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Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books Daphne Marlatt Fonds File
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[Transcription] Mrs. Nobue Minato

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Father’s history before Canada and coming to Canada
Schooling on Powell Steet, Eclere 900 blk Cordova as a child
Fishing in harbour
Matsunoya Bath house
Father buying land in Burnaby
Chicken story
Mother sewing
Home remedies
Evacuation and Lillooet and Vernon
4 page story

[Transcription] Leona Risby - preliminary edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Immigration to Canada (Alberta)
First job – Mrs. Pryor
Safety & Crime in Area
Views on Chinese and Blacks
Depression/arrival in Vancouver
Prostitution
Japanese Evacuation (short)
Religion
Salvation Army – only view we have
Hogan’s Alley 1936
Depression – China creek flats
Rooming House Business – 1930
Country Inn/restaurant business
Home Remedies
Work Ethics – philosophy trace

Notes: Details of homesteading on Athabasca Landing are not included
story of Georgia Street restaurant/addicts/police not included

Secondary edit 14 pages – omitted 1st job, home remedies and some race ethics

[Transcription] Elisa Negrin - preliminary edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Parents’ immigration to Canada
Acquiring cows 5 page story
Grazing
Herding
Haying
Barns
Fuel from Stanley Park
Depression – transients
Daughters learning self-defense
Chores as an assistant midwife and housekeeper
Working in grocery store
Fruit trees and large trees in area
Funny chicken story
Speaking English on the streets*

[Transcription] Elda Venturato (nee Battistoni) - preliminary edit and scraps

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Arrival
School – 1913
Community togetherness 1912
Poverty in family
Dr. MacKay
W.W.I
Children's activities/chores
House interior
Family-mother’s accident
Stores in area
Home skills – cows, goats
Roma people [original included derogatory term Gypsies]
W.W.II – Japanese Evacuation*
Internment of Italians
Depression story
Safety in area
Note: not included is short statement on Blacks in the community 2-2 p. 5

[Transcription] David de Camillis - preliminary edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Immigration and first jobs
Business – landlord
Depression – jungle life
Bootlegging
Entertainment – theatre/movie houses/swing banks
Prewar in area/Italian/Canadian fascists
W.W. II – Italians interred
Business – cabaret 1930’s
Prostitution – Alexander St/as taxi driver
Roma people [original included derogatory term Gypsies]
Crime/modern/hearsay
Italian weddings
Montreal bakery
Home skills – wine making grappa
Characters in area
Italian picnics*

[Transcription] Al Izen

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Family’s arrival
Synagogue
Pastinsky
Depression (on young person)*

[Transcription] Marino Culos - preliminary edit

File contains notes from original folder that read:
Early Italian immigration
W.W.I – in area
School days/rivalry
Boarding houses/early bootlegging/cards
Sons of Italy
Marathon Race – relates to a photo – photo exists
False Creek 1913-17 long story
Bootlegging
Union grocery, Montreal Bakery
W.W.II – Italians interred*
East End “slops” – good quotation

“We were just the slops, you know, and the city didn’t seem to care much. For awhile the East End was noted that way. We were always, you know, ‘the illiterates,’ the incapables”.

Tracing the lines launch Feb 13/13

File consists of correspondence and writing relating to the launch of the book “Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki,” published by Talonbooks in 2013 held at Simon Fraser University. Marlatt contributed an essay to the volume. The book followed the 2008 event “Tracing the Lines: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki.”

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