Calvin Whitehead About His Disappearing Vancouver
Calvin J. Whitehead (b. 1926) spent his childhood in a little World-War-I-era house, on Prince Albert street, near Fraser and East Broadway, …
Sprinter Barbara Howard on Life as an East Van P.E. Teacher
Barbara Howard (b. 1921) was the first black female athlete to represent Canada internationally. Today, at 94, she shares her East Van …
Olive Cairns: ‘They Did Dumb Things with Women in Those Days’
Olive Cairns (b. 1916) remembers her youth as a Nabob factory girl and her struggles to keep a job and run a …
Bill Newton: “As Kids, We Made Our Own Entertainment”
Bill Newton (b. 1930) moved to Vancouver in 1934. Today, he shares with us a few illustrative details of his East Van …
Mary Hucul, From a Little Italian Village to Commercial Drive
Mary Hucul (b. 1921) reminisces about her two-week immigration trip from Italy to Vancouver at age 8, her mother’s garden on Pender …
Joe Comparelli and His Youth in Strathcona
Fisherman Joe Comparelli (b. 1923) shares memories of delivering newspapers as a child, attending the Grandview School of Commerce, and living in Little …
Marjorie McKeown About Growing Up on Rose Street
Marjorie McKeown (b. 1916) grew up in the Rose Street neighbourhood close to Victoria Drive and married her next-door neighbour. I was …
