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Interview with Bill Gruenthal
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19636
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (wav) (74 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (74 min., 37 sec.)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Bill Gruenthal conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on July 31 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:27:01 Bill Gruenthal provides details on his family background, his early life experiences, how he got into the insurance business,…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Many Voices Project Interviews subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (wav) (74 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (74 min., 37 sec.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Eric Damer Interviewee: Bill Gruenthal Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: July 31, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:14:37 Digital master recordings (wav) were recorded onto two separate audio tracks, edited and merged together and converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Bill Gruenthal conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on July 31 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:27:01 Bill Gruenthal provides details on his family background, his early life experiences, how he got into the insurance business, his knowledge and interest in Judaism, places that he and his wife lived before moving to Burnaby, family life in Burnaby and his political involvement in running for the Burnaby school board. 00:27:02 – 00:42:50 Bill Gruenthal talks about the Burquest Jewish Community Association, it’s background and his involvement, experiences of discrimination in his career, a brief history of the Jewish people and some cultural traditions. 00:42:51 – 00:56:04 Bill Gruenthal mentions some of the charities that he supports including Burnaby Hospital, his volunteer work within the community and community organizations including the Nikkei Place Foundation and shares more details on his insurance career. 00:56:05 – 01:14:37 Bill Gruenthal shares information about his Burnaby neighbourhood and Jewish funeral customs and provides his impressions of new development at Brentwood, Burnaby Council and other development projects in Burnaby.
- History
- Interviewee biography: Bill Gruenthal was born in the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, in 1935 after his parents had fled Germany in advance of the then worsening political situation. Bill’s father died in 1942; some years later his mother remarried to an Irish-born senior civil servant in that government. He had a difficult and somewhat dangerous job. Soon after marriage, the family, including Bill’s older brother, Martin, immigrated to Canada in January 1947 on the strength of his step-father’s British Passport. They traveled via New York, where Bill’s uncle and his family resided and who put up the family. Later that month, the parents travelled by CP rail from Montreal to Vancouver, followed by Bill and his brother in March 1947 who travelled from New York to White Rock on an American railroad. While passing through the Fraser Valley Bill’s parents took an interest in Silverdale, a small hamlet west of Mission where the four eventually settled. Bill finished High School in Mission and soon joined the insurance industry. Bill connected with the Jewish Community in Vancouver where he met his soon-to-be wife. Upon marriage they were transferred to Calgary; after five years suffering its cold weather they were transferred back to Vancouver. They settled in Burnaby in 1966 as an affordable neighbourhood with easy access to his office downtown Vancouver. Outside work, Bill helped raise his family of three daughters who all graduated Burnaby High School (Alpha). They joined Temple Sholom in Vancouver, and he volunteered and still volunteers for a number of non-profits, including The Jewish Museum and Archives and Nikkei Place Foundation (Burnaby). He was an early long-term supporter and a past president of Burquest Jewish Community Association, mostly involving persons from Burnaby, New Westminster, and the Tri-Cities area (hence the name). He ran for political office in Burnaby in 1976 but was not elected. He delivers food in Burnaby for the Food Bank and is a donor to many worthy causes including Burnaby General Hospital. Interviewer biography: Eric Damer is a Burnaby Village Museum Interpreter, Museum Registrar, Researcher and Blacksmith. Eric pounded hot steel for the first time in 1977 in junior high. Fifteen years later, he joined Burnaby Village Museum where he has smithed for three decades. He also provides historical research for museum exhibits and special projects. Outside the museum, Eric is a social historian with a special interest in educational history.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Migration
- Persons - Jewish Canadians
- Transportation
- Transportation - Rail
- Religions - Judaism
- Cemeteries
- Organizations
- Elections
- Names
- Gruenthal, Bill
- Gruenthal, Noemi Yadlow
- O'Connor, Herta Ingrid Gruenthal
- O'Connor, John
- Burquest
- Jacobson, Max Alec
- Temple Shalom
- Brentwood Shopping Centre
- Brentwood Park School
- Alpha Secondary School
- Burnaby School Board
- Responsibility
- Damer, Eric
- Accession Code
- BV023.16.14
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Planning Study Area
- Brentwood Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Transcription available
Documents
Audio Tracks
Interview with Bill Gruenthal, [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
Interview with Bill Gruenthal, [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2023_0016_0014_003.mp3
Jimmy Chow on set of "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" with Donald Sutherland
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19213
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of property master Jimmy Chow on the set of "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" with actor Donald Sutherland. Jimmy Chow (in white hat) is standing next to Donald Sutherland while he tries on a yellow hard hat. A member of the film crew is working with film equipment. Film was directed by Noel …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of property master Jimmy Chow on the set of "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" with actor Donald Sutherland. Jimmy Chow (in white hat) is standing next to Donald Sutherland while he tries on a yellow hard hat. A member of the film crew is working with film equipment. Film was directed by Noel Black, filmed on location in Vancouver, China and New York and released in 1979.
- Names
- Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"
- Accession Code
- BV022.21.58
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1978]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-03-06
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow also used the name "James H. Chow" as a propety master in the film industry and was often credited by this name
Images
![Jimmy Chow with Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland, [1978] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0021_0043_001.jpg?width=280)
Jimmy Chow with Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19198
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Jimmy Chow pinned against a tree between actors, Brooke Adams (left) and Donald Sutherland (right). In 1978, Jimmy worked as property master on the production of "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" in which Adams and Sutherland played leading roles. Film was directed by Noel Black, filmed on …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Jimmy Chow pinned against a tree between actors, Brooke Adams (left) and Donald Sutherland (right). In 1978, Jimmy worked as property master on the production of "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" in which Adams and Sutherland played leading roles. Film was directed by Noel Black, filmed on location in Vancouver, China and New York and released in 1979.
- Names
- Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"
- Accession Code
- BV022.21.43
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1978]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-03-03
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow also used the name "James H. Chow" as a propety master in the film industry and was often credited by this name
Images
![Jimmy Chow with Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland, [1978] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0021_0043_001.jpg)
Joanna Anthony and Pele
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45724
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1976, published January 8, 1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Joanna Anthony standing beside Brazilian soccer star Pele. Joanna Anthony was the newly appointed Director of Ticket Sales for the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer Club at the time this photograph was taken.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1976, published January 8, 1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 10.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-618
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Joanna Anthony standing beside Brazilian soccer star Pele. Joanna Anthony was the newly appointed Director of Ticket Sales for the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer Club at the time this photograph was taken.
- Subjects
- Sports - Soccer
- Names
- Anthony, Joanna
- Pele
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Cunningham, Bill
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Recently appointed Director of Ticket Sales for the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer Club, Joanna Anthony poses with Brazilian soccer star Pele who with his New York Cosmos drew a record soccer crowd of 26,495 to Vancouver's Empire Stadium last July."
Images
Phineas Taylor Barnum
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3348
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1886
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm mounted on cardboard 16.5 x 10.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), the founder of the circus that would eventually become the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is 76 years of age at this time with grey hair, wearing a suit with a vest and a bow tie. Annotated or stamped on the bottom front of the ph…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm mounted on cardboard 16.5 x 10.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), the founder of the circus that would eventually become the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is 76 years of age at this time with grey hair, wearing a suit with a vest and a bow tie. Annotated or stamped on the bottom front of the photograph: "P.T. Barnum. 1886." Printed on the bottom front of the card: "Eisenmann / New York." Printed on the back of the card, "Chas. Eisenmann / Instantaeous Photographer / Trade Mark / The Popular Photographer / 229 Bowery, N.Y. / Branch Gallery 18 West 14th Str. N.Y."
- Names
- Barnum, P.T.
- Accession Code
- HV975.61.153c
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1886
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-06
- Photographer
- Eisenmann, Charles
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- This photograph was removed from photograph album - HV975.61.153
Images
![September 11 news in Future Shop, [2001] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2741.jpg?width=280)
September 11 news in Future Shop
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97365
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2001]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Shawn Wagner, a sales associate at the Future Shop at Station Square, watching news coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks playing on the store's displays of televisions.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2001]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2741
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Shawn Wagner, a sales associate at the Future Shop at Station Square, watching news coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks playing on the store's displays of televisions.
- Names
- Metrotown
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Shawn Wagner, a sales associate at the Future Shop at Station Square, pauses at the store's banks of tv monitors to catch up on the latest news from New York City."
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 4700 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
Images
![September 11 news in Future Shop, [2001] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2741.jpg)