This portion of the interview is about Kay Zimmerman’s explanation why she didn’t join organizations not involving her number one interest politics, and about the political power of belonging to Cliff Avenue soccer.
This portion of the interview is about Kay Zimmerman’s explanation why she didn’t join organizations not involving her number one interest politics, and about the political power of belonging to Cliff Avenue soccer.
Recording is of an interview with Kay Zimmerman, conducted by Rod Fowler. Kay Zimmerman 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 Kay Zimmerman’s political activities in Burnaby and her description of her Lochdale neighbourhood in the 1960s. She provides an excellent overview of the municipal political groups and important political issues in Burnaby from 1960 to 1980. She tells the story about an early and successful political action that convinced her that an individual can make a difference. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
Kathleen “Kay” Zimmerman, her husband Gordon and their young son Rick moved to Burnaby from Vancouver in 1960 to a house on Curtis Avenue near Duthie Street (a second son Bruce was born in Burnaby). Kay Zimmerman worked 12 years at Royal Columbian Hospital in the admitting office, then 4 years (1974-1979) as special assistant to Senator Ray Perrault, followed by work as a judge on the Citizenship Court before retiring. Gordon Zimmerman worked at the Shell Refinery. A member of the Liberal Party and political activist before arriving in Burnaby, Kay Zimmerman continued her involvement in national and local politics. She campaigned for Ray Perrault during the Trudeau years, and was a founder and active member of the Burnaby Voters Association (BVA). Her political activities encompassed 30 years that saw major changes in Burnaby, including the building of SFU, creation of Heritage Village, an awakening environmental sensibility, and a dramatic increase in population and development in Burnaby.
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.
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School basketball team. Photographs are primarily of Desi Collinson and Duane Alsop, who moved from Haida Gwaii to play basketball at Alpha, both posing and in action during the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships against MEI. One photog…
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School basketball team. Photographs are primarily of Desi Collinson and Duane Alsop, who moved from Haida Gwaii to play basketball at Alpha, both posing and in action during the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships against MEI. One photograph also depicts Dustin Nykoluk, another Alpha player, in action with MEI player Jonathan Schmidt during the same game.
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Caption from metadata for 535-2278-2: "Duane Alsop battles MEI defenders beneath the basket."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-3: "Alpha's Desi Collinson drives to the net."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-4: "Alpha's Duane Alsop goes airborne for a layup in the first round of the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, against MEI."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-5: "Alpha's Duane Alsop battles beneath the basket with MEI's Mitchell Dueck."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-6: "Alpha's Desi Collinson splits the MEI defense, in their first-round game at the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, Wednesday at the Agrodome."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-7: "Alpha's Dustin Nykoluk drives to the basket against MEI defender, Jonathan Schmidt, early in their first-round match at the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, Wednesday at the Agrodome. Alpha lost the game, 97-60."
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Caption from metadata: "Burnaby Central's Angela Anoliefoh has embraced the high jump as an individual event after years of competing as part of the heptathalon."
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."
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."
File contains photographs of students taking part in a community clean-up. Photographs depict an unidentified child having her face painted; Hannah Bae with a hot dog; and Felina Petkova and Murat Hamit Mustafa, wearing garbage bags and gloves as they paint a fence, laughing at another student.
File contains photographs of students taking part in a community clean-up. Photographs depict an unidentified child having her face painted; Hannah Bae with a hot dog; and Felina Petkova and Murat Hamit Mustafa, wearing garbage bags and gloves as they paint a fence, laughing at another student.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2402-2: "Hanna Bae (5) enjoys an after clean up snack"
Caption from metadata for 535-2402-3: "Taking a break from painting the schoolyard fence, Felina Petkova and Murat Hamit Mustafa share a laugh as they discover a fellow student with paint on his face."
File contains photographs of graduating St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Jon Cornish. Cornish poses with a football and a STM polo shirt on the STM football field.
File contains photographs of graduating St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Jon Cornish. Cornish poses with a football and a STM polo shirt on the STM football field.
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Caption from metadata: "Graduating running back, Jon Cornish, of St. Thomas More, has signed a letter of intent to ply at the University of Kansas in the Fall."
Photograph of Simon Fraser University volleyball player Heather Androsoff. She is posing behind a volleyball net in a gymnasium with a volleyball tucked under her arm.
Photograph of Simon Fraser University volleyball player Heather Androsoff. She is posing behind a volleyball net in a gymnasium with a volleyball tucked under her arm.
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Caption from metadata: "An ankle injury has forced SFU's Heather Androsoff, who's graduating this year, to miss the last month of her volleyball career."
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Caption from metadata for 535-3076-1: "The Jaworski family, Barbara, Mark and Filip, 7, devour all the news of Ecuador they can get, as their son, Simon, is on a Rotary exchange in Quito, where the government was deposed by a coup."
Caption from metadata for 535-3076-2: "Filip Jaworski, 7, colors in a map for his older brother, Simon, who is Quito, Ecuador, on a Rotary exchange, where he's already lived through a volcanic erruption and a coup."
Photograph of Maria Tercero posing with her daughter Barbara, a Burnaby student who received assistance from Burnaby's multicultural school liaison program.
Photograph of Maria Tercero posing with her daughter Barbara, a Burnaby student who received assistance from Burnaby's multicultural school liaison program.
Collected by editorial for use in a June 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Maria Tercero says Burnaby's multicultural school liason program, which is being cut for budgetary reasons, was a huge help to her and her daughter, Barbara, when the family immigrated to Canada from Mexico."
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.
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.
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."
Photograph of Shelley Morten signing to wrestler Pier Morten, as a crowd of South Slope Elementary School students applaud in American Sign Language behind them.
Photograph of Shelley Morten signing to wrestler Pier Morten, as a crowd of South Slope Elementary School students applaud in American Sign Language behind them.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Shelley Morten signs to her husband, Pier, what is happening behind them, as volleyball players at South Slope Elementary School applaud the blind and deaf wrestler, also using sign language. Pier was honored by the school as an inspiration to its own athletes, some of whom are also deaf."
Photograph of three unidentified Seaforth Elementary School students participating with other students in a choir during the Primary Days of Music at Forest Grove Elementary School.
Photograph of three unidentified Seaforth Elementary School students participating with other students in a choir during the Primary Days of Music at Forest Grove Elementary School.
Collected by editorial for use in a March 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Students from Seaforth Elementary particpate in the Primary Days of Music, Wednesday at Forest Grove Elementary School. The Primary Days of Music is a week-long musical event for kids in Grade 2-3 that aims to create appreciation for music to new generations through traditional songs."
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Caption from metadata: "Sadie McLure is off to Colorado to play semi professional womans soccer. The SFU student will return in September to finish her studies."