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Nichols Chemical Company fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1906-1962

Collection/Fonds: Nichols Chemical Company fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 9 technical drawings

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of technical drawings of the Nichols Chemcial Company plant and machinery.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Nichols Chemical Company fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 9 technical drawings

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of technical drawings of the Nichols Chemcial Company plant and machinery.

History: In 1905 the Nichols Chemical Company, acid manufacturers based in Montreal, established their chemical plant on on a tract of land along Burrard Inlet, just east of the North Pacific Lumber Company. This company was later amalgamated and acquired by General Chemical and remains in operation on the original waterfront site. Many of workers at the Nichols Chemical Plant lived in bunkhouses in the community of Barnet including Japanese Canadian families who were employed there. Many of these families were laid off and forcibily removed during the internment of the Japanese in British Columbia during World War II.

Creator: Nichols Chemical Company Limited

Accession Code: BV998.23

Date: 1906-1962

Media Type: Technical Drawing

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Woodworking Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1954 (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 James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 6th Avenue after a heavy snowfall. The plant was built originally as Cliff's Can Factory, and also served as Western Canadian Can Factory.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1954 (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.: 204-104

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of James Brookes Woodworking Plant, located at 7730 6th Street, taken from 6th Avenue after a heavy snowfall. The plant was built originally as Cliff's Can Factory, and also served as Western Canadian Can Factory.

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Factories; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: Cliff's Can Factory; James Brookes Woodworking Limited; Western Canadian Can Factory

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 6th Street

Street Address: 7730 6th Street

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Woodworking Plant, 1954 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Betty with cannas plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [195-] (date of original), copied 2014

Collection/Fonds: James Massey family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 600 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Betty Massey standing next to a cannas plant in the garden of Robert Burnaby Park.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [195-] (date of original), copied 2014

Collection/Fonds: James Massey family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 600 dpi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 581-008

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2014-34

Scope and Content: Photograph of Betty Massey standing next to a cannas plant in the garden of Robert Burnaby Park.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Gardens

Names: Massey, Betty

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lakeview-Mayfield Area

Images

Cannas plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1953] (date of original), copied 2014

Collection/Fonds: James Massey family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 600 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large cannas plant in the garden at Robert Burnaby Park. James Massey worked as the caretaker of Robert Burnaby Park and created extensive gardens with inspiration from his brother who was the caretaker of Queens Park in Vancouver.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1953] (date of original), copied 2014

Collection/Fonds: James Massey family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 600 dpi

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 581-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2014-34

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large cannas plant in the garden at Robert Burnaby Park. James Massey worked as the caretaker of Robert Burnaby Park and created extensive gardens with inspiration from his brother who was the caretaker of Queens Park in Vancouver.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Gardens

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying was also digitized

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lakeview-Mayfield Area

Images

Cannas plant, [between 1950 and 1953] (date of original), copied 2014 thumbnail

Ettinger family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1898-1971

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs, newspaper clippings and legal documents related to the Ettinger family of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1898-1971

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Ettinger family subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2002-03

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs, newspaper clippings and legal documents related to the Ettinger family of Burnaby.

History: James Gilmore Ettinger was born in Noel Road, Nova Scotia in 1863. He worked his way across Canada with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and landed in New Westminster in 1888. He was one of the first men who helped log the area for the settlement that is now Burnaby. With two other men, James started a brick manufacturing plant in the area of Deer Lake. In 1889, a second brick plant was started on Brickyard Road in Surrey on the bank of the Fraser River. Martha Harriet Hembrough was born in Leeds, England in 1874 and later moved to Haney. James Gilmore and Martha married in 1890 and had seven children: Evelina "Eve" (b. August 8, 1891, d. January 1, 1976); Ella May (b. ca. 1894, d. February 1983); Leonard; George William "Bill" (b. February 18, 1899, d. November 26, 1970); Stanley (b. December 27, 1901, d. March 10, 1966); Ethel (b. ca. 1904, d. December 22, 1982); and James. On May 19, 1911, the Ettingers bought parcel Lot 8, Block C sub-division 19 and 20 of DL 95 no. 556 for $350.00. Their eldest daughter, Evelina was signed over the Deed of Land for this property on April 21, 1914. In 1919, the Ettinger family was living at 1177 19th Avenue, Edmonds, Burnaby. James worked as a Road Foreman in Edmonds, and later as ward foreman for the Municipality. Ella May married Charles Morton Marshall on July 7, 1926. Evelina married Don Digby (d. October 21, 1965) on April 30, 1930. Ethel married George H. McKennell (d. June 18, 1985) on March 16, 1931. Bill worked as a Pacific Stage Lines (PSL) bus operator who “pulled” the first bus service between Vancouver and New Westminster and between Vancouver and Chilliwack in 1924. He received a number of National Safety Council non-accident awards during his career. He married Jane Wilson on July 11, 1931. James Gilmore died on June 9, 1948 at the age of 85. Martha died on February 9, 1955 at the age of 80.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Ettinger, James Gilmore

Notes: Title based on contents of subseries; PC 428, MSS147

Fruit Processing Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [195-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.1 x 23.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of a fruit processing plant in the Kingsway Area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [195-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.1 x 23.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 085-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of a fruit processing plant in the Kingsway Area.

Subjects: Buildings - Agricultural; Agriculture - Fruit and Berries

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Images

Fruit Processing Plant, [195-] thumbnail

Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1920-2006, predominant 1920-1979

Collection/Fonds: Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 6 photographs : col. + 1 photograph : b&w + 1 photograph : sepia + 41 photographs (tiffs) + 4 photographs (jpgs) + 12 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of family photographs of the Jung, Chan and Lee families as well as business records collected and created by Cecil Lee in the nineteen seventies, while he was employed as a Produce Buyer for Kelly Douglas Limited and Western Commodities Limited and responsible for the import of Chin…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 6 photographs : col. + 1 photograph : b&w + 1 photograph : sepia + 41 photographs (tiffs) + 4 photographs (jpgs) + 12 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of family photographs of the Jung, Chan and Lee families as well as business records collected and created by Cecil Lee in the nineteen seventies, while he was employed as a Produce Buyer for Kelly Douglas Limited and Western Commodities Limited and responsible for the import of Chinese mandarin oranges. Fonds is arranged into the following series: 1) Lee family photographs series 3) Cecil Lee business records series

History: Julie Cho Chan Lee is the daughter of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) (1912-2006) and Puy Yuen Chan (1903-1978). Suey Ying "Laura" and Puy Yuen Chan were married in New Westminster in November 1942 followed by a fourteen year residency in the “minority town site” of Fraser Mills where their daughters Julie and June were born. Julie's mother Suey Ying "Laura" Jung was born in Burnaby in 1912 to Chung Chong Jung (1875-1956) and Gee Shee Jung (1879-1952). The family had six children (five of which lived to adulthood); Suey Fong "Maida" (1909-1997) (married Quinn Wong) ; Suey Kin "Annie" (1911-1962) (married George Jong); Suey Ying "Laura"; Suey Cheung "Harry" (1916-1991) and "; Suey Yook "Gordon" (1919-1998). The family owned and operated a five acre market garden and piggery at 5460 Douglas Road near Still Creek (address was changed to 5286 Douglas Road in 1958). This was conveniently located directly across the street from Douglas Road Interurban Station. The children attended Edmonds Elementary School and while the girls only completed their elementary school years, the boys continued their education at the Vancouver Technical School. Chung Chong and Gee Shee Jung sold the farm on Douglas Road around 1949 and moved to East Vancouver. Julie's mother, Suey Ying "Laura" Jung continued to live and work on the Jung family farm until she was married in 1942 when she moved to live with her husband, Puy Yuen at Fraser Mills. Suey Ying "Laura"'s sister Maida and her husband Quinn Wong also lived at Fraser Mills with their nine children. Julie's father, Puy Yuen Chan joined his father, Chin Yip Hong in Canada at the tender age of 12, worked as a shingle packer and plywood plant handler at Fraser Mills for forty years and retired without ever learning to speak English. In 1972, Julie Cho Chan married Cecil Lee and lived in Surrey where their two boys, Rodney and Darin were born. Just prior to the start of school for Rodney, the family relocated to Coquitlam where Julie had lived since 1956. Julie worked as a teacher and later as a teacher-librarian in the Coquitlam School District. Cecil Chue Kan Lee was born in Queensborough to Sui Seo Ngen and Ding Quai Lee. Cecil is the youngest of eight children; Chue Ngan "Gladys"; Chue Fay "Walter"; Chue Quon "Charlie"; Chue Jan "Pearl"; Chue Moi "Rose"; Chue Duck "Dick" and Chue Kwong "Ken". Cecil’s father, Ding Quai Lee was a jack of all trades including a labour contractor as a well as a millwright for G.W. Beach’s three mills, Keystone, Sapperton and Harrison Mills.In 1931, with the arrival of the Depression, the family made the difficult decision to return to their homeland of Guangzhou province, eventually returning to Canada in 1939. With this decision, Ding Quai wrestled with the burden of the repayment of the loans for two way steamship fares to and from China. Upon their return to Canada, the family lived a short time on Union Street in Vancouver before relocating to Queensborough (New Westminster). Cecil and his siblings were schooled at Queen Elizabeth Elementary School followed by varying stints at FW Howay and Duke of Connaught High Schools. In 1951, Cecil Lee joined Kelly Douglas & Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the George Weston Empire, as a produce warehouseman, followed by several years as a foreman and then in the early seventies until his 1991 retirement after forty years of service, he served as one of the KD produce buyers. In this capacity, he worked closely with local farmers along Marine Drive and in the Fraser Valley. Kelly Douglas and Company Limited was founded in 1896 as a wholesale grocery business and became one of the largest food distributors in Canada. In 1946, its headquarters moved from Vancouver to Burnaby and a manufacturing plant and warehouse were built on the site at 4700 Kingsway. In the mid-1970s, Lee along with the associates at Western Commodities, the head office for produce imports, was asked to oversee the import of Chinese mandarin oranges into western Canada. Until that time, mandarin oranges had come only from Japan and were sold in the winter, especially at Christmas. When the Japanese market could no longer keep up with the popular demand, Kelly Douglas and Company Limited looked to China. The company relied on Lee’s cultural knowledge to build this very profitable part of their business. Moreover, Cecil Lee designed, though not patented, the cardboard Chinese mandarin orange box to replace wooden containers. The iconic design required no glue or staples, making it possible for farmers to assemble and pack the boxes as they picked the oranges. In 1986, the Kelly Douglas and Company building was demolished and the produce department of Kelly Douglas was relocated to 6451 Telford Burnaby and the head office to 808 Nelson Street, Vancouver.

Creator: Lee, Julie Cho Chan; Lee, Chue Kan "Cecil"

Accession Code: BV017.24; BV019.6; BV019.33; BV020.38; BV021.19

Date: 1920-2006, predominant 1920-1979

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Arrangement: Records within fonds are composed of business records and family photographs arranged by the Lee family.

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds; See also: Interview with Julie Lee by Denise Fong February 6, 2020. -- [1920-1992] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 6, 2020 BV020.6.2; See also artifact descriptions under accession BV019.6 including BV019.6.1 - for description of original box to ship and sell mandarin oranges; BV019.6.15 and BV019.6.16 for Chinese mandarin orange wrappers "Snow Mountain Mandarin Orange"; Many of the "Business records" are closed and subject to FIPPA, contact Burnaby Village Museum regarding access

Physical Plant Plans series

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1950-2003

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of architectural drawings and plans created by the Physical Plant Maintenance division of the Engineering Department. This division is responsible for the development of maintenance programs for all civic facilities in Burnaby and these records resulted from that activity.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1950-2003

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Series: Physical Plant Plans series

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of architectural drawings and plans created by the Physical Plant Maintenance division of the Engineering Department. This division is responsible for the development of maintenance programs for all civic facilities in Burnaby and these records resulted from that activity.

Media Type: Textual Record

Working at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1966, published April 18, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of workmen at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant. They are feeding a flat steel plate, more than three inches think inot a pyramind roll for fabrication in the making of a sulfinol vessel for the petroleum industry in Alberta. The workmen are wearing asbestos aluminum suits to withs…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1966, published April 18, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 18.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-507

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of workmen at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant. They are feeding a flat steel plate, more than three inches think inot a pyramind roll for fabrication in the making of a sulfinol vessel for the petroleum industry in Alberta. The workmen are wearing asbestos aluminum suits to withstand the intense heat reflected from the heated plate (the plate was heated in a furnace before being fed into the pyramid roll).

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Factories; Occupations - Labourers

Names: Dominion Bridge Company

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Henry Tregillas Photography Ltd.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Boundary Road

Street Address: 2400 Boundary Road

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: West Central Valley Area

Images

Working at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant, April 1966, published April 18, 1966 thumbnail

10th Avenue Adjacent to the BC Telephone Company Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 29273

Meeting Date: 12-Feb-1968

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 29273

Meeting Date: 12-Feb-1968

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 29273

12-Feb-1968 Meeting Minutes

Access Road to McMillan, Bloedel Plant (formerly Sidney Roofing Company)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 30563

Meeting Date: 29-May-1967

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 32

Item No.: 13

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 30563

Meeting Date: 29-May-1967

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 32

Item No.: 13

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

Documents

Report 30563

29-May-1967 Meeting Minutes

Agreement - BC Electric Company Ltd. (Shell Oil Company Plant)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 36015

Meeting Date: 26-Jun-1961

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 34

Item No.: 17

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 36015

Meeting Date: 26-Jun-1961

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 34

Item No.: 17

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

Documents

Report 36015

26-Jun-1961 Meeting Minutes

Alvin Helmersen

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1966, published July 22, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 12 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Alvin Helmersen the winner of a $500 Food Technology Scholarship from Kelly Douglas & Co. Ltd. At the time, he was working in process control at Nabob's Burnaby plant for the summer, and returning to fourth year studies at UBC in the fall.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1966, published July 22, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 12 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-088

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Alvin Helmersen the winner of a $500 Food Technology Scholarship from Kelly Douglas & Co. Ltd. At the time, he was working in process control at Nabob's Burnaby plant for the summer, and returning to fourth year studies at UBC in the fall.