Memorandum re staff clothing cost
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 22 Jul. 1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a one page facsimile memorandum from H.M. Miller, Director, Resource Analysis Section of the Corrections Branch Head Office to Regional Directors of Corrections and Institutional Directors Re: "Staff Clothing Cost - FY 1977-78 / Suggested Budget Level".
British Columbia Corrections Service Uniform Specifications and Scale of Issue
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 28 Jun. 1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 28 p. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a typewritten copy of "British Columbia Corrections Service Uniform Specifications and Scale of Issue". Document provides guidelines on uniform specifications for correctional officers and staff. The last page of the document includes a copy of illustrations relating to uniform ins…
Memorandum re uniform specifications and scale of issue
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 20 Jan. 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a copy of a memorandum addressed to "All Directors - Correctional Centres" from the Executive Director, B.G. Robinson, Corrections Branch Head Office re: "Uniform Specifications and Scale of Issue". Memorandum includes correspondence cover page along with a copy of "Corrections Bra…
Purchase order re camp style uniforms
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 4 Apr. 1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 4 p. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a copy of a purchase order (facisimilie) for camp style uniforms from the Department of Finance Province of British Columbia to Gordon Campbell Ltd. The purchase order includes three pages with specifications for camp style uniforms.
Purchase order re raincoats
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1 Jun. 1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Oakalla Prison collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 4 p. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a copy of a purchase order for raincoats from the Purchasing Commission of Province of British Columbia to Outdoor Outfits Ltd. The purchase order includes three pages regarding quantities and styles per Regional Correctional Centre along with locations.
Esquire's encyclopedia of 20th century men's fashions : Neckwear
Fashion sketchbook, 1920-1960
Trudi Tuomi subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1945]-1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1945]-1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Trudi Tuomi subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-20
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
- History
- Gustav and Aune Rintanen came to Vancouver from a mixed farm on the prairies in 1936 with the hopes of finding employment. The couple had two children: nine year old Aili (later Topalian) and eight year old Trudi (later Tuomi), when they moved to a “squatters shack” at North Burnaby’s waterfront Crabtown community in 1937. They paid 50 dollars for their two-room cabin, which was built on a platform and supported by pilings.
Though the squatters’ homes that ran along the Inlet were commonly referred to as shacks and Crabtown a slum, in reality they were very neatly kept homes in a community. Crabtown residents rallied together to build a water supply system and trails up the steep bluff with stairs and banisters so children could go to school safely.
Before Gustav found a job, he “busied himself with fixing up the place”: building a new chimney, railing, wood shed, clothes line and sauna for his family. By 1940, he was working at the mill near Windermere pool (now New Brighton Park). Aune worked as a dishwasher and prep cook at Ye Olde English Fish and Chips in downtown Vancouver.
In 1946, they sold the cabin for two hundred dollars and moved to a small house. All Crabtown squatters were eventually evicted in 1959.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Tuomi, Trudi Rintanen
- Notes
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
- PC337, MSS144
Less detail