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Neville Street by Royal Oak

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
1912
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm
Scope and Content
Photographic postcard of Neville Street just off Royal Oak Avenue. The street is a dirt road lined with residential buildings on one side and eletric power poles on the other side. The Holdsworth house is seen being constructed on the left. There is scaffolding on the side of the building and a cle…
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm
Scope and Content
Photographic postcard of Neville Street just off Royal Oak Avenue. The street is a dirt road lined with residential buildings on one side and eletric power poles on the other side. The Holdsworth house is seen being constructed on the left. There is scaffolding on the side of the building and a cleared lot beside the house. here are variant spellings of "Holdsworth" used in the notes in the accession file. They are "Houldsworth" and "Hallsworth." The 1937 British Columbia directory lists a Fred Houldsworth at 3345 Neville Street, Burnaby. The address was later renumbered 5249 Neville Street. An annotation on the back of the postcard reads: "Nevil [sic] Street - 1912 - Just off Royal Oak."
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Houses
Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
Geographic Features - Roads
Geographic Access
Neville Street
Royal Oak Avenue
Accession Code
HV980.12.3
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
1912
Media Type
Photograph
Historic Neighbourhood
Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Clinton-Glenwood Area
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2023-09-12
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Personal material

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82732
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910-1978]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Description Level
File
Physical Description
9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
Scope and Content
File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910-1978]
Collection/Fonds
Hazel Simnett collection
Series
Simnett personal papers series
Physical Description
9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
Description Level
File
Record No.
MSS167-008
Accession Number
2013-22
Scope and Content
File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.
Subjects
Arts - Paintings
Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers
Documentary Artifacts - Photographs
Performances - Concerts
Organizations - Societies and Clubs
Personal Symbols - Certificates
Transportation
Persons - Royalty
Names
Simnett, Hazel
Simnett, Frederick "Fred"
Simnett, Mary Ann
Lansdowne, James Fenwick
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Graphic Material
Notes
Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together
Simnett personal papers series
Historic Neighbourhood
Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Clinton-Glenwood Area
Less detail