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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 10
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory525
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1989-1990
- Length
- 00:06:41
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics
- Date Range
- 1989-1990
- Length
- 00:06:41
- Subjects
- Celebrations - Centennial
- Ceremonial Artifacts - Totem Poles
- Woodworking Tools and Equipment
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- 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
- 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 ten of interview with Toki Miyashita
Track ten of interview with Toki Miyashita
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_10.mp3Overviews 1 to 4
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88214
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988 (date of original) -[199-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of four typewritten draft histories, titled "Overview One", " Overview Two", "Overview Three" and "Overview Four" by Mary Forsyth and a Vancouver Sun newspaper clipping copy of an article titled "Sites of villages fill gaps in native lore", October 5, 1988. The first overview covers t…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988 (date of original) -[199-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS185-022
- Access Restriction
- Open access
- Accession Number
- 2014-27
- Scope and Content
- File consists of four typewritten draft histories, titled "Overview One", " Overview Two", "Overview Three" and "Overview Four" by Mary Forsyth and a Vancouver Sun newspaper clipping copy of an article titled "Sites of villages fill gaps in native lore", October 5, 1988. The first overview covers the Big Bend area, the second overview covers Simon Fraser, the third overview covers Burnaby's incorporation history and the forth overview covers World War I to 1943.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title
Burnaby South Park site and Heritage Review
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88228
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988-[2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a letter to Alderman Derek Corrigan from Mary Forsyth Re: the proposed relocation of the cenotaph in Burnaby South dated July 27, 1988; an invitation for the dedication of the Burnaby South High School World War II Cenotaph; a copy of the City of Burnaby Heritage Committee Report d…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1988-[2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS185-031
- Access Restriction
- Open access
- Accession Number
- 2014-27
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a letter to Alderman Derek Corrigan from Mary Forsyth Re: the proposed relocation of the cenotaph in Burnaby South dated July 27, 1988; an invitation for the dedication of the Burnaby South High School World War II Cenotaph; a copy of the City of Burnaby Heritage Committee Report dated June 28, 1993 Re: Proposed Relocation-Burnaby South Cenotaph.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title
South Burnaby Cenotaph
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark860
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The South Burnaby Cenotaph is located in Bonsor Park at the corner of Nelson Avenue and Imperial Street. The cenotaph commemorates those lost in the First World War, Second World War and the Korean War.
- Associated Dates
- 1988
- Other Names
- Bonsor Park Cenotaph
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Bonsor Park Cenotaph
- Geographic Access
- Nelson Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1988
- Description
- The South Burnaby Cenotaph is located in Bonsor Park at the corner of Nelson Avenue and Imperial Street. The cenotaph commemorates those lost in the First World War, Second World War and the Korean War.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D. No. 027-719-375
- Boundaries
- The property (Bonsor Park) is comprised of a single municipally-owned property located at 6749 Nelson Avenue.
- Area
- 3570.00
- Contributing Resource
- Landscape Feature
- Structure
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Street Address
- 6749 Nelson Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Frances Fleming manuscripts series
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription18959
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1988 and [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Waplington family fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of two unpublished manuscripts created by Frances L. Fleming (nee Waplington). One is titled "The Way it Was - a very personal account of my childhood 1913-1925" ,"The true and painful history of the Waplington family on which the story of "Lizzie Lau / Wallingford" is based." and t…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Waplington family fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 3 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of two unpublished manuscripts created by Frances L. Fleming (nee Waplington). One is titled "The Way it Was - a very personal account of my childhood 1913-1925" ,"The true and painful history of the Waplington family on which the story of "Lizzie Lau / Wallingford" is based." and the other is titled "In and Out of a Cedar Shake Shack The life of a little girl from World War I to Canada's Diamond Jubilee".
- Accession Code
- BV016.46
- Date
- 1988 and [2000]
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of series
Interview with Edward Apps by Rod Fowler February 22, 1990 - Track 7
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory462
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1985-1990
- Length
- 00:04:33
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Ed Apps’ children, his wife Margaret’s involvement in lobbying to declare Burnaby a Nuclear Free Zone, and her death in 1985
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Ed Apps’ children, his wife Margaret’s involvement in lobbying to declare Burnaby a Nuclear Free Zone, and her death in 1985
- Date Range
- 1985-1990
- Length
- 00:04:33
- Subjects
- Protests and Demonstrations
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- February 22, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Edward Apps, conducted by Rod Fowler. Ed Apps 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 mainly about Ed Apps involvement in community groups, particularly his work in seniors organizations lobbying for seniors’ housing since his retirement, and views about the role of Rate Payer groups, unions and politics in the development of North and South Burnaby. He also talks about his origin in England, his war service, arrival with his wife Margaret in Burnaby in 1946, his work with the Burnaby School Board and for the local union, the location of some of the older schools, the history of his house, and briefly about his wife and children. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Edward Apps was born in 1918 in London, England, and grew up in Kent and Essex. In WWII he flew the third glider to land in Normandy on June 6th, 1944. He and his wife Margaret Hope (1915-1985) immigrated to British Columbia in 1946, joining his wife’s parents, who had immigrated earlier in 1939, in Burnaby Heights in North Burnaby. He worked for the Burnaby School Board as Foreman Painter, and served on CUPE Local 379 Executive, until his retirement in 1982. In 1948 Ed Apps bought his first lot, for $150.00, in the 4700 block on Georgia Street, building houses there and in the 4100 block before buying his present home, a ca.1900 farm building, in the same area in 1954. North Burnaby was “bush country and orchards” in the 1950s; his two sons played in the ravines; and the family used the tram system on Hastings and Boundary Road for transportation. Development of municipal services seemed slower in North than South Burnaby, and Ed Apps remembers the strong role Rate Payers groups had in creating local services and lobbying Municipal Council for provide services. After retirement Ed Apps became involved in several local and provincial seniors organizations, advocating for better housing, including serving on the Executives of the Network of Burnaby Seniors and the Council of Senior Citizens Organization, and was active in the provincial Seniors Research and Resource and CMHC Housing Committee. He also served on the Centennial Committee of Burnaby.
- Total Tracks
- 8
- Total Length
- 0:56:50
- Interviewee Name
- Apps, Ed
- 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
- 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 seven of interview with Ed Apps
Track seven of interview with Ed Apps
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-015/MSS187-015_Track_7.mp3
Jimmy Chow working on "Rainbow War"
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19206
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 15 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of property master Jimmy Chow working with set decorator, Jim Ericson (left) and director, Bob Rogers (seated) on the short film "Rainbow War". The film was created for Expo 86.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 15 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of property master Jimmy Chow working with set decorator, Jim Ericson (left) and director, Bob Rogers (seated) on the short film "Rainbow War". The film was created for Expo 86.
- Names
- Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"
- Accession Code
- BV022.21.50
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1985]
- 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
Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 8
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory523
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1984-1990
- Length
- 00:04:47
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s six years service on Burnaby’s Family Court. She talks about what the Court does and the need for better services for battered women. She also relates that when Municipal officials receive visitors from Japan she is often asked to help.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s six years service on Burnaby’s Family Court. She talks about what the Court does and the need for better services for battered women. She also relates that when Municipal officials receive visitors from Japan she is often asked to help.
- Date Range
- 1984-1990
- Length
- 00:04:47
- 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
- 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 eight of interview with Toki Miyashita
Track eight of interview with Toki Miyashita
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_8.mp3South Burnaby Garden Club fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97232
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1983-2012
- Collection/Fonds
- South Burnaby Garden Club fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 11.2 cm of textual records; 180 col. prints; 119 col. neg.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs and documents created and collected by the South Burnaby Garden Club, detailing Club activities including the Fall Fair.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1983-2012
- Collection/Fonds
- South Burnaby Garden Club fonds
- Physical Description
- 11.2 cm of textual records; 180 col. prints; 119 col. neg.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2008-17
- 2014-14
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs and documents created and collected by the South Burnaby Garden Club, detailing Club activities including the Fall Fair.
- History
- The South Burnaby Garden Club was formed in 1901 when a group of Central Park residents met to form a Farmers’ Institute. They leased 17 acres of Central Park from the Provincial Government and with the support of government grants constructed a two-story building on the property. The building was constructed in time for the first annual Fall Fair in September 1901. In 1903, the Institute amalgamated with the South Vancouver and Burnaby Agricultural Society to become the Central Park Agricultural Association & Farmers Institute. In 1907, the membership doubled to 520 members. Increasing urbanization and the First World War saw the last exhibition in 1919, and then lease on the building expired in 1921. The Society continued to meet and hold small exhibitions in rented halls under the South Burnaby Horticultural Association name. After several name changes, the association became the South Burnaby Garden Club in 1958 and continues to this day.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Photo catalogue 489
- MSS124
- MSS182
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46239
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1127
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46244
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1132
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
Interview with Edward Apps by Rod Fowler February 22, 1990 - Track 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory455
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1982-1990
- Length
- 00:02:00
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Ed Apps’ involvement in community organizations: Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) and other senior groups, Centennial Committee of Burnaby, and past union activity
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Ed Apps’ involvement in community organizations: Council of Senior Citizens Organizations (COSCO) and other senior groups, Centennial Committee of Burnaby, and past union activity
- Date Range
- 1982-1990
- Length
- 00:02:00
- Subjects
- Organizations
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- February 22, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Edward Apps, conducted by Rod Fowler. Ed Apps 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 mainly about Ed Apps involvement in community groups, particularly his work in seniors organizations lobbying for seniors’ housing since his retirement, and views about the role of Rate Payer groups, unions and politics in the development of North and South Burnaby. He also talks about his origin in England, his war service, arrival with his wife Margaret in Burnaby in 1946, his work with the Burnaby School Board and for the local union, the location of some of the older schools, the history of his house, and briefly about his wife and children. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Edward Apps was born in 1918 in London, England, and grew up in Kent and Essex. In WWII he flew the third glider to land in Normandy on June 6th, 1944. He and his wife Margaret Hope (1915-1985) immigrated to British Columbia in 1946, joining his wife’s parents, who had immigrated earlier in 1939, in Burnaby Heights in North Burnaby. He worked for the Burnaby School Board as Foreman Painter, and served on CUPE Local 379 Executive, until his retirement in 1982. In 1948 Ed Apps bought his first lot, for $150.00, in the 4700 block on Georgia Street, building houses there and in the 4100 block before buying his present home, a ca.1900 farm building, in the same area in 1954. North Burnaby was “bush country and orchards” in the 1950s; his two sons played in the ravines; and the family used the tram system on Hastings and Boundary Road for transportation. Development of municipal services seemed slower in North than South Burnaby, and Ed Apps remembers the strong role Rate Payers groups had in creating local services and lobbying Municipal Council for provide services. After retirement Ed Apps became involved in several local and provincial seniors organizations, advocating for better housing, including serving on the Executives of the Network of Burnaby Seniors and the Council of Senior Citizens Organization, and was active in the provincial Seniors Research and Resource and CMHC Housing Committee. He also served on the Centennial Committee of Burnaby.
- Total Tracks
- 8
- Total Length
- 0:56:50
- Interviewee Name
- Apps, Ed
- 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
- 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 Ed Apps
Track one of interview with Ed Apps
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-015/MSS187-015_Track_1.mp3
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46238
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 28, 1981
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 23 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 28, 1981
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 23 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1126
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Battistoni, Peter
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note on recto of photograph reads: "LILLIAN MANN"
Images
In support of Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46228
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 25, 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 22.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street, smiling as she holds up letters of support from fellow citizens in one hand, and cheques made out to her to help pay for her appeal (the Lillian Mann Defence Fund) in the other. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for owner…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 25, 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 22.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1116
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street, smiling as she holds up letters of support from fellow citizens in one hand, and cheques made out to her to help pay for her appeal (the Lillian Mann Defence Fund) in the other. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Battistoni, Peter
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46230
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1118
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46231
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1119
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46232
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1120
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Lillian Mann's property
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46233
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an excavator dumping dirt into an awaiting dump truck parked at Lillian Mann's property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Com…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 24 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1121
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an excavator dumping dirt into an awaiting dump truck parked at Lillian Mann's property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Subjects
- Construction Tools and Equipment
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Braid, Tom
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
Lillian Mann's property
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46234
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w 17 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an excavator at Lillian Mann's property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w 17 x 24 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1122
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an excavator at Lillian Mann's property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Subjects
- Construction Tools and Equipment
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Braid, Tom
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
Lillian Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46240
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 24 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street, as an excavator dumps dirt into an awaiting dump truck parked on her property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be us…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1980
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 24 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-1128
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lillian Mann standing outside her home on Cameron Street, as an excavator dumps dirt into an awaiting dump truck parked on her property. Lillian Mann was a war widow who fought for ownership of her property but the City of Burnaby eventually successfully expropriated the land to be used as part of Cameron Library and Recreation Complex.
- Subjects
- Construction Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Mann, Lillian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Braid, Tom
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cameron Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lyndhurst Area
Images
