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What all the world's a-seeking : or, the vital law of true life, true greatness power, and happiness

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Trine, Ralph Waldo, 1866-1958

Edition: 12th ed.

Publication Date: 1907

Call Number: 171 TRI

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV985.4029.1

Call Number: 171 TRI

Edition: 12th ed.

Author: Trine, Ralph Waldo, 1866-1958

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Gay and Bird

Publication Date: 1907

Printer: T and A. Constable

Physical Description: viii, 253 p. ; 21 cm.

Inscription: "My responsibility his in keeping myself in a faithful & never parting connection to the Infinite Source" -- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (front). "185.197.200.201" -- handwritten in pencil on envelope on endpaper (front). "75" -- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (front).

Library Subject (LOC): Conduct of life; Christian life; Character

Notes: Includes index.

When it was dark the story of a great conspiracy

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Thorne, Guy, 1875-1923

Publication Date: 1905

Call Number: 823.9 THO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV971.136.124

Call Number: 823.9 THO

Author: Thorne, Guy, 1875-1923

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Greening & Co., Ltd.

Publication Date: 1905

Series: Greening's Colonial Library

Printer: Colston and Coy, Limited

Physical Description: viii, 427 p. : ill.

Inscription: "W25", in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil "C.R. Thornburrow", handwritten in brown ink on pre-title page "Kcd/1.25", in pencil inside back cover

Library Subject (LOC): Fiction--20th century

William Charles Parker

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1988-[1998]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of copies of an obituary and mass card, biographical notes and a copy of the music for a song titled "the violet" "for Mrs Will Parker / New Westminster / Christmas 1938". William (Bill) Charles Parker is the son of Sarah Parker (nee Love) and William Parker.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love farmhouse research files subseries

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of copies of an obituary and mass card, biographical notes and a copy of the music for a song titled "the violet" "for Mrs Will Parker / New Westminster / Christmas 1938". William (Bill) Charles Parker is the son of Sarah Parker (nee Love) and William Parker.

Names: Parker, William "Bill" Charles

Accession Code: BV018.41.69

Access Restriction: Subject to FIPPA

Reproduction Restriction: Reproductions subject to FIPPA

Date: 1988-[1998]

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on content of file

William Holmes family records series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1858-1941

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Series: William Holmes family records series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters and land title certificates of William Holmes along with a newspaper clipping refering to the European Ash tree that was planted by the Holmes family on their land in District Lot 1 in Burnaby.

Accession Code: BV997.50

Date: 1858-1941

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of series

William Holmes fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1841]-1994

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) William Holmes family photographs series 2) William Holmes family…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: William Holmes fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) William Holmes family photographs series 2) William Holmes family records series 3) Holmes family cemetery photographs series

History: William Holmes was the first non-Indigenous resident of Burnaby and was born in Kilkenny Ireland January 4, 1812. In 1833, at the age of 20 yrs, William Holmes immigrated to Canada from Ireland in with his parents, Joseph and Jane (McCullough) Holmes and ten other family members including two of his married brothers and their wives, two sisters with their husbands and two unmarried brothers. This was the first group of thirteen to leave Ireland and set up homesteads in Canada near the shores of Lake Huron. The family settled on land concessions in Huron County, Ontario about 14 km southeast of Goderich. The area in Huron County was first founded in 1832 by John and Samuel Holmes and the community was known as Holmes Hill before becoming Holmesville [ca. 1850]. In 1837, William Holmes is noted as owning Lot 23, Concession IX, Goderich Twp. Much of the village of Holmesville grew up around the five road concession near the border of his brother’s farm so William decided to open a store. The Holmesville post office opened on March 1, 1855 and William was appointed the first post master which he operated until May 1857. William met and married Mary Richardson in 1841 and the couple had three daughters: Jane (1844-1926) (married Charles Studdert Finlaison in New Westminster in 1863); Anne Maria (Annie) (1846-192?) (married John Gunther Jennings in New Westminster in 1865 and married Robert Johnson in New Westminster in 1877) and Elizabeth (1848-1934) (married Thomas Carrington of Lakes District in 1867). William’s wife, Mary (Richardson) Holmes died in Holmesville sometime between 1848 and 1853. Following the death of his first wife, Mary, William married Charlotte McCullough (McCulloch). The couple had four daughters; Arabella Charlotte Amelia (1854-1943) (married Arthur Robert Green in 1887); Laura (1855-1867); Arabella Henrietta (1857-1929) (married Clark Wesley Gillanders in 1880) and Mary (1863-1864). During the late 1850s, William became aware of the gold rush and opportunities opening up in British Columbia so left for the west coast in 1858 at the age of 46 yrs. In preparation for his move to the west coast of Canada, William obtained a letter of introduction from top government officials of Canada. William Holmes arrived in British Columbia in 1859. Upon arriving, he first worked running pack trains from Harrison Mills to Lillooet. After earning some money, he decided to re-invest it in land. His first pre-emption of land occurred on January 21, 1860 for 160 acres situated on North Road from the Military Camp to Burrard Inlet and distancing 25 chains south of the Brunette River and 20 chains south of the river with the land extending in a westerly direction. On March 17, 1860, Holmes received a Crown Grant for this and other land in the immediate area totalling 415 acres of which was known as Lot No. 1, Group 1, Rural Land, New Westminster District. The balance of land was situated on the east side of the Brunette River – Lot 13, with 344 2/3 acres of which he made an application to purchase on June 26, 1860, and a Crown Grant dated March 16, 1861 covering 86 acres. Holmes also pre-empted land in Port Moody and Pitt Meadows in 1860 and 1861. The name of “Brunette River” is officially attributed to William Holmes who referred to the river as “Brunette” due to it’s dark colour originating from the peat lands above the lake. Following his purchase of property, he sent for his wife Charlotte, their three daughters and her three step daughters (from William’s first marriage). Charlotte and the six children made the long trip to B.C. by ship and rail, crossing the Isthmus of Darien at Panama. They arrived in B.C. in October 1861 and moved into a one room log cabin built by William. The cabin stood on the North Road at the foot of Sapperton, on a bluff overlooking the Brunette River. Eventually the family moved to a larger dwelling but the original cabin remained on the site until the 1890s when it was burned after being used as a sick house. Mr. Holmes was instrumental in organizing the first Orange Lodge in British Columbia. He was a prominent Orangeman who joined the order in 1840 and was the first master in the order of the City of New Westminster when the Lodge No. 1150 was established there. Charlotte Holmes died in New Westminster in 1893 at the age of 70 years and William Holmes died in New Westminster September 11, 1907 at the age of 95 years.

Responsibility: Holmes, William

Accession Code: HV971.46; BV997.50

Date: [1841]-1994

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Related Material: See also: Reference file: Persons - Holmes, William

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Wire song : an illustrated history of the telephone in British Columbia, 1880-1930

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Benson, Don, 1933-

Publication Date: 1991

Call Number: 384.609711 BEN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 1895493005

Call Number: 384.609711 BEN

Author: Benson, Don, 1933-

Place of Publication: New Westminster, B.C.

Publisher: Westminster Pub.

Publication Date: 1991

Physical Description: 63 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Telephone--British Columbia--History

Names: British Columbia Telephone Company

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 59) and index.

With Buller in Natal or, a born leader

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: 1901

Call Number: 823.8 HEN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV994.30.66

Call Number: 823.8 HEN

Contributor: Rainey, W. (William), 1852-1936

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Blackie & Son

Publication Date: 1901

Physical Description: 384 p. : ill., map

Inscription: "Arthur with love from / Flory. Xmas 1902" [Handwritten in black ink on front endpaper, top centre] "6/-" [pencil on back of back endpaper] "T" [pencil p.17]

Library Subject (LOC): Juvenile fiction; South African War, 1899-1902

Notes: Author full name: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902; Illustrated by W. Rainey

Women's and children's fashions of 1917 : the complete Perry, Dame & Co. catalog

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Perry, Dame & Co.

Publication Date: 1992

Call Number: 391 PER

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0486271285

Call Number: 391 PER

Author: Perry, Dame & Co.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Dover

Publication Date: 1992

Physical Description: 149 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Inscription: "BURNABY VILLAGE / MUSEUM / 1993 / DESIGN", handwritten in ink on cover page.

Library Subject (LOC): Costume--United States--History--20th century; Catalogs

Notes: "Complete, unabridged reprint of catalog no. 67, New York styles, spring and summer 1917, as published by Perry, Dame & Co., New York City"--T.p. verso.