding a doll.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1929 and 1939] (date of original), copied [200-]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy print ; 12.5 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 572-021

Access Restriction: In Archives only

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2014-27

Scope and Content: Photograph of Julie Evans picking blossoms from a tree and a child holding a doll.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Our baby Midgie Townsend

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription5069

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: Jun 1935

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Midgie Townsend dressed as a baby in a white bonnet, white diaper and white t shirt and is holding a small doll while sucking on a soother. This photograph may have been on display in 1960 at the Burnaby Girl Guide Reunion held in the auditorium of Edmonds Junior High School in recog…

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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 ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Material Details: Note in black ink on scrapbook page reads: " "Our Baby" / Midgie Townsend"

Scope and Content: Photograph of Midgie Townsend dressed as a baby in a white bonnet, white diaper and white t shirt and is holding a small doll while sucking on a soother. This photograph may have been on display in 1960 at the Burnaby Girl Guide Reunion held in the auditorium of Edmonds Junior High School in recognition of the 50th Anniversary (Golden Jubilee) of Guiding in Canada.

Other Title Information: Transcribed title

Subjects: Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs

Names: Townsend, Midgie; Girl Guides of Canada

Accession Code: BV015.35.304

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: Jun 1935

Media Type: Photograph

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