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Scope and Content: Item is a policy statement outlining "A Proposed Solution to the Problems of Provincial-Municipal Financial Relations" entitled, "What Your Property Tax Dollar Should Properly Be Doing For You" produced by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (and adopted at its fifty-fifth annual conventio…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 1958

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Central Burnaby Ratepayers and Citizens Association subseries

Physical Description: 1 booklet

Description Level: Item

Record No.: MSS093-011

Access Restriction: Open access

Accession Number: BHS2000-01

Scope and Content: Item is a policy statement outlining "A Proposed Solution to the Problems of Provincial-Municipal Financial Relations" entitled, "What Your Property Tax Dollar Should Properly Be Doing For You" produced by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (and adopted at its fifty-fifth annual convention).

Media Type: Textual Record

Where Vancouver Sleeps - Pamphlet

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1955]

Collection/Fonds: Planning Department fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: A pamphlet written by the Rev. R.S. Mills providing a history and detailed information about the grave of Captain George Vancouver.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1955]

Collection/Fonds: Planning Department fonds

Series: Planning General series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 11817

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: A pamphlet written by the Rev. R.S. Mills providing a history and detailed information about the grave of Captain George Vancouver.

Media Type: Textual Record

White Rock B.C.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 19, 1956

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of a group of unidentified children standing together on top of the large white rock on the beach at White Rock, B.C.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 19, 1956

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-020

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of a group of unidentified children standing together on top of the large white rock on the beach at White Rock, B.C.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Beaches; Geographic Features - Rocks

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Handwritten note in white ink on recto of photograph reads: "WHITE ROCK / B.C."; Handwritten note in pencil on verso of photographic postcard reads: "children taken / on White Rock"

Images

White Rock B.C., September 19, 1956 thumbnail

Widening Hastings Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37982

Meeting Date: 13-Jan-1958

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37982

Meeting Date: 13-Jan-1958

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 37982

13-Jan-1958 Meeting Minutes

Widening of 10th Avenue Pavement

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 39463

Meeting Date: 23-Sep-1957

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: 39463

Meeting Date: 23-Sep-1957

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 39463

23-Sep-1957 Meeting Minutes

Widening of Boundary Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 44038

Meeting Date: 21-Feb-1955

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: 44038

Meeting Date: 21-Feb-1955

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 44038

21-Feb-1955 Meeting Minutes

Widening of East Hastings Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 39230

Meeting Date: 8-Jul-1957

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 39230

Meeting Date: 8-Jul-1957

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 39230

8-Jul-1957 Meeting Minutes

Widening of Lougheed Highway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 43264

Meeting Date: 26-Mar-1956

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: 43264

Meeting Date: 26-Mar-1956

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 43264

26-Mar-1956 Meeting Minutes

Widening of Rumble Street between Patterson Avenue and Boundary Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 47035

Meeting Date: 30-Jan-1950

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 47035

Meeting Date: 30-Jan-1950

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 47035

30-Jan-1950 Meeting Minutes

Width of Lots in Block 19, DL 27

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 45872

Meeting Date: 27-Jul-1953

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: 45872

Meeting Date: 27-Jul-1953

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 45872

27-Jul-1953 Meeting Minutes

Will and licenses of William Michael Parker

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1943 and 1962

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. of textual records

Scope and Content: Item consists of the last will and testament of William Michael Parker and two British Columbia Motor Vehicle Licences for William Michael Parker.The will is signed and witnessed on February 28, 1943 and the vehicle licence registrations are dated February 28, 1962. One vehicle license has the addr…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family vital events and correspondence series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p. of textual records

Material Details: "DATED FEBRUARY 12th, 1943 / WILLIAM MICHAEL PARKER, / Testator: / Sarah Maria parker / Executrix / WILL / LIDSTER & ALLISON, / Barristers & Solicitors, / New Westminster, B.C." printed on outside fold of the document.

Scope and Content: Item consists of the last will and testament of William Michael Parker and two British Columbia Motor Vehicle Licences for William Michael Parker.The will is signed and witnessed on February 28, 1943 and the vehicle licence registrations are dated February 28, 1962. One vehicle license has the address 1390 Cumberland St. while the other has the address 7651 Cumberland St. [This is the date of the change in the street numbering system in Burnaby.]

History: See extensive history of Love Family and Love farmhouse located at Burnaby Village Museum.

Accession Code: BV012.31.15

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1943 and 1962

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on content of file

Willard Avenue between Marine Drive and Trapp Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 38465

Meeting Date: 25-Aug-1958

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 38465

Meeting Date: 25-Aug-1958

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 38465

25-Aug-1958 Meeting Minutes

William Franklin Wolsey

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1959], published June 26, 1959

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 4.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Franklin Wolsey, head of the Canadian Temple of the More Abundant Life in Burnaby. He has been referred to with the titles of; "His Grace the Archbishop", "Most Reverend Franklin Wolsey", "Dr. William Franklin Wosley, Archbishop", and "Archbishop John I of Vancouver".

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1959], published June 26, 1959

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 4.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1024

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Franklin Wolsey, head of the Canadian Temple of the More Abundant Life in Burnaby. He has been referred to with the titles of; "His Grace the Archbishop", "Most Reverend Franklin Wolsey", "Dr. William Franklin Wosley, Archbishop", and "Archbishop John I of Vancouver".

Subjects: Occupations - Clergy

Names: Wolsey, William Franklin

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

William Franklin Wolsey, [1959], published June 26, 1959 thumbnail

William Holmes fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1841]-1994

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) William Holmes family photographs series 2) William Holmes family…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) William Holmes family photographs series 2) William Holmes family records series 3) Holmes family cemetery photographs series

History: William Holmes was the first non-Indigenous resident of Burnaby and was born in Kilkenny Ireland January 4, 1812. In 1833, at the age of 20 yrs, William Holmes immigrated to Canada from Ireland in with his parents, Joseph and Jane (McCullough) Holmes and ten other family members including two of his married brothers and their wives, two sisters with their husbands and two unmarried brothers. This was the first group of thirteen to leave Ireland and set up homesteads in Canada near the shores of Lake Huron. The family settled on land concessions in Huron County, Ontario about 14 km southeast of Goderich. The area in Huron County was first founded in 1832 by John and Samuel Holmes and the community was known as Holmes Hill before becoming Holmesville [ca. 1850]. In 1837, William Holmes is noted as owning Lot 23, Concession IX, Goderich Twp. Much of the village of Holmesville grew up around the five road concession near the border of his brother’s farm so William decided to open a store. The Holmesville post office opened on March 1, 1855 and William was appointed the first post master which he operated until May 1857. William met and married Mary Richardson in 1841 and the couple had three daughters: Jane (1844-1926) (married Charles Studdert Finlaison in New Westminster in 1863); Anne Maria (Annie) (1846-192?) (married John Gunther Jennings in New Westminster in 1865 and married Robert Johnson in New Westminster in 1877) and Elizabeth (1848-1934) (married Thomas Carrington of Lakes District in 1867). William’s wife, Mary (Richardson) Holmes died in Holmesville sometime between 1848 and 1853. Following the death of his first wife, Mary, William married Charlotte McCullough (McCulloch). The couple had four daughters; Arabella Charlotte Amelia (1854-1943) (married Arthur Robert Green in 1887); Laura (1855-1867); Arabella Henrietta (1857-1929) (married Clark Wesley Gillanders in 1880) and Mary (1863-1864). During the late 1850s, William became aware of the gold rush and opportunities opening up in British Columbia so left for the west coast in 1858 at the age of 46 yrs. In preparation for his move to the west coast of Canada, William obtained a letter of introduction from top government officials of Canada. William Holmes arrived in British Columbia in 1859. Upon arriving, he first worked running pack trains from Harrison Mills to Lillooet. After earning some money, he decided to re-invest it in land. His first pre-emption of land occurred on January 21, 1860 for 160 acres situated on North Road from the Military Camp to Burrard Inlet and distancing 25 chains south of the Brunette River and 20 chains south of the river with the land extending in a westerly direction. On March 17, 1860, Holmes received a Crown Grant for this and other land in the immediate area totalling 415 acres of which was known as Lot No. 1, Group 1, Rural Land, New Westminster District. The balance of land was situated on the east side of the Brunette River – Lot 13, with 344 2/3 acres of which he made an application to purchase on June 26, 1860, and a Crown Grant dated March 16, 1861 covering 86 acres. Holmes also pre-empted land in Port Moody and Pitt Meadows in 1860 and 1861. The name of “Brunette River” is officially attributed to William Holmes who referred to the river as “Brunette” due to it’s dark colour originating from the peat lands above the lake. Following his purchase of property, he sent for his wife Charlotte, their three daughters and her three step daughters (from William’s first marriage). Charlotte and the six children made the long trip to B.C. by ship and rail, crossing the Isthmus of Darien at Panama. They arrived in B.C. in October 1861 and moved into a one room log cabin built by William. The cabin stood on the North Road at the foot of Sapperton, on a bluff overlooking the Brunette River. Eventually the family moved to a larger dwelling but the original cabin remained on the site until the 1890s when it was burned after being used as a sick house. Mr. Holmes was instrumental in organizing the first Orange Lodge in British Columbia. He was a prominent Orangeman who joined the order in 1840 and was the first master in the order of the City of New Westminster when the Lodge No. 1150 was established there. Charlotte Holmes died in New Westminster in 1893 at the age of 70 years and William Holmes died in New Westminster September 11, 1907 at the age of 95 years.

Responsibility: Holmes, William

Accession Code: HV971.46; BV997.50

Date: [1841]-1994

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Related Material: See also: Reference file: Persons - Holmes, William

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

William J. Devitt papers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1901-1996 (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of photocopied photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence pertaining to William J. "Bill" Devitt, who served as Burnaby Police Chief from 1921 to 1936. These pages were compiled by the Burnaby Village Museum when researching information for the writers of "Follow that Fire."

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1901-1996 (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: William J. Devitt subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS082-001

Accession Number: BHS1996-17

Scope and Content: File consists of photocopied photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence pertaining to William J. "Bill" Devitt, who served as Burnaby Police Chief from 1921 to 1936. These pages were compiled by the Burnaby Village Museum when researching information for the writers of "Follow that Fire."

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

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