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Interview with Norman Dowad

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (wav) (61 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (61 min., 37 sec.)

Scope and Content: Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Norman Dowad conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on August 14, 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:14:38 Norm shares biographical information about himself and background information on the Dowad family. Norm conveys information …

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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: 1 sound recording (wav) (61 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (61 min., 37 sec.)

Material Details: Interviewer: Eric Damer Interviewee: Norman Dowad Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: August 14, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:14:37 Digital master recording (wav) was converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby

Scope and Content: Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Norman Dowad conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on August 14, 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:14:38 Norm shares biographical information about himself and background information on the Dowad family. Norm conveys information about his grandfather Samuel Dowad's immigration to Canada and his father Wilfred Dowad's military service and successes as a property developer. 00:14:39 – 00:17:26 Norm provides background information on his mother’s side of the family. 00:17:27 – 00:31:36 Norm talks about his childhood, growing up in the Deer Lake neighbourhood, his early education in Burnaby and sports that he played. 00:31:37 – 00:39:59 Norm talks about his educational experiences attending Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall law school and information regarding his law career. 00:40:00 – 00:45:03 Norm reflects on his childhood growing up in Burnaby and on his experiences and relationships as a student and in his career as a lawyer. 00:45:04 – 01:01:37 Norm talks about his siblings and shares information about family property development projects as well as career and business successes. In closing he talks about research that he’s done through Archives Canada on his grandfather Sam Dowad and father Wilfred Dowad.

History: Interviewee biography: Normam Dowad was born and rasied in Burnaby. Norm graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary School, Simon Fraser University for one year, and obtained his law degree from York University. Norman began practicing law in 1974 years and has his own law practice that he operates out of Vancouver as of 2023. Interviewer biography: Eric Damer is a Burnaby Village Museum Interpreter, Museum Registrar, Researcher and Blacksmith. Eric pounded hot steel for the first time in 1977 in junior high. Fifteen years later, he joined Burnaby Village Museum where he has smithed for three decades. He also provides historical research for museum exhibits and special projects. Outside the museum, Eric is a social historian with a special interest in educational history.

Creator: Burnaby Village Museum

Subjects: Agriculture - Farms; Education; Persons - South Asian Canadians; Migration; Sports; Sports - Football; Wars - World War, 1939-1945

Names: Dowad, Norman W. "Norm"; Dowad, Samuel Esper "Sam"; Dowad, Wilfred "Wilf"; Dowad, Naomi "Mamie" David; Dowad, Martha Elias Shaheen; Dowad, Kathleen "Kay"; Rideout, Dr. John Anthony; Burnaby Central Secondary School; Douglas Road School; W. Dowad Limited

Responsibility: Damer, Eric

Geographic Access: Buckingham Avenue; Deer Lake

Street Address: 5533 Buckingham Avenue

Accession Code: BV023.16.16

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023

Media Type: Sound Recording

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Notes: Title based on contents of item; Transcription available

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Interview with Norman Dowad, [1890-2023] (interview content), interviewed 14 Aug. 2023

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2023_0016_0016_002.mp3

1892 Regular Council Minutes

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Meeting Date: 1892

Format: Council - Regular Council Minutes

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

1 document

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Meeting Date: 1892

Format: Council - Regular Council Minutes

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

Documents

1892 Meeting Minutes

1893 Regular Council Minutes

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilminutes80886

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Meeting Date: 1893

Format: Council - Regular Council Minutes

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

1 document

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Meeting Date: 1893

Format: Council - Regular Council Minutes

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

Documents

1893 Meeting Minutes

Florence Hart Godwin photograph album

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Flore…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Florence Hart for Christmas in 1910, by her grandmother Jane Chapman (nee Isbell) and her Aunt Felicia Chapman. Album contains photographs of the Alice and Frederick J. Hart and Chapman families, including childhood photographs of the five Hart children, Kingsley, Florence, Fredricka, Edwyna and Jack; the Hart family at their home in New Westminster and at "Avalon" their summer residence and home on Deer Lake.

Names: Godwin, Florence Hart

Accession Code: HV976.168.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-24

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph album; 29 b&w copy prints accompanying; Item level descriptions available per album page

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Alice Hart photograph album

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (31 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Alice Hart. Inscription inside of front cover reads "To dearest Alice from father 30th March 1906". The album is filled with photographs of the Hart family along with friends and relations. The p…

1 image 1 document

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (31 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Alice Hart. Inscription inside of front cover reads "To dearest Alice from father 30th March 1906". The album is filled with photographs of the Hart family along with friends and relations. The photographs range between 1893 and 1923 and document time spent at residences in New Westminster, Deer Lake and Kerrisdale along with family vacations at Mayne Island, Stanely Park and Pitt Lake.

Names: Godwin, Florence Hart; Hart Family; Hart, Alice Chapman

Accession Code: HV976.169.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Scan Date: 10/27/2020

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph album; Inscription on first page of album reads: "To dearest Alice / from father / 30th March, 1906”.; 31 b&w copy prints accompanying; Album pages are described at item level