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Interview with Ken Yip May 9, 2005 - Track 1

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4531

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:13:37 min)

Scope and Content: Track 1: This portion of the recording pertains to Ken’s family responsibilities, school activities, and friends. Ken relates how his father received a veteran’s land grant after the Second World War, on Byrne Rd. in the Big Bend area of Burnaby, and how his family operated a market garden on the l…

1 audio

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Subseries: Growing Up in Burnaby subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:13:37 min)

Material Details: Interviewer: Tom Gooden Interviewee: Ken Yip Date of interview: May 9, 2005 Total Number of Tracks: 5 Total length of all Tracks: 0:62:00

Scope and Content: Track 1: This portion of the recording pertains to Ken’s family responsibilities, school activities, and friends. Ken relates how his father received a veteran’s land grant after the Second World War, on Byrne Rd. in the Big Bend area of Burnaby, and how his family operated a market garden on the land, selling their produce to Kelly Douglas, Woodward’s, and MacDonald’s Consolidated. Ken describes how he moved to North Burnaby in the early 1970s, near Sperling Ave. and Lougheed Hwy., and then to the Burnaby General Hospital area when he married a few years later. He speaks of attending Riverside Elementary School, McPherson Junior High School, and Burnaby South High School. Ken recalls having little free time as a child. He speaks of working on the farm after he finished his homework, and playing there with his brother. He describes his household chores, and the additional responsibilities he took on as he grew older and acquired more skills. Ken talks of being in the school band with his friends, their activities and travel and their trip to Montreal for Expo in 1967. He discusses his interests and his family’s expectations of him and his brother.

History: Recording of an interview with Ken Yip recording by Tom Gooden on May 9, 2005. This recording was completed for an exhibit, Growing Up in Burnaby, for the Burnaby Village Museum. Major themes discussed are growing up in Burnaby in the 1950s and 60s.

Creator: Burnaby Village Museum

Subjects: Persons - Veterans

Names: Yip, Ken; McPherson Park Junior Secondary School; Riverside Elementary School; Burnaby South High School

Accession Code: BV017.45.5

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005

Media Type: Sound Recording

Notes: Title based on contents of item

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Interview with Ken Yip May 9, 2005 - Track 1, 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2017_0045_0005_001.mp3

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https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88214

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988 (date of original) -[199-]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of four typewritten draft histories, titled "Overview One", " Overview Two", "Overview Three" and "Overview Four" by Mary Forsyth and a Vancouver Sun newspaper clipping copy of an article titled "Sites of villages fill gaps in native lore", October 5, 1988. The first overview covers t…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988 (date of original) -[199-]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS185-022

Access Restriction: Open access

Accession Number: 2014-27

Scope and Content: File consists of four typewritten draft histories, titled "Overview One", " Overview Two", "Overview Three" and "Overview Four" by Mary Forsyth and a Vancouver Sun newspaper clipping copy of an article titled "Sites of villages fill gaps in native lore", October 5, 1988. The first overview covers the Big Bend area, the second overview covers Simon Fraser, the third overview covers Burnaby's incorporation history and the forth overview covers World War I to 1943.