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Inscription: "A Prize given by / Mr. Allen / for Regular Attendance / Awarded to / Rhoda Lang, / she having attended / the whole 424 times / that the school was open during the past year / February 1st 1903" [note handwritten and glued onto front pastedown]

Library Subject (LOC): Children's literature; Fiction--19th century

Names: Exworthy, William Albert "Bert"; Love, George Richard

Object History: Rhoda Lang was born in 1893 in Devon, England to William Henry Lang and Emla Wounacott. She and her first husband, Corp. Albert Edgar Exworthy had at least two children, W.A. Exworthy (William Albert / Bert) and Rosemary June Exworthy. After the death of her first husband in 1919, she married George Love in 1922. George adopted her children. Other accessioned items associated with Mr. Exworthy include: BV989.3.2, BV992.42.1, BV006.9.1, BV011.2, BV018.11.17, and BV018.11.19.

View Condition of John Woollards Contract re Road Not Completed

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport79253

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83303

Meeting Date: 25-Jan-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83303

Meeting Date: 25-Jan-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 83303

25-Jan-1896 Meeting Minutes

Visitation of Royal Oak Road, Johnston Road and Head of Brunetter River

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport78458

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82528

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82528

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 82528

7-Apr-1894 Meeting Minutes

Wages for Day Labor

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport79289

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83325

Meeting Date: 29-Feb-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83325

Meeting Date: 29-Feb-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 83325

29-Feb-1896 Meeting Minutes

Wagon Hire and Rut Repairs on Vancouver Road

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport77027

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76845

Meeting Date: 20-May-1899

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76845

Meeting Date: 20-May-1899

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76845

20-May-1899 Meeting Minutes

W.A. Grease Tender for Ditch on Third Avenue

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport76592

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76634

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76634

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76634

29-Oct-1898 Meeting Minutes

W. and V. Road Estimates Expended

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport79736

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 840231

Meeting Date: 4-Jun-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 840231

Meeting Date: 4-Jun-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 840231

4-Jun-1898 Meeting Minutes

W. and V. Road Work

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport76594

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76635

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76635

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76635

29-Oct-1898 Meeting Minutes

War in South Africa and the dark continent : from savagery to civilization

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2493

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Harding, William

Publication Date: c1899

Call Number: 968.2 HAR

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV975.30.6

Call Number: 968.2 HAR

Author: Harding, William

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Dominion

Publication Date: c1899

Physical Description: 11-550 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): South African War, 1899-1902; South Africa--History

Notes: "The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers. Embracing the explorations and settlements, wars and conquests, peoples and governments, resources and produces, of this the least known, yet by nature endowed as the richest and most wonderful of continents, and a detailed history of the causes and events of the British-Boer War" --T.p.XXX "Superbly illustrated with half-tone engravings made from photographs taken expressly for this book" --T.p. Author's given name and dates: Harding, William Harry, 1941-

Warning to Mr.R.G.Willwood re Replacement of Tank for Watering Trough

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport78786

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82764

Meeting Date: 15-Sep-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82764

Meeting Date: 15-Sep-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 82764

15-Sep-1894 Meeting Minutes

Waterfront Looking west from George Black's

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4775

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1890-1915

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm ; copy print

Scope and Content: Waterfront scene with land on left and water on right. Wooden dock/jetty in foreground. From left to right along the shore there are people wading, a maple tree, a slaughterhouse, a cattle yard, boating bathers, fishing. Trees and houses in background.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm ; copy print

Material Details: "Looking west from George Black's. Wading. Maple Tree. Marine ways. Saughterhouse. Cattleyard. Boating Bathers. Fishing. […]" written in black ink on bottom front of photograph. "Columbian files 1971" written on verso in black pen. "996" stamped on back.

Scope and Content: Waterfront scene with land on left and water on right. Wooden dock/jetty in foreground. From left to right along the shore there are people wading, a maple tree, a slaughterhouse, a cattle yard, boating bathers, fishing. Trees and houses in background.

History: Part of a set of photographs from the Columbian Newspaper, which operated out of New Westminster under this name starting in 1900 until its dissolution in 1988. Photographs found in the collection of the Burnaby Village are dated 1971. George Black (1831-1896). He was born in Aberdeen Scotland, and went to California, then to the Cariboo during the gold rush. He eventually settled on Hastings Street, and was well known in the surroundings of Vancouver.