The Chinese : portrait of a people
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary4942
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Fraser, John, 1944-
- Publication Date
- 1980
- Call Number
- 951.057 FRA
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV006.24.28
- ISBN
- 0002168170
- Call Number
- 951.057 FRA
- Author
- Fraser, John, 1944-
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Collins
- Publication Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 463 p. : photographs : 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- China--Social conditions
- China--Description and travel
- China--Politics and government--1976-
- China
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates: Fraser, John, 1944-
The end of the European era, 1890 to the present
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary867
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Publication Date
- c1984
- Call Number
- 940.5 GIL
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0393954404
- 9780393954401
- Call Number
- 940.5 GIL
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Author
- Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Publication Date
- c1984
- Physical Description
- xv, 556 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century
- World politics--20th century
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 520-531) and index.
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5860
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
interviews,
offered leads o n contemporaries, sent informative periodicals a n d clippings, tracked d o w n
photographs — then awaited the birthing of Pioneer Tales w i t h rare h u m o r a n d patience.
The publisher of Pioneer Tales gratefully acknowledges the generous
contribution from the government
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
Images
Digital Books
An official handbook of information relating to the Dominion of Canada
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2780
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.26.34
- Call Number
- 971 CAN
- Contributor
- Canada. Department of Agriculture
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Publisher
- Canada. Department of Agriculture
- Publication Date
- 1892
- Physical Description
- iv, 94 p. : ill., coat of arms, map ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- Numbers and equations written in pencil on front and back covers.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada--Description and travel
- Canada--Emigration and immigration
- Notes
- "Published with the approval of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Government of Canada (Department of Agriculture)" --t.p.
War in South Africa and the dark continent : from savagery to civilization
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2493
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Harding, William
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Call Number
- 968.2 HAR
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.30.6
- Call Number
- 968.2 HAR
- Author
- Harding, William
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Dominion
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 11-550 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- South African War, 1899-1902
- South Africa--History
- Notes
- "The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers. Embracing the explorations and settlements, wars and conquests, peoples and governments, resources and produces, of this the least known, yet by nature endowed as the richest and most wonderful of continents, and a detailed history of the causes and events of the British-Boer War" --T.p.XXX "Superbly illustrated with half-tone engravings made from photographs taken expressly for this book" --T.p. Author's given name and dates: Harding, William Harry, 1941-