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Edmonds Block, Edmonds and Kingsway
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34039
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912] (date of original), copied [between 1975 and 1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8.1 x 10.6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the triangular Edmonds Block, located at Edmonds Street and Kingsway. The building on this block housed a store, a doctor's office, and a post office. Seen in the picture are various business signs, including, "P.C. Brown Auctioneer / Real Estate / Notary Public," "Edmonds Drug Store…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912] (date of original), copied [between 1975 and 1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Stride family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8.1 x 10.6 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 001-015
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the triangular Edmonds Block, located at Edmonds Street and Kingsway. The building on this block housed a store, a doctor's office, and a post office. Seen in the picture are various business signs, including, "P.C. Brown Auctioneer / Real Estate / Notary Public," "Edmonds Drug Store," "General Store," and "Dr. Watson Physician." Coming out from an alley behind the building is an unidentified man driving a horse and a cart. The streets are lined with electric poles.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy print accompanying
- Geographic Access
- Edmonds Street
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 7338 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Edmonds Area
Images
![Edmonds Block, Edmonds and Kingsway, [1912] (date of original), copied [between 1975 and 1985] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/001/001-015.jpg)
Kingsway and Edmonds Street
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35913
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914 (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 a triangular block at Edmonds Street and Kingsway, housing P.B. Brown real estate, a printing works, Edmonds Drug Store, a soda fountain, and doctors' offices.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-772
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a triangular block at Edmonds Street and Kingsway, housing P.B. Brown real estate, a printing works, Edmonds Drug Store, a soda fountain, and doctors' offices.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Commercial - Stores
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 7338 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Edmonds Area
Images
![Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney, [between 1950 and 1960] thumbnail](/media/hpo//_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0050_0004_001.jpg?width=280)
Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4938
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.
- History
- Mary Davis was born February 3, 1910 in Stafford, England to Sam and Edith Finney and came to Canada as a child. Her family settled in Saskatchewan. She married her first husband, Clifford Reynolds Hamilton in 1940 in Rossland BC and was subsequently divorced in 1949 in Vancouver BC. She moved to Burnaby somtime between 1940 and the mid-1950's. Mary owned Davis Confectionary with her second husband (presumably named Davis) at the corner of Beresford and MacPherson. The store acted as a grocery store and also a drug store. Mary and her husband owned the store in the 1950's /1960's. Mary passed away in 2001, and had no children. Photograph was taken by famous Vancouver street photographer Foncie Pulice. Foncie began working as a street photographer in 1934 and retired in 1979. Foncie died in 2003.
- Names
- Finney, Edith
- Davis, Mary
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- Accession Code
- BV017.50.4
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 12-Jun-2018
- Photographer
- Pulice, Foncie
- Notes
- Title base on contents of photograph
- Stamped on verso: "FONCIE'S FOTOS/ 505 GRANVILLE ST./ VANCOUVER, B.C."
Images
![Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney, [between 1950 and 1960] thumbnail](/media/hpo//_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0050_0004_001.jpg)