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Burnaby South High School

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark770
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Associated Dates
1922-1988
Street View URL
Google Maps Street View
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Geographic Access
Southoaks Crescent
Associated Dates
1922-1988
Heritage Value
Burnaby South and Burnaby North were Burnaby's first high schools. The first rooms of the school were built in 1922 on the same grounds as the Kingsway East Elementary School. In 1940, a two-storey building was erected and additions were made in 1963, 1967 and 1972. Kingsway East closed in 1925 and its buildings were used by the high school for Industrial Arts and Home Economics. In the early 1990s, a new "urban education centre" (Burnaby South/B.C. School for the Deaf) was opened, replacing the old Burnaby South High School.
Historic Neighbourhood
Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Kingsway-Beresford Area
Street Address
6650 Southoaks Crescent
Street View URL
Google Maps Street View
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Helen 'The Swinging Girl' Neon Sign

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark591
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Description
Commercial building.
Associated Dates
1956
Formal Recognition
Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
Other Names
Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
Street View URL
Google Maps Street View
Repository
Burnaby Heritage Planning
Other Names
Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
Geographic Access
Hastings Street
Associated Dates
1956
Formal Recognition
Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
Enactment Type
Bylaw No. 12771
Enactment Date
19/04/2010
Description
Commercial building.
Heritage Value
While the building here is of some importance as the former North Burnaby municipal office, its primary importance is its delightful neon sign that has become a North Burnaby landmark. Helen Arnold opened Helen’s Childrens Wear shop in the building next door to the old Municipal offices in 1948. In 1955, when North Burnaby moved out, she moved into the vacated building. As part of the renovations, Helen enlisted the assistance of her good friend Jimmy Wallace, owner of Vancouver’s Wallace Neon Company, to create a new sign for her expanded business. One of the company’s designers, Reeve Lehman, created the swinging neon girl that was installed in 1956. Designed in two parts, one section of the sign is cloud shaped and reads ‘Helen’s’ while the other section is a moving representation of a little girl on a swing. The sign is nine feet six inches high and nine feet wide, and the lower section is animated with an internal motor and gears. It immediately became a landmark on Hastings Street, and recently the sign’s design fame has spread far and wide as one of the best surviving examples of kinetic neon art in North America.
Locality
Vancouver Heights
Historic Neighbourhood
Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Willingdon Heights Area
Community
Burnaby
Names
Helen's Childrens Wear
Subjects
Buildings - Commercial - Stores
Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards
Street Address
4142 Hastings Street
Street View URL
Google Maps Street View
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Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36306
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
April 25, [1950]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of an Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function. Alice Grant is handing a gift to another member as they stand at the head table, in front of the microphone. Both women seated on either side are watching with emotional smiles on their faces. There is a large bouquet of daffodils on…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
April 25, [1950]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
George Grant subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
243-026
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
Accession Number
BHS1990-06
Scope and Content
Photograph of an Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function. Alice Grant is handing a gift to another member as they stand at the head table, in front of the microphone. Both women seated on either side are watching with emotional smiles on their faces. There is a large bouquet of daffodils on the table.
Subjects
Organizations - Womens' Societies and Clubs
Names
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Grant, Alice Taylor
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
North Shore Graphic Arts
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Stamp on verso of phototgraph reads: "NORTH SHORE GRAPHIC ARTS WEST VANCOUVER BC"
Photographer identifies item as no. 139-50-20
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Interview with Eileen Kernaghan by Rod Fowler April 10, 1990 - Track 11

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory501
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date Range
1954-1990
Length
00:11:23
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Eileen Kernaghan’s knowledge about William F. Wolsey’s “Temple of More Abundant Life”, which occupied the Art Centre’s heritage buildings Ceperley Mansion and Mather House from 1954 to the 1960s, and the stories of ghosts haunting these buildings, the Anderson…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Eileen Kernaghan’s knowledge about William F. Wolsey’s “Temple of More Abundant Life”, which occupied the Art Centre’s heritage buildings Ceperley Mansion and Mather House from 1954 to the 1960s, and the stories of ghosts haunting these buildings, the Anderson House, and the James Cowan Theatre.
Date Range
1954-1990
Photo Info
Eileen Kernaghan standing in front of four poets at the Poetry Pocket Cafe in New Westminster, October 15, 1995. Item no. 535-0014
Length
00:11:23
Names
Burnaby Arts Centre
Interviewer
Fowler, Rod
Interview Date
April 10, 1990
Scope and Content
Recording is of an interview with Eileen Kernaghan, conducted by Rod Fowler. Eileen Kernaghan 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 mainly about Eileen Kernaghan’s activities with the Burnaby Writers’ Society and the Burnaby Arts Council, describing the history of these organizations between 1967 and 1990. She describes the financial and other challenges facing the arts community, the various programs initiated by the Arts Council, and the development of the Burnaby Arts Centre facilities at Deer Lake. She also talks about her education, writing career, the Neville Street neighbourhood, and her and her husband’s bookstore business. Ghosts believed to inhabit some of the Arts Centre's heritage buildings are also a topic of conversation. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
Eileen Kernaghan was born January 6, 1939, to William Alfred Monk (1910-2003) and Belinda Maude Monk (1908-1996), and grew up on a dairy farm near Grindrod in the North Okanagan. She attended a two room school in Grindrod, completed Junior and Senior High School in Enderby, and at age 17 in 1956, left home to attend UBC. She taught school in the North Okanagan area in the late 1950s, during which time she married her husband Patrick Kernaghan. They moved to Vancouver in 1961, Burnaby in 1963, and settled on Neville Street in the South Slope area in 1966 with their three children. Pat Kernaghan worked at Oakalla Prison as a correctional officer until his retirement in 1988. Eileen and Patrick Kernaghan owned and operated a bookstore on Neville Street from 1987 to 1999. They later moved to New Westminster. Eileen Kernaghan began her writing career at twelve years old with a story published in the Vancouver Sun. After her youngest child began school, with more free time, she started writing again and has become an award winning author of fantasy and science fiction novels. She helped found the Burnaby Writers’ Society in 1967, taught writing workshops, and wrote its popular Newsletter for many years. In 1971 the Society put together a small handbook for BC writers, a venture that was expanded and published by Douglas MacIntyre in 1975 as “The Upper Left-Hand Corner: a writer’s handbook for the Northwest”. The book became a Canadian best-seller. During this same period Eileen Kernaghan began her successful “Grey Isles” trilogy. In 1967 she joined the Burnaby Arts Council, worked as its Coordinator from 1973 to 1984, and was a determined advocate for municipal government support for the arts in Burnaby.
Total Tracks
11
Total Length
1:26:27
Interviewee Name
Kernaghan, Eileen
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.
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Track eleven of interview with Eileen Kernaghan

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Children finger painting in a classroom

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription52965
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1957 and 1968]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of kindergartners finger panting in a classroom at the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. One child is climbing on a chair to reach a high cupboard and others are busy working on their finger paintings.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1957 and 1968]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
246-005
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
Accession Number
BHS1990-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of kindergartners finger panting in a classroom at the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. One child is climbing on a chair to reach a high cupboard and others are busy working on their finger paintings.
Subjects
Buildings - Schools
Arts - Paintings
Names
Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Ellesmere Avenue
Hastings Street
Street Address
300 Ellesmere Avenue North
Historic Neighbourhood
Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Capitol Hill Area
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Personal material

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82732
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910-1978]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
File
Physical Description
9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910-1978]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
Description Level
File
Record No.
MSS167-008
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.
Subjects
Arts - Paintings
Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers
Documentary Artifacts - Photographs
Performances - Concerts
Organizations - Societies and Clubs
Personal Symbols - Certificates
Transportation
Persons - Royalty
Names
Simnett, Hazel
Simnett, Frederick "Fred"
Simnett, Mary Ann
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Graphic Material
Notes
Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together
Simnett personal papers series
Historic Neighbourhood
Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Clinton-Glenwood Area
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California quail

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82748
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1956]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows two California quail.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1956]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-003
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows two California quail.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Green-winged teal

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82749
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows two green-winged teal.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-004
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows two green-winged teal.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Western meadowlark

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82750
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1955]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows a Western meadowlark.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1955]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-005
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows a Western meadowlark.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Macgillivray's warbler

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82751
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1955]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows two Macgillvray's warblers.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1955]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-006
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows two Macgillvray's warblers.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Red-winged blackbird

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82752
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows two red-winged blackbirds.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 painting : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-007
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows two red-winged blackbirds.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Bullock's oriole

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82753
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows two Bullock's orioles.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-008
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows two Bullock's orioles.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Belted kingfisher

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82754
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows a belted kingfisher.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-009
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows a belted kingfisher.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Mourning dove

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82755
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows a mourning dove.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-010
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows a mourning dove.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Sparrow hawk

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82756
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Scope and Content
Painting shows a sparrow hawk.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1957]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
559-011
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
Painting shows a sparrow hawk.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Arts - Paintings
Media Type
Graphic Material
Creator
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Notes
Title transcribed from item
Simnett personal papers series
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Yvonne Edwards

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45221
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1950 and 1955]
Collection/Fonds
Columbian Newspaper collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 9.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Burnaby Lawyer Yvonne Edwards pointing out a drawing of a jester that is hanging on the wall by putting her hand on the bottom of the frame and turning to smile at the camera.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1950 and 1955]
Collection/Fonds
Columbian Newspaper collection
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 9.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
480-117
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
Accession Number
2003-02
Scope and Content
Photograph of Burnaby Lawyer Yvonne Edwards pointing out a drawing of a jester that is hanging on the wall by putting her hand on the bottom of the frame and turning to smile at the camera.
Subjects
Arts - Drawings
Names
Edwards, Yvonne
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Smith, Sheamus
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 2

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory517
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date Range
1942-1969
Length
00:07:41
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s growing interest in Japanese culture and arts, studying the Japanese language after she was 22 in Montreal. She talks about how she learned paper-folding (origami), to make silk dolls, flower-arranging (Ikebana), and how to wear a kimono, and …
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s growing interest in Japanese culture and arts, studying the Japanese language after she was 22 in Montreal. She talks about how she learned paper-folding (origami), to make silk dolls, flower-arranging (Ikebana), and how to wear a kimono, and then began to teach others these skills in Montreal .
Date Range
1942-1969
Length
00:07:41
Subjects
Education
Arts
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 two of interview with Toki Miyashita

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Interview with Annie Boulanger by Rod Fowler April 9, 1990 - Track 1

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory483
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date Range
1951-1980
Length
00:05:11
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s original move to Burnaby in 1951 with her parents and return in 1964 with her own family. She describes her first involvement in the community through french and gymnastics programs at her children’s school Seaforth and creation of Burnaby’s …
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s original move to Burnaby in 1951 with her parents and return in 1964 with her own family. She describes her first involvement in the community through french and gymnastics programs at her children’s school Seaforth and creation of Burnaby’s first gymnastics club.
Date Range
1951-1980
Length
00:05:11
Names
Seaforth School
Subjects
Sports - Gymnastics
Interviewer
Fowler, Rod
Interview Date
April 9, 1990
Scope and Content
Recording is of an interview with Annie Boulanger, conducted by Rod Fowler. Annie Boulanger 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 mainly about Annie Boulanger’s volunteer community work in Burnaby, including initiating the teaching of french and gymnastics at Seaforth School where her children attended, doing historical research and oral histories for Burnaby Heritage Village and the SFU Archives, becoming a long term member of the Burnaby Writers’ Club, being a member and President of Burnaby Arts Council, and member of the Parks Board's Centre for the Performing Arts Committee (1987). The interview focuses attention on the Arts Council’s financial difficulties between 1985 and 1990, and the need for a comprehensive approach to supporting the arts through a municipal arts policy. Annie Boulanger also talks about her parents’ history, their home on Napier Street and her later home on Government Road, her education and teaching career, and her arts journalism. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
Annie Urbanovits Boulanger’s parents emigrated from Hungary to Toronto, Louis in 1925 and Irene in 1930, where they married. Louis and Irene Boulanger moved to Vancouver where Louis worked in the Vancouver Shipyards during WWII and then for Nichols Chemical Company in Barnet for 15 years. While the Urbanovits family lived in Cloverdale, Louis commuted to Kask’s Camp in Barnet, until they moved to Burnaby in 1951 to an old farm purchased on Napier Street. Between 1951 and 1956 Annie completed her BA degree, majoring in chemistry and english with a minor in physical education, and obtained her teaching diploma at UBC. She taught for 4 years in various locations in BC before marrying and moving to Manitoba and Ottawa. She and her husband and five children (two more children to come later) returned to Burnaby in 1964 to a home on Government Street to be close to family. Annie Boulanger became involved in the community first through her children’s school, initiating and teaching french classes in Seaforth School in 1969, and supporting the development of gymnastics in school and as a municipal program. Her interest in Archives lead to doing oral histories for John Adams, curator of Heritage Village [Burnaby Heritage Village], and for SFU Archives. She became a long time member of the Burnaby Writers’ Club in the 1970s, taking a course in writing non-fiction from Chris Potter. In 1983 Annie Boulanger joined the Burnaby Arts Council, becoming President in 1985. She was involved in lobbying the municipality for better monetary support and facilities for the arts and for the creation of a Municipal Arts Policy. She has continued to promote the arts in Burnaby through her appointment to Burnaby’s Visual Arts Advisory Board in 1997, her arts journalism, writing regular book and theatre reviews for the local newspaper, and other activities. She was a member of the Burnaby Centennial Committee and was one of the editors of the book “Burnaby Centennial Anthology”.
Total Tracks
8
Total Length
0:41:53
Interviewee Name
Boulanger, Annie
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 Annie Boulanger

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Interview with Annie Boulanger by Rod Fowler April 9, 1990 - Track 6

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory488
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date Range
1925-1970
Length
00:07:42
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s family history, her parents’ origin, work and move to Burnaby, what the Napier Street area looked like in the 1950s and the Government Street neighbourhood in the 1960s, her education and teaching career, and her marriage. She explains why Go…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Summary
This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s family history, her parents’ origin, work and move to Burnaby, what the Napier Street area looked like in the 1950s and the Government Street neighbourhood in the 1960s, her education and teaching career, and her marriage. She explains why Government Street has a jog in it at Brighton.
Date Range
1925-1970
Length
00:07:42
Subjects
Occupations - Teachers
Historic Neighbourhood
Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
Lozells (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Burnaby Heights Area
Government Road Area
Interviewer
Fowler, Rod
Interview Date
April 9, 1990
Scope and Content
Recording is of an interview with Annie Boulanger, conducted by Rod Fowler. Annie Boulanger 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 mainly about Annie Boulanger’s volunteer community work in Burnaby, including initiating the teaching of french and gymnastics at Seaforth School where her children attended, doing historical research and oral histories for Burnaby Heritage Village and the SFU Archives, becoming a long term member of the Burnaby Writers’ Club, being a member and President of Burnaby Arts Council, and member of the Parks Board's Centre for the Performing Arts Committee (1987). The interview focuses attention on the Arts Council’s financial difficulties between 1985 and 1990, and the need for a comprehensive approach to supporting the arts through a municipal arts policy. Annie Boulanger also talks about her parents’ history, their home on Napier Street and her later home on Government Road, her education and teaching career, and her arts journalism. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
Annie Urbanovits Boulanger’s parents emigrated from Hungary to Toronto, Louis in 1925 and Irene in 1930, where they married. Louis and Irene Boulanger moved to Vancouver where Louis worked in the Vancouver Shipyards during WWII and then for Nichols Chemical Company in Barnet for 15 years. While the Urbanovits family lived in Cloverdale, Louis commuted to Kask’s Camp in Barnet, until they moved to Burnaby in 1951 to an old farm purchased on Napier Street. Between 1951 and 1956 Annie completed her BA degree, majoring in chemistry and english with a minor in physical education, and obtained her teaching diploma at UBC. She taught for 4 years in various locations in BC before marrying and moving to Manitoba and Ottawa. She and her husband and five children (two more children to come later) returned to Burnaby in 1964 to a home on Government Street to be close to family. Annie Boulanger became involved in the community first through her children’s school, initiating and teaching french classes in Seaforth School in 1969, and supporting the development of gymnastics in school and as a municipal program. Her interest in Archives lead to doing oral histories for John Adams, curator of Heritage Village [Burnaby Heritage Village], and for SFU Archives. She became a long time member of the Burnaby Writers’ Club in the 1970s, taking a course in writing non-fiction from Chris Potter. In 1983 Annie Boulanger joined the Burnaby Arts Council, becoming President in 1985. She was involved in lobbying the municipality for better monetary support and facilities for the arts and for the creation of a Municipal Arts Policy. She has continued to promote the arts in Burnaby through her appointment to Burnaby’s Visual Arts Advisory Board in 1997, her arts journalism, writing regular book and theatre reviews for the local newspaper, and other activities. She was a member of the Burnaby Centennial Committee and was one of the editors of the book “Burnaby Centennial Anthology”.
Total Tracks
8
Total Length
0:41:53
Interviewee Name
Boulanger, Annie
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 six of interview with Annie Boulanger

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500 delicious dishes from leftovers : use your leftover bread, cakes, crackers and crumbs, eggs, cheese, meats, poultry, fish, sour milk and cream, fruits and vegetables, jams, jellies and preserves, coffee, cocoa, miscellaneous

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5517
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Author
Berolzheimer, Ruth, 1886-1965
Publication Date
1952
c1940
c1949
Call Number
641.55 BER
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection
Special Collection
Material Type
Book
Accession Code
BV002.65.5
Call Number
641.55 BER
Author
Berolzheimer, Ruth, 1886-1965
Place of Publication
Chicago, Ill.
Publisher
Consolidated Book Publishers
Publication Date
1952
c1940
c1949
Physical Description
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Library Subject (LOC)
Cooking
Cooking, American
Culinary Arts Institute
Cookbooks--1950-1959
Notes
Includes index.
"Culinary Arts Institute : One of America's foremost organizations devoted to the science of Better Cookery"
Berolzheimer, Ruth (edited by)
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80 records – page 1 of 4.