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McGregor family subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910]-[1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
56 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the Duncan C. and Margaret McGregor family and estate, know as Glen-Lyon.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910]-[1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
McGregor family subseries
Physical Description
56 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS2003-14
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the Duncan C. and Margaret McGregor family and estate, know as Glen-Lyon.
Media Type
Photograph
Creator
McGregor, Duncan C. (1853-1929)
Notes
PC 453
Title based on contents of subseries
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Peers family subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription167
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1900-1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
Photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of a Peer family album of photographs of “Greyfriars,” the Peers’ family home, and various places throughout British Columbia where Arthur Francis Peers travelled and worked. The album is annotated with notes and titles made by members of the Peers family.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1900-1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Peers family subseries
Physical Description
Photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2007-04
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of a Peer family album of photographs of “Greyfriars,” the Peers’ family home, and various places throughout British Columbia where Arthur Francis Peers travelled and worked. The album is annotated with notes and titles made by members of the Peers family.
Media Type
Photograph
Creator
Peers family
Notes
Annotations likely written by Kitty Peers
Title based on contents of subseries
PC020
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Trudi Tuomi subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1937 and 1945]-1996
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1937 and 1945]-1996
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Trudi Tuomi subseries
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1996-20
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
History
Gustav and Aune Rintanen came to Vancouver from a mixed farm on the prairies in 1936 with the hopes of finding employment. The couple had two children: nine year old Aili (later Topalian) and eight year old Trudi (later Tuomi), when they moved to a “squatters shack” at North Burnaby’s waterfront Crabtown community in 1937. They paid 50 dollars for their two-room cabin, which was built on a platform and supported by pilings. Though the squatters’ homes that ran along the Inlet were commonly referred to as shacks and Crabtown a slum, in reality they were very neatly kept homes in a community. Crabtown residents rallied together to build a water supply system and trails up the steep bluff with stairs and banisters so children could go to school safely. Before Gustav found a job, he “busied himself with fixing up the place”: building a new chimney, railing, wood shed, clothes line and sauna for his family. By 1940, he was working at the mill near Windermere pool (now New Brighton Park). Aune worked as a dishwasher and prep cook at Ye Olde English Fish and Chips in downtown Vancouver. In 1946, they sold the cabin for two hundred dollars and moved to a small house. All Crabtown squatters were eventually evicted in 1959.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Tuomi, Trudi Rintanen
Notes
Title based on contents and creator of subseries
PC337, MSS144
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