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Fighting for dignity : the Ginger Goodwin story

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Stonebanks, Roger

Publication Date: c2004

Call Number: 331.81223 GOO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 1894000064

Call Number: 331.81223 GOO

Author: Stonebanks, Roger

Place of Publication: St. John's, [N.L.]

Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History

Publication Date: c2004

Physical Description: 206 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Goodwin, Ginger; Labor leaders--British Columbia; Coal miners--Labor unions--British Columbia--Officials and employees; Biography

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-198) and index.

Five centuries of women & gardens

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Bennett, Sue

Publication Date: c2000

Call Number: 635.082 BEN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 1855142880; 9781855142886

Call Number: 635.082 BEN

Author: Bennett, Sue

Place of Publication: London [England]

Publisher: National Portrait Gallery

Publication Date: c2000

Physical Description: 171 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 22 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Women gardeners--Great Britain--History; Gardening--Great Britain--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

Frail memorials : the cemeteries of Langley

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Sommer, Warren, 1951-

Publication Date: c2005

Call Number: 971.133 SOM

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

Call Number: 971.133 SOM

Author: Sommer, Warren, 1951-

Place of Publication: Fort Langley, B.C.

Publisher: Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre

Publication Date: c2005

Physical Description: 104 p. : ill.

Library Subject (LOC): Cemeteries; British Columbia--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fraser rails that glow : [B.C. trolleymen's addenda, vol. 1]

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Reuss, David

Publication Date: 2003

Call Number: 388.46 REU

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV013.27

Call Number: 388.46 REU

Author: Reuss, David

Place of Publication: [Cloverdale, B.C.]

Publisher: David Reuss

Publication Date: 2003

Physical Description: 124 p. : ill. ; 22 x 29 cm

Inscription: Verso of the cover: "To the Friends of #1223 who by now have both sides done! Splendid! David E. Reuss" [handwritten in black ink on bottom of the page in the centre]

Library Subject (LOC): Electric railroads; Street-railroads; Transportation

Subjects: Transportation; Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Gas stations coast to coast

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Witzel, Michael Karl, 1960-

Publication Date: 2000

Call Number: 629.286 WIT

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0760307407

Call Number: 629.286 WIT

Author: Witzel, Michael Karl, 1960-

Place of Publication: Osceola, WI

Publisher: MBI Pub. Co.

Publication Date: 2000

Physical Description: 180 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Service stations--United States--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-178) and index.; Contents: The roadside show called gasoline: attracting motorists to the pumps -- Fill 'er up to the top with ethyl gas : a world of service at the gas pump -- Wipe the windows and check the oil : attendants served us with a smile -- From greasy hut to grand palace : the architecture of gas stations -- The new era of American gasoline : powering automobiles for the future.

High water : living with the Fraser floods

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Watt, K. Jane

Publication Date: 2006

Call Number: 971.13 WAT

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0968766315

Call Number: 971.13 WAT

Author: Watt, K. Jane

Place of Publication: Abbotsford, B.C.

Publisher: Dairy Industry Historical Society of British Columbia

Publication Date: 2006

Physical Description: xii, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Floods--British Columbia--Fraser River--History; Fraser River Valley (B.C.)--History; British Columbia--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-299) and index.

Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1950-2022

Collection/Fonds: Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 3 sound recordings (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) + 65 photographs + 26 photographs (jpg) + 1 portfolio (15 col. photographs + 12 col. laser prints) + 1 col. laser print + 6 business cards + 1 identification card + 1 booklet

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of an oral history interview with Jimmy Chow and his wife, Donna Polos; photographs of Jimmy Chow and his family soon after they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s as well as a sampling of photographs and records documenting Jimmy Chow's career in the film industry. Fonds is arranged…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 3 sound recordings (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) + 65 photographs + 26 photographs (jpg) + 1 portfolio (15 col. photographs + 12 col. laser prints) + 1 col. laser print + 6 business cards + 1 identification card + 1 booklet

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of an oral history interview with Jimmy Chow and his wife, Donna Polos; photographs of Jimmy Chow and his family soon after they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s as well as a sampling of photographs and records documenting Jimmy Chow's career in the film industry. Fonds is arranged into series: 1) Jimmy Chow and Donna Polos interviews series 2) Jimmy Chow family photographs series 3) Property master photographs series 4) Property master records series

History: Hipman "Jimmy" Chow was born in Lin Pong Lee, Hoiping, China in 1948. In 1950, Jimmy Chow and his mother, Gim Gee Chow (1913-1991) fled China to escape the Communist Revolution and to be reunited with his father, Robin Chung Dip Chow (1906-1990) who’d immigrated to Canada many years earlier. Jimmy’s elder sister Shao-Lin Chow stayed behind in China. Jimmy’s father, Robin Chung Dip Chow immigrated to Canada in 1921 at 14 years of age and was forced to pay the Chinese head tax of $500. In 1950, Jimmy and his mother first fled to Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada and arriving in Vancouver. Jimmy Chow’s birth name is Hipman Chow but when he arrived in Canada, his father indicated that he needed an English name and he was given the name “Jimmy” but retained his birth name “Hipman Chow”. Over the years, Jimmy has also used the name “James H. Chow” and is often credited by this name in the film industry. For the first four years after immigrating, Jimmy and his parents lived in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec where his father had work in hotels and restaurants. While living in Asquith, Saskatchewan Jimmy attended school and began to learn English. In 1954, Jimmy and his parents returned to Vancouver, first living in the area of Strathcona before settling in the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant where they purchased a house located on 15th Avenue east of Main Street. While living in Mount Pleasant, Jimmy attended both elementary and high school. While attending high school, Jimmy began working at the local grocery store where he worked for many years living at home and saving his money. In 1970 while attending Vancouver City College, Jimmy met his future wife Donna Polos. Two years later, they moved in together, married in 1981 and started a family. Jimmy and Donna first lived in North Burnaby before purchasing a house on Victory Street in Burnaby where they raised their three children. Growing up in a traditional Chinese Canadian family, Jimmy was always one who went against the grain. Although his father wanted him to get a business degree, Jimmy had aspirations for a different career path. Through the referral of a friend, he entered the film industry in 1973 working for CBC Vancouver. While working at the CBC, Jimmy gained valuable experience working on the set of the television series The Beachcombers, which launched his career in the film industry. Over a 45 year career, Jimmy worked on over 50 blockbuster movies, historical period films, science fiction films and fantasy films, where he honed in on his expertise as a set decorator, art director and property master. He built an international reputation through working with production companies, prop makers and antique sellers across the globe. As a property master in the film industry, Jimmy Chow has been responsible for designing, managing, and sourcing props for films such as: The BFG, Warcraft: The Beginning, X-Men 2, Fantastic Four, Watchman, Tron: Legacy, Little Women, Seven Years in Tibet, Shanghai Noon, The Shipping News, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Changeling, Man of Steel (Superman), Snow Falling on Cedars, Legends of the Fall, And the Sea Will Tell, Once a Thief and many more. With Jimmy's many years of professional experience in the film industry, he has been a union member of IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians...) from July 1979, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science from 2018 and has worked as a guest lecturer in film production at Capilano University and Langara University. He was also a key contributor to the Burnaby Village Museum’s 2014 temporary exhibition Burnaby Makes Movies. Donna Polos was born in Vancouver in 1949 to parents Mayme "May" Helen Tillikana Polos (1931-1977) and Donald James Polos (1926-2017). Donna’s maternal grandparents, Elvi Tienhara and Toiva Tillikana immigrated to Canada from Helsinki, Finland. Donna’s paternal grandmother, Pauline Chimiki Polos emigrated from Ukraine to Argentina and then to Winnipeg. Donna’s paternal grandfather, James "Jimmy" Kostopolus emigrated as an orphan from Sparta Greece at the age of 12 years. In 1908, he first immigrated to the United States where he was denied entry so immigrated to Canada, entering through Halifax at Pier 17. When immigrating, James changed his last name to "Polos". Jimmy Polos arrived in Halifax with only five dollars in his pocket. He lived in Halifax for many years before making his way to Vancouver where he established three restaurants and raised his family. James was the proprietor of three restaurants in Burnaby including; the Home Apple Pie Café (1941-1944) located on East Hastings near Princess Avenue; Jimmy’s Café (1945-1955) located on East Hastings near Hawks Avenue and another restaurant located near 10th Avenue and Alma Street. Donna grew up with her family in Vancouver, first living in the downtown eastside before moving to a home near Joyce Station. Donna attended elementary school and high school while growing up in the neighbourhood of Joyce Station. Donna moved out of her family home at 21 years of age and lived with roommates before moving in with Jimmy Chow in 1972. Donna attended Vancouver City College and the University of British Columbia where she obtained her teaching degree in 1974. Donna first taught at Gilmore Elementary School before being hired to teach at Clinton Elementary School where she taught for nine years. While raising their three children, Donna worked part time teaching in schools in Burnaby. In 1991, after a near death experience, Donna became interested in fine art and took drawing and watercolour painting classes. This experience led her to experimenting with different painting techniques on paper and fabric. In 2008, Donna retired from teaching but continued her art career often working as an Artist in Residence at various schools and exhibiting her work. While living in Burnaby Donna has been politically active with a particular passion for heritage, housing and preserving the natural environment. Donna was instrumental in advocating and petitioning for the establishment of a tree bylaw in Burnaby which was eventually adopted by the City.

Creator: Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"; Polos, Donna

Accession Code: BV022.21; BV023.11

Date: 1950-2022

Media Type: Sound Recording; Photograph; Textual Record; Graphic Material

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds; Hipman "Jimmy" Chow's name in Cantonese is Chow Hipman and in Mandarin is Zhou Xiamin.

Historical atlas of Canada : Canada's history illustrated with original maps

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Hayes, Derek, 1947-

Publication Date: c2002

Call Number: 911.71 HAY

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 1553650778; 9781550549188; 1550549189; 9781553650775

Call Number: 911.71 HAY

Author: Hayes, Derek, 1947-

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Publication Date: c2002

Physical Description: 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 35 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Canada--Historical geography--Maps; Canada--Discovery and exploration--Maps

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.; Oversized book

Historical atlas of Vancouver and the lower Fraser Valley

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Hayes, Derek, 1947-

Edition: 1st paperback ed.

Publication Date: 2007; c2005

Call Number: 911.71133 HAY

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9781553652830; 1553652835; 1553651073

Call Number: 911.71133 HAY

Edition: 1st paperback ed.

Author: Hayes, Derek, 1947-

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Publication Date: 2007; c2005

Physical Description: 192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 31 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Vancouver (B.C.)--Historical geography--Maps; Lower Mainland (B.C.)--Historical geography--Maps; Lower Mainland (B.C.)--Discovery and exploration--Maps

Notes: Maps on end papers.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187) and index.; "Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Historical Writing"

Holidays on display

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Bird, William L.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publication Date: c2007

Call Number: 741.67 BIR

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9781568986951

Call Number: 741.67 BIR

Edition: 1st ed.

Author: Bird, William L.

Contributor: National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Place of Publication: New York; Washington, D.C.

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History; Princeton Architectural Press

Publication Date: c2007

Physical Description: 153 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Show-windows--United States--History; Christmas show windows--United States--History; Holiday decorations

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150).

Hollywood North : the feature film industry in British Columbia

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Gasher, Mike, 1954-

Publication Date: c2002

Call Number: 384.8 GAS

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0774809671; 9780774809672

Call Number: 384.8 GAS

Author: Gasher, Mike, 1954-

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: UBC Press

Publication Date: c2002

Printer: Friesens

Physical Description: viii,176 p. ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hong Kong apothecary : a visual history of Chinese medicine packaging

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Go, Simon, 1967-

Publication Date: 2003

Call Number: 615.10951 GO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9781568983905; 1568983905

Call Number: 615.10951 GO

Author: Go, Simon, 1967-

Place of Publication: New York, New York

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Publication Date: 2003

Physical Description: 199 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm

Library Subject (LOC): Drugs--Packaging--China--Hong Kong--History; Medicine, Chinese; Medicine, Chinese--History; Materia medica--China--Hong Kong--History

Household counts : Canadian households and families in 1901

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c2007

Call Number: 306.850971 SAG

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9780802038029; 9780802038609; 0802038603; 0802038026

Call Number: 306.850971 SAG

Contributor: Sager, Eric W., 1946-; Baskerville, Peter A.

Place of Publication: Toronto

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Publication Date: c2007

Physical Description: 485 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Families--Canada--History--20th century; Households--Canada--History--20th century; Families--Canada--Statistics; Canada--Population--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Contents: Transitions in household and family structure : Canada in 1901 and 1991 / Stacie D. A. Burke -- Canadian fertility in 1901 : a bird's-eye view / Peter Gossage, Danielle Gauvreau -- Family geographies : a national perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Family geographies : an urban perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Rural to urban migration : finding house hold complexity in a New World environment / Kenneth M. Sylvester -- Family geographies : Montreal, Canada's metropolis / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Families, fostering, and flying the coop : lessons in liberal cultural formation, 1871-1901 / Gordon Darroch -- Canadian children who lived with one parent in 1901 / Bettina Bradbury -- Boundaries of age : exploring the patterns of young-old age among men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901 / Lisa Dillon -- Inequality, earnings, and the Canadian working class in 1901 / Eric W. Sager -- 'Leaving God behind when they crossed the Rocky Mountains' : exploring unbelief in turn-of-the-century British Columbia / Lynne Marks -- Giving birth : families and the medical marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901 / Peter Baskerville -- Language, ancestry, and the competing constructions of identity in turn-of-the-century Canada / Chad Gaffield -- Constructing normality and confronting deviance : familial ideologies, household structures, and divorce in the 1901 Canadian census / Annalee Lepp. Edited by Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville

How the farm pays : the experiences of forty years of successful farming and gardening by the authors

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Crozier, William, 1833-1904; Henderson, Peter, 1822-1890

Publication Date: 2001

Call Number: 630 CRO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 1894572254; 9781894572255

Call Number: 630 CRO

Author: Crozier, William, 1833-1904; Henderson, Peter, 1822-1890

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: Algrove Pub.

Publication Date: 2001

Series: Classic reprint series (Ottawa, Ont.)

Physical Description: 400 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Agriculture

Subjects: Agriculture

Notes: Reprint of ed. published: New York : P. Henderson & Co., 1884.

In the shadow by the sea : recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c2004

Call Number: 971.133 PRI Copy 2

1 digital book

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0969282885

Call Number: 971.133 PRI Copy 2

Contributor: Wolf, Jim; Pride, Harry, 1925-

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: City of Burnaby

Publication Date: c2004

Physical Description: 246 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--History; Industries--British Columbia--Burnaby--History; Barnet Marine Park--Burnaby, B.C.

Geographic Access: Barnet Road; Burrard Inlet

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246) and index.; "edited by Harry Pride and Jim Wolf"; Copy 2 of 2

Digital Books

Inventing the 19th century : 100 inventions that shaped the Victorian Age from aspirin to the Zeppelin

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Van Dulken, Stephen, 1952-

Publication Date: c2001

Call Number: 609.034 VAN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9780814788103

Call Number: 609.034 VAN

Author: Van Dulken, Stephen, 1952-

Place of Publication: Washington Square, New York

Publisher: New York University Press

Publication Date: c2001

Physical Description: vi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Inventions--History--19th century

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-214) and index; "Dishwashers, electric light bulbs, gramophones, motion picture cameras, radios, roller skates, typewriters. While these inventions seem to speak of the 20th century, they all in fact date from the 19th century. The Victorian age (1837-1901) was a period of enormous technological progress in communications, transport and many other areas of life. Illustrated by the original patent drawing from The British Library's extensive collection, this attractive book chronicles the history of the 100 most important, innovative and memorable inventions of the 19th century. The vivid picture of the Victorian age unfolds as inventions from the ground-breaking such as aspirin, dynamite, and the telephone to the everyday like blue jeans and tiddlywinks are revealed decade by decade. Together they provide a vivid picture of Victorian life. Along with informative descriptions of how the inventions and their patenting came about, the lives of the inventors and their circumstances provide entertaining insights into this world." --Summary