Date: 2004-11-15
Name(s): Lee, Terry
Date: 2004-11-17
Name(s): Lee, Terry
Description: November 17 (second interview, first interview missing). Terry Lee. Terry works at Tartantown. He is a Highland dancer. He played in the City of Victoria Pipe Band and was Pipe Major of Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. He says that the SFU pipe band gets a great reception when they go to Scotland, however, they still see themselves as outsiders when they come to compete in Scotland, although he says that it is starting to become more inclusive and that the nationalities of bands doesn't seem…
Date: 2012-04-25
Name(s): McErlean, Therese
Description: April 25 2012 Therese McErlean Born: Therese MacInness, June 11th, 1949 in Vancouver. Five siblings (2 brothers & 2 sisters), Therese was the fourth. Father: Micheal MacInness. Born in Eriskay, Scotland in 1904. He was a master mariner, and when he came to Vancouver, he ran an icebreaker in the north, and was a longshoreman in the offseason. He was a quiet man, and Therese regrets that she didn't get to know more about him or his family. He spoke Gaelic, but didn't read or write it. He didn…
Date: 2011-11-02
Name(s): Third, Violet
Description: Nov 2 2011 Violet Third (née Schleger, b. 1921 in Neudorf, Saskatchewan) is the daughter of German immigrants, her father owned a cement-contracting company and her mother was a dressmaker. At the age of three, the family moved to Vancouver (the West End) where Violet attended Dawson Elementary School and a commercial secondary school on Broadway and Granville. Her first job was in her sister's restaurant on Pender and Granville. At nineteen, Violet met her first boyfriend and soon-to-be…
Date: 2012-01-09
Name(s): Strachan, William T.
Description: Jan 9 2012 William "Bill" Thomson Strachan Born: St. Fergus, Scotland on March 8, 1921. The house was built in the 1700's. He was the oldest of 3 boys: William, Sandy? & Peter. His mom remarried after his father passed, and had 3 girls: Isabella, Sheila, & Lilas. [Step]Father: Peter Strachan. Father: William Dunbar. Born in Crimond. Grandfather: William Thomson. Harbour master in Peterhead. William's great-grandfather [Thomson] died one day short of his 100th birthday. Mother: Isabella…
Date: 2012-04-25
Name(s): McErlean, Willie
Description: Willie McErlean April 25 2012 Born: William James Farrell McErlean on Sept 11, 1931 in Glasgow, Scotland. He grew up in a tenement with his two sisters (one living in Portland, Oregon at time of interview). All of his siblings were born in the same bed in the tenement. He shared a bed with his Dad while his Mom shared with his older sister Dot. The beds recessed into the walls. It was 3 stories high, and the bathroom was shared in the hallway on each floor. There was no heat in the bathrooms.…
