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

[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

Maps [ca. 1975-1980]

File contains 29 maps from the City of Vancouver Archives and a pamphlet of the Social Planning Department of Vancouver (about the Vancouver Art Gallery).

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