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Scope and Content: Item is the BC Electric Guide to Greater Vancouver consisting of a transit system map of Greater Vancouver, a Greater Vancouver Street Index along with listings for Parks, Golf and Country Clubs, etc.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1952

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pixie McGeachie subseries

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; on paper ; 54 x 85 cm folded to 21 x 9 cm

Material Details: Scale : one inch equals approximately 0.57 miles

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 42686

Accession Number: BHS1996-08

Scope and Content: Item is the BC Electric Guide to Greater Vancouver consisting of a transit system map of Greater Vancouver, a Greater Vancouver Street Index along with listings for Parks, Golf and Country Clubs, etc.

Media Type: Cartographic Material

BCER work train at the cross over at Commercial Dr. and 6th Ave. in Vancouver

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1953] (date of original), copied [ca. 2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy print ; 9 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) work train at the cross over at Commercial Dr. and 6th Ave. in Vancouver.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy print ; 9 x 13.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) work train at the cross over at Commercial Dr. and 6th Ave. in Vancouver.

Subjects: Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV012.18.6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1953] (date of original), copied [ca. 2000]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 13-Mar-2018

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Typewritten note on verso of photograph reads: "With the end of BCER Burnaby Lake passenger / service in October of 1953, we see BCER Line Car L4, Flat Car BCER 8041 and crew preparing /for the removal of the cross over at 6th and Commercial in Vancouver."

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BCER work train at the cross over at Commercial Dr. and 6th Ave. in Vancouver, [1953] (date of original), copied [ca. 2000] thumbnail

Benevolent Fund of Vancouver Fire Department Grant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54746

Meeting Date: 8-Sep-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54746

Meeting Date: 8-Sep-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

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Report 54746

8-Sep-1931 Meeting Minutes

The Bird's Paradise, Vancouver, BC

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1945]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard hand-tinted into col.

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of an unidentified man in tweed suit smoking a pipe.There are birds resting on his head, on his pipe and hand, on his shoulder and his forearm. The birds on his hand have been coloured red, and the others are coloured yellow. A caption to the photograph reads: The Birds' Para…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard hand-tinted into col.

Material Details: inscribed in the original negative, printed on recto, c. r. "The Birds' Paradise,/ Vancouver, B.C./ No. 2.", l.l. "[copyright c with circle]" printed on verso, t. "MADE IN CANADA BY THE GOWEN, SUTTON CO. LTD., VANCOUVER, B. C."

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of an unidentified man in tweed suit smoking a pipe.There are birds resting on his head, on his pipe and hand, on his shoulder and his forearm. The birds on his hand have been coloured red, and the others are coloured yellow. A caption to the photograph reads: The Birds' Paradise / Vancouver, B.C. / No. 2.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Postcards; Animals - Fowl

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV985.6012.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1930 and 1945]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-02-27

Photographer: Gowen Sutton Company Limited

Notes: Title based on contents of postcard

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The Bird's Paradise, Vancouver, BC, [between 1930 and 1945] thumbnail

Burnaby District Exhibit at the Vancouver and Victoria Exhibition

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71057

Meeting Date: 28-Sep-1938

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: 71057

Meeting Date: 28-Sep-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71057

28-Sep-1938 Meeting Minutes

Burnaby District Exhibit - Vancouver Exhibition

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71151

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1937

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: 71151

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1937

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71151

22-Sep-1937 Meeting Minutes

Burnaby, Vancouver and the north shore

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 21 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized film segment identified as Reel 6. The film segment opens with colour footage of people lawn bowling at Burnaby's Central Park. Dot Digney, Sid and Connie Swan can be seen bowling. This footage is followed with Andy Digney and Charles E. Jones at the Bird's of Paradise b…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 21 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized film segment identified as Reel 6. The film segment opens with colour footage of people lawn bowling at Burnaby's Central Park. Dot Digney, Sid and Connie Swan can be seen bowling. This footage is followed with Andy Digney and Charles E. Jones at the Bird's of Paradise bird sanctuary followed by footage of Stanley Park. The footage continues and interchanges between black and white and colour as the Digney's take a ferry ride to North Vancouver where they visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Fishermen's Cove. The reel closes with footage of skiers on Grouse Mountain and a fire at Pier D in 1938.

Subjects: Animals - Birds; Sports - Lawn Bowling; Sports - Skiing

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Jones, Charles E.; Digney, Dorothy

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Kingsway-Beresford Area

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Burnaby, Vancouver and the north shore, [between 1937 and 1938]

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Assessment Levied Against Burnaby by the Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Industrial Development Commission for 1953

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BC Electric Guide to Greater Vancouver

BCER work train at the cross over at Commercial Dr. and 6th Ave. in Vancouver

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Benevolent Fund of Vancouver Fire Department Grant

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The Bird's Paradise, Vancouver, BC

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Burnaby District Exhibit at the Vancouver and Victoria Exhibition

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Burnaby District Exhibit - Vancouver Exhibition

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Burnaby, Vancouver and the north shore

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