"New Westminster" found 8 records

for whatever the future held for it. Low hills sloped gently down to a central valley where two shimmering lakes received their life-fluids from small waterways. To the west, the future city of Vancouver was stretching out, while to the east, New Westminster was growing steadily. It was inevitable that

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

Call Number: 971.133 MCG COPY 4

Author: McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: Century Park Museum Association

Publication Date: 1976; c1975

Physical Description: 108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--History

Notes: 4 copies held: copy 4.

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Pioneer tales of Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c1987

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

he saw smoke rising into a sky that was all red to the south, George Leaf remembered his stepdad saying, sombrely: "Some other poor bugger's losing his home." Not until the next day did M r . Burgess find out that it wasn't just another house but the city of New Westminster going up in flames! George

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 096928280x

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

Contributor: Sone, Michael

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: Corporation of the District of Burnaby

Publication Date: c1987

Physical Description: 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Inscription: "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page

Library Subject (LOC): Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby; Frontier and pioneer life; Biography

Object History: Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.

Notes: "Editor Michael Sone".; Includes index.; 4 copies held: copy 4

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The fairground organ : its music, mechanism and history

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Cockayne, Eric V.

Publication Date: 1970

Call Number: 789.7 COC

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0715349856

Call Number: 789.7 COC

Author: Cockayne, Eric V.

Contributor: Leach, Ronald, Sir, 1907-

Place of Publication: England

Publisher: Newton Abbot, - David & Charles

Publication Date: 1970

Physical Description: 239 p. : ill. (1 col), music ; 23 cm

Inscription: "Unknown source / via Maurice / Technical info / on Wurlitzers", written on post-it note inserted in front cover.; "WITHDRAWN FROM / NEW WESTMINSTER / PUBLIC LIBRARY", stamped on inside front cover page and title page.