"Oakalla Prison Farm" found 17 records

Object History: Came in with Oakalla Prison records and artifacts in 1991. Filmstrip was utilized by staff and inmates of Oakalla. Digitized by BVM into preservation and accessible formats in 2020.

Notes: Part Two of three instructional filmstrips designed for use in the training of volunteer projectionists. Part Two provides the basics on "The Movement of Film" and "Threading Diagrams". "The 16mm Film Projector - Part Two" is one in a series: "Filmstrips and the Teacher"; "The Filmstrip Projector"; "The 16mm Film Projector" (3 filmstrips - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Accompanying audio commentary is missing.

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The 16 mm Film Projector - Part Three

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7538

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date: c1961

1 image 1 document

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Photograph

Accession Code: BV016.7.12

Author: National Film Board of Canada

Contributor: Heeney, Wes; Hopkins, D.; Donovan, G.L.; Simpkins , J.; Moller, Hans

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date: c1961

Physical Description: 45 photographs : filmstrip ; cellulose aacetate, col. pos.

Library Subject (LOC): Documentary Films; Filmstrips; Motion picture projectors

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Object History: Came in with Oakalla Prison records and artifacts in 1991. Filmstrip was utilized by staff and inmates of Oakalla. Digitized by BVM into preservation and accessible formats in 2020.

Notes: Part three of three instructional filmstrips designed for use in the training of volunteer projectionists. Part Three describes "The Projectionist's Job" and "Some Common Troubles and Immediate Action". "The 16 mm Film Projector - Part Three" is one in a series: "Filmstrips and the Teacher"; "The Filmstrip Projector"; "The 16mm Film Projector" (3 filmstrips - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Audio commentary and manual are missing.

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(a) Oakalla Prison Farm (b) Major North-South Road around West Side of Deer Lake (c) Deer Lake Park

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport31850

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 26186

Meeting Date: 1-Jun-1970

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 36

Item No.: 9

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 26186

Meeting Date: 1-Jun-1970

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 36

Item No.: 9

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

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Report 26186

1-Jun-1970 Meeting Minutes

Application for Purchase Portions of DL 93 (property South of Oakalla Prison Farm)

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport45252

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 45550

Meeting Date: 20-Dec-1954

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: 45550

Meeting Date: 20-Dec-1954

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

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Report 45550

20-Dec-1954 Meeting Minutes

Application from J. Millman, Warden at Oakalla Prison Farm, Requesting Improvements to Royal Oak Avenue from Kingsway to the Prison

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport53432

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 69516

Meeting Date: 30-Jul-1945

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: 69516

Meeting Date: 30-Jul-1945

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

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Report 69516

30-Jul-1945 Meeting Minutes

Application from the Warden of Oakalla Prison Farm to Cut Timber and Wood on Lots 57 to 66, DL 83

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport53969

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 70055

Meeting Date: 28-Dec-1944

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: 70055

Meeting Date: 28-Dec-1944

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

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Report 70055

28-Dec-1944 Meeting Minutes

Canada's Freedoms

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7536

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Canadian Government Exhibition Commisssion

Publication Date: c1958

1 image 1 document

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Photograph

Accession Code: BV016.7.10

Author: Canadian Government Exhibition Commisssion

Contributor: Lunn, John; Charbonneau, G.; Donoahue, Jim; Moller, Hans

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date: c1958

Physical Description: 24 photographs : filmstrip ; cellulose aacetate, col. pos.

Library Subject (LOC): Documentary Films; Filmstrips; Civil rights--Canada

Subjects: Rights - Human Rights

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Object History: Came in with Oakalla Prison records and artifacts in 1991. Filmstrip was utilized by staff and inmates of Oakalla. Digitized by BVM into preservation and accessible formats in 2020.

Notes: Educational filmstrip with text and illustrations providing a basic explanation on "Canada's Freedoms" from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms including Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Creative Expression, Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Occupation, Freedom of Association and Freedom of Political Choice.

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Conditions at Oakalla Prison Farm

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport42303

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 38176

Meeting Date: 24-Mar-1958

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: 38176

Meeting Date: 24-Mar-1958

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 38176

24-Mar-1958 Meeting Minutes

Conference re: Deer Lake and Oakalla Prison Farm

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport54947

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71052

Meeting Date: 12-Sep-1938

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: 71052

Meeting Date: 12-Sep-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71052

12-Sep-1938 Meeting Minutes

The Filmstrip Projector

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7537

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date: c[1969]

1 image 1 document

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Photograph

Accession Code: BV016.7.11

Author: National Film Board of Canada

Contributor: Heeney, Wes; Hopkins, D.; Licastro, Joseph; Moller, Hans

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date: c[1969]

Physical Description: 41 photographs : filmstrip ; cellulose aacetate, col. pos.

Library Subject (LOC): Documentary Films; Filmstrips; Filmstrip projectors

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Object History: Came in with Oakalla Prison records and artifacts in 1991. Filmstrip was utilized by staff and inmates of Oakalla. Digitized by BVM into preservation and accessible formats in 2020.

Notes: Filmstrip providing basic instructions with diagrams on how to use a filmstrip projector. "The Filmstrip Projector" is one in a series: "Filmstrips and the Teacher"; "The Filmstrip Projector"; "The 16mm Film Projector" (3 filmstrips - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).

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2016_0007_0011

History of the Oakalla Prison Farm

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport44354

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 44747

Meeting Date: 14-Nov-1955

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: 44747

Meeting Date: 14-Nov-1955

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

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Report 44747

14-Nov-1955 Meeting Minutes

Interview with Jim and Linda Champion by Eric Damer October 21, 2012 - Track 4

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory318

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1951-1969

Length: 0:11:40

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Linda and Jim Champion's memories of living so close to the Oakalla Prison Farm. They also tell stories about changes to the neighbourhood, the family horse and living "a country life."

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Linda and Jim Champion's memories of living so close to the Oakalla Prison Farm. They also tell stories about changes to the neighbourhood, the family horse and living "a country life."

Date Range: 1951-1969

Length: 0:11:40

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm

Subjects: Animals - Horses

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood); Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Damer, Eric

Interview Date: October 21, 2012

Scope and Content: Recording is an interview with Jim Champion and his daughter Linda Champion conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, October 21, 2012. Major themes discussed are: raising a family in Burnaby as well as the experience of growing up in the area as it developed from farmland to suburbia.

Biographical Notes: Although Jim Champion was born in Burnaby in 1924, he grew up and attended school in White Rock. After serving in the navy during the war, Jim Champion came back to Vancouver, met and married Ethel (Danielson) Champion and began working for the Vancouver Fire Department. Jim and Ethel Champion's eldest daughter, Linda Champion, was born in 1948. In 1949, the Champions bought 1.8 undeveloped acres on Gilpin Street and began to build. By the time their house was built, they had become a family of six, so Jim and Ethel worked to built a larger house adjacent to the first. The Champions had chickens and a horse as their neighbourhood changed from farmland to suburbia. Jim has retired from the Vancouver Fire Department and his daughter Linda Champion is currently a City of Burnaby employee.

Total Tracks: 4

Total Length: 0:41:09

Interviewee Name: Champion, Jim; Champion, Linda

Interview Location: Burnaby Village Museum

Interviewer Bio: Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History Project series

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Audio Tracks

Track four of recording of interview with Jim and Linda Champion

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS171-007/MSS171-007_Track_4.mp3

Interview with Mayor Derek Corrigan by Kathy Bossort January 28, 2016 - Track 1

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory679

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1965-1980

Length: 0:09:07

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Mayor Corrigan talking about his education at UBC as an undergraduate majoring in philosophy and political science and later as a law student, and his early work experience as a prison guard at Oakalla Prison and later articling for Jim Lorimer. He tells about…

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Mayor Corrigan talking about his education at UBC as an undergraduate majoring in philosophy and political science and later as a law student, and his early work experience as a prison guard at Oakalla Prison and later articling for Jim Lorimer. He tells about how these formative events impacted his life. He also talks about moving to Burnaby in 1977, originally to the Stoney Creek area and then to the South Slope area.

Date Range: 1965-1980

Length: 0:09:07

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm; Lorimer, James G "Jim"

Subjects: Education; Occupations

Planning Study Area: Lyndhurst Area; Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Bossort, Kathy

Interview Date: January 28, 2016

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Mayor Derek Corrigan conducted by Kathy Bossort. Derek Corrigan was one of 23 participants interviewed as part of the Community Heritage Commission’s Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project. The interview is mainly about Mayor Corrigan talking about the history and value of protecting the environment and green space in Burnaby, and the different positions held by the City and SFU about land use and control on Burnaby Mountain between 1964 and 1995. He talks about the increasing awareness that a solution needed to be found that gave certainty to the protection of the conservation area on Burnaby Mountain. Mayor Corrigan also talks about what conservation means to him, the role that the Centennial Pavilion area plays on Burnaby Mountain, and the future for the urban forest on Burnaby Mountain. Other topics include his childhood, education, formative events in his life, and his career in politics.

Biographical Notes: Derek Corrigan was born and grew up in Vancouver. He attended a number of elementary schools in East Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Elementary School (Gr. 4-7) and Sir Charles Tupper High School. He attended UBC, majoring in philosophy and political science, and after travel in Europe, successfully applied to enter law school without completing his bachelors degree. He graduated in 1977, articled with Jim Lorimer in Burnaby and was called to the bar in 1978. In 1977 Derek Corrigan and his wife Kathy moved to Burnaby, first to the Stoney Creek neighborhood and then to a home on the South Slope where they raised their family of four children. Derek Corrigan first ran for Burnaby Council in 1979 with the Burnaby Citizens Association, and after three more tries was elected to council in 1987. He has served Burnaby for 28 years, first as a councillor and then as mayor since 2002. During his career he has served on many committees at the local, regional and national levels.

Total Tracks: 9

Total Length: 1:31:24

Interviewee Name: Corrigan, Derek

Interview Location: Mayor’s office at Burnaby City Hall

Interviewer Bio: Kathy Bossort is a retired archivist living in Ladner, BC. She worked at the Delta Museum and Archives after graduating from SLAIS (UBC) in 2001 with Masters degrees in library science and archival studies. Kathy grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and, prior to this career change, she lived in the West Kootenays, earning her living as a cook for BC tourist lodges and work camps. She continues to be interested in oral histories as a way to fill the gaps in the written record and bring richer meaning to history.