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[Transcription-edited] Harry Halpern and Dolly Kopelow

File contains notes from original folder that read:
First job-peddling 9 pages
First months as peddler 5 pages
Leaving the area (bad place)
Depression
Rabbi Pastinsky
Story of buying a calf
Japanese Evacuation – Dolly Kopelow
School days
East end kids

[Transcription] W.T. (Bill) Abercrombie and Vernon Wiedrich

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Wiedrick
Arrival and teaching experience
Longshoremen’s strike
Going into school
Boy in trouble and teachers help (30) (shoot up a policeman)
Teachers in west end/east end schools

In conversation
Delinquency in school (boy stealing clothes)
School grounds – 1910 to 1930
Immigrant children
Nurse McLellan

Abercrombie
Family history
Children’s games (1905)
Organized sport
False Creek abattoir
Fist fight story
School rifle teams
Sergeant-major bundy
Punishment in schools
Wild game/fowl
Race riot 1907
Racial difficulties
Runaway horse (orange hall window)
Chinese vegetable vendors
Entertainment

[Transcription] Violet Benedetti - preliminary edited transcript

File contains notes from original folder that read:
N.B. Some statements by Inez Leland in this section
Early family history 1900’s
Opera and theatre in area
Jemina story
First car ride
Children’s work/crocheting
English people in area 1914
Courtship ritual with Italians
Flu epidemic
Marriage at fourteen
Her store
Store details
Children’s chores and entertainment
Geography – early changes
Boarding houses
Home remedies
Mushroom hunting
Ledici
Dandelion wine
Stars at Xmas time
Character: Turkey lurkey
Women in the Home/Boccia
/having babies
Cows in area
Home remedies
Crime
East End/West End rivalry
Wartime/Italian entertainment

[Transcription] Tom Wylie - edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
1st job in neighbourhood
description of MacLean Park
as a fireman – in the neighbourhood – CN dock fire
RATS
Sadie Mandleman, Emerson Mahon
Boxing
Chinatown
Pantages theatre
Gambling*

[Transcription] Ramon and Irma Benedetti

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Arrival
Boarding Houses in area
Business – father startup store/integrity
long story/details good
Early bootlegging
Games – play
Goatherding
Politics – 1970’s
Home skills/entertainment/livestock
Sausage making
Grape importing
Play – Games – long
Boccia – details
Watermelon
Schooling – some is good
Wartime – school/Japanese evac./Powell St.
Prostitution
School teacher 1940’s
Church/Sacred Heart/Boulignon
Politics/Renewal of area – good 1950-1960
Language
Geography

[Transcription] Polowy/Bezubiak - Xerox remains

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Housework Rosie B.
Ukrainian Food Store – Ed.
“Music – horne
Princess Street House
Bootlegging – working for them
Street gangs – Loine, Hannah
Abortionist and Morals in area
Organized Sport – Ed.
Job-newspaper route – Inlet
Ethnic groups in area
WWII and Japanese Evacuation
Discrimination/Ethnic minority
Ukrainian Hall – Labor Temple
Labor demonstrations 1930’s
Church and charity activity
Evictions from homes
Neighbourhood characters*
Dr. Fox

[Transcription] Polowy/Bezubiak

File contains notes from original folder that read:
12 pages
Omitted Japanese Evacuation memories
get name of publisher of the “Ukrainian-Canadians: A History”, Maranchurch

[Transcription] Myer Freedman - preliminary edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Immigration and fathers first job
First religious meeting place, Union St. and school on Georgia
School – Cairn sisters and view on other groups in area
Powell St grounds
L.D. Taylor
First job, play area, entertainment for children
False Creek
Union Street garage – relates to a photo
House and wagons
Mosquitoes from the flats
Old Westminster Avenue Bridge
Blacksmith shop
White House Clothing Co
Entertainment – movie houses
Picnics
Back porches
Honor among people/Roma people logging co. story [original included derogatory term gyps]
Chinese/dealings with in business
Liquor, prostitution
Crime – shoot out in area – relates to newspaper story
Chinese – opium – NOT USABLE – his request
Health, Epidemics, Nutrition, remedies
Buying live chickens
Interior of synagogue
Rabbi Pastinsky*

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