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Love family fonds
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1881-1971
- Collection/Fonds
- Love family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 11 cm of textual records + 44 photographs + 5 plans
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of family records including photographs, land sale records, agreements and plans as well as estate records, vital event documentation and correspondence. Records pertain to members of the Love family including the Parkers, Hughes and Leonards. Fonds has been arranged in the followin…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Love family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 11 cm of textual records + 44 photographs + 5 plans
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of family records including photographs, land sale records, agreements and plans as well as estate records, vital event documentation and correspondence. Records pertain to members of the Love family including the Parkers, Hughes and Leonards. Fonds has been arranged in the following series: 1) Love and Leonard land records 2) Love family vital events and correspondence 3) Love family photographs
- History
- Jesse Love was born in Swindon, England in 1847 and left England to work on a dairy farm in the Toronto area. While working on the farm in Toronto, he met Martha Leonard who he married in 1879. Martha was born on February 3, 1858 in Bedfordshire, England and had come to Canada with her parents George and Ann Leonard. While living in Toronto, Jesse and Martha had two children, George born March 22, 1880 and Annie Elizabeth on August 24, 1881. About one year after Annie was born, the Love family moved to North Dakota to grow wheat. While living there, they had two more children, Henry who was born August 24, 1883 and Edith Minnie born October 9, 1885. The family decided to move further west after hearing about the fairer weather conditions from Martha’s father, George Leonard, who had settled in Vancouver in 1885. On May 23, 1887, Jesse, Martha and their four children arrived in Vancouver after travelling across Canada from Winnipeg on the first transcontinental train. The Loves made their home in Vancouver while Jesse helped clear land on Granville Street. Their fifth child, Thomas Robert was born on September 17, 1887 and soon after, the family moved to Lulu Island in Richmond where they lived growing vegetables and selling them to Vancouver hotels. While living and farming on Lulu island, the couple had two more girls, Martha (Dot or Dorothy) born on December 17, 1889 and Sarah Marie, born February 8, 1892. On October 6, 1893 an agreement was signed by Jesse Love to purchase 14.52 acres of land from Joseph C. Armstrong. The acreage covered the north east section of District Lot 25 within the newly incorporated District of the Municipality of Burnaby. It was here where the original Love house was built (between October 1893 and April 15, 1894) by Jesse Love with the help of local builder George Salt and father in law, George Leonard. The house consisted of an entrance hall, dining room, lean to kitchen, master bedroom and three bedrooms upstairs. A road was constructed and named Cumberland in 1905 and ran from District Lot 25 through to District Lot 11. The address for the Love home was 1390 Cumberland Road and in the early 1960’s the address was renumbered 7651 Cumberland Street. On the land surrounding the house, Jesse Love planted an orchard along with strawberries and raspberries which he sold at the Fraser Valley Market, T.S. Anandale’s Grocery Store in New Westminster and to hotels around Vancouver. Jesse Love served on the Burnaby School Board and also as a District Councillor in 1901 and from 1904-1907. While living in the house, Jesse and Martha had four more children, Phoebe Leonard, born April 15, 1894, Esther, born August 28, 1896, John Leonard, born June 7, 1899 and Hannah Victoria (also known as Girlie) who was born May 12, 1902. In 1918, at the age of 31 years, Thomas Robert Love fell ill due to an influenza epidemic and died on November 23, 1918. Following their son’s death, Martha Love became weak and on August 24, 1920, she passed away. By this time, Jesse had sold off a large percentage of his land and his youngest daughter, Girlie decided to stay on to live and care for him. Since the house was too large for just the two of them, Jesse invited any other children to return and share the residence. For a while his son, George and his wife joined them. In 1925 Jesse’s daughter Sarah Parker (nee Love), her husband William Michael Norton Parker and their three children, Albert “Bert” (1915-2011), William Charles “Bill” and Elsie Roberta moved from their home at 1319 Newcombe Street to join Jesse and Girlie in the Love family home on Cumberland. Jesse Love died in 1928 after which Sarah and William Parker purchased the Love family farmhouse and property. William Michael Parker, died in 1961 and Sarah Parker continued to live in the Love family farmhouse until 1966 when she sold it to her daughter Elsie and husband John Hughes. Elsie and John Hughes had four children, John Jr., Ann, Brent and Merle. The Hughes lived in the Love family house until August 1971. In 1988 the Love family farmhouse house was donated to the Burnaby Village Museum and moved to the site of Burnaby Village Museum. The interior of the main floor and exterior of the house went through an extensive restoration process. In 1997, restoration of the kitchen was completed and opened to the public. After the completion of the hallway, dining room, main floor bedroom and parlour, the Love farmhouse exhibit opened on November 29, 1998 with an open invitation to the public and extended members of the Love family.
- Responsibility
- Love Family
- Accession Code
- HV979.40
- BV985.3136
- BV988.45
- BV989.3
- BV992.15
- BV992.26
- BV992.34
- BV000.45
- BV008.20
- BV012.31
- BV019.3
- BV019.8
- Date
- 1881-1971
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Cartographic Material
- Arrangement
- Fonds has been arranged by record type and original order provided by members of the Love family.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- See also Burnaby Village Museum fonds - Jesse Love farmhouse series
Motor : April 1950, vol. 93, no. 4
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6857
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 93 no. 4
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Accession Code
- HV972.35.101
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 93 no. 4
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Hearst Magazines
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 238 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "J.H. ROBINS 3525 DOVER ST BURNABY BC" [Handwritten in blue ink on front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Equipment and supplies
- Automobiles
- Automobiles--Exhibitions
- Object History
- The tools included in this donation belonged to Samuel Robins. Samuel and his wife Sarah Ann Robins moved to Burnaby in 1918. Robins could not find work in England in 1912 so he set off for New Zealand to find work. The ship he was to have sailed upon was delayed, but he needed to arrive in New York in time for the train to connect for the ship to New Zealand, so he sailed on the Olympic -- the sister ship to the Titanic. Upon arrival in New York he wired Sarah Ann grandmother that he had arrived safely. Samuel was a stonemason who worked on many projects in the Lower Mainland, including constructing houses in Shaughnessy and he also worked in the Vancouver City Hall. The family lived on Dover Street. His granddaughter believes that he brought his tools with him when he came to Canada.
- Notes
- Roy surveyed for advertisements
Motor : August, 1950, vol. 94, no. 2
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6859
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 94 no. 2
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Accession Code
- HV972.35.99
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 94 no. 2
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Hearst Magazines
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 184 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "J.H. ROBINS 3525 DOVER ST BURNABY BC" [Handwritten in blue ink on front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Equipment and supplies
- Automobiles
- Automobiles--Exhibitions
- Object History
- The tools included in this donation belonged to Samuel Robins. Samuel and his wife Sarah Ann Robins moved to Burnaby in 1918. Robins could not find work in England in 1912 so he set off for New Zealand to find work. The ship he was to have sailed upon was delayed, but he needed to arrive in New York in time for the train to connect for the ship to New Zealand, so he sailed on the Olympic -- the sister ship to the Titanic. Upon arrival in New York he wired Sarah Ann grandmother that he had arrived safely. Samuel was a stonemason who worked on many projects in the Lower Mainland, including constructing houses in Shaughnessy and he also worked in the Vancouver City Hall. The family lived on Dover Street. His granddaughter believes that he brought his tools with him when he came to Canada.
- Notes
- Roy surveyed for advertisements
Motor : February 1950, vol. 93 no. 2
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6858
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 93 no. 2
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Textual Record
- Accession Code
- HV972.35.102
- Call Number
- 629.2 HEA vol. 93 no. 2
- Author
- Adair, Neal G.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Hearst Magazines
- Publication Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "J.H. ROBINS 3525 DOVER ST BURNABY BC" [Handwritten in blue ink on front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Equipment and supplies
- Automobiles
- Automobiles--Exhibitions
- Object History
- The tools included in this donation belonged to Samuel Robins. Samuel and his wife Sarah Ann Robins moved to Burnaby in 1918. Robins could not find work in England in 1912 so he set off for New Zealand to find work. The ship he was to have sailed upon was delayed, but he needed to arrive in New York in time for the train to connect for the ship to New Zealand, so he sailed on the Olympic -- the sister ship to the Titanic. Upon arrival in New York he wired Sarah Ann grandmother that he had arrived safely. Samuel was a stonemason who worked on many projects in the Lower Mainland, including constructing houses in Shaughnessy and he also worked in the Vancouver City Hall. The family lived on Dover Street. His granddaughter believes that he brought his tools with him when he came to Canada.
- Notes
- Roy surveyed for advertisements