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![Tennis camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3252-1.jpg?width=280)
Tennis camp
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98174
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified children and their parents playing tennis at a tennis camp.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3252
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified children and their parents playing tennis at a tennis camp.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a July 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Tennis camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3252-1.jpg)
![Hockey game, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3253-1.jpg?width=280)
Hockey game
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98175
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified players in action during a youth hockey game between Vancouver and Mission.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3253
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified players in action during a youth hockey game between Vancouver and Mission.
- Subjects
- Sports - Ice Hockey
- Persons - Children
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Collected by editorial for use in a July 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Hockey game, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3253-1.jpg)
Interview with Cice Brown, May 13, 2005 - Track 6
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4481
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1930-1949 (interview content), interviewed May 10, 2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:04:54 min)
- Scope and Content
- Track 6: This portion of the recording pertains to toys, continued from Track 5, living arrangements, and lifestyle choices. Cice continues to recall her favourite early childhood toy, and her bicycle, which she received as a teenager. She discusses how her parents made choices according to their f…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Growing Up in Burnaby subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:04:54 min)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Tom Gooden Interviewee: Cice Brown Date of Interview: May 13, 2005 Total Number of Tracks: 7 Total length of all Tracks: 0:40:19
- Scope and Content
- Track 6: This portion of the recording pertains to toys, continued from Track 5, living arrangements, and lifestyle choices. Cice continues to recall her favourite early childhood toy, and her bicycle, which she received as a teenager. She discusses how her parents made choices according to their financial situation. Cice talks about her family installing a toilet, and she describes how the money saved for a bathtub was spent purchasing a piano instead.
- History
- Recording of an interview with Cice Brown, interviewed by Tom Gooden on May 13 2005. This recording was completed for an exhibit, Growing Up in Burnaby, for the Burnaby Village Museum. Major themes discussed are growing up in Burnaby in the 1930s and 40s.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Toys
- Sports - Cycling
- Persons - Children
- Names
- Brown, Cice Chandler
- Accession Code
- BV017.45.3
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1930-1949 (interview content), interviewed May 10, 2005
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
Audio Tracks
Interview with Cice Brown, May 13, 2005 - Track 6, 1930-1949 (interview content), interviewed May 10, 2005
Interview with Cice Brown, May 13, 2005 - Track 6, 1930-1949 (interview content), interviewed May 10, 2005
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2017_0045_0003_006.mp3![Soccer camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3322.jpg?width=280)
Soccer camp
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98255
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified child bouncing a soccer ball off their knee at a soccer camp.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3322
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified child bouncing a soccer ball off their knee at a soccer camp.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Sports - Soccer
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Soccer camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3322.jpg)
![U11 boys' soccer game, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3354.jpg?width=280)
U11 boys' soccer game
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98344
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two unidentified players in action during a U11 boys' soccer game between the Scorpions and the Predators at Riverway Park.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3354
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two unidentified players in action during a U11 boys' soccer game between the Scorpions and the Predators at Riverway Park.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Sports - Soccer
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an October 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "A Scorpions' defender (dark jersey) tries to check the ball away from his Predators' opponent in boys' U-11 soccer at Riverway Park."
- Geographic Access
- Riverway Sports Complex
- Marine Drive
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Big Bend Area
Images
![U11 boys' soccer game, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3354.jpg)
![Young archer, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3222.jpg?width=280)
Young archer
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98144
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a child practicing archery.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3222
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a child practicing archery.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a June 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Young archer, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3222.jpg)
![Canada quiz winners, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3210.jpg?width=280)
Canada quiz winners
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98131
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children from Lakeview Elementary, reading books about Canada and standing in front of another version of a Canada flag, after winning the NewsLeader's "Canada Challenge."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3210
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children from Lakeview Elementary, reading books about Canada and standing in front of another version of a Canada flag, after winning the NewsLeader's "Canada Challenge."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a June 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Canada quiz winners, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3210.jpg)
![Children and seniors, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3180.jpg?width=280)
Children and seniors
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98100
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children from Douglas Road Elementary School visiting senior citizens at Dania Home.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3180
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children from Douglas Road Elementary School visiting senior citizens at Dania Home.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Persons - Seniors
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Geographic Access
- Norland Avenue
- Street Address
- 4279 Norland Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
Images
![Children and seniors, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3180.jpg)
![Children jumping rope, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3140.jpg?width=280)
Children jumping rope
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98060
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children jumping rope in a school gymnasium, with other students looking on.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3140
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children jumping rope in a school gymnasium, with other students looking on.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a March 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Children jumping rope, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3140.jpg)
![Hats Off Day, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3200-1.jpg?width=280)
Hats Off Day
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98121
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 9 photographs (tiff) : b&w and col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the annual Hats Off Day event and parade on Hastings Street in Burnaby Heights. Photographs depict members of the crowd, performers in the parade, and a barbecue on the sidewalk.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 9 photographs (tiff) : b&w and col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3200
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the annual Hats Off Day event and parade on Hastings Street in Burnaby Heights. Photographs depict members of the crowd, performers in the parade, and a barbecue on the sidewalk.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a June 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Geographic Access
- Hastings Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
![Hats Off Day, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3200-1.jpg)
Interview with Ken Yip May 9, 2005 - Track 3
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4533
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:06:07 min)
- Scope and Content
- Track 3: This portion of the recording continues with Ken’s band activities, and then pertains to the games Ken played with his brother and friends. Ken discusses how the school band’s repertoire and performances were designed to complement the school’s events throughout the year. He describes the …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Growing Up in Burnaby subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (mp3) (0:06:07 min)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Tom Gooden Interviewee: Ken Yip Date of interview: May 9, 2005 Total Number of Tracks: 5 Total length of all Tracks: 0:62:00
- Scope and Content
- Track 3: This portion of the recording continues with Ken’s band activities, and then pertains to the games Ken played with his brother and friends. Ken discusses how the school band’s repertoire and performances were designed to complement the school’s events throughout the year. He describes the concert the band was invited to play on the lawn of Ceperley House on their return from Expo 67. Ken recalls the games he and his brother played, and the two neighbor boys they played with. He describes playing on the North American Peat property adjacent to theirs, in the peat trenches and in the bush. He talks of roaming as far as New Westminster and the Fraser River.
- History
- Recording of an interview with Ken Yip recording by Tom Gooden on May 9, 2005. This recording was completed for an exhibit, Growing Up in Burnaby, for the Burnaby Village Museum. Major themes discussed are growing up in Burnaby in the 1950s and 60s.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Names
- Yip, Ken
- Accession Code
- BV017.45.5
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
Audio Tracks
Interview with Ken Yip May 9, 2005 - Track 3, 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005
Interview with Ken Yip May 9, 2005 - Track 3, 1950s & 1960s (interview content), interviewed May 9, 2005
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2017_0045_0005_003.mp3![Jimmy Chow with his son and daughter in Hawaii, [1990] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0021_0072_001.jpg?width=280)
Jimmy Chow with his son and daughter in Hawaii
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19227
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1990]
- 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 with his son, Ryan Chow and daughter, Marja Chow in Honolulu, Hawaii after Jimmy finished working in Tahiti on the film "And the Sea Will Tell". Jimmy is holding his daughter, Marja in his arms while she's asleep and Ryan is standing in front. Marja is wearing a flower in …
- 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 with his son, Ryan Chow and daughter, Marja Chow in Honolulu, Hawaii after Jimmy finished working in Tahiti on the film "And the Sea Will Tell". Jimmy is holding his daughter, Marja in his arms while she's asleep and Ryan is standing in front. Marja is wearing a flower in her hair and a lei around her neck. The film was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and released in 1991.
- Names
- Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"
- Accession Code
- BV022.21.72
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1990]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-03-07
- 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 his son and daughter in Hawaii, [1990] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0021_0072_001.jpg)
![Millennium Fair at Buckingham Elementary School, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3169.jpg?width=280)
Millennium Fair at Buckingham Elementary School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98089
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Buckingham Elementary School students dressed up as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson with a satellite phone at the school's Millennium Fair.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3169
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Buckingham Elementary School students dressed up as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson with a satellite phone at the school's Millennium Fair.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: ""Alexander Graham Bell," Clement Luah, 12, a Grade 7 student at Buckingham Elementary, places a call on his satellite phone to his assistant, "Thomas Watson," Brock Fabbro, 11, at the school's Millennium Fair. Students dressed up as historical figures and created exhibits showing how they changed the world in the last 1000 years."
- Geographic Access
- Buckingham Avenue
- Street Address
- 6066 Buckingham Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
Images
![Millennium Fair at Buckingham Elementary School, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3169.jpg)
![Parent and child, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3191.jpg?width=280)
Parent and child
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98112
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified parent kissing their baby on the forehead.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3191
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified parent kissing their baby on the forehead.
- Subjects
- Persons - Families
- Persons - Children
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Parent and child, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3191.jpg)
![Russian family, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3242.jpg?width=280)
Russian family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98164
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified Russian family with two children, sitting in a room full of books and reading a letter.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3242
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified Russian family with two children, sitting in a room full of books and reading a letter.
- Subjects
- Persons - Families
- Persons - Children
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a June 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Russian family, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3242.jpg)
![Stoney Creek student with a pumpkin, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3365.jpg?width=280)
Stoney Creek student with a pumpkin
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98355
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Stoney Creek Elementary School student Michael Cao holding a pumpkin and wearing a backpack while standing in the field of the Laity Pumpkin Farm in Maple Ridge.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3365
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Stoney Creek Elementary School student Michael Cao holding a pumpkin and wearing a backpack while standing in the field of the Laity Pumpkin Farm in Maple Ridge.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Ray, Steve
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an October 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Michael Cao from Stoney Creek Elementary carries his pumpkin across the field at the Laity pumpkin farm in Maple Ridge on Thursday morning."
Images
![Stoney Creek student with a pumpkin, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3365.jpg)
![Walking school bus, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3358.jpg?width=280)
Walking school bus
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98348
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children walking in a large group down a sidewalk as part of a "walking school bus." Some of the children are pulling a wagon made to look like a yellow school bus.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3358
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of unidentified children walking in a large group down a sidewalk as part of a "walking school bus." Some of the children are pulling a wagon made to look like a yellow school bus.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in an October 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Walking school bus, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3358.jpg)
Interview with "The Bollywood Boyz", Harvinder Sihra and Gurvinder Sihra
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19608
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1970-2023] (interview content), interviewed 8 Jul. 2023
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (wav) (84 min., 14 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (62 min., 3 sec.)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with "The Bollywood Boyz", Harvinder Sihra and Gurvinder Sihra conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Rajdeep. 00:00:00 – 00:05:26 Gurvinder “Gurv” Sihra and brother Harvinder “Harv’ Sihra introduce themselves, providing details on …
- 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) (84 min., 14 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (62 min., 3 sec.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Rajdeep Interviewees: "The Bollywood Boyz", Harvinder Sihra and Gurvinder Sihra Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: July 8, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 2 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:02:03 min Digital master recordings (wav) were recorded onto two separate audio tracks, edited and merged together and converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby Photograph credit: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with "The Bollywood Boyz", Harvinder Sihra and Gurvinder Sihra conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Rajdeep. 00:00:00 – 00:05:26 Gurvinder “Gurv” Sihra and brother Harvinder “Harv’ Sihra introduce themselves, providing details on where they were born and grew up (in Burnaby), names of their parents and provide details on their family history. They describe how their grandparents and other relatives continued to live in Punjab after their father and mother immigrated to Canada in the 1970’s, recall the reasons their parents decided to immigrate and details of their lives before and after arriving in Canada. 00:05:27 – 00:06:46 Gurvinder and Harvinder describe some of their experiences travelling through Vancouver airport and compare their experiences with their mother’s own experiences. Gurvinder and Harvinder describe the layout of the airport and how customs and immigration has changed over time. 00:06:47 – 00:09:21 Gurvinder and Harvinder provide details about their mother, Parveen Sihra. They share information regarding her education in India and how she was unable to get work related to her degree in biology after immigrating to Canada. They convey how she worked in the Burnaby City Hall cafeteria in the 1990’s and how she worked part time in order to take care of her children. They share how their parents were proud Canadians participating in events inside and outside the South Asian community and were both fluent in English but often spoke Punjabi at home. 00:09:22 – 00:16:06 Gurvinder and Harvinder recall their childhood experiences growing up in Burnaby. They talk about the sports that they were involved with including hockey and Taekwondo, family vacations spent travelling to India and their experiences attending Marlborough Elementary School and Moscrop Secondary School.They describe how they first became interested in watching wrestling and trying it out on their own in their family home. Gurvinder and Harvinder recall their own experiences of discrimination while growing up and playing sports. 00:16:07 – 00:27:37 Gurvinder and Harvinder reflect and recall events that lead them to their dream of becoming professional wrestlers. They talk about pivotal events including attending their first live wresting event at GM Place with their father in 1996, beginning their training in Calgary in 2004, travelling across the country to participate in minor wrestling events, wrestling in Rogers Arena in 2017 and 2020 and getting their first call to join WWE. They talk about the support that they’ve had along the way to getting them where they are today and comment on why they want to be wrestlers in the WWE. 00:27:38 – 00:29:25 Gurvinder and Harvinder provide background information on their various wrestling personas and names in the world of professional wrestling including the Singh Brothers and the Bollywood Boyz. 00:29:26 – 00:38:43 Gurvinder and Harvinder talk about their experiences wrestling in India and the support and expectations of family members in becoming successful. Gurvinder and Harvinder recall and reflect on the experience of being fired from the WWE when cutbacks were made during the COVID pandemic. 00:38:44 – 00:42:53 Gurvinder and Harvinder describe what a day in their lives looks like now. They talk about how they’re still very passionate and focused on their wrestling careers and describe their experiences of having support and enthusiasm from fans and their parents. They talk about travelling across the country to particpate in different wrestling events. 00:42:54 – 00:47:18 Gurvinder and Harvinder talk about their training regimen including exercise and diet and describe areas in Burnaby where they like to train in gyms and the outdoors. 00:47:19 – 00:49:49 Gurvinder and Harvinder talk about neighbourhoods in Burnaby including Metrotown and Deer Lake and how they’ve seen them change over the years. 00:49:50 – 00:54:27 Gurvinder and Harvinder talk about their highest and lowest points in their wrestling careers, highlighting specific events. They talk about the physical stamina it takes for wrestling and compare their sport with the sport of Kabaddi (a contact team sport between two teams originating in India). 00:54:28 – 00:59:01 Gurvinder and Harvinder reflect on what toughness means to them, and what keeps them motivated to do what they do. 00:59:02 – 01:01:31 Gurvinder and Harvinder impart their words of wisdom to younger kids in chasing their passions and dreams and talk about their favourite Bollywood films and actors.
- History
- Interviewees' biographies: The Bollywood Boyz are a Canadian professional wrestling tag team composed of brothers Gurvinder "Gurv" Sihra (born in 1984) and Harvinder "Harv" Sihra (born in 1987). The pair are best known for their time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where Gurvinder and Harvinder performed under the ring names Sunil Singh and Samir Singh. They were both born and raised in Burnaby by their parents Harjeet and Parveen Sihra and attended Moscrop Secondary School. Gurvinder graduated from Douglas College where he studied criminology and has worked in loss prevention and has a third degree black belt in Taekwondo. Harvinder attended Douglas College with studies in history and has worked as a model and an actor. Both Gurvinder and Harvinder Sihra are Sikhs. Interviewer biography: Rajdeep was born and raised in the Lower Mainland and is of Punjabi (South Asian) descent. She has an Associate of Arts degree in Asian Studies from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She is a student in the Restoration of Natural Systems program at the University of Victoria. Rajdeep works at Simon Fraser University as a Program Assistant and as a researcher with the City of Burnaby. At Burnaby Village Museum, Rajdeep contributed to the exhibit “Truths Not Often Told: Being South Asian in Burnaby”.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Education
- Migration
- Pandemics - COVID-19
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Religions - Sikhism
- Social Issues
- Social Issues - Discrimination
- Social Issues - Racism
- Sports
- Sports - Martial Arts
- Sports - Wrestling
- Sports - Ice Hockey
- Travel
- Names
- The Bollywood Boyz
- Sihra, Guvinder "Gurv"
- Sihra, Harvinder "Harv"
- Sihra, Harjeet
- Sihra, Parveen
- World Wrestling Entertainment "WWE"
- Moscrop Secondary School
- Marlborough Elementary School
- Metrotown
- Responsibility
- Rajdeep
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake Park
- Accession Code
- BV023.16.12
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1970-2023] (interview content), interviewed 8 Jul. 2023
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Photographer
- World Wrestling Entertainment "WWE"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Transcription available upon request - contact Burnaby Village Museum
Images
Audio Tracks
Interview with
![Art camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3318.jpg?width=280)
Art camp
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98251
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified child painting a structure at an art camp.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3318
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified child painting a structure at an art camp.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Crafts
- Arts
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Art camp, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3318.jpg)
![Big Brothers, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3336.jpg?width=280)
Big Brothers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98269
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified adult and child, who are participants in the Big Brothers program, preparing a soap box race car for the Big Brothers Soap Box Derby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3336
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified adult and child, who are participants in the Big Brothers program, preparing a soap box race car for the Big Brothers Soap Box Derby.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
![Big Brothers, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3336.jpg)