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Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books Daphne Marlatt Fonds English
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[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] 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”.

"Between Brush Strokes" - Sveva Caetani story [drafts and correspondence 2007-2009]

MsC 142.755 – MsC 142.759 : Five photographs of the Caetani House and Studio 3401. Sign in one of the photographs reads:
“Built in 1895 by Samuel Summerville, the house was originally designed as a two-story square, late Victorian Vernacular Revival building, emphasizing solidity and comfort over design. Extensive renovations took place in 1903 with the addition of the back wing. In 1913, the house was sold to A.G. Mueller, owner of the Coldstream Hotel. Mueller sold the house to Leone Caetani in 1921, who in turn left the house to his daughter Sveva Caetani. In 1985, Miss Caetani bequeathed her home to the City of Vernon for the use of the Vernon Public Art Gallery.”

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