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Dr. Rudi R. Haering

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969], published June 9, 1971

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dr. Rudi R. Haering founding head of the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University. He was named Canada's most outstanding young physicist in 1970 when he won the Herzberg medal. Born in Switzerland, Dr. Haering came to Canada in 1947, and worked at Simon Fraser University from 19…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969], published June 9, 1971

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-140

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dr. Rudi R. Haering founding head of the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University. He was named Canada's most outstanding young physicist in 1970 when he won the Herzberg medal. Born in Switzerland, Dr. Haering came to Canada in 1947, and worked at Simon Fraser University from 1964 to 1972.

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Haering, Dr. Rudi R.; Simon Fraser University

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Simon Fraser University

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Dr. Rudi R. Haering, [1969], published June 9, 1971 thumbnail

Hugh Walker

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hugh Walker the Social Credit Candidate for Burnaby-North in the 1969 election.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 7.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-171

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hugh Walker the Social Credit Candidate for Burnaby-North in the 1969 election.

Subjects: Government - Provincial Government

Names: Walker, Hugh; Social Credit Party of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Hudson's Bay Company

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Dr. John Playfair and his wife Mary

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: January 1969

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1968 by-election, Dr. John Playfair riding in a one-horse sleigh with his wife Mary. This was part of his campaign to urge voters to "get to the polls" and vote.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: January 1969

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 18.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1968 by-election, Dr. John Playfair riding in a one-horse sleigh with his wife Mary. This was part of his campaign to urge voters to "get to the polls" and vote.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Sleds

Names: Playfair, Dr. John; Playfair, Mary; Social Credit Party of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Dibble, Bob

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Dr. John Playfair and his wife Mary, January 1969 thumbnail

NDP records

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969-1996]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of textual materials dealing with the BC NDP party, in particular the campaign for Joan Sawicki for the Burnaby-Willingdon riding. Included in this file is the contact information for the Burnaby-Willingdon NDP Constituency Association ("Fax - 437-5836 / Phone - 437-5700 / 4561 Kings…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1969-1996]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Series: Simnett political papers series

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS167-011

Accession Number: 2013-22

Scope and Content: File consists of textual materials dealing with the BC NDP party, in particular the campaign for Joan Sawicki for the Burnaby-Willingdon riding. Included in this file is the contact information for the Burnaby-Willingdon NDP Constituency Association ("Fax - 437-5836 / Phone - 437-5700 / 4561 Kingsway / B'by / V5H 2B3") and three sheets relating to the cost of lawn signs from 1990 to 1991 for the Joan Sawicki campaign. Also included is a map of the federal Burnaby-Douglas riding (ca. 1990). Also included is typed copy of R. A. McMath's Comments on "A Report of Saskatchewan's Socialist Government" which appeared as a paid advertisement in both Vancouver daily papers on election day August 27, 1969. McMath challenges the "Report" which contains excerpts of a speech by Ross Thatcher, Saskatchewan's Liberal Premier, on the CCF and the NDP. Also included is a informational flyer on the BC Parliament Buildings from 1969 (28th Parliament, 3rd Session) and lists the members of Parliament. Also included is a booklet from Simon Fraser University listing the donors, which Hazel Simnett is one of, from July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1990. Also is an envelope in which the following was found: 1990 BC Election Act, three sheets referring to Joan Sawicki's election expenses, Canada Post receipt, report on Joan Sawicki's campaign from 1991, list of Burnaby Willingdon team, notice of nomination meeting in 1990, BC election calendar, 1990 Guide to the Elections Act of British Columbia, faxed letter from John Pollard to campaign managers, six sheets of Appointment of Scrutineer (one blank, rest signed by Hazel Simnett), fax of Provincial General Election Calendar of Events, receipt for nomination paper for Joan Sawicki, receipt for declaration of candidate for Joan Sawicki and two copies of photocopy of signatures on Nomination Paper for Joan Sawicki. Also included is Burnaby-Willingdon NDP Constituency Association Minutes of March 14, 1996 Executive Meeting.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on note accompanying file ; Receipts for lawn signs and the Burnaby-Willingdon NDP Constituency Association contact information were bound together with a metal paper clip ; Comments on "A Report of Saskatchewan's Socialist Government" was bound together with a staple ; election expenses were bound together with a staple ; two sheets of report on Joan Sawicki's campaign were stapled together ; Guide to the Elections Act was stapled together ; two sheets with "New Democrats" letterhead were stapled together ; each copy of Nomination Paper signatures were stapled together; Simnett political papers series

Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire papers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1969-1973

Collection/Fonds: Victorian Order of Nurses fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of a copy of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire as well as a newspaper clipping recognising the IODE's "73rd birthday of service in Canada and abroad."

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1969-1973

Collection/Fonds: Victorian Order of Nurses fonds

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS021-037

Accession Number: 2010-09

Scope and Content: File consists of a copy of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire as well as a newspaper clipping recognising the IODE's "73rd birthday of service in Canada and abroad."

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Troup photographs

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1969-1975

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 16 photographs : b&w and col. ; 18 cm x 23 cm and smaller

Scope and Content: Group portraits of various Boy Scout troops including: 1st Southview Cub Pack, 5th Burnaby West, 5th Burnaby Heights Troop, 5th Burnaby West Nootka Wolf Cub Pack, and 7th West Cubs. The portrait of 1st Southview Cub Pack is adhered to paper along with a green and red Boy Scouts badge. File also i…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1969-1975

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Scouts subseries

Physical Description: 16 photographs : b&w and col. ; 18 cm x 23 cm and smaller

Description Level: File

Record No.: 631-039

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1994-05

Scope and Content: Group portraits of various Boy Scout troops including: 1st Southview Cub Pack, 5th Burnaby West, 5th Burnaby Heights Troop, 5th Burnaby West Nootka Wolf Cub Pack, and 7th West Cubs. The portrait of 1st Southview Cub Pack is adhered to paper along with a green and red Boy Scouts badge. File also includes photographs of Scouts and leaders participating in activities including camping and rock climbing and one photograph of Cub Scouts meeting Queen Elizabeth II.

Subjects: Organizations - Boys' Societies and Clubs; Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Boy Scouts of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Photographer's stamp on verso of photograph 631-039-1 reads: "William Stanley Photographer [contact information]"; Note in pencil on verso of 631-039-2 reads: "1st Southview"; Identification key for 631-039-3 located in accession file. Key titled "Boy Scouts of Canada 5th Burnaby West 1974-1975"; Identification key for 631-039-5 located in accession file. Key titled "Geological Tour - U.S. Sept. 4-5-6, 1971 / 5th Burnaby Heights Troop - taken at "Summer Falls, Wash."; Identification key attached to 631-039-6. Key titled "Boy Scouts of Canada 5th Burnaby West / 1972-1973"; Identification key attached to 631-039-7. Key titled "Boy Scouts of Canada 5th Burnaby West / 1974-1975"; Identification key for 631-039-8 located in accession file. Key titled "Boy Scouts of Canada 5th Burnaby West Nootka Wolf Cub Pack / 1972-1973"; Note in blue ink on recto of 631-039-9 reads: "5th Burnaby West 1974-1975"; Identification key for 631-039-10 located in accession file. Key titled "7th West Cubs"; Photographer's stamp on verso of 631-03-11 reads: "Vancouver Sun Photo Copyright further publication forbidden without permission"; Sticky note adhered to verso of 631-036-12 read: "Camp Byng".; Note in pencil on verso of 631-039-14 reads: "Christmas 1969 / Burnie Short June Kinnear Betty Forbes"

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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 3

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:04:54

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita and her family’s move to Burnaby in 1969 to an apartment near Brentwood Mall. She tells about continuing to demonstrate origami in schools and teach Ikebana in the community.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita and her family’s move to Burnaby in 1969 to an apartment near Brentwood Mall. She tells about continuing to demonstrate origami in schools and teach Ikebana in the community.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:04:54

Subjects: Persons - Volunteers; Arts

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Brentwood Area

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 three of interview with Toki Miyashita

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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:26

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s explanation about the practice and art of Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana) and her specific school or discipline Ikebana Sogetsu. She talks about the meanings of the material used.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s explanation about the practice and art of Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana) and her specific school or discipline Ikebana Sogetsu. She talks about the meanings of the material used.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:26

Subjects: Arts

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 four of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_4.mp3

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 5

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:05

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s involvement in the Multicultural Society, flower-arranging groups, and her own practice and willingness to respond to requests for presentations. She describes how traditional rules govern doll-making, Ikebana and the wearing of the kimono.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s involvement in the Multicultural Society, flower-arranging groups, and her own practice and willingness to respond to requests for presentations. She describes how traditional rules govern doll-making, Ikebana and the wearing of the kimono.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:05

Subjects: Arts; Education

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 five of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_5.mp3

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 11

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:33

Summary: This portion of the interview is about the lessons Toki Miyashita learned from visiting Ikebana teachers, especially care for and skill using their tools, and mindfulness in choosing material for arrangements. She notes that flower arranging is used as a way to relax and feel calm.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about the lessons Toki Miyashita learned from visiting Ikebana teachers, especially care for and skill using their tools, and mindfulness in choosing material for arrangements. She notes that flower arranging is used as a way to relax and feel calm.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:33

Subjects: Arts

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 eleven of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_11.mp3

Bruce Northorp and Robert Prittie

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1969 and 1973]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19.5 x 24.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Royal Canadian Mounted Police staff-sergeant Bruce Northorp in uniform, shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor Robert Prittie, as the Mayor presents him with the RCMP's 20-year long-service metal at a ceremony at city hall.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1969 and 1973]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19.5 x 24.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1098

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Royal Canadian Mounted Police staff-sergeant Bruce Northorp in uniform, shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor Robert Prittie, as the Mayor presents him with the RCMP's 20-year long-service metal at a ceremony at city hall.

Subjects: Clothing - Uniforms; Public Services - Policing; Ceremonies - Awards; Personal Symbols - Certificates; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Northorp, Bruce; Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Canada Way

Street Address: 4949 Canada Way

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Bruce Northorp and Robert Prittie, [between 1969 and 1973] thumbnail

Dr. Rudi R. Haering

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45246

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dr. Rudi R. Haering founding head of the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University. He was named Canada's most outstanding young physicist in 1970 when he won the Herzberg medal. Born in Switzerland, Dr. Haering came to Canada in 1947, and worked at Simon Fraser University from 19…

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-142

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dr. Rudi R. Haering founding head of the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University. He was named Canada's most outstanding young physicist in 1970 when he won the Herzberg medal. Born in Switzerland, Dr. Haering came to Canada in 1947, and worked at Simon Fraser University from 1964 to 1972.

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Haering, Dr. Rudi R.; Simon Fraser University

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Williams Brothers Photographers Limited

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer identifies photograph as no. 20615

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Bob Prittie, Caroline Prior and Del Carrell

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46022

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Citizen's Association candidates; school board trustee Caroline Prior, Mayor Bob Prittie, and aldermanic candidate Del Carrell filing civic election nomination papers at City Hall.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-910

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Citizen's Association candidates; school board trustee Caroline Prior, Mayor Bob Prittie, and aldermanic candidate Del Carrell filing civic election nomination papers at City Hall.

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Prittie, Robert W. "Bob"; Prior, Caroline; Carrell, Del; Burnaby Citizens Association; Burnaby School Trustees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Filing civic election nomination papers at municipal hall are BCA candidates Mrs. Caroline Prior, incumbent school board trustee; mayoralty [sic] candidate Robert Prittie, and aldermanic candidate Mrs. Del Carrell."

Geographic Access: Canada Way

Street Address: 4949 Canada Way

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Bob Prittie, Caroline Prior and Del Carrell, November 1968 thumbnail

Bert Price

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46108

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Fraser Valley West Social Credit candidate, Bert Price.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 9.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-996

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Fraser Valley West Social Credit candidate, Bert Price.

Names: Price, Bert; Social Credit Party of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "Bert Price Fraser Valley West Social Credit"

Images

Dr. John Playfair

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46115

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1968]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 4.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1969 by-election, Dr. John Playfair.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1968]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 4.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1969 by-election, Dr. John Playfair.

Names: Playfair, Dr. John; Social Credit Party of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Dr. John Playfair

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1968]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1969 by-election, Dr. John Playfair.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1968]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 18.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-773

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of provincial Social Credit candidate for Burnaby-Willingdon in the 1969 by-election, Dr. John Playfair.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Playfair, Dr. John; Social Credit Party of Canada

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Dr Violet Eagles papers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58045

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968-1984

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining to Dr Violet Eagles including personal correspondence between her and her husband Blythe and newspaper clippings documenting Violet's involvement in the National Council of Women. Also included in the file are reports and correspondence pertaining the National Cou…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968-1984

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Eagles family subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS055-004

Access Restriction: Open access

Accession Number: BHS1991-18

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining to Dr Violet Eagles including personal correspondence between her and her husband Blythe and newspaper clippings documenting Violet's involvement in the National Council of Women. Also included in the file are reports and correspondence pertaining the National Council of Women of Canada and their implemented plans to improve Health Care in Canada.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Bill Northwood / Fraser Wilson

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 comic book

Scope and Content: Item is a comic book of the adventures of "Bill Northwood - the personification of the modern Resource Manager, somewhere or anywhere in Canada" written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson. The book seeks to teach the community why forests so are important and should be preserved. It was produced by …

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1968

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Fraser Wilson subseries

Physical Description: 1 comic book

Description Level: Item

Record No.: MSS062-002

Accession Number: BHS1991-25

Scope and Content: Item is a comic book of the adventures of "Bill Northwood - the personification of the modern Resource Manager, somewhere or anywhere in Canada" written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson. The book seeks to teach the community why forests so are important and should be preserved. It was produced by the Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Ottawa.