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Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to James Haddon and Logan Wright's boyhood days in the Lozells neighbourhood of Burnaby. Their wives, Jean Haddon and Amy Wright are also introduced.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to James Haddon and Logan Wright's boyhood days in the Lozells neighbourhood of Burnaby. Their wives, Jean Haddon and Amy Wright are also introduced.

Date Range: 1914-1920

Length: 0:09:27

Historic Neighbourhood: Lozells (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: June 27, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with James "Jim" Haddon, Jean Haddon, Amy Wright and Logan Wright by Simon Fraser University student Bettina Bradbury, June 27, 1975. Major theme discussed is: the Depression. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: James "Jim", "Jimmy" Haddon was born in 1914 at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. Jim's father used to hunt in Burnaby as a boy and liked it so much that when he grew up, he built a house at Government Road and Piper Avenue and moved his young family there. Jim's father was a logger and contractor with a team of two horses. Jim began his schooling at Sperling Avenue School in 1921. He attended Sperling for one year, then switched to Seaforth School from 1922 on. Jim's older brother Art hauled gravel for the municipality while Jim was at Seaforth. In 1929, at sixteen years old, Jim left school to work for his father driving the truck, helping to haul logs, wood and gravel. Throughout the 1930s, he did contracting for the municipality. Jim Haddon met his wife Jean when her family moved into the neighbourhood in the 1930s. Jean Haddon was born in Saskatchewan in 1914. Her father's work had gone into receivership and so the family of nine packed up and drove out west in a Dodge Touring car. With two brothers and four sisters, Jean was the oldest. The family settled on Government Road and Phillips Avenue. Jean and her husband Jim Haddon were at a dance together at Cultus Lake when the war broke out. Logan Wright was born in 1915 and moved with his family from Mount Pleasant to Burnaby in 1923 to Phillips Avenue and Greenwood. The Wright family had five acres of land that held one hundred and twenty fruit trees. His father worked for BC Electric in Vancouver, and faced a ten dollar a month cut in pay during the Depression. Logan began at Sperling Avenue School in 1923, then Seaforth School in 1924. He attended Seaforth until 1932 when he left to begin working, first as a farmer, then a gold miner, and a construction worker before securing a job at BC Electric. Amy Wright was born in 1920. Her family lived at the 4300 block of Cambridge Street in the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood of North Burnaby, moving there just a year before she was born. Her father worked at Mac and Mack's in downtown Vancouver five and a half days a week. On the weekends, her family took the Union Steamship to Gibson's. Amy's mother was an active member of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON). Amy graduated high school in 1938 and went on to University. Logan Wright met his wife Amy in 1946 through Logan's sister Francis, who invited her neighbour Amy to dinner.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 1:16:28

Interviewee Name: Haddon, James "Jimmy"; Haddon, Jean; Wright, Amy; Wright, Logan

Interview Location: Gibsons, British Columbia

Interviewer Bio: Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with James Haddon, Jean Haddon, Amy Wright and Logan Wright

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Harold Edward Winch collection

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1914]-2003

Collection/Fonds: Harold Edward Winch collection

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: approx. 23 cm of textual records + approx. 600 photographs (b&w + col.)

Scope and Content: Collection consists of records relating to Harold Edward Winch's family life and political career. It includes photographs of Winch's parents, family, and wife Jessie, as well as photographs, correspondence and other textual records from Harold's political work and experiences, a travel diary, gues…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Harold Edward Winch collection

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: approx. 23 cm of textual records + approx. 600 photographs (b&w + col.)

Scope and Content: Collection consists of records relating to Harold Edward Winch's family life and political career. It includes photographs of Winch's parents, family, and wife Jessie, as well as photographs, correspondence and other textual records from Harold's political work and experiences, a travel diary, guest books, and certificates. The collection includes a number of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party newspapers. The collection also includes records relating to Winch's death, such as obituaries, memorials, articles, and a guest book. Finally, the collection includes a small number of records relating to Winch's father, Ernie Winch, and his own political career. The collection has been arranged into five series: 1) Harold E. Winch biographical records (1933-2003) 2) Harold E. Winch photographs series (1914-[ca. 1990]) 3) Harold E. Winch political photograph album and records series ([1937]-1993) 4) Harold E. Winch personal records series (1949-1993) 5) Harold E. Winch newspaper collection series (1936-1986)

History: Harold Edward Winch (June 18, 1907-February 1, 1993) was born in Loughton, Essex, England to Ernest “Ernie” Edward Winch (March 22, 1879-January 11, 1957) and his wife Linda Marian (nee Hendy). Harold was the eldest of six children; the others were Eileen, Charlie, Grace, Alan, and Eric. Ernest moved to BC in 1909, followed by Linda, Harold, and Eileen in 1910. The remaining children were born in BC. Ernie, a brick mason, built the family a series of homes in the Lower Mainland as the family moved around for a number of years, living in Burnaby, White Rock, Mission, and Vancouver before finally settling back in Burnaby. Ernie Winch joined the Social Democratic Party of Canada in 1911 and became secretary of the party in 1913, and was heavily involved in trade unions and the labour and socialist movements. He helped re-establish the Socialist Party of Canada (BC) in 1932, which soon merged with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Ernie was a CCF MLA in Burnaby from 1933 until his death in 1957, following which his son-in-law Cedric Cox (husband of Eileen) won the seat in a byelection. Ernie was particularly interested in institutions, including jails, mental hospitals, and industrial schools, and founded the New Vista Society in 1943 to provide a live-in rehabilitation program to women with psychiatric problems. The organization later expanded to focus on low-cost housing for seniors, and an apartment complex was built for this purpose in Burnaby. Both Ernie and Harold were lifelong members of the New Vista Society board of trustees. Harold Winch trained as an electrician, but also followed his father into politics, serving as a CCF MLA in Vancouver East from 1933 to 1953 – Ernie and Harold were two of the first seven CCF MLAs. The Winches set a Guinness world record for the longest father-and-son parliamentary tenure. Like his father, Harold was also highly involved in the labour movement, and acted as a liaison between workers and government during the Depression, particularly during the relief camp strike in Vancouver in 1935 which precipitated the On to Ottawa trek. He was the leader of the BC CCF from 1938 to 1953, and Leader of the Opposition from 1941 to 1953. In 1953, Harold stepped down from provincial politics to enter the federal arena, and served as a CCF MP for Vancouver East from 1953 to 1961, when the CCF became the New Democratic Party (NDP); Harold continued to serve as an NDP MP from 1961 to 1972, when he retired for health reasons. In federal office, Harold remained dedicated to the working class and humanitarian causes, issuing reports on subject such as unemployment, veterans’ rights, low-cost housing for seniors, animal welfare, drug addiction, and mental health concerns. Harold earned honorary law degrees from both UBC (1973) and SFU (1974). He was involved in numerous humanitarian and other organizations and his roles included president and treasurer of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; co-founder of the Immigrant Services Society of Vancouver; director of the Boag Foundation; and lifelong member of the Association for Protection of Fur Bearing Animals. Harold married Dorothy Ada Hutchinson (December 1, 1907-October 24, 1974) on May 11, 1929. They had three children: Donald, Gerald ("Jerry"), and Shirley. Following Dorothy’s death, Harold married Jessie Margaret Mendels (nee Sweezey) (June 29, 1913-May 9, 2006) on May 19, 1981. Jessie grew up in Grand Forks, BC, and her family moved to Vancouver when she was in high school. Her first husband was George Edward Mendels (November 2, 1905-September 2, 1978). She had no children. Jessie served as a St. John’s ambulance driver during World War II. She was also active in the CCF and NDP parties in BC, having been Provincial Secretary for the CCF in the 1940s, a vice-president of the party in the 1950s, and Provincial Secretary for the NDP in the 1960s. Like Harold, she later served as a director of the Boag Foundation. Jessie traveled widely throughout her life. The collection contains a small number of Jessie’s photographs. Harold Winch died in White Rock, where he and Jessie had retired, on February 1, 1993.

Responsibility: Winch, Harold Edward

Accession Code: BV013.12

Date: [1914]-2003

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Arrangement: Records within fonds have been arranged by subject and format.

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Family and political photograph album

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1914-1977

Collection/Fonds: Harold Edward Winch collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 album (ca. 85 photographs)

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph album containing ca. 85 photographs, including both personal and work-related subjects such as the Winch family and homes, and Winch's political work and travels. Also included are some textual records relating to Winch's political work.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Harold Edward Winch collection

Series: Harold E. Winch photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 album (ca. 85 photographs)

Scope and Content: Item is a photograph album containing ca. 85 photographs, including both personal and work-related subjects such as the Winch family and homes, and Winch's political work and travels. Also included are some textual records relating to Winch's political work.

Subjects: Government - Federal Government; Government - Provincial Government

Names: Winch, Harold Edward; Winch, Linda Marian Hendy; Winch, Grace; Winch, Eileen; Winch, Ernest "Ernie"; Winch, Eric; Co-operative Commonwealth Federation "CCF"; New Democratic Party; Douglas, Tommy; MacInnis, Grace

Accession Code: BV013.12.11

Date: 1914-1977

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; A selection of photographs from scrapbook have been described at item level (BV013.12.36 to BV015.35.117)

Images

Family and political photograph album, 1914-1977 thumbnail

Documents

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A winter in India : light impressions of its cities, peoples and customs

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Spens, Archibald B.

Publication Date: 1914

Call Number: 915.4 SPE

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV971.5.24

Call Number: 915.4 SPE

Author: Spens, Archibald B.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company

Publication Date: 1914

Physical Description: xii, 302 p. : ill., pl., maps ; 21 cm.

Inscription: "E129" [written vertically on outside spine] "W-2v" [phrase is crossed out and handwritten in black ink on front paste down] "4500 915.4 S748" [handwritten in black ink on front pastedown] Printed label on front paste down with the following filled in VOLUME NO. "40 129" OF TRAVELLING LIBRARY NO. "198" THE PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA [40 and 198 handwritten in black ink. 129 handwritten in pencil and circled New York Times short review of book cut out and pasted onto title page

Library Subject (LOC): India--Social life and customs

Notes: "with 95 Illustrations in half tone from photographs by the Author"--T.p.

Permission to contruct a flume on Government Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79260

Meeting Date: 23-Feb-1914

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79260

Meeting Date: 23-Feb-1914

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 79260

23-Feb-1914 Meeting Minutes

Government Grant re Kingsway Contract

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79667

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1914

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79667

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1914

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 79667

5-Oct-1914 Meeting Minutes

South Burnaby Garden Club subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1915-2009

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of the administrative records of the South Burnaby Garden Club from their early beginnings as the Central Park Agricultural Association and Farmer's Institute (1901-1926), the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (1927-1957) to the early 2000s.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1915-2009

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: South Burnaby Garden Club subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and 1 photograph

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1986-36; BHS2008-17

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of the administrative records of the South Burnaby Garden Club from their early beginnings as the Central Park Agricultural Association and Farmer's Institute (1901-1926), the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (1927-1957) to the early 2000s.

History: The South Burnaby Garden Club as formed in 1901 after a group of Central Park residents met to form a Farmers’ Institute. They leased 17 acres of Central Park from the Provincial Government and with the support of government grants constructed a two-story building on the property. The building was constructed in time for the first annual Fall Fair in September 1901. In 1903 the Institute amalgamated with the South Vancouver and Burnaby Agricultural Society to become the Central Park Agricultural Association & Farmers Institute. In 1907 the membership doubled to 520 members. Increasing urbanization and the First World War saw the last exhibition in 1919. The lease on the building expired in 1921. The Society continued to meet and hold small exhibitions in rented halls under the South Burnaby Horticultural Association name. After several name changes, the association became the South Burnaby Garden Club in 1958 and continues to this day.

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Creator: South Burnaby Garden Club

Notes: PC223, PC488, MSS028; Title based on creator and contents of subseries

The tribune of Nova Scotia : a chronicle of Joseph Howe

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Grant, W. L. (William Lawson), 1872-1935

Publication Date: 1915

Call Number: 971 CHR v.26

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV004.106.15

Call Number: 971 CHR v.26

Author: Grant, W. L. (William Lawson), 1872-1935

Contributor: Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948; Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953

Place of Publication: Toronto

Publisher: Glasgow, Brook & Company

Publication Date: 1915

Series: Chronicles of Canada, 26

Printer: T. and A. Constable

Physical Description: xi, 163 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 19 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Canada--History; Nova Scotia--Politics and government--19th century

Notes: "Edited by George M. Wrong and H.H. Langton"; "In thirty-two volumes"; "Part VII The Struggle for Political Freedom"; Includes bibliographic references and index.; Editor's given names and dates: Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948; Editor's given names and dates: Langton, H.H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953

The Canada year book 1914

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1915

Call Number: 317.1 CAN 1914

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV014.29.5

Call Number: 317.1 CAN 1914

Place of Publication: Ottawa, Ont.

Publisher: Government of Canada

Publication Date: 1915

Printer: J. de L. Tache

Physical Description: xvi, 698 p.: ill., maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Inscription: "T.L. Brock" stamped on inside cover and front endpaper.

Library Subject (LOC): Canada--Statistics--Historical texts; Canada--Statistics; Canada; Periodicals

Notes: Contains index and appendices.

The Labrador Eskimo, no. 1637

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883-

Publication Date: 1916

Call Number: 970.4 HAW

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV980.2.13

Call Number: 970.4 HAW

Author: Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883-

Contributor: Canada. Department of Mines; Geological Survey of Canada

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: Government Printing Bureau

Publication Date: 1916

Series: Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 91; Anthropological series ; no. 14

Physical Description: x, 235 p., viii : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Inuit--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador; Inuit--Quebec (Province)

Notes: At head of title: Canada, Department of Mines, Geological Survey; "No. 1637"

The winning of popular government : a chronicle of the union of 1841, v.27

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: MacMechan, Archibald, 1862-1933

Publication Date: 1916

Call Number: 971 CHR v.27

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV004.106.14

Call Number: 971 CHR v.27

Author: MacMechan, Archibald, 1862-1933

Contributor: Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948; Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953

Place of Publication: Toronto

Publisher: Glasgow, Brook & Company

Publication Date: 1916

Series: Chronicles of Canada, 27

Printer: T. and A. Constable

Physical Description: xi, 172 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 19 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Canada--History

Notes: "Edited by George M. Wrong and H.H. Langton"; "In thirty-two volumes"; "Part VII The Struggle for Political Freedom"; Includes bibliographic references and index.; Author's given names and dates: MacMechan Archibald McKellar, 1862-1933; Editor's given names and dates: Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948; Editor's given names and dates: Langton, H.H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953

Petition to Governor General of Canada re Establishment of Government Labour Bureaus

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80800

Meeting Date: 25-Apr-1916

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80800

Meeting Date: 25-Apr-1916

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80800

25-Apr-1916 Meeting Minutes

Treasurer Report re Government Grant to School Board

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80805

Meeting Date: 25-Apr-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80805

Meeting Date: 25-Apr-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80805

25-Apr-1916 Meeting Minutes

Joint Representations to Government re Excessive Cost of Gasoline and Distillate

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80817

Meeting Date: 8-May-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80817

Meeting Date: 8-May-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80817

8-May-1916 Meeting Minutes

Provincial Government Completion of Highways from: (a) Hope to Princeton (b) Cascade to Rossland

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81079

Meeting Date: 6-Nov-1916

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81079

Meeting Date: 6-Nov-1916

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 81079

6-Nov-1916 Meeting Minutes

Open meeting with William Pritchard and Norman Penner July / August 1973 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1917-1919

Length: 0:07:55

Summary: This portion of the meeting pertains to what Pritchard describes as the governmental conspiracy that took place. They discuss the Union government of the time at length as well as the Wartime Elections Act.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the meeting pertains to what Pritchard describes as the governmental conspiracy that took place. They discuss the Union government of the time at length as well as the Wartime Elections Act.

Date Range: 1917-1919

Photo Info: William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930. Item no. 459-016

Length: 0:07:55

Names: Meighan, Arthur

Subjects: Protests and Demonstrations - Strikes

Interview Date: July / August 1973

Scope and Content: Recording is of a open meeting with William Pritchard and writer Norman Penner. Norman Penner is the editor of the book "Winnipeg 1919" about the strike from the striker's perspective. William Pritchard wrote the speech that was included in the book. Audience members were invited to ask Pritchard questions. Major theme discussed is: The Winnipeg General Strike. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: William "Bill" Arthur Pritchard was born on April 3, 1888 in Salford, England, the son of a miner and factory worker. In May 1911, Bill moved to British Columbia and within a week of arriving became an active member of the Socialist Party of Canada. From 1914 to 1917, he served as editor of the Western Clarion – the SPC newspaper. He became such a well-known socialist figure that when he travelled to Winnipeg to participate in the General Strike in 1919, he was one of only seven people arrested and imprisoned for his participation in the event despite the fact that he was in no way directly involved in its planning nor development. In 1922, Bill and his family settled in North Burnaby in the Capitol Hill District. Almost immediately after his arrival, Bill began to advocate for change and a planned development scheme for the municipality. Pritchard ran successfully for the position of Reeve and held the post until the end of 1932. One of Reeve Pritchard’s highest priorities while in office was to attempt to provide work for as many unemployed as possible all the while trying to elicit more support from the provincial and federal governments. Bill was a strong advocate of the belief that relief work should be focused on projects that would see a comprehensive development scheme for Burnaby – including planned sewers, roads and water supply. Despite Bill's best efforts, however, Burnaby was forced into receivership and at the end of 1932, a Provincial Commission stepped in to take over the governance of the city. Reeve Pritchard, having done all he could as a champion of the unemployed, stepped down as Reeve but left behind an undeniable legacy of courage and determination. He was rewarded for his enormous contributions to the city in 1975 when he was chosen to be made a Freeman of Burnaby. William Pritchard died on October 23, 1981. Norman Penner was born in Winnipeg in 1921 to Rose and Jacob Penner and brother to Roland, Ruth and Walter. Their father Jacob was a leading member of the Communist Party and popular Winnipeg Alderman. Norman graduated from high school in 1937 but did not begin university until much later, preferring to begin his adult life from 1938 to 1941 as a full-time officer of the Winnipeg branch of the Communist Party of Canada. From 1941 to 1946 he served with the Canadian Army which included two-and-a-half years of overseas combat duty. On his return to Canada in 1947 he again returned to his duties as a full-time officer with the communist Labour-Progressive Party (formed in 1941 after the Canadian Communist Party was officially banned). After the abortive Hungarian revolution in 1956, Norman Penner resigned from the party and instead worked as a self-employed manufacturer’s sales representative until 1971. In 1964 he decided to go back to school part time and graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1969. He took an MA in 1971 and a PhD in 1975 from the same institution. Penner was hired as a lecturer at York University's Glendon College in 1972 and soon became a professor, continuing to teach until 1995. He wrote extensively on the Canadian left. Penner edited and introduced "Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike" in 1973, published "The Canadian Left: A Critical Analysis" in 1977 and contributed three chapters to as well as editing "Keeping Canada Together Means Changing Our Thinking" in 1978. He published "Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond" in 1988 and "From Protest to Power: Social Democracy in Canada 1900 to Present" in 1992 as well as numerous articles, reviews and book chapters. Norman Penner was married to Norma Lipes for sixty-seven years. The couple had four children: Steve (Mary Ellen Marus); Joyce (Herman Parsons); Gary (Marlene Kadar); and Bob (Shaena Lambert). Norman Penner died April 16, 2009 at the age of eighty-eight.

Total Tracks: 7

Total Length: 1:03:00

Interviewee Name: Pritchard, William A.; Penner, Norman

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

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William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930. Item no. 459-016 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track four of open meeting with William Pritchard and Norman Penner

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Report of the eighth annual meeting : held at Ottawa January 16-17 1917

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Canada. Commission of Conservation

Publication Date: 1917

Call Number: 333.7 CAN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV001.1.13

Call Number: 333.7 CAN

Author: Canada. Commission of Conservation

Contributor: Sifton, Clifford, Sir, 1861-1929

Place of Publication: Montreal

Publisher: The Federated Press, Ltd.

Publication Date: 1917

Series: Report of the annual meeting, the Eighth.

Physical Description: [1] leaves of plates, x, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Economic history; Natural resources; Canada; Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--Canada

Subjects: Natural Resources

Notes: Includes list of Commision of Conservation members.; Sir Clifford Sifton, K.C.M.G, Chairman ; James White, Assistant to Chairman, Deputy Head.; Sifton, Clifford, 1861-1929.; Held at Ottawa January 16-17 1917; Includes index.

The listening post, no. 29

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1917

Call Number: 355 LIS

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Textual Record

Accession Code: BV016.48.7

Call Number: 355 LIS

Publication Date: 1917

Physical Description: 47 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.

Inscription: 3

Library Subject (LOC): Canada--Politics and government; Military art and science--Canada; Canada--History, Military; World War, 1914-1918; Periodicals

Object History: Military documents and memorabilia of First World War activities of Russell William Mawhinney. Later career of Mr Mawhinney as a Pharmacist in the Dunbar neighbourhood of Vancouver. Papers and memorabilia relating to Mr Mawhinney as an organizer of the Ex RAF Officers Association.

Notes: "Special Xmas Number"

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Manual of instructions for the survey of Dominion lands

Interview with James Haddon, Jean Haddon, Amy Wright and Logan Wright June 27, 1975 - Track 1

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A winter in India : light impressions of its cities, peoples and customs

Permission to contruct a flume on Government Street

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Government Grant re Kingsway Contract

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South Burnaby Garden Club subseries

The tribune of Nova Scotia : a chronicle of Joseph Howe

The Canada year book 1914

The Labrador Eskimo, no. 1637

The winning of popular government : a chronicle of the union of 1841, v.27

Petition to Governor General of Canada re Establishment of Government Labour Bureaus

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Treasurer Report re Government Grant to School Board

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Joint Representations to Government re Excessive Cost of Gasoline and Distillate

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Provincial Government Completion of Highways from: (a) Hope to Princeton (b) Cascade to Rossland

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Open meeting with William Pritchard and Norman Penner July / August 1973 - Track 4

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Report of the eighth annual meeting : held at Ottawa January 16-17 1917

The listening post, no. 29

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