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Scope and Content: Photograph of the Municipal Council and members of the municipal hall staff sitting and standing in two rows outside the enlarged version of Burnaby's first Municipal Hall. Identified, seated (from left): L. Claude Hill, T.D. Coldicutt, J. Love, Reeve Peter Byrne, Duncan C. McGregor, John Rumble an…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19.5 x 24.5 cm, mounted on card 35 x 37.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Municipal Council and members of the municipal hall staff sitting and standing in two rows outside the enlarged version of Burnaby's first Municipal Hall. Identified, seated (from left): L. Claude Hill, T.D. Coldicutt, J. Love, Reeve Peter Byrne, Duncan C. McGregor, John Rumble and Eber Stride. Behind, standing, fifth from the left is F.L. MacPherson.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Byrne, Peter; Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"; Coldicutt, Thomas D.; Love, Jesse, 1849-1928; McGregor, Duncan C., 1853-1929; Rumble, John; Stride, Eber; MacPherson, Frederick L. "Fred"; Burnaby City Hall

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 7282 Kingsway

Accession Code: HV973.40.3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1910]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

Related Material: According to earlier catalogue record, a plan for the conversion from the municipal hall to a community hall is in the the BVM archives.

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 1/8/2010

Scale: 100

Photographer: Broadbridge Commercial Photo Company

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of original reads: "Burnaby Municipal Council in front of the first Municipal Hall on Kingsway"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "The Broadbridge Commercial Photo Co. / 530 Homer St. Vancouver [illegible]"

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Municipal Council in front of the Municipal Hall, [1910] thumbnail

Opening of Hastings Street Tramline Extension

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: December 23, 1913

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 11 x 15.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the opening of the Hastings Street Tramline Extension, Capitol Hill. The man seen standing in the front row, near the centre of the photograph (with the light-coloured coat) and in front of the mounted police officer, has been identified as Joe Toffaletto (he headed up the BCER constr…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: December 23, 1913

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: J.W. Phillips subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 11 x 15.5 cm

Material Details: Emulsion measures 11 x 15.5 cm on the glass; entire glass plate measures 12 x 16 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 487-003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the opening of the Hastings Street Tramline Extension, Capitol Hill. The man seen standing in the front row, near the centre of the photograph (with the light-coloured coat) and in front of the mounted police officer, has been identified as Joe Toffaletto (he headed up the BCER construction team which built this line and who was also known as the anchor for the BCER tug-of-war team). Reeve McGregor is standing near the door to the tram, holding a pipe in one hand and a cane in the other (he is also the only man wearing a bow-tie) and Eber Stride is standing directly in front of the tram, wearing a three-piece suit with a white shirt and bowler hat. British Columbia Electric Railroad official R.H. Sperling and BCER general executive agent Fred R. Glover (his topcoat is open) are standing second from right and third from right respectively. The remainder of the men are unidentified although Councillors Coldicutt, MacDonald, Mayne and MacPherson, with municipal engineer MacPherson, British Columbia Electric Railroad chief engineer G.R.G. Conway and traffic agent for the city J.B. Rainey, solicitor A.E. Beck, chief inspector W. Whitenick, traffic superintendent James Hilton and Burnaby resident W.J. Holdom, Motorman C.C. Cameron and Conductor A. Sherman are said to be pictured.

Subjects: Events - Openings; Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company; Toffaletto, Joe; McGregor, Duncan C. (1853-1929); Stride, Eber

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Phillips, James William "Jim"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Hastings Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Capitol Hill Area

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Opening of Hastings Street Tramline Extension, December 23, 1913 thumbnail

Peter Byrne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38549

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.7 x 10 cm mounted on 9.4 x 13.2 cm page

Scope and Content: Photograph of Peter Byrne, Reeve of Burnaby from 1906 to 1910. Earlier, he also served as a member of Council from 1894 to 1895 and from 1898 to 1906. He was married to Priscilla Rowling Byrne.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: New Westminster Public Library subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.7 x 10 cm mounted on 9.4 x 13.2 cm page

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 459-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2003-19

Scope and Content: Photograph of Peter Byrne, Reeve of Burnaby from 1906 to 1910. Earlier, he also served as a member of Council from 1894 to 1895 and from 1898 to 1906. He was married to Priscilla Rowling Byrne.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Byrne, Peter

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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W.A. Pritchard

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34738

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.2 x 12.1 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of William A. Pritchard, Reeve of Burnaby from 1930 to 1932 and member of Council from 1928 to 1930.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.2 x 12.1 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 126-012

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of William A. Pritchard, Reeve of Burnaby from 1930 to 1932 and member of Council from 1928 to 1930.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Pritchard, William A.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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W.A. Pritchard, [1932] (date of original), copied [1995] thumbnail

William A. Pritchard

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.3 x 8.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: New Westminster Public Library subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.3 x 8.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 459-016

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2003-19

Scope and Content: Photograph of William A. Pritchard, Burnaby Reeve 1930-1932 and council member 1928-1930.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Pritchard, William A.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Burnaby's first Municipal Hall

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1899 and 1911] (date of original), copied 1995

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of council members and others sitting and standing on the steps of Burnaby's first Municipal Hall.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1899 and 1911] (date of original), copied 1995

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Byrne family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 15 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 316-006

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1995-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of council members and others sitting and standing on the steps of Burnaby's first Municipal Hall.

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Buildings - Civic - City Halls

Names: Burnaby City Hall

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 7252 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

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Burnaby's first Municipal Hall, [between 1899 and 1911] (date of original), copied 1995 thumbnail

Official Opening

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1911 and 1917]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Municipal Council in front of Burnaby Municipal Hall. Identified, front row, seated left to right: Eber Stride (former Council member), Peter Byrne (former Council member), Charles Frederick Sprott (former Council member), Reeve Hugh M. Fraser, [unidentified man], and possibl…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1911 and 1917]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 024-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Municipal Council in front of Burnaby Municipal Hall. Identified, front row, seated left to right: Eber Stride (former Council member), Peter Byrne (former Council member), Charles Frederick Sprott (former Council member), Reeve Hugh M. Fraser, [unidentified man], and possibly John W. Weart (former Reeve). Back row, standing left to right from uniformed man in centre: possibly Thomas Sanderson (in uniform, former Reeve), [unidentified man], possiby John Murray (Council member), George J. Webb (Council member), John Mulgrew (Council member), possibly Jesse Love (former Council member), Phillip W. Fau Vel (Council member), and Arthur Lomas (Council member). Standing at left beside stage: possibly Louis Claude "Claude" Hill. Photograph may depict the official opening of the second Municipal Hall (1912) or the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of Burnaby (1917).

Subjects: Events - Anniversaries; Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Buildings - Civic - City Halls; Symbols - Flags

Names: Byrne, Peter; Fau Vel, Phillip W.; Fraser, Hugh M.; Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"; Lomas, Arthur; Love, Jesse, 1849-1928; Mulgrew, John; Murray, John; Sanderson, Thomas F.; Sprott, Charles Frederick; Stride, Eber; Weart, John W.; Webb, George J.; Burnaby City Hall

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title; Title transcribed from photograph caption; Note in blue ink on verso reads: "25th Anniversary / Council in front of 2nd Municipal Hall / 1911"

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 7282 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

Images

Official Opening, [between 1911 and 1917] thumbnail

Interview with Charles B. Brown May 21, 1975 - Track 6

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1923-1938

Length: 0:06:27

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Charles Boyer Brown's comparisons between working for a Council versus working for a Commissionership.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Charles Boyer Brown's comparisons between working for a Council versus working for a Commissionership.

Date Range: 1923-1938

Photo Info: Charles Boyer Brown, by photographer Nicholas Rossmo [1950]. Item no. 307-008

Length: 0:06:27

Subjects: Officials - Commissioners; Officials - Aldermen and Councillors

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: May 21, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with Charles B. Brown by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury May 21, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the Commissioner and municipal politics in general. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: Charles Boyer Brown was born on June 16, 1894 in the town of Ongar, Essex, England. He came to Canada as a young child with his parents Jean and Percy Brown. In 1903, the family settled in New Westminster and by 1911, Charles had joined the Burnaby municipal staff working as an office boy. The outbreak of World War One interrupted Charlie’s career as he immediately enlisted with the Royal Engineers and served from 1915 to 1918. While overseas he met and married Lillian Bernice Bryan and they returned to Canada together after the war and Charles resumed his position in municipal administration. For a short time, Charles was appointed as the Municipal Assessor, but in 1927 he became the Assistant Municipal Clerk. In 1933, Charles was made Municipal Clerk, a post he held until he retired in 1959. Charles has also been credited with playing a significant role in administering the city while it was under the rule of the provincial commission from 1932-1942. Recognized for his expertise in civic affairs, Charles was appointed by the provincial government to a committee formed to review and revise the Municipal Act. He was also a member of the BC Municipal Officers’ Association from its formation in 1936 and was made its chair in 1953. While these civic duties occupied much of his time, Charles still managed to participate as a volunteer on many sport and youth clubs in the city and served as the secretary for the Kingsway Rotary Club. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to Burnaby, both paid and volunteer, Charles was presented with the Gold Key award in 1959, the same year he finally retired from municipal administration. During Charles’ lifetime, many changes took place in the Municipality that he loved. He saw Burnaby grow in population and progress and he could be proud of the significant part he played in that growth and development. Charles Brown died on August 11, 1981.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 0:58:01

Interviewee Name: Brown, Charles B. "Charlie"

Interview Location: Walker Avenue

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.

Images

Charles Boyer Brown, by photographer Nicholas Rossmo [1950]. Item no. 307-008 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track six of interview with Charles B. Brown

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-06/100-13-06_Track_6.mp3

Alfred Bingham's writings - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1865-1919

Length: 0:10:18

Summary: This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's essay entitled Stump Rangers, a listing of early settlers that includes addresses and short descriptions, essays on Confederation Park, land clearing and on Burnaby's first Council meeting.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's essay entitled Stump Rangers, a listing of early settlers that includes addresses and short descriptions, essays on Confederation Park, land clearing and on Burnaby's first Council meeting.

Date Range: 1865-1919

Photo Info: Alfred Bingham, April 20, 1947. Item no. 010-066

Length: 0:10:18

Subjects: Geographic Features - Parks; Officials - Aldermen and Councillors; Land Clearing

Scope and Content: Recording is of Alfred Bingham's writings, as read by Alfred Bingham. Major themes discussed are: Pioneers, early days in Burnaby and the Co-op Movement. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: Alfred "Alf" Bingham was born in England in 1892 and moved to Canada in 1912. His first job in Canada was laying track for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) from Edmonton to McBride in 1912. His second was in Vancouver at the Rat Portage Mill on False Creek, working on the Resaw machine. He quit after one week due to poor working conditions. After taking part in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike as a delegate of the Retail and Mailorder Union (A.F.L.) on the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, Alfred moved to Burnaby where he and fellow Burnaby residents Aungus McLean and Percy Little worked ten hour days to build a Shingle Mill on the edge of Burnaby Lake for Simpson & Giberson. George Green, carpenter and millwright (author of “The History of Burnaby”) also helped in the construction of the mill. Alfred built his own home from lumber cut from the mill in the Lochdale area on Sherlock Street between Curtis Street and Kitchener Street. On April 10, 1920 Alfred married Mary Jane “Ada” Reynolds. Alfred and Ada often took in foster children during their marriage. Due to her nursing experience, Ada was often called upon to deliver babies in the Burnaby area. Alfred and Ada Bingham were instrumental members of the Army of the Common Good, collecting vegetables and grains from growers in the area and even producing over 125 tons of vegetables from its own gardens to feed children and youth suffering from the lack of resources during the Depression years. The army was in operation for ten years and during that time the members organised the Credit Union movement of British Columbia and drew up the Credit Union act thorough the Vancouver Co-operative Council. They also started Co-Op stores and the Co-Op Wholesale Society. Alfred was also Secretary of the Burnaby Housing committee and in 1946 he became the Secretary of the North Burnaby Labour Progressive Party (LPP). Mary Jane “Ada” (Reynolds) Bingham died on August 9, 1969. Her husband Alfred died on April 29, 1979.

Total Tracks: 12

Total Length: 1:38:06

Interviewee Name: Bingham, Alfred "Alf"

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Transcript Available: MSS142-001 contains transcripts for each of the short stories

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

Alfred Bingham, April 20, 1947. Item no. 010-066 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of recording of Alfred Bingham's writings

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-20-2/100-13-20-2_Track_1.mp3

Ernest Winch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1938

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a three-piece suit and standing in the snow in Rossland, British Columbia.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1938

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-021

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a three-piece suit and standing in the snow in Rossland, British Columbia.

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Winch, Ernest "Ernie"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Handwritten note in white ink on recto of photograph reads: "WHITE ROCK / B.C."; Handwritten note in ink on verso of photograph reads: "Rossland, / February, 1938"

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Ernest Winch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938]

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a pinstriped suit outdoors at an unidentified location.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1938]

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-022

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a pinstriped suit outdoors at an unidentified location.

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Winch, Ernest "Ernie"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ernest Winch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 2, 1933

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch in a suit and tie. This photograph was taken at the Campbell Studio in Vancouver.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 2, 1933

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-027

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch in a suit and tie. This photograph was taken at the Campbell Studio in Vancouver.

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Winch, Ernest "Ernie"

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Campbell Studios Limited

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer's mark embossed at border of photograph reads: "Campbell Studio / Vancouver B.C."; Handwritten note below embossed lettering reads: "Nov. 2nd 1933 / Ernest"

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Ernest Winch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1917

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 15 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a lapel pin which reads "L" and is believed to signify labour movement involvement.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1917

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 15 x 10 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-028

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch wearing a lapel pin which reads "L" and is believed to signify labour movement involvement.

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Winch, Ernest "Ernie"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ernest Winch with Two Others

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1917]

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 12.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of three young men sitting and standing together at a photographic studio. Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch is sitting in a chair on the left. The other two men have not been identified, but all three men are wearing lapel pins which read "L" and are believed to signify labour movement…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1917]

Collection/Fonds: Ernest Winch fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 12.5 x 7.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 514-023

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2010-06

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of three young men sitting and standing together at a photographic studio. Ernest E. (Ernie) Winch is sitting in a chair on the left. The other two men have not been identified, but all three men are wearing lapel pins which read "L" and are believed to signify labour movement involvement.

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Winch, Ernest "Ernie"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ernest Winch with Two Others, [1917] thumbnail

Hugh M. Fraser

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hugh Murray Fraser, Burnaby Reeve from 1914 to 1918 and Commissioner from 1934 to 1940. A note on the back of the photograph reads: Commissioner Hugh Murray Fraser. 1934-1940, died Dec. 2, 1940. Followed by R. Bolton, Acting comm [sic]."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: New Westminster Public Library subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 459-011

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2003-19

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hugh Murray Fraser, Burnaby Reeve from 1914 to 1918 and Commissioner from 1934 to 1940. A note on the back of the photograph reads: Commissioner Hugh Murray Fraser. 1934-1940, died Dec. 2, 1940. Followed by R. Bolton, Acting comm [sic]."

Subjects: Officials - Commissioners; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Fraser, Hugh M

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Hugh M. Fraser

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.0 x 11.9 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of Hugh M. Fraser, Reeve of Burnaby from 1914 to 1918 and from 1934 to 1939 and Commissioner from 1934 to 1940.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1935] (date of original), copied [1995]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.0 x 11.9 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 126-007

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph (mounted and titled) of Hugh M. Fraser, Reeve of Burnaby from 1914 to 1918 and from 1934 to 1939 and Commissioner from 1934 to 1940.

Subjects: Officials - Commissioners; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Fraser, Hugh M

Media Type: Photograph

Images

Hugh M. Fraser, [1935] (date of original), copied [1995] thumbnail

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 7

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1937-1990

Length: 00:05:53

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s discussion of the attitudes, energy and time commitment required for operating a seasonal business and needed for politics. He mentions the Nelson Avenue family home, still lived in by his mother

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s discussion of the attitudes, energy and time commitment required for operating a seasonal business and needed for politics. He mentions the Nelson Avenue family home, still lived in by his mother

Date Range: 1937-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:05:53

Subjects: Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Officials - Elected Officials

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Images

Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track seven of interview with Bill Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-019/MSS187-019_Track_7.mp3

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.