"Government" found 78 records

Plans for the Proposed Government Wharf on Burrard Inlet

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 48918

Meeting Date: 16-Jun-1947

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: 48918

Meeting Date: 16-Jun-1947

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 48918

16-Jun-1947 Meeting Minutes

Proposed New Provincial Liquor Licensing System Proposed Privatization of Government Liquor Stores

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 64198

Meeting Date: 12-Aug-2002

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 21

Item No.: 1

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 64198

Meeting Date: 12-Aug-2002

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 21

Item No.: 1

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

Documents

Report 64198

12-Aug-2002 Meeting Minutes

Proposed Traffic Signal on Government Street at Halston Court

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 65686

Meeting Date: 13-Dec-2004

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 65686

Meeting Date: 13-Dec-2004

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 65686

13-Dec-2004 Meeting Minutes

Provincial Government Closure of the Burnaby Courts

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63829

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-2002

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 9

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63829

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-2002

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 9

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

Documents

Report 63829

21-Jan-2002 Meeting Minutes

Provincial Government Supervision over Kingsway Widening

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 48464

Meeting Date: 23-Aug-1948

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: 48464

Meeting Date: 23-Aug-1948

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 48464

23-Aug-1948 Meeting Minutes

Recommendation that Any Employee of Burnaby requesting Leave of Absence on Account of National Defence Service be Granted Same and be Paid the Difference of His Own Salary and the Amount Received from the Government

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 70830

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-1940

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: 70830

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-1940

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 70830

11-Sep-1940 Meeting Minutes

Request for Bus Route on Government Street, Cariboo Road, Armstrong Avenue, Cumberland Road, 16th Avenue and 2nd Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 49212

Meeting Date: 11-Feb-1946

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: 49212

Meeting Date: 11-Feb-1946

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 49212

11-Feb-1946 Meeting Minutes

Resolution Urging the Provincial Government to Complete the 12 Mile Gap in the Hope-Princeton Highway and Thereby Open an Alternate Means of Travel and Transport in the Event of a Closing By Enemy Action, the Trans-Canada Highway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 70483

Meeting Date: 7-Jan-1942

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: 70483

Meeting Date: 7-Jan-1942

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 70483

7-Jan-1942 Meeting Minutes

Resolution Urging the Provincial Government to Complete the Twelve Mile Gap in the Hope-Princeton Section of the Southern Transprovincial Highway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 70782

Meeting Date: 17-Dec-1941

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: 70782

Meeting Date: 17-Dec-1941

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 70782

17-Dec-1941 Meeting Minutes

Rezoning Reference #03-52 - 7558 Government Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 65448

Meeting Date: 19-Jul-2004

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 20

Item No.: 9

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 65448

Meeting Date: 19-Jul-2004

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 20

Item No.: 9

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

Documents

Report 65448

19-Jul-2004 Meeting Minutes

Senior Government Funding Reductions for Child Care

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 66904

Meeting Date: 26-Mar-2007

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 66904

Meeting Date: 26-Mar-2007

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 66904

26-Mar-2007 Meeting Minutes

Traffic on Government Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63005

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-2000

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63005

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-2000

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 63005

11-Sep-2000 Meeting Minutes

Urban Trail Bicycle Connection on Former Government Street Right of Way

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63740

Meeting Date: 5-Nov-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 27

Item No.: 6

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63740

Meeting Date: 5-Nov-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 27

Item No.: 6

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

Documents

Report 63740

5-Nov-2001 Meeting Minutes

Interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1957-2022] (interview content), interviewed 2 Dec. 2022

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (49 min., 21 sec.)

Scope and Content: Item consists of an oral history interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Assistant Curator, Kate Petrusa. Raj Chouhan shares his ancestral background and personal experiences immigrating to Canada from India in 1973 and living and working in Canada as an immigrant…

1 document 1 audio

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Subseries: South Asian Canadian Interviews subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (49 min., 21 sec.)

Material Details: Interviewer: Kate Petrusa Interviewee: Honourable Raj Chouhan Location of Interview: Residence of Honourable Raj Chouhan Interview Date: December 2, 2022 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: (00:49:21) Digital master recording (wav) was converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby

Scope and Content: Item consists of an oral history interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Assistant Curator, Kate Petrusa. Raj Chouhan shares his ancestral background and personal experiences immigrating to Canada from India in 1973 and living and working in Canada as an immigrant and the organizations that he became involved with. Honourable Raj Chouhan recalls how he arrived in Burnaby with his family in 1973 and that his family worked in farming. Chouhan imparts his first hand experiences as a new immigrant working as a labourer in the farming industry and describes the unsafe and unfair working conditions that he and migrant workers faced. Chouhan conveys how this experience lead him to become an activist for better working conditions for migrant workers. This lead Chouhan and others to form the Canadian Farm Workers Union in 1980. Chouhan recollects his experiences flying from India to Canada with his wife, his first impressions after arriving in Vancouver and driving to Burnaby and what he brought with him. Chouhan explains his connections to Burnaby. Members of Chouhan's wife's family immgrated to Canada in 1957 and his wife and her three brothers joined them in 1970. Chouhan's father in law, Hardial Singh Grewal immigrated in 1957 and became president of the Sikh temple in New Westminster. Hardial Singh Grewal worked in a lumber mill in Vancouver and eventually bought a house in Burnaby. Chouhan married to his wife at the Sikh temple in New Westminster and lived in Burnaby for a period before moving to New Westminster where they could find more affordable housing. Chouhan shares that he first worked as a farm labourer in Abbotsford and then found a job in the sawmill which paid more. Chouhan describes the extreme racism and discrimination that he and other immigrants faced which lead to the formation of the British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism under the leadership of Dr. Hari Prakash Sharma. Chouhan describes this organization that he was a part of and the Canadian Farm Workers Union that were both formed in Burnaby. Chouhan shares that he moved to Victoria in 1988 to serve on the Hospital Employee's Union and moved back to the mainland in 1993 and returned to Burnaby in 2001. Chouhan reflects on the history of South Asian immigration in Canada, how many of the migrants settled in the lower mainland including Burnaby, New Westminster and Vancouver establishing temples in Vancouver and New Westminster which became the centre for the South Asian community. He conveys how earlier occupations were limited to farming and millwork and how over time employment opportunities and education have broadened but there is still work to do. He imparts how second generation Canadians’ experiences differ from first generations providing examples of his own daughters’ and the occupations that they are working in. Chouhan provides his insights into the South Asian Canadian experience imparting “We make history every day and that history needs to be recorded and learned from.."... “People from different communities, different backgrounds who lived in Burnaby have contributed so much and South Asians are just like another community and participated in all aspects of social life, cultural, religious, economy. I'm so proud of our community, our forefathers who had that vision to fight for our rights. I'm inspired by people who struggled so much to gain basic rights, like the right to vote". Chouhan refers to these first immigrants as “Gadri Babbas” “revolutionary old people” who were also the main motivation that lead to India becoming a free country in 1947 and for fighting for basic rights here in Canada and how they made their contributions for future generations. Chouhan expresses what he imparts to students “Do not forget your past... if you remember your past then you are much more knowledgeable. Then we know what we need for the future. If we don't know the past, we don't know what the future is going to be like. To make a better future, you have to learn from the past and improve".

History: Interviewee biography: Honourable Raj Chouhan was born in the city of Ludhiana in the Province of Punjab in India and immigrated to Canada in 1973. After arriving in Canada, Raj's family settled in Burnaby. Raj grew up in Burnaby and attended schoool. Honourable Raj Chouhan was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds in 2005 and was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2020. He was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on December 7, 2020. Honourable Chouhan is the founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism and has served as a director of the Hospital Employees' Union, the Labour Relations Board of B.C. and the Arbitration Bureau of B.C. Honourable Chouhan has also served as the Vice President of B.C. Human Rights Defenders since 2003 and has taught courses in Human Rights, the B.C. Labour Code and Collective Bargaining since 1987. Interviewer biography: Kate Petrusa is the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Village Museum. In her role, she manages all aspects of the collection – including caring for physical artifacts and making their digital counterpart accessible. Before coming to Burnaby Village Museum in 2019, Kate has worked at several Museums around the Lower Mainland as a Curator and contractor since 2013.