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Interview with Annie Boulanger by Rod Fowler April 9, 1990 - Track 2
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory484
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1970-1990
- Length
- 00:03:39
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s interest in Archives work, especially doing oral histories, for John Adams and Rick Duckles, curators of Heritage Village, and for SFU
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Annie Boulanger’s interest in Archives work, especially doing oral histories, for John Adams and Rick Duckles, curators of Heritage Village, and for SFU
- Date Range
- 1970-1990
- Length
- 00:03:39
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Persons - Volunteers
- 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
- 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 Annie Boulanger
Track two of interview with Annie Boulanger
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-022/MSS187-022_Track_2.mp3
bumper sticker
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91504
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.5.2176
- Description
- Bumper sticker; printed on white paper with black ink; peelable backing includes name of manufacturer and details in English and French in blue ink reading: "MACTAC / Starliner / Cdn. patents 967086-1128848-1130716". Black text on sticker reads: "Burnaby Village / Museum".
- Object History
- Souvenir bumper sticker for Burnaby Village Museum [ca.1985]. From ephemera collection of the Century Park Museum Association. The Century Park Museum Association was the governing body of Heritage Village (later named Burnaby Village Museum and Burnaby Village Museum Association in 1984) between 1971 and 1989.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Sticker
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Blue
- Measurements
- Length: 32 cm x Width: 6 cm
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Publication Date
- [ca. 1985]
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
Images
Maurice Guibord's "Language of Love" seminar
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96209
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2006]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of Maurice Guibord of the Burnaby Village Museum posing as a promotion for his "Language of Love" seminar at the Museum. Photographs depict Guibord posing with a rose and a vintage French postcard.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2006]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-1901
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of Maurice Guibord of the Burnaby Village Museum posing as a promotion for his "Language of Love" seminar at the Museum. Photographs depict Guibord posing with a rose and a vintage French postcard.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Civic Workers
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a February 2006 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-1901-1: "Maurice Guibord is ready to dish out a little old-fashioned romance as he presents a seminar on the "Language of Love," at Burnaby Village Museum."
- Caption from metadata for 535-1901-2: "Maurice Guibord, of Burnaby Village Museum, shows a vintage French postcard depicting the secret love messages the placement of stamps could mean. He'll be discussing the "Language of Love," using flowers, fans and postcards, in a seminar on Feb. 11."
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