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

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*

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

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

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

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*

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).