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Bertha Shankie in garden with pets

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1940] (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bertha Shankie sitting on a bench in a garden. She is holding two cats and there is a dog sitting at her feet. The family's Barker Avenue home and yard is visible behind her.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Material Details: Handwritten text in white on back of photograph reads: "Do you know Who this [?] / Looks pretty cranky".

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bertha Shankie sitting on a bench in a garden. She is holding two cats and there is a dog sitting at her feet. The family's Barker Avenue home and yard is visible behind her.

Subjects: Animals - Cats; Animals - Dogs

Names: Shankie, Bertha Gray, 1891-1965

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV016.43.25

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1930 and 1940] (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Bertha Shankie with her two children and Betty and Tommie Watt

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Group photograph of one woman, three girls, and two boys. Bertha Gray Shankie, her daughter Janet (Shankie) Bower, and son, Thomas "Ramsay" Shankie, Betty and Tommie Watt are arranged standing in two rows under a blossoming tree beside a house. The date is in white text and appears to have been add…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Material Details: " […] 1930" written in white on front left of photograph.

Scope and Content: Group photograph of one woman, three girls, and two boys. Bertha Gray Shankie, her daughter Janet (Shankie) Bower, and son, Thomas "Ramsay" Shankie, Betty and Tommie Watt are arranged standing in two rows under a blossoming tree beside a house. The date is in white text and appears to have been added to the photograph later.

History: Janet and Ramsay Shankie were the children of Bertha and Thomas Shankie, Burnaby,who lived at 3718 Barker Avenue (after 1960-5515 Barker Avenue). Ramsey Shankie later married Ina Stanley, daughter of Frank Charles Stanley and Esther Love, daughter of Jesse and Martha Love.

Names: Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996; Shankie, Bertha Gray, 1891-1965; Bower, Janet Shankie

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.25

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 200

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Bertha Shankie with her two children and Betty and Tommie Watt, 1930 (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Clinker boat outside Shankie Family home on Barker Avenue

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription5595

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1920 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Photograph of clinker boat beside exterior of house wall with cedar shakes and windows. Framing supports are attached to the wall. Vegetation in foreground. The house could be the Shankie family home on Barker Avenue.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Photograph of clinker boat beside exterior of house wall with cedar shakes and windows. Framing supports are attached to the wall. Vegetation in foreground. The house could be the Shankie family home on Barker Avenue.

Subjects: Transportation - Boats

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.28

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1920 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Clinker boat outside Shankie Family home on Barker Avenue, [between 1920 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Interview with Norman Dowad

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19638

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 …

1 document 1 audio

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Subseries: Many Voices Project Interviews subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 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: Norm Dowad was born in Burnaby, December 1948 to parents Wilfred “Wilf” (1925-2011) and Cherry Dowad. His father, Wilfred (1925-2011) was born in Winnipeg to parents Samuel “Sam” (Salim in Arabic) Esper Dowad (1895-1969) and Martha (Shaheen) Dowad (1894-1955). Sam and Martha Dowad were both born in a province of the Ottoman Empire which is now present day Lebanon. In 1912, while trying to immigrate to Canada, several of Sam’s relatives including his mother died tragically as steerage passengers on the ill fated Titanic. In 1913, at the age of 18 years, Sam immigrated to Canada to join other family members who'd already arrived here safely. As a new immigrant in Canada, Sam worked with other Labanese immigrants in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the United States. In December 1921, Sam's wife, Martha immigrated to Canada arriving by ship in St. John, New Brunswick. Sam and Martha established their home in Winnipeg where they began to start a family. Their first two children died in infancy and son Wilfred was born in 1925 and daughter Kathleen was born in 1926. While living in Winnipeg, Sam worked as a grocer and in the 1930’s he got work as a farmer in a nearby town. In 1943, Wilf joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCVNR) and served as a gunner on merchant ships during World War II. In 1945, while Wilf was away serving, his parents, Sam and Martha moved to Burnaby. After discharge in 1945, Wilf joined his parents in Burnaby, began working at Fraser Mills and commenced his studies in construction and drafting. In 1949, with his father’s help Wilf acquired a lot next door to his parents’ home and built his first apartment block. After Martha died in 1954, Sam moved to Kelowna where he bought an orchard. Sam remarried in 1957 to Naomi “Mamie” (David) Dowad (1899-1978) who was also from a Lebanese family. Sam and Mamie lived in Kelowna until the mid 1960s when they moved to White Rock. While living in Burnaby, Wilf met and married Cherry Piggott and the couple had six children; Norm, Bruce, Michael, Kathie, Phil and Tom. In 1955, Wilfred Dowad established "W. Dowad Ltd." and over the years he was successful in developing and subdividing land to build housing and commercial developments in Burnaby, New Westminster and Vancouver. Wilf was the first president of the Burnaby Winter club and was an active member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce holding office at the local, provincial and national level. In 1970, Wilf purchased 238 acres of land bordering the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh River and relocated there the following year. While living in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Wilf became actively engaged in local business and community affairs. Wilf was later remarried to Grethe Dowad and he died in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh in 2011.Wilf's six children are the sole owners of "W.Dowad Ltd." and his daughter, Kathie Smillie is the president and CEO. While growing up in Burnaby, Norm Dowad attended Schou Street School, Douglas Road School, Kensington School and graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary School. Following graduation from high school, Norm attended Simon Fraser University for one year, travelled in Europe, attended University of British Columbia and obtained his law degree from Osgoode Hall at York University. Norman has been practicing law for 49 years and has his own law practice that he operates out of Vancouver. 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

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Janet Shankie standing against side of house

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Full length photograph of young woman, Janet Shankie Bower, standing besidde the Thomas and Bertha Shankie family home on Barker Avenue. Janet wears a plaid knee-length skirt, white blouse and waist-length cardigan. She wears pearl earrings.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Full length photograph of young woman, Janet Shankie Bower, standing besidde the Thomas and Bertha Shankie family home on Barker Avenue. Janet wears a plaid knee-length skirt, white blouse and waist-length cardigan. She wears pearl earrings.

Names: Bower, Janet Shankie

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.33

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Janet Shankie standing against side of house, [between 1940 and1950] (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Philips family in snow

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 10 Mar. 1951

Collection/Fonds: Earl and Adell Philips family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Philips family standing in the snow in the yard of their home located at 5877 Barker Avenue. Earl and Adell Philips are identified standing behind their children identified left to right as: Cory, Lorayne and Judith Philips.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Earl and Adell Philips family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the Philips family standing in the snow in the yard of their home located at 5877 Barker Avenue. Earl and Adell Philips are identified standing behind their children identified left to right as: Cory, Lorayne and Judith Philips.

Subjects: Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: Philips, Adell Greenwood; Philips, Earl Gene; Philips, Cory; Philips, Lorayne; Philips, Judith

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5877 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV022.11.6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 10 Mar. 1951

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Earl, Adell / Cory, Lorayne, Judith / Mar 10, 1951 / Barker Avenue / #80"; Note in blue ink on bottom recto of photograph reads: "March 10-1951"

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Ramsay and Janet Shankie

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1926 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Photograph of young boy, Thomas Ramsay Shankie, and his sister, Janet Shankie Bower, pictured in the garden beside the family home on Barker Avenue. Ramsay is on the left and is playing the violin.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Photograph of young boy, Thomas Ramsay Shankie, and his sister, Janet Shankie Bower, pictured in the garden beside the family home on Barker Avenue. Ramsay is on the left and is playing the violin.

Subjects: Musical Instruments

Names: Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996; Bower, Janet Shankie

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.39

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1926 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Ramsay and Janet Shankie, [between 1926 and 1930] (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Ramsay and Janet Shankie in outdoor bathtub

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 9 Aug 1931 (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ramsay and Janet Shankie in a garden, standing in a metal bathtub with a rooster standing next to them. The children are wearing bathing suits. A leafy tree and the Shankie family home on Barker Avenue is visible in the background.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Material Details: Handwritten text in white on front of photograph reads: "9th Aug 1931".

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ramsay and Janet Shankie in a garden, standing in a metal bathtub with a rooster standing next to them. The children are wearing bathing suits. A leafy tree and the Shankie family home on Barker Avenue is visible in the background.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Animals - Poultry; Recreational Activities - Swimming

Names: Bower, Janet Shankie; Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV016.43.35

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 9 Aug 1931 (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Ramsay and Janet Shankie in outdoor bathtub, 9 Aug 1931 (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Ramsay and Janet Shankie with friends

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1932] (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Group photograph of six children standing together outside the Shankie home on Barker Avenue with a blossoming tree in the background. Thomas Ramsay Shankie stands on the far left and his sister Janet Shankie stands on the far right. In between them are three smaller boys and one smaller girl.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Group photograph of six children standing together outside the Shankie home on Barker Avenue with a blossoming tree in the background. Thomas Ramsay Shankie stands on the far left and his sister Janet Shankie stands on the far right. In between them are three smaller boys and one smaller girl.

Names: Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996; Bower, Janet Shankie

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.36

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1930 and 1932] (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

Images

Ramsay and Janet Shankie with friends, [between 1930 and 1932] (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Ramsay Shankie and cat

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1934 (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Ramsay Shankie in the garden of family home on Barker Avenue. He is seated on the edge of a washtub and holding a black cat.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpg)

Material Details: "Ramsay / & Inky / 1934" written on front of picture in black ink.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Ramsay Shankie in the garden of family home on Barker Avenue. He is seated on the edge of a washtub and holding a black cat.

Names: Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV015.40.35

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1934 (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 09-Sep-18

Notes: Title based on annotations on digital file name; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Ramsay Shankie and cat, 1934 (date of original), copied [2016] thumbnail

Ramsay Shankie with violin

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: Apr. 1934 (date of original), copied [2016]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ramsay Shankie holding a violin. Ramsay is wearing a light coloured shirt, a v-neck sweater and striped trousers. The Shankie family home on Barker Avenue is visible behind.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Material Details: Handwritten text in black on front of photograph reads: "April 1934".

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ramsay Shankie holding a violin. Ramsay is wearing a light coloured shirt, a v-neck sweater and striped trousers. The Shankie family home on Barker Avenue is visible behind.

Subjects: Musical Instruments

Names: Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996

Geographic Access: Barker Avenue

Street Address: 5515 Barker Avenue

Accession Code: BV016.43.36

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: Apr. 1934 (date of original), copied [2016]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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