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Interview with Bill Gruenthal

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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,…

1 document 1 audio

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

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Audio Tracks

Interview with Bill Gruenthal, [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023

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In the shadow by the sea : recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c2004

Call Number: 971.133 PRI Copy 2

1 digital book

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0969282885

Call Number: 971.133 PRI Copy 2

Contributor: Wolf, Jim; Pride, Harry, 1925-

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: City of Burnaby

Publication Date: c2004

Physical Description: 246 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--History; Industries--British Columbia--Burnaby--History; Barnet Marine Park--Burnaby, B.C.

Geographic Access: Barnet Road; Burrard Inlet

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246) and index.; "edited by Harry Pride and Jim Wolf"; Copy 2 of 2

Digital Books

Jolly friends

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: n. d.

Call Number: 398.8 GRA

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV980.29.8

Call Number: 398.8 GRA

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Graham and Matlack

Publication Date: n. d.

Series: Domestic animals series

Physical Description: 1 vol. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Inscription: "To Evelyn ______ On the 9th Birthday July 11, 1914" [handwritten in blue ink and a second time in blue crayon on title page] "New York" [handwritten in orange crayon on title page] pictures coloured and notes throughout book

Library Subject (LOC): Nursery rhymes; Children's songs

Key of heaven : a manual of prayers and instructions for Catholics

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1905

Call Number: 282 JOH

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV994.14.4

Call Number: 282 JOH

Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.

Publisher: John Baptist Steinbrener

Publication Date: 1905

Physical Description: 476, (unpaged), 192 p. : ill ; 9 cm.

Inscription: "Ultan Byrne, In Memory of First Holy Communion, June 18th 1911" -- handwritten in ink on the first page "Peter Ultan, 28th May 1939. In Memory of First Holy Communion" -- handwritten in ink on the first page

Library Subject (LOC): Religion; Religious education; Liturgics

Subjects: Religions; Religions - Christianity

Names: Byrne, Ultan Patrick "Pat"

Notes: "Imprimatur: John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York" -- title page verso.; Key of heave (276 p.) -- First communion day (unpaged) -- Epistles and Gospels (192 p.); Printed in Austria.; Includes index.

Maxa's children

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901

Publication Date: c1926

Call Number: 823 SPY

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV005.42.2

Call Number: 823 SPY

Author: Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901

Contributor: Brundage, Frances, 1854-1937; Coumbe, Clement W.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Saalfield

Publication Date: c1926

Physical Description: 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Inscription: Maxa's Children / Johanna Spyri author of Heidi / The Salfield Publishing Company / Akron, Ohio New York

Library Subject (LOC): Fiction--20th century

Notes: "Translated by Clement W. Coumbe" --Title page.; "Illustrated by Frances Brundage" --Title page.

The mode in furs : a historical survey with 680 illustrations

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Wilcox, R. Turner (Ruth Turner), 1888-1970

Publication Date: 2010

Call Number: 391.009 WIL

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9780486478722; 0486478726

Call Number: 391.009 WIL

Author: Wilcox, R. Turner (Ruth Turner), 1888-1970

Place of Publication: Mineola, New York

Publisher: Dover

Publication Date: 2010

Physical Description: xi, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Fur--History; Clothing and dress

Notes: "This Dover ed. is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1951, with the title The mode of furs : the history of furred costume of the world from the earliest times to the present."; Includes bibliographical references; Author's full name and dates: Wilcox, R. Turner (Ruth Turner), 1888-1970

Old-fashioned ribbon art : ideas and designs for accessories and decorations

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Ribbon Art Pub. Co.

Publication Date: 1986

Call Number: 746 RIB

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Textual Record

ISBN: 0486251748

Call Number: 746 RIB

Author: Ribbon Art Pub. Co.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Published through the cooperation of the Center for the History of American Needlework by Dover Publications

Publication Date: 1986

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Ribbon work

Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Ribbon art. New York : Ribbon Art Pub. Co.

Pioneer tales of Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c1987

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

1 image 1 digital book

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 096928280x

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

Contributor: Sone, Michael

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: Corporation of the District of Burnaby

Publication Date: c1987

Physical Description: 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Inscription: "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page

Library Subject (LOC): Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby; Frontier and pioneer life; Biography

Object History: Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.