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Notes: "As seen on BBC"--Cover; "Foreword by Ruth Goodman".; Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-207) and index.; Summary: Follows the fascinating story of the emergence of high street healthcare in the form of the chemist's shop and the products on offer. Investigates which pills, potions, tonics and cures were available-- some effective, some deadly, and some still with us today.

Vivian's Tapestry

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 2016

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Film and Video collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (9 min., 17 sec.) : digital, 25 fps, col., sd., stereo

Scope and Content: Vivian Lee’s short film covers six decades of her life experience. The film tells the story of Vivian’s parents and their difficult time during the Second World War, including a harrowing journey on the Burma Road. Vivian describes her idyllic childhood in post-war Burma, where she was the sixth of…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Film and Video collection

Series: Elders Digital Storytelling project series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (9 min., 17 sec.) : digital, 25 fps, col., sd., stereo

Scope and Content: Vivian Lee’s short film covers six decades of her life experience. The film tells the story of Vivian’s parents and their difficult time during the Second World War, including a harrowing journey on the Burma Road. Vivian describes her idyllic childhood in post-war Burma, where she was the sixth of eight children, and her life in Singapore and Hong Kong as a young woman. The film includes Vivian and husband Alan’s decision to move to Canada. The couple briefly lived in Burnaby for a short period, during which time their daughters were born. A short while later they moved to Vancouver to care for Alan’s parents. The film concludes with the couple’s return to Burnaby for their retirement, and Vivian’s expressions of appreciation for the many things that bring her joy.

History: Vivian Lee was born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1950. Her parents moved to Burma from China in the 1930s. Vivian was the sixth of eight children. Two older siblings were born in Burma, and survived a perilous escape from Burma along the Burma Road during the Second World War. Vivian was the first child to be born in post-war Burma, after her parents returned following the war. The family lived in Rangoon for a period, before moving to a home in the suburbs where Vivian spent an idyllic childhood. After graduating from university, Vivian moved to Singapore, and then to Hong Kong. She worked for a large pharmaceutical company in Hong Kong, where she met her husband, Alan. The couple emigrated to Canada with Alan’s parents (in the 1980s?). Daughters Cynthia and Adrienne were born in Burnaby, before the family moved to Vancouver to care for Alan’s parents. Alan and Vivian have recently returned to Burnaby for their retirement years. They are active volunteers and grand-parents, and Vivian has been developing her watercolour painting skills. Vivian produced the short film in order to pass the legacy of her family’s history on to her children and their offspring. She notes: “I am happy and honoured to share my life story with others in the community. I think it gives all of us a chance to contribute to the mosaic of our shared heritage. I am so proud to be a Canadian citizen and feel very fortunate to live in a multicultural society. I believe it is through sharing these life stories that will make us stronger as a nation.”

Creator: Lee, Vivian

Other Title Information: title supplied by film maker

Subjects: Persons - Chinese Canadians

Names: Lee, Vivian

Accession Code: BV016.37.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 2016

Media Type: Moving Images

Notes: Transcribed title

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Vivian's Tapestry, 2016

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Voices from Two Rivers : harnessing the power of the Peace and Columbia

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Stanley, Meg, 1962-; B.C. Hydro

Publication Date: c2010

Call Number: 333.793 STA

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9781553654957

Call Number: 333.793 STA

Author: Stanley, Meg, 1962-; B.C. Hydro

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Publication Date: c2010

Physical Description: vii, 312 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Inscription: Opposite of front end paper on the top half of page: "PRESENTED TO LISA COOD - CURATOR - BURNABY VILLAGE MUSEUM & CAROUSEL BY THE BC HYDRO POWER PIONEERS SEPT 29/12 HAPPY READING! PHIL HORTON - POWER PIONEER" [Printed in black ink]

Library Subject (LOC): Hydroelectric power plants

Names: British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-298) and index.; "This book was commissioned by the BC Hydro Power Pioneers Association to recognize and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the BC Hydro and Power Authority."

Walhachin : birth of a legend

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Jacobsen, Larry, 1928-

Publication Date: c2014

Call Number: 971.172 JAC

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 9780978164034

Call Number: 971.172 JAC

Author: Jacobsen, Larry, 1928-

Place of Publication: China

Publication Date: c2014

Printer: Prolong Press

Physical Description: 160 p., [30] p. : ill., maps ; 19 x 24 cm

Inscription: Title page (Lower right side) "Larry Jacobsen" [handwritten in black , author's signature]

Library Subject (LOC): Walhachin (B.C.); Biography

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page160).; "Design and Layout by the author."

Where rivers, mountains and people meet : Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lil'wat Cultural Centre

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 2010

Call Number: 970.3 SQU

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

Call Number: 970.3 SQU

Contributor: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh First Nation; Lil'wat Nation; Spo7ez Cultural Centre & Community Society

Place of Publication: Whistler, BC

Publisher: Spo7ez Cultural Centre & Community Society

Publication Date: 2010

Physical Description: 162 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples - British Columbia; Indigenous peoples - British Columbia - Social life and customs

Notes: Text in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Lilwat7ul & English

William Holmes family records series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1858-1941

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Series: William Holmes family records series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Accession Code: BV997.50

Date: 1858-1941

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of series

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

Wit and humor of the age : comprising wit, humor, pathos, ridicule, satires, dialects, puns, conundrums, riddles, charades, jokes and magic

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Publication Date: c1883

Call Number: 808.7 TWA

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV988.60.11

Call Number: 808.7 TWA

Author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Contributor: Landon, Melville D. (Melville De Lancey), 1839-1910

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Star

Publication Date: c1883

Physical Description: 752 p. : ill. (ports.) ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): American literature

Notes: edited by Melville D. Landon, A.M.

Woman wearing jewelry

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1880 and 1895]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of an unidentified young woman with her curly hair put up and decorated with a round hair pin in the front. She is wearing a white blouse with high neck, and is wearing a brooch shaped like a tuning fork or a wishbone and has a pendent around her neck.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 18.5 cm

Material Details: printed on the card mount, recto, l.r. "Steele & Co./ LTD/ Winnipeg & Calgary"; The photograph is printed in an oval shape, and mounted on a card supplied by the photo studio. There are scribbles on verso of cardboard.

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of an unidentified young woman with her curly hair put up and decorated with a round hair pin in the front. She is wearing a white blouse with high neck, and is wearing a brooch shaped like a tuning fork or a wishbone and has a pendent around her neck.

Subjects: Adornment - Jewelry; Clothing

Accession Code: BV985.5886.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1880 and 1895]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-27

Photographer: Steele & Co.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Woman wearing jewelry, [between 1880 and 1895] thumbnail

Woman with glasses

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1880 and 1895]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia photogravure ; 9.5 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photogravure is from a studio portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a dark dress and eye glasses, standing by an ornate wooden post. She is wearing a leaf-shaped pendant around her neck.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia photogravure ; 9.5 x 14 cm

Material Details: printed on the card mount, recto, l.r. "[emblem in shape of sheaf of wheat] Davidson Bros/ BRANDON,/ MAN."; The photogravure is mounted on a card, then mounted inside a folder, with a protective tissue paper.

Scope and Content: Photogravure is from a studio portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a dark dress and eye glasses, standing by an ornate wooden post. She is wearing a leaf-shaped pendant around her neck.

Subjects: Clothing

Accession Code: BV985.5897.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1880 and 1895]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-27

Photographer: Davidson Brothers

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Woman with glasses, [between 1880 and 1895] thumbnail

Women with horse and harness racing cart

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 2000 and 2015] (date of original)

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of of a horse hitched up to a two-wheeled harness racing cart inside a barn or exercise ring. There is a woman sitting in the cart and another standing behind the horse.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of of a horse hitched up to a two-wheeled harness racing cart inside a barn or exercise ring. There is a woman sitting in the cart and another standing behind the horse.

Subjects: Animals - Horses

Accession Code: BV016.43.44

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 2000 and 2015] (date of original)

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

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Women with horse and harness racing cart, [between 2000 and 2015] (date of original) thumbnail

Young folks' queries : a story

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Walsh, William S., 1854-1919

Publication Date: 1889

Call Number: 823.8 WAL

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV973.70.1

Call Number: 823.8 WAL

Author: Walsh, William S., 1854-1919

Contributor: Van Ingen, William H., approximately 1831-; Snyder, W. P. (Willard Poinsette), 1853-1934

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Co.

Publication Date: 1889

Physical Description: 235 p. : ill., front. ; 24 cm.

Inscription: Front fly leaf: "Emily Brand 1980" [writtten in black ink] Verso of frontispiece: "F.W. Brand" [written in pencil]

Library Subject (LOC): Children's stories; Children--Conduct of life; Families; Juvenile fiction

Notes: story credited to "Uncle Lawrence" on title page; attributed to William S. Shepard in OCLC.; illustrations by William Van Ingen and W.P. Snyder.; "a free paraphrase of a French original" -- preface.; Includes publishers catalogue of "J.P. Lippincott Company's Illustrated Juveniles"

Young man in uniform

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [188-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 17 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of an unidentified young man in a uniform standing in front of a chair and beside a studio prop that looks like a staircase to a building. The painted backdrop is of a garden scene. On his collars, there are metal pins in the shape of "P137" or "P187"

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 17 cm

Material Details: printed on the card mount, recto, b. "Wilson + Sons. PHOTOGRAPHERS.", verso, u.l. "Day and/ Electric Light/ Studios.", c. "Wilson + Sons", l.r. "95/ HARROW ROAD,/ PADDINGTON GREEN/ LONDON, W.", b. "COPIES OF THIS CAN ALWAYS BE HAD BY QUOTING/ Portraits copied to any size and coloured/ in Oil, Water Colour or Crayon."; The photograph is mounted on card supplied by the photographic studio

Scope and Content: Photograph is a studio portrait of an unidentified young man in a uniform standing in front of a chair and beside a studio prop that looks like a staircase to a building. The painted backdrop is of a garden scene. On his collars, there are metal pins in the shape of "P137" or "P187"

Subjects: Clothing - Uniforms

Accession Code: BV985.5895.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [188-]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-27

Photographer: Wilson and Sons Photographers

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Women with horse and harness racing cart

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