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Centennial Quiz

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Question 1

What do Beverley Cann, Norma Clay, and Ruth Lind have in common?

	They were all students in a special “off-campus” class from the Jericho Hill School for the Deaf who spent a year at Henry Hudson in 1969-1970
	They were all social workers from Alexandra Neighbourhood House who led a series of afterschool Social Adjustment Programmes in the late 1960’s for students with persistent behavioural challenges
	They each served as Parent Teacher Association chair during the 1950’s
	They were each crowned May Queen at the school May Day celebrations in the late 1940’s (1946, 1947 and 1948 respectively)
	They were all nurses in the Well Baby Clinics run for neighbourhood parents at the school two Wednesdays per month in 1947

Question 1 Explanation:While all of the answers describe activities which did take place at the school, these particular young women were each crowned as May Queen.

Question 2

During the 1920’s, Hudson teams won City championship cups in all but which of the following:

	Girls’ basebal
	Girls’ tennis
	Boys’ baseball
	The PNE’s drawing competition for elementary schools
	Girls’ basketball

Question 2 Explanation:There were plans for an outdoor tennis court at the time, but no school tennis team.

Question 3

The hot lunch program run by the PAC has been in continuous operation in some form since:

	1919
	1924
	1945
	1967
	1983

Question 3 Explanation:The first Parent Teacher Association was formed in 1919 and disbanded in 1924 due to lack of participation. It was refounded in 1944 and has been active ever since (somewhere along the way PTAs became PACs). The hot lunch program began on November 16, 1945.

Question 4

A close neighbour of the school, built in 1908 at 1866 West 2^nd and active until it was moved to another site in 1970, was:

	The first Sikh gurdwara in North America
	The first Shinto shrine in British Columbia
	The first Buddhist monastery built outside of Chinatown in Vancouver
	The first Hindu temple in the Lower Mainland
	The first aikido school in Vancouver

Question 4 Explanation:On Vaisakhi Day in April 1970, the gurdwara moved to its present site on Ross Street at Southeast Marine Drive. Prior to World War II there were significant Sikh and Japanese communities in the neighbourhood; the closing of local sawmills saw many of the Sikh families move to other parts of the city and Lower Mainland, and the Japanese community never returned after being uprooted during the internment of Japanese Canadians during the war.

Question 5

One of Hudson’s original teachers, Miss Beulah Vermilyea, left the school in 1919, subsequently married a Presbyterian minister and by the 1940’s had moved to Bolivia where she and her husband were missionaries. Her father and grandparents homesteaded on 600 acres on Lulu Island in 1883 and were the first known family in the Lower Mainland from which religious tradition?

	Mormons
	Quakers
	Baha’is
	Doukhobors
	Rastafarians

Question 5 Explanation:Beulah’s father Walter and grandfather John also built two office buildings on Granville Street (at 869 and at 927) which are still standing.

Question 6

John William Zurbrick, one of the students in the photo of the 1915-1916 Hudson Rifle Club team (which won the City championship for that year), may have had additional motivation besides wartime patriotism and a boy’s fascination with things that go “bang” to learn how to handle a gun. Why?

	His father was a butcher and the family supplemented their diet by hunting deer in the uncleared forest to the south of the neighbourhood
	His father was a Pinkerton agent who was living under an assumed name after having been active the previous decade in repressing labour organizers in the coal mining industry in the Kootenays and on Vancouver Island
	His father was a championship marksman and a firearms trainer for the Vancouver Police Department
	His father was an immigration official, constantly accompanied by a bodyguard since the 1914 assassination by Mewa Singh of his colleague William Hopkinson after the latter’s prominent role in preventing the landing of the Komagata Maru
	His father was the importer of firearms who supplied the Vancouver school teams with their equipment and ammunition

Question 6 Explanation:His father, John Louis Zurbrick, was posted here from the United States as director of the Vancouver office of the American Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Question 7

Which of the following musical productions was not performed by Hudson students between 1972 and 1976?

	The Wizard of Oz
	As Years Go By
	Tom Sawyer
	Mr. Scrooge
	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Question 7 Explanation:During this period the school put on one musical theatre production per school year, sometimes at Christmas and sometimes in the spring.

Question 8

Hudson parents, staff and administration joined other concerned neighbourhood residents in 1987 in successfully opposing what proposed development across the street from the school?

	A liquor store
	A pool hall
	A shooting range
	An electrical panel manufacturing plant
	A halfway house

Question 8 Explanation:The community response to the proposed development was well covered by the press, prompting then Premier Bill Vander Zalm to add his voice to those expressing disapproval.

Question 9

Hudson parents, staff and administration joined other concerned neighbourhood residents in 1945 in successfully opposing what proposed development across the street from the school?

	A liquor store
	A pool hall
	A shooting range
	An electrical panel manufacturing plant
	A halfway house

Question 9 Explanation:Community response to the proposal to establish an industrial site close to the school was strongly negative. However, by the 1960’s there was a Coca-Cola bottling plant where Lululemon is now.

Question 10

Harold Clay, another student on the 1915-1916 Rifle Club team, later:

	Owned and operated both Clay’s Signs and Clay’s Wharf (the latter located near the present fishboat docks between Granville Island and the Burrard Bridge)
	Was not only one of the oldest surviving Hudson alumni (at the age of 85) to attend the 75th anniversary celebrations in 1986, but also took a lead role in organizing the event and made most of the signage for it
	Was the father of Norma Clay in Question 1 above
	Reminisced to a Vancouver Sun reporter about playing with his buddies after school in the bulrushes surrounding the small lake where the school playing fields now sit
	All of the above

Question 10 Explanation:Harold Clay is among Hudson alumni such as Nat Bailey and Coley Hall who remained local and went on to make substantial contributions to the development of Vancouver. We invite others, or those who know of them, to come forward with their stories as we prepare to celebrate Henry Hudson Elementary School’s centennial on June 21, 2012

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