"East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)" found 42 records

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of men sawing down a tree at the Armstrong Avenue School site at 8757 Armstrong Avenue. The accompanying description refers to it as the "bee tree."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1911

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 6.2 x 10.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 007-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of men sawing down a tree at the Armstrong Avenue School site at 8757 Armstrong Avenue. The accompanying description refers to it as the "bee tree."

Subjects: Land Clearing; Documentary Artifacts - Postcards; Plants - Trees

Names: Armstrong Avenue School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Postcard has been cropped

Geographic Access: Armstrong Avenue

Street Address: 8757 Armstrong Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Armstrong Avenue school site, 1911 thumbnail

Armstrong Elementary school supplies drive

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97992

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Armstrong Elementary School students Eugenia Wu and Candice Bachra in a classroom sorting through school supplies that were collected by students.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-3096

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Armstrong Elementary School students Eugenia Wu and Candice Bachra in a classroom sorting through school supplies that were collected by students.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Buildings - Schools; Education

Names: Armstrong Avenue School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a February 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Eugenia Wu, 9, and Candice Bachra, 10, sort through some of the school supplies collected by students at Armstrong Elementary, to be sent to refugee children in Bosnia."

Geographic Access: Armstrong Avenue

Street Address: 8757 Armstrong Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Armstrong Elementary school supplies drive, [2000] thumbnail

Battle Bot

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2004]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School students Mike Johnson, Tim Jackson, and Terry Lim posing with the "Battle Bot" robot they built as part of a competitive physics project.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2004]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-2050

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School students Mike Johnson, Tim Jackson, and Terry Lim posing with the "Battle Bot" robot they built as part of a competitive physics project.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Science and Technology Tools and Equipment

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a February 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Mike Johnson, Tim Jackson and Terry Lim made it to the finals with the battle-bot they built as a "competitive physics" project at Cariboo Hill Secondary School."

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

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Beamish family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1919 (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 the Beamish family.William Randolph "Ran" Beamish (long-time Reeve of Burnaby later on); Ilma Beatrice Beamish (sister); Ethel Agnes Beamish (sister); (in window in background) Mrs. Agnes Beamish (mother). The photograph was taken in front of the family home at 277 17th Avenue (later …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1919 (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.: 204-499

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Beamish family.William Randolph "Ran" Beamish (long-time Reeve of Burnaby later on); Ilma Beatrice Beamish (sister); Ethel Agnes Beamish (sister); (in window in background) Mrs. Agnes Beamish (mother). The photograph was taken in front of the family home at 277 17th Avenue (later renumbered 8059 17th Avenue) in East Burnaby.

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Beamish, Agnes; Beamish, Ilma Beatrice; Beamish, William Randolph "Ran"; Derrick, Ethel Beamish

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 17th Avenue

Street Address: 8059 17th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Beamish family, 1919 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Brook family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1919

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the Brook family home at 7979 12th Avenue, East Burnaby. This house later became the Normanna Rest Home, 7725 4th Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1919

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Kathleen Moore family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 135-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1985-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the Brook family home at 7979 12th Avenue, East Burnaby. This house later became the Normanna Rest Home, 7725 4th Street.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Buildings - Residential - Seniors Housing

Names: Normanna Rest Home

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Moore, Godfrey

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; The accession register notes that the photos in the this collection were taken by Kathleen Moore's father

Geographic Access: 4th Street

Street Address: 7725 4th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Burnaby Bees baseball game

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of a baseball game between the Burnaby Bees and the North Shore Tribe at Robert Burnaby Park. Photographs depict Burnaby player Dave McElroy in action with North Shore player Jarvis Strutt and another unidentified Burnaby player.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 535-2593

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of a baseball game between the Burnaby Bees and the North Shore Tribe at Robert Burnaby Park. Photographs depict Burnaby player Dave McElroy in action with North Shore player Jarvis Strutt and another unidentified Burnaby player.

Subjects: Sports - Baseball

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a June 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata for 535-2593-1: "Burnaby Bees' Dave McElroy can't get a handle on the ball in time to tag North Shore baserunner Jarvis Strutt, in the first game of their BC Junior Baseball game, at Robert Burnaby Park."; Caption from metadata for 535-2593-2: "North Shore Tribes' second baseman Jarvis Strutt, makes the pivot on a Burnaby Bees' baserunner, in the first game of their BC Junior Baseball doubleheader, Sunday at Robert Burnaby Park."

Geographic Access: Robert Burnaby Park; Wedgewood Street

Street Address: 8155 Wedgewood Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lakeview-Mayfield Area

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Burnaby Bees baseball game, [2002] thumbnail

Burnaby Lake Interurban

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1954]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby.…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1954]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 328-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1996-14

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby. The uppermost window in the house was the donor's bedroom.

Subjects: Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fareham Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

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Burnaby Lake Interurban, [before 1954] thumbnail

Cariboo Hill and Burnaby South soccer game

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97492

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby South player Brian Dottin and an unidentified Cariboo Hill player in action during a senior boys' high school soccer game at Cariboo Hill Secondary School.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-2831

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby South player Brian Dottin and an unidentified Cariboo Hill player in action during a senior boys' high school soccer game at Cariboo Hill Secondary School.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Sports - Soccer

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School; Burnaby South High School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in an October 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Brian Dottin, of Burnaby South, battles a Cariboo Hill forward for the ball in their final regular season match of Senior Boys' High School soccer action, at Cariboo Hill on Wednesday. The sides played to a 0-0 draw. The playoffs begin on Monday."

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Cariboo Hill and Burnaby South soccer game, [2002] thumbnail

Cariboo Hill Secondary School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 8, 2009

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 600 ppi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 8, 2009

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Charting Change project series

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 600 ppi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 503-037

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2009-10

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Pasch, Rebecca

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Cariboo Hill Secondary School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2003]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 6 photographs (tiff) : b&w and col.

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of Cariboo Hill Secondary School and its students. Photographs depict unidentified students posing together, with an award, and with their artwork, and photographs of the school's exterior and parking lot.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2003]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 6 photographs (tiff) : b&w and col.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 535-2273

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of Cariboo Hill Secondary School and its students. Photographs depict unidentified students posing together, with an award, and with their artwork, and photographs of the school's exterior and parking lot.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools; Persons - Students

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of file; Collected by editorial for use in a March 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Cariboo Hill Secondary School, [2003] thumbnail

Cariboo Hill Secondary students fundraising

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription95735

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of students at Cariboo Secondary holding a fundraising event. Two students stand in front of a crowd of students who fill the gymnasium and sit in the bleachers.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-1593

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of students at Cariboo Secondary holding a fundraising event. Two students stand in front of a crowd of students who fill the gymnasium and sit in the bleachers.

Subjects: Persons - Students

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a February 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Jennifer Guglielmucci and Kristin Unger, grade 12 students at Cariboo Secondary, try to entice the bidding to go higher at a "slave auction" to raise money for the school's dry grad."

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Cariboo Hill Secondary students fundraising, [2001] thumbnail

Cariboo Hill Secondary students with time capsule

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96964

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School grade 12 students Ashley Graystone, Carmel Challenger, Elizabeth Bell, and Jessica Smith in a classroom viewing the contents for the school's time capsule. Graystone is reading a copy of the Time Millennium Collector's Edition.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-2519

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Cariboo Hill Secondary School grade 12 students Ashley Graystone, Carmel Challenger, Elizabeth Bell, and Jessica Smith in a classroom viewing the contents for the school's time capsule. Graystone is reading a copy of the Time Millennium Collector's Edition.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Artifacts

Names: Cariboo Hill Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a June 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Ashley Graystone reviews the century, while Carmel Challenger, Elizabeth Bell, and Jessica Smith, all grade 12 students at Cariboo High School, check out some of the items that will be placed in a time capsule in the school's front hall, to be opened in 50 years."

Geographic Access: 16th Avenue

Street Address: 8580 16th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Images

Cariboo Hill Secondary students with time capsule, [2000] thumbnail

Coldicutt House

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34549

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.0 x 21.1 cm mounted on 25.1 x 30.1 cm cardboard

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the Coldicutt House at 7510 6th Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.0 x 21.1 cm mounted on 25.1 x 30.1 cm cardboard

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 044-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the Coldicutt House at 7510 6th Street.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Geographic Features - Roads

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 6th Street

Street Address: 7510 6th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Floden House

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rolf Floden standing in front of Floden House on 18th Ave, prior to its heritage designation and its relocation by the City of Burnaby to 4th Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-1543

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rolf Floden standing in front of Floden House on 18th Ave, prior to its heritage designation and its relocation by the City of Burnaby to 4th Avenue.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Buildings - Heritage

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a January 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Rolf Floden visits the house on 18th Ave. where he grew up. The house has been purchased by the city of Burnaby and will be moved to another site to be preserved."

Geographic Access: 18th Avenue

Street Address: 7244 4th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Edmonds Area

Images

Floden House auction

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96127

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2003]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Helen Krenzler, City of Burnaby property negotiator, standing in front of the heritage home Floden House and a sign that reads: "City of Burnaby / For Sale by Public Tender / Viewing by Appointment / Minimum Bid Price $295,000.00". Krenzler holds a banker's box that contains an antiqu…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2003]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-1827

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Helen Krenzler, City of Burnaby property negotiator, standing in front of the heritage home Floden House and a sign that reads: "City of Burnaby / For Sale by Public Tender / Viewing by Appointment / Minimum Bid Price $295,000.00". Krenzler holds a banker's box that contains an antique light fixture.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Buildings - Heritage; Occupations - Civic Workers

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a January 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Helen Krenzler, the City of Burnaby's property negotiator, returns some antique light fixtures to the old Floden House, in preparation for an open house for prospective buyers. The City is auctioning the heritage home after moving it to a new location last year."

Geographic Access: 4th Street

Street Address: 7244 4th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Edmonds Area

Images

Floden House relocation

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of the relocation of Floden House, a heritage home built in 1929. A man in a hard hat stands in the foreground, directing the flatbed truck that is carrying the two-storey location to its new location on 4th Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-1628

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the relocation of Floden House, a heritage home built in 1929. A man in a hard hat stands in the foreground, directing the flatbed truck that is carrying the two-storey location to its new location on 4th Street.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage; Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a February 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Garry Hands, of Nickel Brothers, directs the delicate task of moving the Floden house along 4th Street in Burnaby to its new resting place further west on the street."

Geographic Access: 4th Street

Street Address: 7244 4th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Edmonds Area

Images

Floden House relocation, [2001] thumbnail

Hands Across Havana at Second Street Community School

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96802

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2004]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of three grade 6 students (Jordin Turpin, Emily Ford, and Keish McGinn) at Second Street Community School creating hand drawings for students in Cuba as part of their "Hands Across Havana" project.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2004]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-2360

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of three grade 6 students (Jordin Turpin, Emily Ford, and Keish McGinn) at Second Street Community School creating hand drawings for students in Cuba as part of their "Hands Across Havana" project.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Arts - Drawings

Names: Second Street School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in an April 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Jordin Turpin, Emily Ford and Keish McGinn, grade six students at Second St. Community School, demonstrate how they create hand drawings for students in Cuba as part of their "Hands Across Havana" project."

Geographic Access: 2nd Street

Street Address: 7502 2nd Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Hands Across Havana at Second Street Community School, [2004] thumbnail

Interview with Jack McGeachie June 18, 1975 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1914-1922

Length: 0:09:27

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.

Date Range: 1914-1922

Photo Info: McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464

Length: 0:09:27

Subjects: Buildings - Residences - Houses

Geographic Access: Formby Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood); East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area; Second Street Area

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: June 18, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie. Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School. John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company. Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 0:51:13

Interviewee Name: McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"

Interview Location: Rosewood

Interviewer Bio: Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

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McGeachie family; John Aloysius thumbnail

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Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-10/100-13-10_Track_1.mp3

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