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Woodworking Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant located at 7730 6th Street. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory. Note the spur street car line (no. 2) where B.C. Electric Railway freight cars could load and unload.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-106

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant located at 7730 6th Street. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory. Note the spur street car line (no. 2) where B.C. Electric Railway freight cars could load and unload.

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Factories

Names: Cliff's Can Factory; James Brookes Woodworking Limited; Western Canadian Can Factory

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 6th Street

Street Address: 7730 6th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

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Woodworking Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 13th Avenue. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-107

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 13th Avenue. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory.

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Factories

Names: Cliff's Can Factory; James Brookes Woodworking Limited; Western Canadian Can Factory

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 6th Street

Street Address: 7730 6th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

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Woodworking Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 6th Street. It was an East Burnaby landmark, established in 1902 as a can company by Edwin Cliff. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-108

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 6th Street. It was an East Burnaby landmark, established in 1902 as a can company by Edwin Cliff. This site has also served as Cliff's Can Factory and Western Canadian Can Factory.

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Factories

Names: Cliff's Can Factory; James Brookes Woodworking Limited; Western Canadian Can Factory

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 6th Street

Street Address: 7730 6th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

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Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Names: United Fraser Growers Limited

Accession Code: BV019.11.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers, [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Workers outside of United Fraser Growers

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Subjects: Persons - Chinese Canadians

Names: Law, Yee "Herbert"; United Fraser Growers Limited

Accession Code: BV019.11.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Workers outside of United Fraser Growers, [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Work group from the Bay

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1920 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of staff who worked at the "Mirror Room" which was the dressmaking department at "The Bay" department store. Flossie Parsons (nee Smith) is identified in the third row, third person from the left.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of staff who worked at the "Mirror Room" which was the dressmaking department at "The Bay" department store. Flossie Parsons (nee Smith) is identified in the third row, third person from the left.

History: Flossie Maude Parsons (nee Smith) was born to George Henry Smith, a farm labourer, and Harriet Ann Savage on February 13, 1896 in Ealing, England. She immigrated to Canada with some of her family members in the early 1920s. They lived in Winnipeg for a few years as an older brother had settled there in 1912. She married Herbert Russell Parsons on June 23, 1928. They first lived in Vancouver and finally bought a home at 7091 Jubilee Avenue, South Burnaby in the early 1930s. In 1943, Flossie was certified in Home Nursing. Herbert Parsons was active during the Second World War as a volunteer for Civil Defence in Burnaby and worked as a salesman for Woodwards. The couple had no children. Herbert passed away on May 23rd, 1957 (age 84) and Flossie passed away on April 6, 1996 (age 100).

Other Title Information: Title based on content of photograph

Names: Parsons, Flossie Maude Smith

Accession Code: BV017.38.12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1920 and 1930]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Date: 26-Mar-2018

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Work group from the Bay, [between 1920 and 1930] thumbnail

Working dredge

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: March 1951 (date of original), copied [1985]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of working dredge for clearing channel through Burnaby Lake, March 1951.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 10 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of working dredge for clearing channel through Burnaby Lake, March 1951.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds

Accession Code: BV985.457.6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: March 1951 (date of original), copied [1985]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Scan Resolution: 1200

Scan Date: 2022-06-07

Photographer: Lindsay, Jack

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Working dredge, March 1951 (date of original), copied [1985] thumbnail

Working on a bridge

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 12.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of three men working on a wooden bridge structure next to a small cabin, alongside a river. The location is identifed as Dewdney.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 12.1 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-141

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of three men working on a wooden bridge structure next to a small cabin, alongside a river. The location is identifed as Dewdney.

Subjects: Construction - Bridge Construction; Structures - Bridges; Occupations - Labourers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Working on an Austin 7

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1933 and 1940]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man working on a Austin 7 (looks to be the 1933 model). He is standing in overalls with a cloth in his hand, holding the passenger side door open. There is a tire on the ground at his feet.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1933 and 1940]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Kay North subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 269-003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1991-38

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man working on a Austin 7 (looks to be the 1933 model). He is standing in overalls with a cloth in his hand, holding the passenger side door open. There is a tire on the ground at his feet.

Subjects: Transportation - Automobiles

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Working on fighting map

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in a military uniform seated at a table and looking over maps in wooded area during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base military training camp in Shilo, Manitoba.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in a military uniform seated at a table and looking over maps in wooded area during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base military training camp in Shilo, Manitoba.

Subjects: Public Services - Military Services; Clothing - Military Uniforms

Names: Canadian Armed Forces

Accession Code: BV996.6.54

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1937

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-02-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption for photograph reads: "working on fighting map"; Handwritten text in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Working on / Fighting mpa / Shilo / 1937"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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Working on fighting map

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1936

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Crichton Hawkshaw working on a fighting map in a field at Canadian Forces Base military training camp at Sarcee, Alberta.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Crichton Hawkshaw working on a fighting map in a field at Canadian Forces Base military training camp at Sarcee, Alberta.

Subjects: Public Services - Military Services

Names: Hawkshaw, Richard Crichton Gilliland "Crichton"; Canadian Armed Forces

Accession Code: BV996.6.69

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1936

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-02-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption beneath photograph reads: "Working on a / fighting map"; Handwritten note on verso of photograph reads: "Sarcee / 1936 / Fighting / map"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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Work Party

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1958]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ;11.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people seated on the stairs of a porch near Wilson Creek. People are identified in the front row L to R: Mr. Don, Jamieson, Mr. Morgan Jenkins, (one of the Harrower children), Mrs. J.W. Roper, Mr. Wm. Harrower and in the back row L to R: Mr. J. G. Fowler, Mr. Neil McLean, M…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Series: Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ;11.5 x 8.5 cm

Material Details: Handwritten text in pencil on back of photograph reads: "Guides".

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people seated on the stairs of a porch near Wilson Creek. People are identified in the front row L to R: Mr. Don, Jamieson, Mr. Morgan Jenkins, (one of the Harrower children), Mrs. J.W. Roper, Mr. Wm. Harrower and in the back row L to R: Mr. J. G. Fowler, Mr. Neil McLean, Miss Ethel Steele, Mrs. Wm. Harrower, Mr. Dick Hardy and Mrs. J.G. Fowler.

Subjects: Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs

Names: Girl Guides of Canada; Jenkins, Morgan; Jamieson, Donald H.; Roper, Isabelle; Harrower, William; Fowler, J.G.; McLean, Neil; Steele, Ethel; Hardy, Dick; Fowler, Mrs. J.G.; Harrower, Mrs. William

Accession Code: BV015.35.255

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1958]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on caption of photograph; Note in black ink on scrapbook page reads: "Work Party (1958) / Front Row L to R : Mr. Don Jamison; Mr. Morgan Jenkins, (one of the Harrower children), Mrs. J. W. Roper, Mr. Wm. Harrower. / Back Row : Mr. J.G. Fowler, Mr. Neil Mclean, Miss Ethel Steele, Mrs. Wm. / Harrower, Mr. Dick Hardy & Mrs. J.G. Fowler"; Photograph is a part of scrapbook "Burnaby Girl Guides. -- [1914]-1969, predominant ca. 1920" (BV.015.35.164)

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Works record

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1949-1950

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

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1949-1950

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 3864

Accession Number: 2001-02

Media Type: Textual Record

World War One Memorial

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of the World War One memorial in front of the Municipal Hall at Edmonds and Kingsway. The memorial is inscribed "In memory of our fellow workers who fell in the war 1914-1918 / Erected by the Civic Employees Union - Burnaby - 1923." In 1974, this memorial was relocated from …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.5 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 449-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of the World War One memorial in front of the Municipal Hall at Edmonds and Kingsway. The memorial is inscribed "In memory of our fellow workers who fell in the war 1914-1918 / Erected by the Civic Employees Union - Burnaby - 1923." In 1974, this memorial was relocated from its original setting to the site of the Burnaby Village Museum on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Postcards; Monuments - War Memorials; Wars - World War, 1914-1918; Fountains

Names: Burnaby Civic Employees Union; Burnaby City Hall

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.

Geographic Access: Kingsway; Edmonds Street

Street Address: 7282 Kingsway; 6501 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

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Worry wart

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1937]

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the G.P.O.A. "worry wart" at Canadian Forces Base / Area Support Unit Shilo, Manitoba.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the G.P.O.A. "worry wart" at Canadian Forces Base / Area Support Unit Shilo, Manitoba.

Subjects: Clothing - Military Uniforms

Accession Code: BV996.6.27

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1937]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2/16/2010

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption for photograph reads: "Worry Wart"; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "The 'worry wart' / GPOA / Shilo / 1937"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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Wray family house

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [192-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Wray family house located at 2351 Dow Road (old street number). Note the ladders and minor construction on the verandah. There are brambles, weeds and tall plants growing around the house.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Material Details: inscribed in pencil, verso, t. "Home of Mr + Mrs Edward Wray/ 2351 Dow Road. (with half/ of verandah filled in)", stamped upside down, l.r. "0020"; The name "velox" is lightly printed on the back of the photo paper: thus, the photograph is printed on Kodak velox photo paper made in early 1900s for amateur photography.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Wray family house located at 2351 Dow Road (old street number). Note the ladders and minor construction on the verandah. There are brambles, weeds and tall plants growing around the house.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Geographic Access: Dow Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Dow Avenue

Accession Code: BV985.439.3

Date: [192-]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 16-Jan-24

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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W.R. Beamish

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1950] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.1 x 11.9 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of William R. Beamish, Reeve of Burnaby from 1950 to 1953 and Council member from 1943 to 1950.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1950] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.1 x 11.9 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 126-017

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of William R. Beamish, Reeve of Burnaby from 1950 to 1953 and Council member from 1943 to 1950.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Beamish, William Randolph "Ran"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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W.R. Beamish, [1950] (date of original), copied [1995] thumbnail

Wreckage of plane crash

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the wreckage of a small airplane crash on a frozen lake near Quesnel. Smoke can be seen rising from the fuselage and a great deal of damage is apparent. The aircraft belonged to well-known B.C. aviator, Ginger Coote.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-166

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the wreckage of a small airplane crash on a frozen lake near Quesnel. Smoke can be seen rising from the fuselage and a great deal of damage is apparent. The aircraft belonged to well-known B.C. aviator, Ginger Coote.

Subjects: Accidents; Transportation - Air; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Wreckage of plane crash, [1932] thumbnail

Wreck at Britannia Beach mill

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: Apr. 1939

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of damage done to the Britannia mill building and conveyor due to an incline railway accident. The accident occurred on April 6, 1939 whereby a locomotive with flat cars rushed down the slope hitting the mill conveyor.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of damage done to the Britannia mill building and conveyor due to an incline railway accident. The accident occurred on April 6, 1939 whereby a locomotive with flat cars rushed down the slope hitting the mill conveyor.

Subjects: Industries - Mining; Accidents - Train Accidents

Accession Code: BV996.6.257

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: Apr. 1939

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Date: 2023-02-16

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption on page of photograph album reads: "WRECK / 1939"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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Wreck at Britannia Beach mill

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: Apr. 1939

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of damage done to the Britannia mill building and conveyor due to an incline railway accident. The accident occurred on April 6, 1939 whereby a locomotive with flat cars rushed down the slope hitting the mill conveyor.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of damage done to the Britannia mill building and conveyor due to an incline railway accident. The accident occurred on April 6, 1939 whereby a locomotive with flat cars rushed down the slope hitting the mill conveyor.

Subjects: Industries - Mining; Accidents - Train Accidents

Accession Code: BV996.6.258

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: Apr. 1939

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Date: 2023-02-14

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption on page of photograph album reads: "WRECK / 1939"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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