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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 15 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 15 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-782

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Buildings - Religious - Churches; Buildings - Heritage

Names: Notre Dame Cathedral

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ontario Liquor Store

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1880 and 1899]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype ; 10.6 x 13.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an L shaped building with a flat front. Letters on the front of the store read, "Ontario Liquor Store / Grocery / Tailor." Four men are standing near the store on the boardwalk, three boys are sitting, and a woman is standing on the boardwalk leaning against the fence on the far lef…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w tintype ; 10.6 x 13.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an L shaped building with a flat front. Letters on the front of the store read, "Ontario Liquor Store / Grocery / Tailor." Four men are standing near the store on the boardwalk, three boys are sitting, and a woman is standing on the boardwalk leaning against the fence on the far left. As is normal for most tintypes, the image appears reversed, left to right. (Few tintype cameras included a mirror or prism that made the image appear 'right way round').

History: From Denby Bros. Shoe Store at 163 West Pender in Vancouver. Stafford Ague Denby (1882-1957) started peddling shoe findings in 1918 around Vancouver to repair shops around town from the back of an old Ford. Two of his brothers, William Albert (1873-1947) and Melvin Stanley (1879-1953) joined him in 1919 to form Denby Bros & Co. Ltd Leather and Shoe Findings at 163 West Pender. William Gordon Pope started helping out in the shoe store at the age of 10. He eventually ran the store with his cousin, Pat Denby (son of William A. Denby) starting in the 1950s. The store closed in 1974.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Stores

Accession Code: HV974.130.56

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1880 and 1899]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-05-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ontario Liquor Store, [between 1880 and 1899] thumbnail

Open meeting with William Pritchard and Norman Penner July / August 1973 - Track 5

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1688-1919

Length: 0:08:51

Summary: This portion of the meeting pertains to William Pritchard's thoughts on Socialism and Revolution in their various incantations. He also discusses the political leanings of the arrested Winnipeg Strikers.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the meeting pertains to William Pritchard's thoughts on Socialism and Revolution in their various incantations. He also discusses the political leanings of the arrested Winnipeg Strikers.

Date Range: 1688-1919

Photo Info: William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930. Item no. 459-016

Length: 0:08:51

Names: Woodsworth, James Shaver

Subjects: Political Theories

Interview Date: July / August 1973

Scope and Content: Recording is of a open meeting with William Pritchard and writer Norman Penner. Norman Penner is the editor of the book "Winnipeg 1919" about the strike from the striker's perspective. William Pritchard wrote the speech that was included in the book. Audience members were invited to ask Pritchard questions. Major theme discussed is: The Winnipeg General Strike. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: William "Bill" Arthur Pritchard was born on April 3, 1888 in Salford, England, the son of a miner and factory worker. In May 1911, Bill moved to British Columbia and within a week of arriving became an active member of the Socialist Party of Canada. From 1914 to 1917, he served as editor of the Western Clarion – the SPC newspaper. He became such a well-known socialist figure that when he travelled to Winnipeg to participate in the General Strike in 1919, he was one of only seven people arrested and imprisoned for his participation in the event despite the fact that he was in no way directly involved in its planning nor development. In 1922, Bill and his family settled in North Burnaby in the Capitol Hill District. Almost immediately after his arrival, Bill began to advocate for change and a planned development scheme for the municipality. Pritchard ran successfully for the position of Reeve and held the post until the end of 1932. One of Reeve Pritchard’s highest priorities while in office was to attempt to provide work for as many unemployed as possible all the while trying to elicit more support from the provincial and federal governments. Bill was a strong advocate of the belief that relief work should be focused on projects that would see a comprehensive development scheme for Burnaby – including planned sewers, roads and water supply. Despite Bill's best efforts, however, Burnaby was forced into receivership and at the end of 1932, a Provincial Commission stepped in to take over the governance of the city. Reeve Pritchard, having done all he could as a champion of the unemployed, stepped down as Reeve but left behind an undeniable legacy of courage and determination. He was rewarded for his enormous contributions to the city in 1975 when he was chosen to be made a Freeman of Burnaby. William Pritchard died on October 23, 1981. Norman Penner was born in Winnipeg in 1921 to Rose and Jacob Penner and brother to Roland, Ruth and Walter. Their father Jacob was a leading member of the Communist Party and popular Winnipeg Alderman. Norman graduated from high school in 1937 but did not begin university until much later, preferring to begin his adult life from 1938 to 1941 as a full-time officer of the Winnipeg branch of the Communist Party of Canada. From 1941 to 1946 he served with the Canadian Army which included two-and-a-half years of overseas combat duty. On his return to Canada in 1947 he again returned to his duties as a full-time officer with the communist Labour-Progressive Party (formed in 1941 after the Canadian Communist Party was officially banned). After the abortive Hungarian revolution in 1956, Norman Penner resigned from the party and instead worked as a self-employed manufacturer’s sales representative until 1971. In 1964 he decided to go back to school part time and graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1969. He took an MA in 1971 and a PhD in 1975 from the same institution. Penner was hired as a lecturer at York University's Glendon College in 1972 and soon became a professor, continuing to teach until 1995. He wrote extensively on the Canadian left. Penner edited and introduced "Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike" in 1973, published "The Canadian Left: A Critical Analysis" in 1977 and contributed three chapters to as well as editing "Keeping Canada Together Means Changing Our Thinking" in 1978. He published "Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond" in 1988 and "From Protest to Power: Social Democracy in Canada 1900 to Present" in 1992 as well as numerous articles, reviews and book chapters. Norman Penner was married to Norma Lipes for sixty-seven years. The couple had four children: Steve (Mary Ellen Marus); Joyce (Herman Parsons); Gary (Marlene Kadar); and Bob (Shaena Lambert). Norman Penner died April 16, 2009 at the age of eighty-eight.

Total Tracks: 7

Total Length: 1:03:00

Interviewee Name: Pritchard, William A.; Penner, Norman

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

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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William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930. Item no. 459-016 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track five of open meeting with William Pritchard and Norman Penner

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The Opera House, Paris

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Opera House in Paris. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-778

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Opera House in Paris. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Oxford Street, London

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39443

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 17.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Oxford Street in London. This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 17.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-762

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Oxford Street in London. This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Roads; Buildings - Commercial; Transportation - Carriages

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Paris, France

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-776

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Aerial Photographs; Geographic Features - Channels

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Paris, France

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39458

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-777

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Aerial Photographs; Geographic Features - Channels

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Paris, France

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39465

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 15 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 10.5 x 15 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-784

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Paris, France. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Cities

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880-1980]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: ca. 1200 photographs and other material

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records, primarily photographs, compiled by various members of both the Hill and Peers families that document their lives during the early days of settlement in Burnaby. The fonds includes records of citizenship, wills and other official papers pertaining to the life and activitie…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880-1980]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Physical Description: ca. 1200 photographs and other material

Description Level: Fonds

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records, primarily photographs, compiled by various members of both the Hill and Peers families that document their lives during the early days of settlement in Burnaby. The fonds includes records of citizenship, wills and other official papers pertaining to the life and activities of L. Claude Hill; photographs of the Peers family’s Burnaby Lake home, Greyfriars, and pictures taken by Arthur Peers during his work and travels throughout British Columbia in the first part of the 20th century; and photographs of the family of Claude Hill, early Burnaby Lake residents and scenes, and pictures Kitty took as an adult documenting the growth of her own family. Also included in this fonds are a number of photographs showing Yellow Point, Vancouver Island, where the Peers and Hill families often vacationed.

History: Bob Peers was born William John Peers, the son of real estate broker and early Burnaby resident, Francis John Peers and his wife Elizabeth Frisby. Originally from England, the family moved to Vancouver in 1905 and soon after settled at Burnaby Lake. The family included one daughter (Mary Elizabeth Dora) and four boys (Arthur Francis, William John “Bob”, Geoffrey Hugh, and Richard Dominic). When they arrived in Burnaby, Francis Peers purchased a piece of land from another early settler, Claude Hill, and built the family home “Greyfriars” near Deer Lake. The children attended school in the home of Miss Harriet Woodward, the first school to be held in the Burnaby Lake area. In 1925, Bob married Claude Hill’s daughter and another former pupil of “Miss Harry’s,” Kitty Hill. Kitty (born Katherine Maude Hill) was the only child of Burnaby pioneers L. Claude Hill and Annie Sara Kenrick. Having moved to the Burnaby Lake area in the early 1890s, Claude went on to operate a successful strawberry farm and soon became active in the political development of Burnaby – being elected to the first Burnaby Council and serving from 1892-1894 and again from 1909-1910. The first Hill family home, “Brookfield,” was sold around 1907 and the family moved to their new home, “Broadview,” which was also built in the vicinity of Deer Lake. In 1925, Bob and Kitty were married and they went on to have three children, Robert C.K., Barbara (later Barbara Jeffrey), and Anne (later Anne Latham).

Formats: All photographic records have been scanned and are saved in jpeg format on the City of Burnaby network. Archival master copies have also been produced in tiff format and have been burned to CD for preservation purposes.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Peers family; Hill family

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Phineas Taylor Barnum

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1886

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm mounted on cardboard 16.5 x 10.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), the founder of the circus that would eventually become the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is 76 years of age at this time with grey hair, wearing a suit with a vest and a bow tie. Annotated or stamped on the bottom front of the ph…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm mounted on cardboard 16.5 x 10.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), the founder of the circus that would eventually become the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is 76 years of age at this time with grey hair, wearing a suit with a vest and a bow tie. Annotated or stamped on the bottom front of the photograph: "P.T. Barnum. 1886." Printed on the bottom front of the card: "Eisenmann / New York." Printed on the back of the card, "Chas. Eisenmann / Instantaeous Photographer / Trade Mark / The Popular Photographer / 229 Bowery, N.Y. / Branch Gallery 18 West 14th Str. N.Y."

Names: Barnum, P.T.

Accession Code: HV975.61.153c

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1886

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-06

Photographer: Eisenmann, Charles

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; This photograph was removed from photograph album - HV975.61.153

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The Phoenix Tower, Chester

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.2 x 19.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Phoenix Tower in Chester. Inscribed on the plaque on the tower reads the following; "King Charles Stood on this Tower Sept. 24 1645 and Saw His Army Defeated on Rowton Moor." This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately sett…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.2 x 19.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-816

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Phoenix Tower in Chester. Inscribed on the plaque on the tower reads the following; "King Charles Stood on this Tower Sept. 24 1645 and Saw His Army Defeated on Rowton Moor." This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Monuments

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Recording of John Burton - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1885-1959

Length: 0:09:56

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to John Burton's description of the Linotype machine and how it functions.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to John Burton's description of the Linotype machine and how it functions.

Date Range: 1885-1959

Photo Info: Burton family home, [1945]. Item no. 216-002

Length: 0:09:56

Subjects: Printing Tools and Equipment

Scope and Content: Recording is of John Burton discussing the history of the weekly newspaper and of the types of printing presses that have been used in Canada, as well as exactly how their parts function. John appears to be describing printing presses that are in the room with him.

Biographical Notes: John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, then Edmonds, then Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930. While at High School, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school. John Burton's grandfather John Foley was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper; Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter. When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. Unfortunately, he was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.

Total Tracks: 5

Total Length: 0:46:18

Interviewee Name: Burton, John

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

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.

Images

Burton family home, [1945]. Item no. 216-002 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track four of recording of John Burton

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS137-001-2/MSS137-001-2_Track_4.mp3

Recording of John Burton - Track 5

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1850-1950

Length: 0:09:14

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to John Burton's description of the galley press and the proofing process. He also discusses job printing (now referred to as commercial printing).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to John Burton's description of the galley press and the proofing process. He also discusses job printing (now referred to as commercial printing).

Date Range: 1850-1950

Photo Info: Burton family home, [1945]. Item no. 216-002

Length: 0:09:14

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers; Printing Tools and Equipment

Scope and Content: Recording is of John Burton discussing the history of the weekly newspaper and of the types of printing presses that have been used in Canada, as well as exactly how their parts function. John appears to be describing printing presses that are in the room with him.

Biographical Notes: John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, then Edmonds, then Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930. While at High School, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school. John Burton's grandfather John Foley was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper; Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter. When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. Unfortunately, he was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.

Total Tracks: 5

Total Length: 0:46:18

Interviewee Name: Burton, John

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

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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Audio Tracks

Track five of recording of John Burton

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS137-001-2/MSS137-001-2_Track_5.mp3

The Rhine River at Cologne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39491

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.3 x 16 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Rhine River at Cologne. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.3 x 16 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-810

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Rhine River at Cologne. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Rivers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Rhuddlan Castle

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39503

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.2 x 19.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rhuddlan Castle with a heard of cows wading in the waterway in the foreground. This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.2 x 19.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-822

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rhuddlan Castle with a heard of cows wading in the waterway in the foreground. This photograph was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Animals - Cows; Buildings - Residential - Palaces

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Richard Love

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [ca. 1870]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Richard Love seated next to a decorative wooden desk. He is seated on a chair with a velvet and tassels and is wearing a large black suit coat, a white blouse with a tie at the collar, pants with long velvet chaps that go up to his knees and cover the tops of his shoes. He is…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love family photographs subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photograph portrait of Richard Love seated next to a decorative wooden desk. He is seated on a chair with a velvet and tassels and is wearing a large black suit coat, a white blouse with a tie at the collar, pants with long velvet chaps that go up to his knees and cover the tops of his shoes. He is holding a wooden cane between his legs and there is a top hat and a book on top of the desk and a back drop hanging from the wall behind him. Richard Love is the father of Jesse Love.

Names: Love, Richard

Accession Code: BV018.41.181

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [ca. 1870]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 2400

Scan Date: 4-Mar-2019

Scale: 100

Photographer: Dodson, Z.

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy print accompanying; Stamp in black ink on verso of original photograph reads: "Z.DODSON, / Photographer / PROSPECT PLACE, / NEAR VICTORIA STREET / SWINDON."

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River

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39486

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.3 x 15.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified river in Germany. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.3 x 15.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-805

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified river in Germany. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Rivers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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River and town on the English Coast

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39452

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.6 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a river and town on the English Coast. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.6 x 15.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-771

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a river and town on the English Coast. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Rivers

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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River and town on the English Coast, [1880] thumbnail

The Royal Exchange

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39442

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 17.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large crowd of people and merchants standing in front of the Royal Exchange in London, with the Bank of London visible in the centre. A Pears soap carriage can be seen as can a City Sewer cart. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ult…

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 17.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-761

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a large crowd of people and merchants standing in front of the Royal Exchange in London, with the Bank of London visible in the centre. A Pears soap carriage can be seen as can a City Sewer cart. This item was in a scrapbook kept by Claude Hill who was originally from England but ultimately settled in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage; Buildings - Commercial - Banks; Persons - Crowds

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Sarah James

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66301

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Sarah Tolson James. On the back of the photograph is attached a wedding announcement from a newspaper which reads: Aman-James - the 7th inst., at St. Matthew's, Oakley Square, London, by the Rev. A. Wellesley Baston, M.B., precentor of St. Anne's, …

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1880]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-1011

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of a woman identified as Sarah Tolson James. On the back of the photograph is attached a wedding announcement from a newspaper which reads: Aman-James - the 7th inst., at St. Matthew's, Oakley Square, London, by the Rev. A. Wellesley Baston, M.B., precentor of St. Anne's, Soho, assisted by the Rev. A. E. Evans, Frank Gerard, second son of Godfrey J. Aman Esq., of Cricklewood, Middlesex, to Sarah Tolson, third daughter of John James, Esq., J.P., of Plas Acton, Denbighshire.

Names: Aman, Sarah Tolson James

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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