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Interview with Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright 1992 - Track 3

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4637

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: July 8 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Oral History collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette (0:08:49 min)

Scope and Content: Track 3: This portion of the recording pertains to entertainment, food, school, and music. Jean discusses the importance of music as entertainment, which everyone participated in. She notes that her family always had visitors, for meals or to stay. Jean describes how her mother maintained a kitchen…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Oral History collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 audio cassette (0:08:49 min)

Material Details: Interviewer: Teresa Ballentine Interviewee: Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright (later Jean McCallum and later Jean Hogg) Total Number of Tracks: 6 Total Length of all Tracks: 1:09:29

Scope and Content: Track 3: This portion of the recording pertains to entertainment, food, school, and music. Jean discusses the importance of music as entertainment, which everyone participated in. She notes that her family always had visitors, for meals or to stay. Jean describes how her mother maintained a kitchen garden and domestic livestock, and what her mother did with the surplus. She talks about attending Gilmore Avenue School, relating how classes were held in various off-site locations when enrollment exceeded capacity. She also mentions attending the high school on Rosser Avenue. Jean talks of joining the school band in high school, playing the cornet. She describes becoming a member of the National Juvenile Band, playing concerts in many places, including the British Columbia Penitentiary.

History: Recording is an interview with Jean Hogg conducted by her daughter Teresa Ballentine. Jean talks about her life as a resident of Burnaby from her childhood in the 1910s to widowhood in the 1960s. Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright was born in Burnaby in August 1915, two years after her family moved to 3871 East Pender Street. She was one of five children of Joseph Wright and Wilhelmina Williams. Her first husband was Walter Angus McCallum, who she was married to from 1940-1965; they raised two daughters: June and Teresa. Her second husband's last name was Hogg.

Creator: Ballentine, Teresa

Names: Wright Family; Hogg, Jean Wright McCallum

Accession Code: BV018.17.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: July 8 1992

Media Type: Sound Recording

Notes: Title based on content of sound recording; Label on audio cassette case reads: "Jean & Terry / Re / Jeans Memories & / Her Life History"; Label on Side A of audio cassette reads: "Jean Hogg - Memories / 1"; Label on Side B of audio cassette reads: "Jean Hogg Memories / 2"

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Interview with Margaret Jane (Jean) Wright 1992 - Track 3, July 8 1992

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2018_0017_0001_003.mp3

Colleen Wood

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46133

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1, 1980

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ;

Scope and Content: Photograph of musician Colleen Wood sitting at the organ. She suffered from a rare muscle disease and was an active member of the Variety Club of British Columbia, donating all funds raised at her concerts to the club.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1, 1980

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ;

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1021

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of musician Colleen Wood sitting at the organ. She suffered from a rare muscle disease and was an active member of the Variety Club of British Columbia, donating all funds raised at her concerts to the club.

Subjects: Musical Instruments; Occupations - Musicians

Names: Wood, Colleen

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Battistoni, Peter

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Colleen Wood ... she's working to get a 'sunshine' bus for the handicapped"