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First School at Burnaby Lake
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39549
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Harriet Woodward and her class of students outside the Woodward home near Deer Lake which served as the first school and post office in the Burnaby Lake area; (l to r): Harriet Woodward (Miss Harry), Bob Peers, Melvin Mawhinney, Muriel Sprott, Kitty Hill, Beatrice Clayton and Arthur P…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-868
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Harriet Woodward and her class of students outside the Woodward home near Deer Lake which served as the first school and post office in the Burnaby Lake area; (l to r): Harriet Woodward (Miss Harry), Bob Peers, Melvin Mawhinney, Muriel Sprott, Kitty Hill, Beatrice Clayton and Arthur Peers. The cottage was a prefabricated building designed by J.J. Mahoney and architect Joseph Bowman and was manufactured in Vancouver by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company and erected here is 1904. The cottage was enlarged with several additions until 1912 when the Woodwards built a new house.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Buildings - Public - Post Offices
- Buildings - Schools
- Occupations - Teachers
- Names
- Clayton, Beatrice
- Mawhinney, Melvin
- Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"
- Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"
- Peers, William John "Bob"
- Sprott, Muriel
- Woodward, Harriet
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption accompanying photograph
- Geographic Access
- Sperling Avenue
- Street Address
- 5141 Sperling Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
Images
Teacher with her class
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38277
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.6 x 13.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a teacher with a class of twenty-eight students, standing on the steps of an unknown school. All in the photograph are unidentified. The postcard has been used and is addressed to a "Miss Alice Holland, Timberland, Yale Road" and is postmaked "Vancouver, May 22, 1909." The …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.6 x 13.8 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 383-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a teacher with a class of twenty-eight students, standing on the steps of an unknown school. All in the photograph are unidentified. The postcard has been used and is addressed to a "Miss Alice Holland, Timberland, Yale Road" and is postmaked "Vancouver, May 22, 1909." The note written on the postcard reads: "Dear Alice, You will be surprised to get this card but I hope you will like it. Your papa will show you which is me. This is my room at the school. Do you go to school yet? Your papa will see on the card who took these. The little girl where the cross is, is the one that saved me from drowning last summer. I am partial to her. Come and see me soon. From your friend, Olive."
- Names
- Holland, Alice
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Brown, W.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph