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Interview with Minard Hill February 9, 1978 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1893-1913

Length: 0:10:01

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill's early memories of the neighbourhood of Burnaby Lake, including the houses that his father built. Gerry discusses his early work as a surveyor.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill's early memories of the neighbourhood of Burnaby Lake, including the houses that his father built. Gerry discusses his early work as a surveyor.

Date Range: 1893-1913

Photo Info: Minard Gerald Hill in uniform, 1914. Item no. 477-926

Length: 0:10:01

Names: Hill, Bernard R

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Stevens, Colin

Interview Date: February 9, 1978

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill conducted by Colin Stevens, February 9, 1978. Major themes discussed are: the Burnaby Lake Neighbourhood, Gilley Brothers Logging Company and his father, Bernard Hill.

Biographical Notes: Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill was born in Burnaby on July 31, 1893 to Marian (Berkeley) and Bernard Richard Hill. He was the youngest child in the family with older siblings Frank, Claude and Winnie. Bernard R. Hill was born in Bengal, India while his father worked for the East Indian Railway. He and his older brother Claude became strawberry farmers in Burnaby despite their years of training as engineers. Between them, the Hill brothers owned all the land between Burnaby Lake and Deer Lake where Deer Creek runs, and half way around Deer Lake. Bernard built his family home at Douglas Road near Deer Lake in 1892. After the decline in the strawberry industry, Bernard worked as a surveyor for the municipality. He also served as Burnaby Councillor and School Trustee. Gerry attended Miss Harriet Woodward’s kindergarten class, and went on to Edmonds School with Miss Ellen Lister as his teacher. He later went to Central high school in New Westminster, often on horseback. Gerry served in World War I, signing his recruitment papers November 9, 1914. When he returned home, he worked felling trees, then as an apprentice surveyor and finally as a carpenter. Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill married Charlotte Elizabeth “Elizabeth” Vidal on September 28, 1920 and single-handedly built a house for him and his wife about a thousand feet from his parents’ home. He also bought property at Yellow Point, Vancouver Island around this time. By the early 1930s Gerry had moved to Yellow Point permanently and begun work building the lodge. Elizabeth and Gerry’s child, Richard Grant McEwan Hill was born at Ladysmith hospital. Charlotte Elizabeth “Elizabeth” (Vidal) Hill died February 11, 1984 at the age of eighty-seven. Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill died January 30, 1988 at the age of ninety-three.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 1:13:56

Interviewee Name: Hill, Minard Gerald "Gerry"

Interview Location: Yellow Point, Vancouver Island

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

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Minard Gerald Hill in uniform, 1914. Item no. 477-926 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Minard Hill

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Interview with Minard Hill February 9, 1978 - Track 3

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1880-1914

Length: 0:10:09

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill's relatives in England, his father's early life as well as life on the strawberry farm in Burnaby.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill's relatives in England, his father's early life as well as life on the strawberry farm in Burnaby.

Date Range: 1880-1914

Photo Info: Minard Gerald Hill in uniform, 1914. Item no. 477-926

Length: 0:10:09

Names: Hill, Bernard R

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Canada Way

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Interviewer: Stevens, Colin

Interview Date: February 9, 1978

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Minard Gerald "Gerry" Hill conducted by Colin Stevens, February 9, 1978. Major themes discussed are: the Burnaby Lake Neighbourhood, Gilley Brothers Logging Company and his father, Bernard Hill.

Biographical Notes: Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill was born in Burnaby on July 31, 1893 to Marian (Berkeley) and Bernard Richard Hill. He was the youngest child in the family with older siblings Frank, Claude and Winnie. Bernard R. Hill was born in Bengal, India while his father worked for the East Indian Railway. He and his older brother Claude became strawberry farmers in Burnaby despite their years of training as engineers. Between them, the Hill brothers owned all the land between Burnaby Lake and Deer Lake where Deer Creek runs, and half way around Deer Lake. Bernard built his family home at Douglas Road near Deer Lake in 1892. After the decline in the strawberry industry, Bernard worked as a surveyor for the municipality. He also served as Burnaby Councillor and School Trustee. Gerry attended Miss Harriet Woodward’s kindergarten class, and went on to Edmonds School with Miss Ellen Lister as his teacher. He later went to Central high school in New Westminster, often on horseback. Gerry served in World War I, signing his recruitment papers November 9, 1914. When he returned home, he worked felling trees, then as an apprentice surveyor and finally as a carpenter. Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill married Charlotte Elizabeth “Elizabeth” Vidal on September 28, 1920 and single-handedly built a house for him and his wife about a thousand feet from his parents’ home. He also bought property at Yellow Point, Vancouver Island around this time. By the early 1930s Gerry had moved to Yellow Point permanently and begun work building the lodge. Elizabeth and Gerry’s child, Richard Grant McEwan Hill was born at Ladysmith hospital. Charlotte Elizabeth “Elizabeth” (Vidal) Hill died February 11, 1984 at the age of eighty-seven. Minard Gerald “Gerry” Hill died January 30, 1988 at the age of ninety-three.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 1:13:56

Interviewee Name: Hill, Minard Gerald "Gerry"

Interview Location: Yellow Point, Vancouver Island

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

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Audio Tracks

Track three of interview with Minard Hill

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 2

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory442

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1893-1944

Length: 00:05:35

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s parents’ history (Ethel Leer and Alfred Lewarne) and growing up in South Burnaby.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s parents’ history (Ethel Leer and Alfred Lewarne) and growing up in South Burnaby.

Date Range: 1893-1944

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:05:35

Names: Lewarne, Ethel Leer

Subjects: Recreational Activities; Persons - Children

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

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Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track two of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Jane Ann Rollason

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm + 1 piece of wood

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm + 1 piece of wood

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-118

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

Names: Hill, Jane Sophia Ann Rollason

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Jane Ann Rollinson / (wife of Richard Hill) / (Grandmother of Minard Hill); Note in pencil on verso reads: "Jane Ann nee Rollison (Hill)"; Photograph stamp on verso reads: "From the Photographic Studio W Sherwoood, / 23 Nook Street, Workincton, / This or ... can be enlar... in oil or water colours. / Negatives ... always be had"; Note in blue pen on piece of wood taped to the album page reads: "Mother of K Claude Hill B R Hill / Jane Hill Nee Rolston / Grand Mother of K M Peers"

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Jane Ann Rollason

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1860-1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 6 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-119

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Jane Ann Rollason.

Names: Hill, Jane Sophia Ann Rollason

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page reads: "____ Berkeley / (Marian (Berkeley) Hill's mother)"; Photograph stamp on recto reads: "William Heath / 24 George Street / Plymouth"

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J. Keating

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66423

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1891

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young man. On the back of the photograph is written "Yours very truly, J. Keating 9/3/1891."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1891

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1037

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young man. On the back of the photograph is written "Yours very truly, J. Keating 9/3/1891."

Names: Keating, J.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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John Hart

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35918

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1893 (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 John Hart (father of Florence Hart Godwin) driving a buggy. He was a real estate tycoon from New Westminster.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1893 (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.: 204-777

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of John Hart (father of Florence Hart Godwin) driving a buggy. He was a real estate tycoon from New Westminster.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Carriages

Names: Hart, Frederick John (1884-1945)

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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John Hart, 1893 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Julia "Jue" Jones Owens

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1888 and 1898]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1888 and 1898]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 6.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens.

Names: Owens, Julia "Jue" Jones

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Photograph stamp on verso reads: "J. Barron's, / Photograph Gallery, / (over A. Ley's Store,) / Sarnia / Copies can be had at any time. / Negatives kept."; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Aunt 'Jue' (Julia) / B. 1873 . M. William G. Owens"

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Julia "Jue" Jones Owens

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1888 and 1898]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 4.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1888 and 1898]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 4.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-010

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens.

Names: Owens, Julia "Jue" Jones

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on the verso reads: "Gr. Aunt Jue"; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Aunt 'Jue' (Julia) / B. 1873 . M. William G. Owens"

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Julia "Jue" Jones Owens, Charlotte Vidal and Dorothy Vidal

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1898 and 1890]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph shows two girls identified as Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal Hill and Dorothy Kate Vidal Loomis and a woman, identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens feeding a dog.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1898 and 1890]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 13 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-037

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph shows two girls identified as Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal Hill and Dorothy Kate Vidal Loomis and a woman, identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens feeding a dog.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs; Persons - Children

Names: Hill, Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal; Loomis, Dorothy Kate Vidal

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph and contents of photograph; Note in pencil on album page photograph reads: "Aunt Julia / Charlotte (L) / Dorothy Vidal (R)"; Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Aunt Julia / Mom / Aunt Dor / Chicago"

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Kirby Cottage

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39579

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1892

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.2 x 9.4 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a cottage identified as the Kirby cottage in Whonnock, BC. A fence is seen in the foreground and cleared land can be seen in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1892

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.2 x 9.4 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-898

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a cottage identified as the Kirby cottage in Whonnock, BC. A fence is seen in the foreground and cleared land can be seen in the background.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Cabins

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Kitty Deacon

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Kitty Deacon (nee Kenrick). Kitty was a sister to Annie Kenrick (later Annie Hill).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1015

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Kitty Deacon (nee Kenrick). Kitty was a sister to Annie Kenrick (later Annie Hill).

Names: Deacon, Kitty Kenrick

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Kitty Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1899]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill as an infant sitting in front of a chair on the ground in front of an unidentified home.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1899]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-096

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill as an infant sitting in front of a chair on the ground in front of an unidentified home.

Names: Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Kitty Hill's first birthday

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: October 10, 1899

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 14cm on mat 10.5 x 16 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of Kitty Hill on her first birthday. Her date of birth was October 10, 1898.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: October 10, 1899

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 14cm on mat 10.5 x 16 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of Kitty Hill on her first birthday. Her date of birth was October 10, 1898.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits; Toys

Names: Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Easthope & Co.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Kitty Hill's first birthday, October 10, 1899 thumbnail

L. Claude Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1895]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 10 cm in glass and wood frame 6.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of L. Claude Hill. Claude was the husband of Annie Sara Kenrick and the father of Katherine Maude "Kitty" Hill (later Kitty Peers).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1895]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 10 cm in glass and wood frame 6.5 x 10.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-053

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of L. Claude Hill. Claude was the husband of Annie Sara Kenrick and the father of Katherine Maude "Kitty" Hill (later Kitty Peers).

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Russell Photo Studio

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Lizette James Wedding

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1894

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.5 x 20 cm on cardboard 20 x 25.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a wedding party identified on the back of the picture as the "Lizette James Wedding, 1894." Annie Hill (nee Kenrick) was a bridesmaid in the wedding (and cousin to Lizette) and is identified as the fourth from the left (seated).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1894

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.5 x 20 cm on cardboard 20 x 25.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-940

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a wedding party identified on the back of the picture as the "Lizette James Wedding, 1894." Annie Hill (nee Kenrick) was a bridesmaid in the wedding (and cousin to Lizette) and is identified as the fourth from the left (seated).

Subjects: Ceremonies - Weddings

Names: Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Lizette James Wedding 1894 / ASH Bridesmaid - "; Note in black pen on verso reads: "(4th from Left) My Grandmother Hill / Grandmother of RCK Peers"

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Loading Strawberries, BCERy, Douglas Road, Burnaby BC

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66211

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1894

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on cardboard 22 x 27.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of farmers loading their crates onto a railway car. Identified (left to right), Bernard R. Hill, Louis Claude Hill, Charles Frederick Sprott, George E. Clayton, and Louis "Edgar" Sprott, who are loading up their strawberries on a street car. The farmers are lined up in a row,…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1894

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on cardboard 22 x 27.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-938

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of farmers loading their crates onto a railway car. Identified (left to right), Bernard R. Hill, Louis Claude Hill, Charles Frederick Sprott, George E. Clayton, and Louis "Edgar" Sprott, who are loading up their strawberries on a street car. The farmers are lined up in a row, each sitting in their own horse and cart as they bring their strawberries to the station.

Subjects: Agriculture - Fruit and Berries; Transportation - Electric Railroads; Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Carts; Occupations - Farmers; Transportation - Wagons; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company; Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"; Hill, Bernard R.; Every-Clayton, George; Sprott, Louis "Edgar"; Sprott, Charles Frederick

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption on recto of photograph reads: "Loading Strawberries, B.C.E.Ry., Douglas Rd., Burnaby, B.C."

Geographic Access: Douglas Road

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Loading Strawberries, BCERy, Douglas Road, Burnaby BC, 1894 thumbnail

Looking north across the Fraser River

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 24 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of New Westminster, taken from Surrey's Brownsville dock area on the south side of the Fraser River, with the span of the city's downtown and residential area in a panorama from the foot of 8th Street on the left as far east as Elliot Street on the extreme right. The peeled and chamfered…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 24 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-903

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of New Westminster, taken from Surrey's Brownsville dock area on the south side of the Fraser River, with the span of the city's downtown and residential area in a panorama from the foot of 8th Street on the left as far east as Elliot Street on the extreme right. The peeled and chamfered logs on the riverbank were transported by skid road and river and are typical of how Burnaby logs would have been stored prior to milling by the sawmill companies located in the city. The large white church building on the right is St. Peters Catholic Church built in 1886 at Blackwood and Columbia streets. Note that the large building at the center on the waterfront is the New Westminster City Market building (It has the central gable and arched opening). It was located on Front Street at Lytton Square and served as the primary place for Burnaby's market gardeners to sell their produce. To the right of the City Market is the city's original Chinatown located on the east end of Front Street.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Rivers; Maunfactured Products - Logs

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1894]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 15.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1894]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 15.5 x 11 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-011

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a young woman identified as Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal.

Names: Vidal, Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Note in black pen on verso reads: "Louisa Vidal (Jones)"; Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Lesley's Gan"; Note in pencil on verso reads: "b. 1870 / d. 1943"; Photograph stamp on recto reads: "Zweifel Duluth / Cramer Prize, St. Louis Photo Convention 1894"; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Louisa Sophia Jones / 1875-1943" (verso of paper to which 550-007:550-010 were attached)

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Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1890]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 6.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-022

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones Vidal.

Names: Vidal, Louisa Sophia "Lou" Jones

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page reads: " 'To Dear Aunt Alicia' Hyde / From Lou (Louisa) Jones / c. 1890"; Note in black pen on verso reads: "For Dear Alicia with / Lou's best love"; Note in pencil on verso reads: "For dear Alicia with / Lou's best love"; Photograph stamp on verso reads: "J. Barron, / Photo. / Sarnia."

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