SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Ida Halpern : a cultural pioneer in British Columbia
PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1970
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-09
SUMMARY: Dr. Ida Halpern was born in 1910 in Vienna and discusses her family background; education; being a child prodigy in music; attending the University of Vienna and receiving her PhD in 1938; marriage in 1936; the invasion of the Nazis; fleeing Hitler; teaching music at Shanghai; the Japanese invasion; immigration to Canada; Vancouver; the Friends of Chamber Music; U.B.C. involvement; gathering music of B.C. Indians; introduction of music courses at U.B.C. 1942; start of U.B.C. Department of Music; radio programs; uses of B.C. Indian music; ethnomusicology; Simon Fraser University; a folk music conference; performing; women; Metropolitan auditions; clubs and influences.

The series consists of a scrapbook documenting the origins of a scheme for bringing British children to Canada during World War II by the North Shore Canadian National Committee of Refugees, under the auspices of the North Shore Council of Women. The scrapbook includes resolution, correspondence with N.C.W., newspaper clippings, letters from Buckingham Palace, B.C. House, London, and snapshots of prominent women and of some children.

CALL NUMBER: T0139:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Phillip W. Bird : loyalty, duty and public services RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-02-24 SUMMARY: Phillip W. Bird was born in 1896 and discusses aspects of his childhood in England, homesteading in Saskatchewan, Doukhobors, farming, joining army in Europe.;

CALL NUMBER: T0139:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Phillip W. Bird : loyalty, duty and public services RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-02-26 SUMMARY: Phillip W. Bird describes briefly the 1920s and 1930s, his career in the Canadian Immigration Service from 1936, and the beginning of the European D.P. operation.;

CALL NUMBER: T0139:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Phillip W. Bird : loyalty, duty and public services - selecting new Canadians RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-01 SUMMARY: Phillip W. Bird describes activities of Canadian immigration mission in Europe during post-war D.P. immigration drive.;