When Simon Fraser University opened in 1965, approximately sixteen industrial properties had been developed in the Lake City Industrial Park. In addition, significant tracts of land in the western portion had been pre-cleared and graded in anticipation of additional development, while most of the eastern half remained forested. Some of the early companies to locate in the area were Nabob Foods, Volkswagen Canada, British Columbia Television Broadcasting, Simpson Sears, and H.Y. Louie Company Limited. Both Imperial Oil and Shell Oil established petroleum storage and distribution facilities in the area. Initially a heavy industrial area, by 1979, single family neighbourhoods south of Lougheed Highway and west of Eagle Creek had been largely developed. By the mid1980's, the Burnaby 200 multi-family development along Forest Grove Drive had also been completed.
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Photograph shows Tony Parsons, the anchor man on the BCTV six o'clock evening news, in the newsroom of BCTV Television Centre on Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park.
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556-255
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Photograph shows Tony Parsons, the anchor man on the BCTV six o'clock evening news, in the newsroom of BCTV Television Centre on Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park.
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Photograph shows Tony Parsons and other members of the BCTV news staff at a line-up meeting to determine what order the enws of the day will be in on the evening show.
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556-256
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Photograph shows Tony Parsons and other members of the BCTV news staff at a line-up meeting to determine what order the enws of the day will be in on the evening show.
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Photograph shows Pirelli oil filled cable spools and car beside Broadway, behind Lake City. The cables are waiting to be installed at the BC Hyrdo site.
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556-272
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Photograph shows Pirelli oil filled cable spools and car beside Broadway, behind Lake City. The cables are waiting to be installed at the BC Hyrdo site.
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Photograph shows the Foremost Foods Limited building on Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park. The plant was opened in 1970 and supplies milk and ice cream throughout the province.
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556-260
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Photograph shows the Foremost Foods Limited building on Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park. The plant was opened in 1970 and supplies milk and ice cream throughout the province.
This portion of the interview is about Sev Morin’s description of Burnaby’s growth and business development along Kingsway and Hastings, the Lake City Industrial Park, and the purchase of property in 1958 for the Heritage Park and Art Gallery.
This portion of the interview is about Sev Morin’s description of Burnaby’s growth and business development along Kingsway and Hastings, the Lake City Industrial Park, and the purchase of property in 1958 for the Heritage Park and Art Gallery.
Date Range
1950-1990
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Sev Morin (left) of Severin's in Burnaby (formerly the Gai Paree) hosting a gala New Year's celebration, 1979. Item no. 480-712
Recording is of an interview with Severin "Sev" Morin, conducted by Rod Fowler. Sev Morin 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 Sev Morin’s banquet hall, restaurant and night club business on Kingsway, originally named the “Gai Paree Supper Club” (1947-1976) and later “Severin’s” (1976-1985) and “Diego’s” (1985-1994), its function as a Burnaby landmark, and the entertainment and political people he met through his business. He also describes his many volunteer activities in Burnaby, including member of the SFU Senate, Rotary Club, Variety Club and Telethon, fund raising for Burnaby Hospital, and tourism related groups, and his political work for the federal Liberal party. He talks about his parents’ origins, the lives of his brothers Rudy and Rene, and the family’s involvement in establishing the “Gai Paree”. He also shares his views about the business and cultural development of Burnaby. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
Severin “Sev” Rene Morin was born September 21, 1927, in Bonneville, Alberta, to Rene Pierre Morin (1878-1963) and Anne Marie (nee Lachiver) Morin (1886-1956). Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Morin and their son Rene Francois (1905-1954) immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, from France in 1913, where Rene Pierre Morin worked for the C.N.R. and a second son Adolphe “Rudy” Ferdinand (1922-1969) was born, followed by their third son Severin. In 1943, after R.P. Morin retired, the family moved to Burnaby to a house on Sperling Avenue. Sometime earlier the two older Morin brothers found work in Trail at the smelter and developed musical careers. In 1946/47 the Morin family purchased property on Kingsway and built a banquet hall, the “Gai Paree Supper Club”. Sev and Rudy Morin managed the club and Rene F. Morin moved to Burnaby to join them with his band. The supper club, with its live music and dance floor, became a popular meeting place and wedding venue, eventually expanding into a restaurant and nightclub in the 1970s. The “Gai Paree” was renamed “Severin’s” in 1976 and “Diego’s” in 1985, closing finally in 1994. Sev Morin’s business life included three record stores which he owned with his friend Jack Cullen. Through these businesses Sev Morin was well known in the entertainment and hospitality industry. He and his restaurant also hosted political and social events that made the restaurant a community landmark. Sev Morin contributed many volunteer hours to community and charitable organizations, including an appointment to the SFU Senate, fundraising for the Burnaby Hospital, Director of the Variety Club and Rotary Club, and consultant for a variety of tourism related ventures. He also was active in the federal Liberal Party. Sev Morin and his wife Pauline married in 1950 and had three children. Sev Morin died at age 86 on March 28, 2014.
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.
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.
Photograph of Lou Marcoux director of field operations for the ministry of housing, and "worker" Fred Iacobucci when they "got together to try to figure out the metric measurements" at the Forest Meadows open house. Forest Meadows is operated by Strata Council and has 134 suites.
Photograph of Lou Marcoux director of field operations for the ministry of housing, and "worker" Fred Iacobucci when they "got together to try to figure out the metric measurements" at the Forest Meadows open house. Forest Meadows is operated by Strata Council and has 134 suites.
Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Lou Marcoux, left, director of field operations for the ministry of housing, and worker Fred Iacobucci got together to try to figure out metric measurements Friday at the open house at Forest Meadows housing project in burnaby. The B.C. Housing Corporation is constructing the 134 condominiums on provincial land."
Photograph of the exterior of the Nabob Foods plant in Lake City, Burnaby. Kelly Douglas and Company were the original owners, but they entered into an agreement with Swiss-owned Jacobs AG, allowing Jacobs to acquire Nabob Foods in August of 1976.
Photograph of the exterior of the Nabob Foods plant in Lake City, Burnaby. Kelly Douglas and Company were the original owners, but they entered into an agreement with Swiss-owned Jacobs AG, allowing Jacobs to acquire Nabob Foods in August of 1976.
Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Nabob Foods plant at Lake City in Burnaby will have access to the world-wide buying powers of Jacobs AG if the proposed sale by Kelly Douglas is approved."
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Photograph shows a sign on the corner of Production Way and Thunderbird Crescent in the Lake City Industrial Park listing the occupants of Production Way Building # 2. Burnaby Public Library, one of the occupants listed, had moved from this site two months prior to the photograph being taken.
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556-286
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Photograph shows a sign on the corner of Production Way and Thunderbird Crescent in the Lake City Industrial Park listing the occupants of Production Way Building # 2. Burnaby Public Library, one of the occupants listed, had moved from this site two months prior to the photograph being taken.
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Photograph shows a view of Simon Fraser Townhouses and Lake City Industrial Park from Salish Court Tower West. The crane pictured is on one of the Salish Court Towers.
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556-521
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Photograph shows a view of Simon Fraser Townhouses and Lake City Industrial Park from Salish Court Tower West. The crane pictured is on one of the Salish Court Towers.