"Grandmothers" found 14 records

Portait of Chan Kow Hong’s Grandmother

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Portrait of Chan Kow Hong’s grandmother, photographed in China. She is seated in a chair, wearing all black.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Portrait of Chan Kow Hong’s grandmother, photographed in China. She is seated in a chair, wearing all black.

History: The Hong family run Hop-On Farm on Marine Drive in Burnaby. Many Hong family members worked on the farm including parents Sui Ha Hong and Chan Kow Hong, grandfather Gay Tim Hong, and uncles. The Hong family's great-grandfather was Sui Wing Hong The Hong family had seven children, oldest to youngest: Pauline, Josephine, Catherine, Norine, Gary, Darlene, and Marlene. This photo of Chan Kow Hong's Grandmother was taken when she was 99 years old. It was the last photo of her that was sent to her family in Canada. She longed for her sons to return home to China one day.

Names: Hop On Farms; Hong, Chan Kow

Accession Code: BV019.10.11

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Portait of Chan Kow Hong’s Grandmother, [between 1900 and 1920] thumbnail

Leggett children with Grandmother Doughty

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 6.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elizabeth Doughty standing behind a metal fence at an unidentified location with her grandchildren. Sitting on top of the fence is Fred, with Leon standing next to Grandmother Doughty and Norvie standing next to Leon. Holding a teddy bear in the front is Dedie and beside her is Ralph.…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 6.5 cm print

Material Details: Lack of detail on copy print due to poor quality original

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elizabeth Doughty standing behind a metal fence at an unidentified location with her grandchildren. Sitting on top of the fence is Fred, with Leon standing next to Grandmother Doughty and Norvie standing next to Leon. Holding a teddy bear in the front is Dedie and beside her is Ralph. The children's father Fred Kirk Leggett (from Houston, Texas) was the original owner of Parker Carousel no. 119.

Names: Leggett, Fred; Doughty, Elizabeth; Leggett, Leon; Leggett, Dedie; Frame, Norvie Leggett

Accession Code: BV993.51.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pen on verso of photograph reads: "P91-5-2"; 1 photograph : b&w ; 120 film copy negative accompanying

Images

Leggett children with Grandmother Doughty, [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993] thumbnail

Portait of Chan Kow Hong's Grandmother.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]; copied 1970.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : col.

Scope and Content: Portrait of Chan Kow Hong’s grandmother photographed in China. Original portait was framed when photographed again so flash is visible in bottom right corner. Original portait appears to be hand-painted.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : col.

Scope and Content: Portrait of Chan Kow Hong’s grandmother photographed in China. Original portait was framed when photographed again so flash is visible in bottom right corner. Original portait appears to be hand-painted.

History: The Hong family run Hop-On Farm on Marine Drive in Burnaby. Many Hong family members worked on the farm including parents Sui Ha Hong and Chan Kow Hong, grandfather Gay Tim Hong, and uncles. The Hong family's great-grandfather was Sui Wing Hong The Hong family had seven children, oldest to youngest: Pauline, Josephine, Catherine, Norine, Gary, Darlene, and Marlene.

Names: Hop On Farms; Hong, Chan Kow

Accession Code: BV019.10.8

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]; copied 1970.

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Portait of Chan Kow Hong's Grandmother., [between 1900 and 1920]; copied 1970. thumbnail

Portrait of Pauline Hong's great Grandmother and two children

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1890 and 1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Portrait of Pauline Hong's maternal great grandmother, with grandfather and great aunt as children. Photograph taken in China. Chan Kow Hong was the father of the Hong family who started Hop On Farms.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Portrait of Pauline Hong's maternal great grandmother, with grandfather and great aunt as children. Photograph taken in China. Chan Kow Hong was the father of the Hong family who started Hop On Farms.

History: The Hong family run Hop-On Farm on Marine Drive in Burnaby. Many Hong family members worked on the farm including parents Sui Ha Hong and Chan Kow Hong, grandfather Gay Tim Hong, and uncles. The Hong family's great-grandfather was Sui Wing Hong The Hong family had seven children, oldest to youngest: Pauline, Josephine, Catherine, Norine, Gary, Darlene, and Marlene.

Names: Hong, Chan Kow; Hop On Farms

Accession Code: BV019.10.3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1890 and 1900]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Portrait of Pauline Hong's great Grandmother and two children, [between 1890 and 1900] thumbnail

Sarah Botsford

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-] (date of original), copied [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Waplington family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photocopy

Scope and Content: Photocopy of portrait of Sarah Botsford (Sarah Waplington's grandmother) Moncton, New Brunswick. Label adhered to front of photocopy reads "SARAH WAPLINGTON GRANDMOTHER / SARAH BOTSFORD / 1849-1918_MONCTON, NB"

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Waplington family fonds

Series: Waplington and Fleming families album series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photocopy

Scope and Content: Photocopy of portrait of Sarah Botsford (Sarah Waplington's grandmother) Moncton, New Brunswick. Label adhered to front of photocopy reads "SARAH WAPLINGTON GRANDMOTHER / SARAH BOTSFORD / 1849-1918_MONCTON, NB"

Accession Code: BV016.46.134

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-] (date of original), copied [2001]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-01-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photocopy is part of Photograph album BV016.46.52

Images

Sarah Botsford, [190-] (date of original), copied [2001] thumbnail

Bancroft family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]-1979

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other materials

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]-1979

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Bancroft family subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other materials

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1986-44; BHS2004-06

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the Bancroft family and friends and ephemera pertaining to agricultural farming and the air force.

History: Rose Croucher was born to Ann Eliza "Annie" (b. August 1861, d. 1962) and R. Coucher in January 1895. In 1907, the Croucher family moved to British Columbia. As a student, Rose studied geometrical drawing using Blair’s Canadian Drawing Series workbooks. On on February 21, 1914, Rose married James Oakes Bancroft in Vancouver, BC. Together they had three children: James A. (b. 1916 or 1917), Rosie (date unknown), and George E. (b. August 1927). The Bancroft family were poultry farmers throughout the early 1900s, transporting their farmed eggs from Burnaby to the Hudson’s Bay Company Vancouver using the British Columbia Electric Railway system. Rose Bancroft also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Park Poultry Co-op Association in the 1920s until her husband's death in 1930 at the age of 42. In the late thirties and early forties, while James A. Bancroft was stationed in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force, his younger siblings lived together with their mother and grandmother at 1963 21st Avenue in Burnaby. Rosie Bancroft studied French and English history in Social Studies in 1937; her brother George studied the seasons in General Science II in 1942. Rose died in 1965 at the age of 76.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Cartographic Material

Creator: Bancroft, Rose

Notes: MSS030, PC490, PC507, and MSS110; Title based on creator and contents of subseries

Dedie Leggett and Grandmother Doughty

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elizabeth Doughty holding her granddaughter Dedie Leggett's hand on the steps of a train. The location has not been identified. Dedie Leggett's sister, Norvie, identified this photograph as having been taken "on steps of train car, where we lived" suggesting the family lived in this t…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elizabeth Doughty holding her granddaughter Dedie Leggett's hand on the steps of a train. The location has not been identified. Dedie Leggett's sister, Norvie, identified this photograph as having been taken "on steps of train car, where we lived" suggesting the family lived in this train car while operating the Lone Star Circus.

Names: Leggett, Dedie; Doughty, Elizabeth

Accession Code: BV993.51.10

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pen on verso of photograph reads: "P91-5-10"; 1 photograph : b&w ; 120 film copy negative accompanying; 1 photograph : sepia slide ; 35 mm accompanying

Images

Dedie Leggett and Grandmother Doughty, [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993] thumbnail

Florence Hart Godwin photograph album

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Flore…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Florence Hart for Christmas in 1910, by her grandmother Jane Chapman (nee Isbell) and her Aunt Felicia Chapman. Album contains photographs of the Alice and Frederick J. Hart and Chapman families, including childhood photographs of the five Hart children, Kingsley, Florence, Fredricka, Edwyna and Jack; the Hart family at their home in New Westminster and at "Avalon" their summer residence and home on Deer Lake.

Names: Godwin, Florence Hart

Accession Code: HV976.168.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-24

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph album; 29 b&w copy prints accompanying; Item level descriptions available per album page

Images

Florence Hart Godwin photograph album, 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976 thumbnail

Documents

1976_0168_0001_001

Interview with Helen Sprott August 10, 1977 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1900-1908

Length: 0:05:47

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Helen Fanny Sprott's memories of her family's first years of living in Burnaby. She mentions the Hazard House and Mayfield Farms.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Helen Fanny Sprott's memories of her family's first years of living in Burnaby. She mentions the Hazard House and Mayfield Farms.

Date Range: 1900-1908

Photo Info: Sprott sisters sitting together on a long tressle. Helen Sprott is seated on the right, wearing glasses [1906]. Item no. HV978.1.10

Length: 0:05:47

Subjects: Buildings - Residences - Houses

Geographic Access: Canada Way; Burnaby Lake

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Interview Date: August 10, 1977

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Helen Sprott, August 10, 1977. Major themes discussed are: the Sprott home.

Biographical Notes: Helen Sprott was born in Burnaby on June 22, 1902. Her father, Louis Edgar Sprott and younger brother came out to Burnaby from England, following their older brother Charles F. Sprott. The two younger brothers were in the Merchant Marines together prior to arriving in to Burnaby and learning to farm. Louis Edgar Sprott and Helen Louise F. Nicholls were married June 30, 1900 and stayed at the Haszard House while their own house was being built. By 1902, "the Dovecote" was built and Helen was born. The house was added on to and later renamed "Mayfield Farms." Helen's grandmother and aunt on her mother's side came to live at Mayfield Farms in 1907 or 1908. Helen Sprott was living in Penticton at the time of her death, April 8, 1978 at the age of seventy-five.

Total Tracks: 2

Total Length: 0:08:57

Interviewee Name: Sprott, Helen

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Images

Sprott sisters sitting together on a long tressle. Helen Sprott is seated on the right, wearing glasses [1906]. Item no. HV978.1.10 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Helen Sprott

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Interview with Helen Sprott August 10, 1977 - Track 2

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1900-1902

Length: 0:03:10

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Helen Fanny Sprott's memories of her family's first years of living in Burnaby.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Helen Fanny Sprott's memories of her family's first years of living in Burnaby.

Date Range: 1900-1902

Photo Info: Sprott sisters sitting together on a long tressle. Helen Sprott is seated on the right, wearing glasses [1906]. Item no. HV978.1.10

Length: 0:03:10

Interview Date: August 10, 1977

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Helen Sprott, August 10, 1977. Major themes discussed are: the Sprott home.

Biographical Notes: Helen Sprott was born in Burnaby on June 22, 1902. Her father, Louis Edgar Sprott and younger brother came out to Burnaby from England, following their older brother Charles F. Sprott. The two younger brothers were in the Merchant Marines together prior to arriving in to Burnaby and learning to farm. Louis Edgar Sprott and Helen Louise F. Nicholls were married June 30, 1900 and stayed at the Haszard House while their own house was being built. By 1902, "the Dovecote" was built and Helen was born. The house was added on to and later renamed "Mayfield Farms." Helen's grandmother and aunt on her mother's side came to live at Mayfield Farms in 1907 or 1908. Helen Sprott was living in Penticton at the time of her death, April 8, 1978 at the age of seventy-five.

Total Tracks: 2

Total Length: 0:08:57

Interviewee Name: Sprott, Helen

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

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Interview with Josephine Chow by Denise Fong February 7, 2020

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1900-2020] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 7, 2020

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (mp3) (00:43:19 min.)

Scope and Content: Recording consists of an interview with Josephine Chow (nee Hong) conducted by BVM researcher Denise Fong at the Burnaby Village Museum. Josephine describes her family history and recollects her childhood experiences in 1950s and 60s while growing with her family on their "Hop On" farm in Burnaby. …

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Subseries: Chinese Canadians in Burnaby subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (mp3) (00:43:19 min.)

Material Details: Interviewer: Denise Fong Interviewee: Josephine Chow Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: February 7, 2020 Total Number of Tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 00:43:19

Scope and Content: Recording consists of an interview with Josephine Chow (nee Hong) conducted by BVM researcher Denise Fong at the Burnaby Village Museum. Josephine describes her family history and recollects her childhood experiences in 1950s and 60s while growing with her family on their "Hop On" farm in Burnaby. The farm is situated in the Big Bend area along Marine Drive and is still in operation today. 0:00-08:45 Josephine Chow provides some historical background on the history of “Hop On Farm” and her family in British Columbia. She tells of how her grandfather Gay Tim Hong and three partners pooled money together to purchase twelve acres on Marine Drive in 1951. Prior to this, most of them farmed on the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation Reserve for 20-30 years. It all began when her great grandfather Sui Wing Hong, first came to Canada from China and slowly brought over her grandfather, father and other members of the family. Her grandfather, Gay Tim Hong went back and forth between Canada and China at least four times since he and her grandmother had four children including her father, who was born in 1931. Her father came to Canada at 10 years of age to live with his father. Josephine’s great grandfather came to Vancouver from Zhongshan county in Canton Province (also known as Guangdong). 8:46- 14:20 Josephine provides the names of her siblings from the eldest to the youngest; Pauline, Josephine (herself), Catherine, Noreen, Gary, Darlene and Marlene. She describes what life was like on the farm with her parents working from sunrise to sunset. The family farmed vegetable produce taking orders from local stores in the lower mainland. Often the children helped their parents with the orders starting at eight or nine years of age. Other workers on the farm travelled by bus from Vancouver’s Chinatown. She also tells of how her father was an animal lover and raised chickens, pigeons, geese, koy, goldfish and dogs. 14: 21 – 16:56 Josephine describes what Burnaby was like during the time that she grew up in the late 1950s. She explains that Burnaby was very quiet with nothing being open on Sundays. On the farm, she and her siblings would entertain themselves by playing games like soccer, baseball and kick ball or also by catching frogs, snails, caterpillars and ladybugs. There were neighbours living on Marine Drive and almost every house had someone who we went to the same elementary school. The neighbourhood children would often come to play with them on their farm. 16:56- 26:47 Josephine describes how when they were young there were farms all around them and how on Sunday drives with her father, they would go to feed horses or look at the cows. Josephine shares that her elder sister Pauline was the only one born in China and how when she first arrived that she lived on the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations Reserve with their parents before they moved to Burnaby. Josephine recollects that most of her friends were farmer’s kids from the neighbourhood but while in school, she had more Caucasian friends. Josephine and her siblings attended Glenwood Elementary on Marine Drive and later Junior Secondary at McPherson Park (grades 8-10) and Burnaby South Senior Secondary (grades 11-12. ). She shares some of her experiences while attending school. She said that there were about a dozen Asians in school with her, mostly from farming families in the “Flats”. 26:48- 30:45 Josephine describes what life was like for her and her siblings after school. They often helped on the farm when they got home, usually taking care of orders for green onions. Her mother made dinner and did all of the cooking for family and workers on the farm as well as working in the fields. Her father did all of the grocery shopping in Vancouver’s Chinatown two or three times per week where he purchased meat and fish. She says that her grandfather, often travelled by bus every Saturday or Sunday to meet up with friends in Chinatown. Extracurricular activities for her and her siblings included volley ball and soccer as long as it didn’t interfere with their work schedule on the farm. 30:46- 37:03 Josephine describes what occurred while living at home, the food they ate, shopping and attending Chinese school. Her mother cooked only Chinese food, she didn’t know how to cook “Western food”. For school lunches, the kids made their own sandwiches. She tells of a Chinese language school arranged by Mrs. Joe [sic] who lived on Gilley Road and was Canadian born Chinese. Mrs. Joe [sic] also arranged an English class for farmer’s wives on Tuesday nights in which her mother attended. Josephine recollects learning Mandarin from Mrs. Joe [sic] a few days a week after her regular school. Chinese school took place at Riverway School on Meadow Avenue in Burnaby. Mrs. Joe also taught them a lot about Chinese culture including Kung Fu, Chinese Dance and Chinese brush painting. 37:04- 39:39 Josephine describes Medical Care for her and her family in the 1950s and 1960s. She tells of a female Chinese doctor in Vancouver, Dr. Madeline Chung. Dr. Chung was responsible for delivering a lot of Chinese babies including Josephine. The family also visited herbalists in Vancouver Chinatown. They would often buy herbs for colds etc. Josephine also tells of how her parents stayed in touch with family in China by writing letters. Her mother’s family, including her parents and siblings were still in China while most of her father’s family were here in Canada. 39:40- 43:19 – In closing, Josephine shares how life is much busier now and of how she misses the quietness of her days growing up. She briefly describes her life on the family farm now and how different it is from when her parents worked the farm. She explains how farming methods have changed and how they don’t have to work as hard as her parents did.

History: Interviewee biography: Josephine Chow (nee Hong) is the second eldest child of Chan Kow Hong and Sui Ha Hong. In 1925, Josephine's grandfather, Gay Tim Hong immigrated to Canada from Zhongshan county in Canton Province (also known as Guangdong). In 1952, her father, Chan Kow Hong joined his father, Gay Tim Hong and by 1953, he established "Hop On Farms" in the Big Bend area of Burnaby near Marine Drive. Josephine grew up on the farm with her parents and six siblings; Pauline, Catherine, Norine, Gary, Darlene and Marlene. In 1969, Josephine's elder sister Pauline and her husband Jack Chan took over the family farm and in 1972 their father and grandfather moved to Kamloops to open a restaurant. As an adult, Josephine worked in several different areas including owning and running her own Aesthetics business. Josephine eventually retired and returned to the farm to assist her siblings. The farm is still in operation. Interviewer biography: Denise Fong is a historical researcher at Burnaby Village Museum. She has degrees in Anthropology (BA) and Archaeology (MA), and is completing her doctoral degree at UBC in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her primary research interests are in Chinese Canadian history and critical heritage studies. She is the co-curator of BVM’s “Across the Pacific” exhibition, and the Museum of Vancouver’s “A Seat at the Table – Chinese Immigration and British Columbia”.

Creator: Burnaby Village Museum

Subjects: Persons - Chinese Canadians; Agriculture - Farms; Education; Buildings - Schools; First Nations reserves - British Columbia

Names: Chow, Josephine; Glenwood Elementary School; McPherson Park Junior Secondary School; ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)

Responsibility: Fong, Denise

Geographic Access: Byrne Road

Accession Code: BV020.6.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1900-2020] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 7, 2020

Media Type: Sound Recording

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

Related Material: See also BV017.36*

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 12/3/2017

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of interview; Photograph info: Gary Hong and Chan Kow Hong harvesting celery at Hop-On Farms [1969]. BV017.36.4

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Audio Tracks

Interview with Josephine Chow by Denise Fong February 7, 2020, [1900-2020] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 7, 2020

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2020_0006_0001_001.mp3

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1900-1946

Length: 00:07:05

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, and her Oikawa grandparent’s immigration to BC and settlement on Lion and Don Islands at the mouth of the Fraser River. She describes how the family was moved to the internment camp “The Orchard” in New Denver,…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, and her Oikawa grandparent’s immigration to BC and settlement on Lion and Don Islands at the mouth of the Fraser River. She describes how the family was moved to the internment camp “The Orchard” in New Denver, but managed to find a place to live outside the camp where her grandmother grew a large garden from seeds brought in the seams of her clothing. She notes that the Lion Islands were named Oikawa-shima by the Japanese settlers.

Date Range: 1900-1946

Length: 00:07:05

Subjects: Wars - World War, 1939-1945; 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 one of interview with Toki Miyashita

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Jane Ann Rollason

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm + 1 piece of wood

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm + 1 piece of wood

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-118

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

Names: Hill, Jane Sophia Ann Rollason

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Jane Ann Rollinson / (wife of Richard Hill) / (Grandmother of Minard Hill); Note in pencil on verso reads: "Jane Ann nee Rollison (Hill)"; Photograph stamp on verso reads: "From the Photographic Studio W Sherwoood, / 23 Nook Street, Workincton, / This or ... can be enlar... in oil or water colours. / Negatives ... always be had"; Note in blue pen on piece of wood taped to the album page reads: "Mother of K Claude Hill B R Hill / Jane Hill Nee Rolston / Grand Mother of K M Peers"

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Jane Ann Rollason, [1860-1900] thumbnail

Tidball-Cram family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Tidball-Cram family home, 3267Kingsway (later renumbered 5489 Kingsway) at Denbigh Avenue (Denbigh did not exist at the time; the area was the family's orchard). Grandfather Tidball (left) and Grandmother Tidball (right) are on the porch. The Tidball's daughter and son-in-law, Ali…

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-463

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Tidball-Cram family home, 3267Kingsway (later renumbered 5489 Kingsway) at Denbigh Avenue (Denbigh did not exist at the time; the area was the family's orchard). Grandfather Tidball (left) and Grandmother Tidball (right) are on the porch. The Tidball's daughter and son-in-law, Alice and William Cram, and their family joined the Tidballs on their farm after moving to Burnaby from the United States. The Crams and Tidballs produced and sold fruit, produce, honey, and cottage cheese.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 5489 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Windsor Area

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