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Horne-Payne Receiving Station

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Industrial building.

Associated Dates: 1913

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: 2nd Avenue

Associated Dates: 1913

Description: Industrial building.

Heritage Value: Constructed as an electrical grid substation by the B.C. Electric Railway Company, the Horne-Payne substation was part of the expansion of this utility company to central Burnaby that occurred as a result of the opening of the Burnaby Lake Interurban line in 1911. The Receiving Station is intended to rearrange the company’s system of distributing power over the whole of the Burrard Peninsula. Power will come to the transformers there and be converted and distributed to the various substations in Vancouver, New Westminster and the suburbs...Work has already been started at the foundation for the new plant. (Vancouver Daily Province, April 29, 1913) When constructed the substation was situated within a forest clearing in a largely undeveloped section of northwest Burnaby. The area now surrounding the substation is heavily developed for semi-industrial purposes. This steel-frame and poured concrete structure was designed to be utilitarian, but with decorative detailing. The south-facing front of the structure features massed corners detailed with decorative relief panels at the roofline. Additionally, this well-balanced building displayed symmetrical fenestration with blind, and tall multi-paned steel-sash windows, some crowned with keystones. A tower added to the east side of the building’s front is the most substantial change made to the appearance of the Horne-Payne substation. This industrial structure was designed by prominent British Columbian architect, Robert Lyon (1879-1963). Born in Edinburgh, Lyon apprenticed and worked as an architect in Scotland until 1908 before moving to New York in 1909. In 1911, he began his career in Vancouver as an “architectural engineer,” with the B.C. Electric Company that lasted until 1918. After a short tenure in the lumber industry, Lyon returned to architecture, this time with his own firm in Penticton. Active in municipal politics, he was instrumental in the incorporation of Penticton as a city, and became its first mayor from 1948-1949. Lyon retired from architecture in 1958 and died in 1963. Lyon also designed the Central Park Gate in Burnaby.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: West Central Valley Area

Architect: Robert Lyon

Area: 47400.00

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 3700 2nd Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Horne-Payne Receiving Station, 2015.. South elevation.. thumbnail

Historic view of the Horne-Payne Receiving Station, 1920. (View from the southwest. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 158-001. thumbnail

First Meeting of St. Alban's Church Ladies' Guild

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1913]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.9 x 9.4 cm mounted on paper 8.9 x 12.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of women dressed in fine clothes and hats, with a few children held by the women. A priest is standing by them. According to the note attached to the photograph, the photo was taken outside of the Guild Room of St. Alban's Anglican Church. The note dates this picture ca. 19…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.9 x 9.4 cm mounted on paper 8.9 x 12.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of women dressed in fine clothes and hats, with a few children held by the women. A priest is standing by them. According to the note attached to the photograph, the photo was taken outside of the Guild Room of St. Alban's Anglican Church. The note dates this picture ca. 1913, and identifies the ladies as, row four: [unidentified], Mrs. Edgar Sprott, Mrs. H.J. Burnett, Mrs. G.B.E. Rowe, Mrs. Garpin, Mrs. L.C. Hill, and Mrs. E. Godwin. Row three: Rev. Fane Edge, Miss Hart, Miss Baker, Miss Nicholls with Kathleen Sprott, Mrs. Bird. Row two: Mrs. G.K. Burnett, Mrs. Roberts and daughter Sylvia, [unidentified], Mrs. F.J. Peers, Miss K. Schou, and [unidentified] (standing). Row one: Mary Sprott, Mrs Langford, Mrs. C.R. Gordon, Mrs. R.D. Travers, [unidentified], [unidentified], and Mrs. Short [?] (standing). Notes regarding the church from the catalogue record of 1976 read: "On May 1907, Archdeacon Pentreath announced the formation of an ecclesiastical parish in south east Burnaby. The land for the church and Hall was donated by W.J. Walker. In the spring of 1909 the Church of St. Alban the Martyr was completed (renovated in 1974-75 but on same site). The building was consecrated on April 14th 1909. The first rector was Rev. David Dunlop, formerly of St. Mary's Church Sapperton. The first confirmation was held in May 1911."