"Great Northern Railway" found 34 records

Scope and Content: File contains agreement for the construction of a sidewalk by the Railway Company, and correspondence related to these transactions. File also includes blueprint plan of sidewalk over [GNR] tracks and right of way for the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1931; blueprint "Sketch Showing Sigh…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1913-1951

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record and cartographic material

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2558

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains agreement for the construction of a sidewalk by the Railway Company, and correspondence related to these transactions. File also includes blueprint plan of sidewalk over [GNR] tracks and right of way for the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1931; blueprint "Sketch Showing Sight Clearance and Distances and Sperling Avenue Grade Crossing" [c1945]; and blueprint "Plan of Proposed Road Crossing of Phillips Avenue."

Media Type: Textual Record; Cartographic Material

Notes: Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.

Easement Granted to Great Northern Railway Company through Lot 1, DL 75 and Block 3, DL 130

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 46938

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1951

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 46938

Meeting Date: 29-Oct-1951

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 46938

29-Oct-1951 Meeting Minutes

Great Northern Railway crossing

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1914]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 20.2 x 15.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Great Northern Railway crossing meeting a road that appears to have run parellel to the railway on a bluff. On the left side of the photograph is a small hut beside a sign that reads, "Railway Crossing." Two unidentified men are standing outside of the hut. An earlier catalogue re…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 20.2 x 15.8 cm

Material Details: Inscribed on negative, and printed backwards on contact print, l.r. "G.N.RAILWAY......../SHEWI [rest of the word illegible] INTERSECTION). CROSSING.../ [illegible word] ROAD. LOOKING NORTH"

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Great Northern Railway crossing meeting a road that appears to have run parellel to the railway on a bluff. On the left side of the photograph is a small hut beside a sign that reads, "Railway Crossing." Two unidentified men are standing outside of the hut. An earlier catalogue record from 1988 notes that the crossing street is North Road, and the photograph was taken looking northwest into Burnaby. Inscribed on negative, lower right: "G.N. Railway /Shewi [rest of the word illegible] Intersection) Crossing / [illegible word] Road. Looking North."

Subjects: Transportation - Rail; Geographic Features - Roads

Names: Great Northern Railway

Geographic Access: North Road

Accession Code: HV972.11.9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1914]

Media Type: Photograph

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 14/8/2006

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w contact print accompanying negative

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Great Northern Railway crossing, [1914] thumbnail

Great Northern Railway re Request for Culvert being Placed

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81183

Meeting Date: 5-Feb-1910

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81183

Meeting Date: 5-Feb-1910

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 81183

5-Feb-1910 Meeting Minutes

Great Northern Railway Tracks and Boundary Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37683

Meeting Date: 20-Jul-1959

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37683

Meeting Date: 20-Jul-1959

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 37683

20-Jul-1959 Meeting Minutes

Great Northern Railway - Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912

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

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and a notice of sittings of the Board of Railway Commissioners regarding the installation of double tracking by the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co., from Sapperton to Still Creek. File also includes correspondence pertaining to …

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2542

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and a notice of sittings of the Board of Railway Commissioners regarding the installation of double tracking by the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co., from Sapperton to Still Creek. File also includes correspondence pertaining to the Great Northern Railway siding (spur line) at Douglas Road and Pole Line Road (Sperling Avenue).