Interview with Shira Blustein about her relationship with food and the food industry. Shira discusses her experiences running vegetarian restaurants, The Acorn and The Arbor, in Vancouver. She talks about the role of food in her family. Shira also discusses her participation in the punk rock music scene in Calgary and her involvement in an alternative country band, Blood Meridian. There is also conversation about raising children in a multi-faith household and Birthright.

Interview with Sheila Romalis. Interviewed by Debby Freiman. Sheila talks about her grandparents' immigration to Canada, her father's business acumen, and her mother's philanthropy. Her family was heavily involved in many Jewish organizations in Vancouver such as Hadassah-WIZO, Israel Bonds, B'nai B'rith Sisterhood, Jewish Family & Child, and Beth Israel.

Oral history interview with Senator Jacob (Jack) Austin.

Oral history interview with Saul Wyne who was born 1910 in Russia. The prevalence of antisemitism , worsening economic and political conditions led family to emigrate; One brother left in 1926 and settled in Edmonton. Saul's Father saw no future for his daughters in Poland so he settled them in the United States. Saul was active in Calgary's Peretz School as a board member until he and his wife Ruby moved in 1943 to Vancouver and helped start up the Vancouver Peretz School.

Interview with Ruth Simkin for On The Record: The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project in collaboration with JQT Vancouver. Interviewed by Madison Slobin via remote Zoom video call. Ruth (she/her) is a queer Jewish woman who was born in Winnipeg, currently residing in Victoria, B.C. She explains how she used to subscribe to the ‘lesbian’ label, but no longer feels connected to one identity. Ruth recalls her family history in rural Manitoba, including her parents, grandparents and siblings, their livelihoods and her relationships with them. Ruth talks about coming out to her family in her twenties, and her experience with getting married to a man at age 18. She discusses her connections to Jewish community, and how being Jewish was understood by her peers throughout her education. Ruth speaks to her pride in being a doctor and a writer, including having written a feminist Haggadah called ‘Like an Orange on a Seder Plate’. Ruth talks about how writing has become an important outlet for her as she became a wheelchair user. Ruth also discusses queer political organizing in Calgary, and coming to B.C. after ending a serious relationship. She discusses how she went back to school to study palliative care while living on Salt Spring Island, and moving to Victoria once working full time as a palliative care doctor. She closes by talking about being a grandmother, but also the relationship between the Jewish and queer communities.

Oral history interview with Max A. Jacobson who was born in Winnipeg, 1928. Graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1950 in General Science with focuses in geology and chemistry. Moved to Calgary in 1951, finding working in the Seismic field. He married Tannis Bass, of Winnipeg, their children were born in Calgary. Max's paternal in-laws came from Russia 1908-09, while the maternal side from the New England region. Max helped to found the Burquest Jewish Association.

Oral interview with Lola Pawer. Interviewed by Dorothy Grad. Pawer was born in 1938 in Calgary. She speaks about her father, Jack Aceman, and his involvement in Vancouver and the Jewish community. She also speaks about her volunteer and business experience in Vancouver.

Oral history interview with Leopold - born in England,1903 - and Pearl Levey. Leo and Pearl moved to Trail from Calgary in 1936. Later, during the 1940's, Jewish engineers were employed locally to create of heavy water, as part of Canada's contribution to the Manhattan Project. Leo was involved in B.C. Hospitals' Associate Board, the Red Cross in Trail - awarded Red Cross medal of service for flood relief work, 1948.., the Jewish National Fund and Yom Kippur Appeal. Pearl was deeply involved in Hadassah.

Follow-up oral interview with Leah Levitt. Interviewed by Debby Freiman. Leah talks about her extended family, education, and her involvement with B'nai Brith Girls and the National Council of Jewish Women.

Oral interview with Leah Levitt. Interviewed by Debby Freiman. Leah talks about her grandparents' history with the Peretz School and Communist Party in Calgary, her family's experiences in World War I and II, her father's operation of hotels across Vancouver such as Stratford Hotel, and their family real estate company, Abbott Realty.