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Barnet Road and North Avenue

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[1914]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 16.0 x 20.9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Barnet Road, a dirt road at the time of the photograph, from North Road. There is a sign post in the foreground to the left that indicates the crossing is "NORTH AVE" and "BARNET RD". On the sign post a provincial notice is tacked on. There are electric posts along one side of Barnet …
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 16.0 x 20.9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Barnet Road, a dirt road at the time of the photograph, from North Road. There is a sign post in the foreground to the left that indicates the crossing is "NORTH AVE" and "BARNET RD". On the sign post a provincial notice is tacked on. There are electric posts along one side of Barnet Road, and further down the road is an unidentified man riding a motorcycle or a bicycle. According to an earlier catalogue record from 1988, the view is looking East, and the mountain rising in the background is Burnaby Mountain. The record also dates the negative ca. 1914
Subjects
Geographic Features - Roads
Geographic Access
Barnet Road
North Road
Accession Code
HV972.11.19
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[1914]
Media Type
Photograph
Planning Study Area
Burnaby Mountain Area
Scan Resolution
300
Scan Date
14/8/2006
Scale
100
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
1 b&w contact print accompanying negative
Images
Less detail

Labourers

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1910 (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 twelve Indo-Canadian men wearing work clothes and turbans posed in front of a building of board and batten construction. Two men are standing on a stack of lumber, five are sitting on the stack, and five are standing on the ground in front of them. According to the accompanying note p…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1910 (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.
204-758
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1988-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of twelve Indo-Canadian men wearing work clothes and turbans posed in front of a building of board and batten construction. Two men are standing on a stack of lumber, five are sitting on the stack, and five are standing on the ground in front of them. According to the accompanying note prepared by Burnaby Village Museum, the labourers are at the North Pacific Lumber Company mill at Barnet, which operated from 1899 to 1929 and completely closed out in 1931.
Subjects
Occupations - Labourers
Names
Barnet Mill
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Barnet Village
Texaco Drive
Street Address
8059 Texaco Drive
Historic Neighbourhood
Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Burnaby Mountain Area
Images
Less detail