Oral interview with Nancy Halpern. Interviewed by Samantha Stokell for SLAIS Oral History class.

Nancy's father's family moved to Vancouver in 1906, when her father Norman Brown was less than six months old. She has stories of her own life in the Vancouver Jewish community and those of her grandparents and parents. She was involved in drama and theatre in the Vancouver and Spokane, WA areas, and worked as a librarian in Vancouver. She was also involved in creating the West Vancouver Jewish Community Association.

Nancy mentions her cousin's daughter, Barbara Liskov (née Huberman) from the States, a professor at MIT who was the first woman to graduate in Computer Science in the U.S., and who is a winner of the Turing Award.

Photograph depicts the first train to arrive in Port Alberni.

Group of men in suits and hats standing on wood platform beside passenger rail car.

Photograph depicts McBridge Junction, near Parksville on Vancouver Island.

Man and younger boy on cart pulled by two horses with line of cars behind; building labeled "MCBRIDGE JUNCTION" on roof to left of vehicles; forested area in background.

Photograph depicts a train at the Cameron Lake Station.

Steam or diesel engine blowing steam in centre right of image with a crowd of men in front; two storey craftsman style station beside in centre left of image; tracks in foreground.