Innholdsfortegnelse for 51.1 | Spring 2018 i British Columbia History

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Archival Papers Anniedale School Collection, 1904-1968, Textual Records. Surrey Archives Books and Reports Barry McGinn Engineering & Preservation Ltd., Conservation Plan, Old Anniedale School, (City of Surrey, 2016) Donald Luxton & Associates, Anniedale Area “A” Heritage Study, (City of Surrey, 2006) Surrey Heritage Advisory Committee, Surrey’s Heritage: A Selection of Surrey’s Historically Significant Buildings, Volume Four, (District of Surrey, 1993), 195-199. Newspaper Articles Laube, Alyssa. “Over $800,000 in Federal Funds Given to Surrey to Improve the City’s Cultural Infrastructure,” The Runner, February 27, 2017, http://runnermag.ca/2017/02/over-800000-in-federal-funds-given-to-surrey-to-improve-the-city’s-cultural-infrastructure/. Reid, Amy, “Surrey Historical Society Fights to Keep Anniedale from ‘rotting away,’” May 18, 2016, http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/surrey-historical-society-fights-to-keep-anniedaleschool-from-rotting-away/. Reid, Amy. “Heritage Buildings Moving to Museum of Surrey Site,” Surrey Now-Leader, May 11, 2017, http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/422017663.html. Online Resources Brown, Jack. “Development of Early Schools in Surrey,” www.surreyhistory.ca/. “Old Anniedale…

1. $1 CDN in 1934 converts to approximately $18 CDN in 2017 money. $60 ≈ $1,094. “Inflation Calculator,” Bank of Canada, accessed January 25, 2018, http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/. 2. The 1927-28 Gray Creek teacher Elizabeth Rankin reported to the Teacher’s Bureau, “The difficulty and drawback of the district [are] that there are no boats except Monday evening and Thursday evening—hence a teacher can never get out during the term. The nearest doctor is [in] Nelson & this also makes it awkward in case of sickness. There are 37 people here and very few young people & no amusements whatever.” British Columbia, Dept. of Education. Teachers Bureau, School District Information Form [Gray Creek], GR-0461.939, http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/nearest-station-or-landing-gray-creek-2 3. John Oliver as told to Frances Roback and Steve White, “Rainbow’s End”—Memories of Gray Creek and the…

1. Interviews and discussions with Beverley Shippam (nee Dean) and Evelyn Hyde (nee Henderson). 2. Emiko eventually returned to Vancouver and attended John Oliver Secondary School. Graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Washington, Emiko then studied art in New York. 3. During the war years, many schools had special clubs such as First Aid, Army Cadets, Rifle Range Club, Red Cross, etc. promoted by some of the teachers. 4. War savings stamps were an easy way to help finance the war effort. People could buy a war saving stamp from the Post Office for 25 cents and could get a small booklet to keep them in. Once a person had accumulated enough they could go to the post office and turn them in for a…

My husband used to tease me all the time and say, “Oh, you’re going to school at the mall?”5 Surrey Central mall at the time was a dying mall. There were lots of empty spaces, particularly down in the TechBC area. I remember my mom just looked at me and she’s like, “Inside the mall? Is it, like, a store?”…

There was also a kind of a pioneering spirit about the entire thing. That was the first place I had ever seen wireless networking.9 On the student side, take the gamer-kids and the high performing nerds of high school, mix them together, add the creative elements that you would have run into in your art and drama classes of high school, and then a few on the fringe: business people with enough savvy to recognize that technology was going to become very important in the future and they shouldn’t just go to business school.…

I liked saying “I go to TechBC”: that was cool. I didn’t know if I liked the idea of saying “Hi, I’m an SFU student”—that comes with a lot of preconceptions from people who already think they know about it. A lot of friends were quite happy about it because SFU is a reputable institution...It didn’t make me feel good; it could have been any school and it wouldn’t have made me feel great. Instructors I liked were leaving, or they would have to go through interviews to be rehired. When SFU stepped in to take over, that was seen as a “saviour” sort of thing. But at the same time, it seemed that it was going to be a stuffy culture coming in, that wasn’t going to respect the…

School, for better or worse, has had a lasting impact on many of us. It is not necessarily what we learned in the textbooks that shaped us but instead it was the environment inside those walls. As students we were inspired, bullied, bored, and sometimes reluctantly, educated. A lot of the memories from our school years are not what was on the blackboard, or modern equivalent, but the lessons we learned in interpersonal relationships, standing up for ourselves, and lifelong friendships. Some of us bear lasting mental and/or physical scars. Some of us found our lifelong passions. The buildings themselves have stories too. Tales of care, fire, neglect, and restoration. Many of the buildings have been repurposed, some long demolished. Although I should not have been surprised, I was overwhelmed…

1. The MacLean Method of Handwriting originated with a Victoria school principal, Henry Boyver MacLean. See Tom Hawthorn, “Millions of Canadians followed B.C. principal’s script,” The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2010. See https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/millions-of-canadians-followed-bc-principalsscript/article4352963/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com& 2. This was Camp 1 of the Bloedel company. As Lillian’s future husband Gerry Emerson recalled, “I worked at survey work at Bloedel. It was for Bloedel that I was working. It eventually turned to Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, and then MacMillan Bloedel.” On the Menzies Bay logging camps, see Jeanette Taylor, River City: A History of Campbell River and the Discovery Islands (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 1999), 124–25. 3. $95 CDN in 1933 converts to approximately $1,752 CDN in 2017 money. $79 ≈ 1,457. 15¢ ≈ $2.77 25¢ ≈ 4.61. “Inflation Calculator,” Bank of Canada,…

There weren’t a lot of options for students to study something to do with computers but also something to do with arts. I had plans to become an animator or go into video game design or video game programming after high school, but at the time it wasn’t a popular thing. Especially for girls. And when I heard it was in Surrey, I was like, “Oh my gosh! It’s like right in the neighbourhood, or at least right in the Lower Mainland.” I was absolutely thrilled.2…

Dianne Cyr (faculty, Management and Technology). The senior administrators at the University decided that they would make the campus look like an industry environment.6 In BetaSpace, you could still see the vinyl art from the electronics department from Zellers. It said “Nintendo” but it was painted over but if you looked carefully in the right light, you could still see the outline of the word. BetaSpace, beyond its origins as a converted Zellers store, really felt like a tech company circa 2001, with the crazy open plan and Herman Miller chairs and desks in most of the spaces. Classrooms built into the edges of it, with slightly cheaper Herman Miller chairs. When you entered the school, there was a big, wide open area, called the Pool. In the…

I guess I should mention the challenges of online courses at the time. There were many. The first one being dial-up internet. We didn’t have high speed back then; I had dial-up for my first year before convincing my parents to pay more for faster internet... Another challenge was, my family had only two computers for a family of five. I had to share my computer with my siblings and we somehow split up the time on the computer equally. There was none of this: “Everyone has their own PC or phone or tablet.” When these interdisciplinary projects happened, all of a sudden we had to learn not only how to put this project together—we had to learn how to work with these people. And that sounds like a bad…

And, I think ultimately, there were benefits to it, but there was a lot of friction and clash throughout the years. We’d get all these emails, updates about SFU, virtually none of it was applicable to us. It was all about Burnaby and a smaller part of downtown and I’d just treat it all as spam. We were the poor cousin.  I was so exhausted. The Business students moved to the Burnaby campus—we were taken away. And then I was told I had to do an extra semester, extra classes. They did do quite a good job of transitioning, the best they could for us. But here we were: this really tight group, used to doing all these interactive programs, having to adjust to a different philosophy. After TechBC got…

Since this article was published in 2012, the ownership of the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino has changed. In June 2017, it became locally and solely owned by the four Ktunaxa communities ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation, ʔaq̓am, ʔakink̓umǂasnuqǂiʔit (Tobacco Plains), yaqan nukiy (Lower Kootenay) and Kyaknuq+i?it — the Shuswap Indian Band, who together make up St. Eugene Mission Holdings Limited (SHL). Also in 2017, a monument, created by sculptor Cameron Douglas, entitled ‡kamnin’tik (The Children) was unveiled at St. Eugene Resort, designed to honour all the students who attended the St. Eugene Mission Residential School.…

Oh gosh, I would say I would not walk there at night by myself, especially as a female. It was kind of sketchy. There were, gosh, how can I put this nicely? There were some questionable characters around the SkyTrain station, particularly at night. When you were driving down King George towards the school, you would see “ladies of the night.” You would see people just standing there selling probably illegal substances. Coming in on the SkyTrain you saw lots of crack houses in terrible states of disrepair, garbage along sides of the streets of that and all the small ethnic stores that go with a poor neighborhood. Pawn shops along King George highway.4 At the time, Surrey was not a great place by reputation.3…

I had no preconception of what university was like, except for maybe the movies. But this was totally different from the movies. Some of my friends went to UBC and I’d go there and it was a completely different vibe. I liked how small TechBC was. When we went to UBC there were so many people and you don’t know a lot of the people, but whenever I was at TechBC, I felt, “I’m going to know 90% of the people I’m seeing today.” Felt homey.7 It was built in a way that was pretty conducive for us to learn—the campus was so open. We were there twenty-four hours a day. We would be there in the evening, sitting in bean bag chairs; we would watch a movie at night,…

But I feel like it was weeks, maybe—I don’t know, it probably was months—but in my mind it’s like this time compressed time where everybody was in this malaise and a lot of things didn’t happen. Everything was in a bit of a holding pattern. Jane Fee (Associate Vice President): We began to hear rumours that the government was going out with an RFI (a Request For Interest) to other institutions in the province to see if they were interested in acquiring something. We heard rumours it was us; we heard rumours it was the Open Learning Agency; we heard rumours it was the University of Northern British Columbia, which was relatively new at the time. There were all sorts of rumours. It was probably not until mid-November…

1. These excerpts were lightly edited from transcripts of the TechBC Memory Project, SFU Digitized Collections, 2016, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/techbc-collection. 2. Melanie Sia, interview by Holly Hendrigan, December 3, 2014, TechBC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/techbc%3A86/transcript. 3. Jack Sam, interview by Holly Hendrigan, November 24, 2014, TechBC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/techbc%3A74/transcript. 4. Robin Johnson, interview by Holly Hendrigan, July 13, 2015, TechBC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/ techbc%3A78/transcript. 5. Tammy Mooney, interview by Holly Hendrigan, March 22, 2015, Tech-BC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/techbc%3A72/transcript. 6. Dianne Cyr, interview by Holly Hendrigan, November 26, 2014, Tech-BC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/techbc%3A71/transcript. 7. Justin Liebregts, interview by Holly Hendrigan, April 1, 2015, TechBC Memory Project, Simon Fraser University, http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/object/techbc%3A85/transcript. 8. Adrian Chong, interview by Holly Hendrigan, November 28,…