The Archives will be closed for the holidays from 5pm on Friday, December 21, 2018, and reopen at 9am on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.
This year’s season’s greetings card comes from the Lorne Brown fonds. Lorne Ellis Brown (1908-1976) was a teacher in the Vancouver public school system when this card was sent to him in 1930 or 1931. Later in his career, he became the Provincial Superintendent of Physical Education in the Department of Education (1944-1946), the Director of Health and Physical Education at the Provincial Normal School (1946-1955), and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (1955-1973), and Vancouver Park Board Commissioner (1967-1968).
Lorne Brown married Annie May Adams (better known as May Brown) in the 1940s. May shared Lorne’s interest in physical education, and has had a highly distinguished career in her own right. Highlights of her impressive career include faculty member of UBC’s School of Physical Education and Recreation and coach of the UBC women’s field hockey (1947-1955), Park Board Commissioner (1973-1976), and Alderman on the Vancouver City Council (1980-1986). She also has received a number of accolades, including the Order of Canada (1986). The Archives’ holdings contain records from her time in civic office (City of Vancouver fonds, series 462).
Together, Lorne and May ran Camp Deka, a private boys’ camp in BC’s interior, from 1961-1976. May donated the Camp Deka records to the Archives in 2011.
As a testament to this couple’s commitment to physical education and Vancouver’s Park Board, the May & Lorne Brown Park located on Beach Avenue, was named in their honour in 1998.
![Endnotes [1] City Council minutes, Oct 14, 1919, p. 633, COV-S31 [2] Report on Vancouver War Memorial Project, Oct 31, 1921, p. 29, AM95 [3] Report on Vancouver War Memorial Project, Oct 31, 1921, p. 29-30, AM95 [4] Council minutes, February 13, 1922, p. 682, COV-S31 [5] Board of Works minutes, February 7, 1922, p. 128-129, COV-S373 [6] Council minutes, March 13, 1922, p. 715, COV-S31 [7] The Vancouver Sun, March 11, 1922 [8] The Vancouver Sun, March 11, 1922 [9] This was reported in the Vancouver Sun, March 11, 1922, as well as an oral report given on March 13, 1922, by Mr. Fyfe-Smith to the Exec at the Canadian Club that opposition was mounting from the public. [10] Canadian Club minutes, Nov 7, 1922, p. 123-124, AM95 [11] Council minutes, Nov. 8, 1922, COV-S31, Vol. 24, p. 171 [12] The Vancouver Sun, February 16, 1923 [13] Executive Committee of Vancouver War Memorial Fund minutes, Mar. 12, 1923, AM95, 511-C-01 fld 05 [14] J.G. Barringer letter to the editor, Vancouver Sun, March 20, 1923. According to the city directories, J.G. Barringer was the manager of Holbrooks, Ltd. (pickle manufacturer located at 1006 Mainland) [15] AIBC letter to the editor, Vancouver Sun, March 23, 1923](https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/wp-content/uploads/1_Japanese-War-Memorial-350x260.jpg)
