"Maywood Area" found 170 records

Description: The Central Park Entrance Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Burnaby’s historic Central Park from Kingsway, and consists of two massive stone pillars, approximately 7.5 metres high and 1.8 metres square, adjacent gate posts and a low flanking stone wall that curves into the park to the east.

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Imperial Street

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Bylaw No. 9807

Enactment Date: 23/11/1992

Description: The Central Park Entrance Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Burnaby’s historic Central Park from Kingsway, and consists of two massive stone pillars, approximately 7.5 metres high and 1.8 metres square, adjacent gate posts and a low flanking stone wall that curves into the park to the east.

Heritage Value: The Central Park Entrance Gate is significant as a ceremonial entry to a major park, for its connection with the early history of the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) and as an important design by an accomplished British Columbian architect. When the original interurban line between Vancouver and New Westminster was constructed in 1891, one of the first stations was located where the tramway crossed the Vancouver-Westminster Road (now Kingsway) within the newly-created Central Park. The interurban line ran through the park on a diagonal right-of-way (the current SkyTrain line, opened in 1986, follows this original alignment). In 1912 an agreement was reached between the successor interurban company, the BCER, and the Central Park Provincial Park Board, to deed additional land for an expanded right-of-way through the Park in exchange for improvements that included the construction of an ornamental stone wall and gate with an iron arch, with an illuminated 'Central Park' sign, adjacent to the interurban station on Kingsway. This was an early and rare example of an electric sign used for a public recreation facility. The Gate is also significant as a surviving early design by Robert Lyon (1879-1963), an Edinburgh-born and trained immigrant who was one of the most accomplished of British Columbia's early architects. After he moved to Vancouver, he was employed by the BCER from 1911 until 1918, and worked on a broad range of projects including some of the grandest and most innovative local industrial structures of the time. The arch was built by the Westminster Ironworks Company, one of the leading firms of its kind in Western Canada, operated by John Reid of New Westminster. The Gate was completed in 1914; in 1968 the decorative ironwork was removed due to corrosion and placed in storage.

Defining Elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of the Central Park Entrance Gate include its: - two subtly tapered massive stone pillars, which rise in stages from a larger base to a shaft with random coursed multi-coloured granite with roughly formed grey granite quoins, to a top formed of finely finished grey granite blocks with a coved and bracketed cap - adjacent gate posts with monolithic pyramidal granite caps - low flanking stone wall that curves into the park to the east, constructed of random coursed multi-coloured granite with a river rock triangular cap

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Organization: British Columbia Electric Railway; Central Park Provincial Park Board

Architect: Robert Lyon

Builder: John Reid; Westminster Iron Works Co.

Function: Primary Current--Park Fixture; Primary Historic--Park Fixture

Community: Burnaby

Cadastral Identifier: P.I.D. No. 017-767-172 Legal Description: Block B of Lot 2 Except Firstly: Part on Plan 8669 and Secondly: Part on Plan LMP4689 District Lot 151, Group 1, New Westminster District, Plan 3443

Boundaries: The property (Central Park) is a municipally-owned park that lies at the western edge of Burnaby, between 49th Avenue to the south, Kingsway to the north, Boundary Road to the west and Patterson Avenue to the east.

Area: 853,403.82

Contributing Resource: Structure; Landscape Feature

Ownership: Public (local)

Names: Lyon, Robert; Reid, John; Westminster Iron Works Company; British Columbia Electric Railway Company; Central Park Provincial Park Board

Subjects: Structures - Fences

Street Address: 3883 Imperial Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Central Park Entrance Gate, 2013.. Front elevation. thumbnail

View of Central Park Entrance Gate and Kingsway, 1921 (Oblique view from northeast. Historic Photo). Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Central Park Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1905-1924

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1905-1924

Heritage Value: In 1906, Maxwell Smith, President of the Central Park Farmer's Institute gave a speech in which he commented on the growth of this district and its ideal location during the boom years after 1905. He said: "Central Park is destined to become the epicentre of a great commercial metropolis, when Vancouver and New Westminster will have both expanded and prospered until they meet and fill up the intervening distances with residences of a new city, greater than few can now imagine, even in their wildest flights of fancy...we are proud of the two cities that lie on either side of us but they are, but mere hamlets compared with the great city that is to be on this peninsula. The time is coming when there will be one vast city, one commercial metropolis, and Central Park will be the heart of it."

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Daniel & Amelia Mowat House

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Beresford Street; McKay Avenue

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Bylaw No. 13058

Enactment Date: 12/03/2012

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This home was built by Daniel Mowat (1848-1923) and Amelia Mary Mowat (née Hoy, 1848-1923). Daniel originally worked as a merchant, and was operating a chicken farm at this location as early as 1908, and later a goat ranch. It is one of Burnaby’s few two-storey Arts and Crafts residences. The generous proportions of the house, its broad, medium-pitched, front-gabled roof and symmetrical design serve as further features. Additionally, the house boasts a high degree of integrity, retaining its original shingle wall cladding, half-timbered gables and original windows – a combination of casement windows with stained glass transoms and double-hung windows with square, multi-paned upper sashes.This house is located adjacent to what was once the Central Park interurban rail line, operated by the B.C. Electric Company, which conveniently connected this area of Burnaby to Vancouver. The arrival of this commuter line in 1892 led to the suburban development of this area of Burnaby.

Locality: Central Park

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 6368 McKay Avenue

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Front elevation, 2015.. Oblique view.. thumbnail

Kingsway

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1913

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1913

Heritage Value: The years 1911-1912 saw great expansion and settlement in Burnaby and large public works projects were undertaken to service the growing community. One project that was determined to be a necessity was the construction of a proper highway between New Westminster and Vancouver. The Province and the Municipality agreed to share the costs of construction (with Burnaby paying 25% and the Province 75%) and so Kingsway was built to improve the current Vancouver Road. The road was named after the famous King's Way in London, England.

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood); Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area; Marlborough Area; Windsor Area; Kingsway-Beresford Area; Stride Avenue Area; Edmonds Area

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Maywood Elementary School

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1962

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Imperial Street

Associated Dates: 1962

Heritage Value: Located between Nelson and Suncrest Schools, Maywood Elementary School was built in 1962 and helped eased the increasing enrolments at these other schools. Like other schools of this period, Maywood was built on one level with no basement and no high stairs. The classrooms were built in a line which could be easily added to as required. Additions to the original structure were completed in 1964, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972. Fires at the school in 1979 and 1989 caused extensive damage and required partial reconstruction of the building.

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Street Address: 4567 Imperial Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Maywood Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

Heritage Value: Burnaby's Maywood Neighbourhood consists of the Metrotown Town Centre - one of four Town Centres in the City. Metrotown is one of the region's most developed and fastest growing centres. It is served by the first SkyTrain line developed in the mid-1980s and anchored by B.C.'s largest shopping and entertainment complex. As an older centre that has progressively added new developments over the years, Metrotown offers a range of housing types and tenures from three-storey walk-up apartments to modern residential towers.

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Swangard Stadium

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1969

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Imperial Street

Associated Dates: 1969

Heritage Value: On 26 April 1969 Swangard Stadium held its official opening. Named after Vancouver Sun former Managing Editor, Erwin Swangard, the stadium was funded entirely from private donations and civic and provincial grants.

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Street Address: 3883 Imperial Street

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Vancouver Road (Kingsway)

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1860

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1860

Heritage Value: The street we know as Kingsway is one of the legacies of the Royal Engineers' military defences for New Westminster. The fear of an American attack prompted the construction of the False Creek trail - later known as Vancouver Road and now Kingsway - in 1860 to connect the capital city to the ice-free salt water harbour at English Bay.

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood); Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area; Marlborough Area; Windsor Area; Kingsway-Beresford Area; Stride Avenue Area; Edmonds Area

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Gilley Brothers Logging team, [1895]. . thumbnail

William Wilson House

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: The William Wilson House is a vernacular two-storey wood-frame Foursquare house with a hipped roof. It is situated at the corner of Wilson Avenue and Central Boulevard in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, adjacent to the SkyTrain line, and is now part of a multi-family residential complex.

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Other Names: William & Annie Wilson House

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Other Names: William & Annie Wilson House

Geographic Access: Wilson Avenue

Associated Dates: 1913

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Bylaw No. 10350

Enactment Date: 22/04/1996

Description: The William Wilson House is a vernacular two-storey wood-frame Foursquare house with a hipped roof. It is situated at the corner of Wilson Avenue and Central Boulevard in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, adjacent to the SkyTrain line, and is now part of a multi-family residential complex.

Heritage Value: The house is valued as the residence of William Wilson (1860-1935) and Annie Wilson (1868-1966) and demonstrates the development of Burnaby from a rural, farming community to an early commuter suburb, and is one of the few remaining early houses in the Metrotown area of Burnaby. Reflecting the area's early history, it was constructed on a subdivided piece of the Wilson’s 3.2 hectare farm that once bordered Kingsway, the primary road linking New Westminster to Vancouver. To develop his subdivided property, Wilson constructed a bisecting street, named it for himself and situated his new home on a large parcel adjacent to the interurban tramline. Constructed in 1913, the William Wilson House is additionally valued as a modest vernacular example of an Edwardian era Foursquare house. Although simple in form, it is distinguished by an inset front verandah, front bay window and clipped ground level corner. Once commonly found in Burnaby, this is a rare surviving example of the homes typically constructed for the working-class families enticed to Burnaby as a consequence of the interurban tramline.

Defining Elements: Key elements that define the heritage character of William Wilson House include its: - corner location, adjacent to the old interurban alignment - vernacular Foursquare style as exemplified by its symmetrical form, square floor plan and cubic massing with pyramidal roof - cladding, with narrow lapped wooden siding on the first storey and cedar shingles on the second storey - recessed front verandah, with square columns and ground floor cut-away bay window - regular fenestration, including double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows, and casement and transom assembly feature window in the living room

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Function: Primary Historic--Single Dwelling; Primary Current--Single Dwelling

Community: Burnaby

Cadastral Identifier: 023-352-701

Boundaries: The William Wilson House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 6088 Wilson Avenue, Burnaby.

Area: 2824.9

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 6088 Wilson Avenue

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view, 2013. Oblique view. thumbnail

6508 Silver Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the corner and side of the exterior of a concrete low-rise apartment building located at 6508 Silver Avenue. The photograph depicts the building at dusk. Some of the apartment windows are lit up from inside, and plant pots are lined up along the third-floor balcony. A chain link fence…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 634-025

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2022-14

Scope and Content: Photograph of the corner and side of the exterior of a concrete low-rise apartment building located at 6508 Silver Avenue. The photograph depicts the building at dusk. Some of the apartment windows are lit up from inside, and plant pots are lined up along the third-floor balcony. A chain link fence surrounds the backyard. The building was constructed in 1966.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential; Buildings - Residential - Apartments

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Cheung, Nakita

Notes: Title taken from the associated blog post; Associated blog post: https://disappearingburnaby.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/brutalist/

Geographic Access: Silver Avenue

Street Address: 6508 Silver Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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6615 Telford Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the entrance, including the front steps and ramp, to a low-rise apartment building located at 6615 Telford Avenue. The building was constructed in 1964. The photograph depicts the building at night, and trees and bushes partially obscure the entrance. The building's lobby is illuminat…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 634-021

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2022-14

Scope and Content: Photograph of the entrance, including the front steps and ramp, to a low-rise apartment building located at 6615 Telford Avenue. The building was constructed in 1964. The photograph depicts the building at night, and trees and bushes partially obscure the entrance. The building's lobby is illuminated and the apartments' mailboxes are visible through the window.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential; Buildings - Residential - Apartments

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Cheung, Nakita

Notes: Title taken from the associated blog post; Associated blog post: https://disappearingburnaby.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/martello-group/

Geographic Access: Telford Avenue

Street Address: 6615 Telford Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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6692 Dow Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of a two-storey apartment building located at 6692 Dow Avenue. The photograph depicts the building from across the street at night; the lobby and some of the apartment windows are lit up, with a bunch of balloons in one window, and a car is parked on the street in front o…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 634-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2022-14

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of a two-storey apartment building located at 6692 Dow Avenue. The photograph depicts the building from across the street at night; the lobby and some of the apartment windows are lit up, with a bunch of balloons in one window, and a car is parked on the street in front of the building. The building was constructed in 1959.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Apartments; Buildings - Residential; Transportation - Automobiles

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Cheung, Nakita

Notes: Title taken from the associated blog post; Associated blog post: https://disappearingburnaby.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/dow-ave/

Geographic Access: Dow Avenue

Street Address: 6692 Dow Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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6700 Dow Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the entrance to an apartment building located at 6700 Dow Avenue. The photograph depicts the building at night; the lobby and stairs are illuminated by exterior and interior lights. The building was constructed in 1968.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 2022

Collection/Fonds: Disappearing Burnaby collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 634-010

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2022-14

Scope and Content: Photograph of the entrance to an apartment building located at 6700 Dow Avenue. The photograph depicts the building at night; the lobby and stairs are illuminated by exterior and interior lights. The building was constructed in 1968.