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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.

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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.

Other Title Information: title based on content and note on front of photograph

Names: Black, George

Accession Code: BV018.19.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1890-1915

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 24-04-2018

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1912 or 1913]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16 cm, mounted on card 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a class at West Burnaby (later renamed Kingsway West) School sitting and standing in four rows taken in front of the school building. Most of them have their arms crossed in front of their chests. Their teacher Miss Forrest is standing at the back to the right. In the top row, the stu…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16 cm, mounted on card 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a class at West Burnaby (later renamed Kingsway West) School sitting and standing in four rows taken in front of the school building. Most of them have their arms crossed in front of their chests. Their teacher Miss Forrest is standing at the back to the right. In the top row, the students (from the left) Elmer McNeill, Fred Dimmick, Harold Mawson, Richmond Allen, Jack Greenwood, Alfred Hicks, Freddy Barker, Edward Geddes, Herbert Mayne and Wilson Forshaw. In the second row are; James Harding, Ralph Kinnis, Robert Dick, Bernard Johnson, Duncan Williams, Willie Hooker, George Hall, Willie Alderson, Willie Coe, Jack Bellsmith, Philip Gibbens and Harry Smith. In the third row are; Douglas Alderson, Stafford Steadman, Doris [illegible], Agnes Maclean, Dorothy Williamson, Mabel Vaughn, Gordon Willmore and David Reynolds. Sitting in the front row are; Melinda Richards, Beulah Allen, Margaret Robertson, [illegible] Geddes, Pauline Capelle, Marvel Simpies, Dorothy Mayne and Anne Hayes.

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Kingsway West School; Forrest, Annie Theresa; McNeill, Elmer; Dimmick, Fred; Mawson, Harold; Allen, Richmond; Greenwood, Jack; Hicks, Alfred; Barker, Freddy; Geddes, Edward; Mayne, Herbert; Forshaw, William; Harding, James; Kinnis, Ralph; Dick, Robert; Johnson, Bernard; Williams, Duncan; Hooker, Willie; Hall, George; Alderson, Willie; Coe, Willie; Bellsmith, Jack; Gibbens, Philip; Smith, Harry; Alderson, Douglas; Steadman, Stafford; Maclean, Agnes; Williamson, Dorothy; Vaughn, Mabel; Willmore, Gordon; Reynolds, David; Richards, Melinda; Allen, Beulah; Robertson, Margaret; Capelle, Pauline; Simpies, Marvel; Mayne, Dorothy; Hayes, Anne

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 4800 Kingsway

Accession Code: BV999.2.59

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1912 or 1913]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in purple pencil crayon on verso of card mount reads: "Top row. 1st row rt. to left. Wilson Forshaw, Herbert Mayne, Edward Geddes, Freddy Barker, Alfred Hicks, Jack Greenwood, Richmond Allen, Harold Mawson, Fred Dimmick, Elmer McNeill / 2nd row rt. to left. Harry Smith, Philip Gibbens, Jack Bellsmith, Willie Coe, Willie Alderson, George Hall, Willie Hooker, Duncan Williams, Bernard Johnson, Robert Dick, Ralph Kinnis, James Harding / 3rd row. rt. to left. David Reynolds, Gordon Willmore, Mabel Vaughn, Dorothy Williamson, Agnes Maclean, Doris [illegible], Stafford Steadman, Douglas Alderson / 4th row. Anne Hayes, Dorothy Mayne, Marvel Simpies, Pauline Capelle, [illegible] Geddes, Margaret Robertson, Beulah Allen and Melinda Richards."; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "1912 or 1913"

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