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Burrard Inlet in winter

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[192-]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 26.5 x 16 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a Vancouver Heights streetscape in winter. There is snow on the ground. One of the houses across the street has what appears to be a radio mast in the front yard. The photograph is taken looking Northeast toward the Burrard Inlet with Mount Seymour in the background.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 26.5 x 16 cm
Material Details
"Burrard Inlet - winter" written in ink on back of photo. "37" written in pencil on back of photo.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a Vancouver Heights streetscape in winter. There is snow on the ground. One of the houses across the street has what appears to be a radio mast in the front yard. The photograph is taken looking Northeast toward the Burrard Inlet with Mount Seymour in the background.
History
George Vincent Martin was born in 1892 in England. He married Matilda Florence Reed in 1916. He purchased a property in North Burnaby in the 1920s on Trinity Street. There was a main house and a "shack" on the property split up onto two lots.
Subjects
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Geographic Features - Mountains
Geographic Features - Inlets
Buildings - Residential - Houses
Accession Code
BV007.45.17
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[192-]
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
300
Scan Date
29-Nov-2018
Scale
96
Notes
Title based on content of the photograph
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Ice Palace at Banff

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1446
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
1921
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of a palace like structure made of ice blocks at the top of a slope. There are two door openings in the structure, and trees on either side. There are snow covered forested mountains in the background. According to the inscription on the photograph, the ice palace is at Banff circa 1921,…
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
Material Details
inscribed in pencil, verso, t. "1921", in black ink, t. "Rutherford./ This is the ice/ palace at Banff./ The toboggan slide/ is through the door/ marked. The slide is 1/2 mile/ down the mt. It is/ about 2 1/2 ft wide +/ iced. Believe me/ you come down in/ a hurry,/ Made of blocks of ice", stamped, l.l. [sideways] "4 4"
Scope and Content
Photograph of a palace like structure made of ice blocks at the top of a slope. There are two door openings in the structure, and trees on either side. There are snow covered forested mountains in the background. According to the inscription on the photograph, the ice palace is at Banff circa 1921, and is the starting point of a toboggan slide ride.
Subjects
Geographic Features - Mountains
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Accession Code
BV985.5821.1
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
1921
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2024-02-27
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The Lions from Burnaby Park

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1926 and 1929]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w photogravure ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the north shore mountains, including the Lions, taken from Robert Burnaby Park.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w photogravure ; 14.5 x 9.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the north shore mountains, including the Lions, taken from Robert Burnaby Park.
Subjects
Geographic Features - Mountains - British Columbia
Geographic Features - Parks
Geographic Access
Wedgewood Street
Robert Burnaby Park
Street Address
8155 Wedgewood Street
Accession Code
HV972.204.3
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[between 1926 and 1929]
Media Type
Photograph
Historic Neighbourhood
Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Lakeview-Mayfield Area
Related Material
For other photographs from the same album, see HV972.204.3 - .14
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2023-04-25
Photographer
Lloyd, Frank Ernest
Notes
Annotations made in white paint on recto of photograph read: "'The Lions' from Burnaby Park" and "Lloyd Studio, McKay."
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Second Narrows

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[192-]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 stereograph card : b&w ; 17.5 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Stereograph card images of a street in Vancouver Heights. The photograph is taken looking Northeast toward the Burrard Inlet. Mount Seymour is shrouded in cloud in the background.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 stereograph card : b&w ; 17.5 x 9 cm
Material Details
Hand-written text in red ink on the front of the stereograph card reads: "2nd Narrows".
Scope and Content
Stereograph card images of a street in Vancouver Heights. The photograph is taken looking Northeast toward the Burrard Inlet. Mount Seymour is shrouded in cloud in the background.
History
George Vincent Martin was born in 1892 in England. He married Matilda Florence Reed in 1916. He purchased a property in North Burnaby in the 1920s on Trinity Street. There was a main house and a "shack" on the property split up onto two lots.
Subjects
Geographic Features - Mountains
Geographic Features - Inlets
Buildings - Residential - Houses
Accession Code
BV007.45.18
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[192-]
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
300
Scan Date
29-Nov-2018
Scale
96
Notes
Title based on notation below the photograph
Images
Less detail

Thomas Shankie standing atop Grouse Mountain

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
25 Jun. 1922 (date of original), copied [2016]
Collection/Fonds
Esther Love Stanley fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff)
Scope and Content
Photograph of Thomas Shankie standing atop Grouse Mountain. Thomas is wearing a light coloured long-sleeved shirt, a vest and a pair of dark trousers. Vegetation is visible in the foreground. Conifer trees and outcroppings of stone are visible in the background.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Esther Love Stanley fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff)
Material Details
Handwritten text on front of photograph reads: "Grouse Mountain / 25th June 1922". Handwritten text on back of photograph reads: "myself, top of / Grouse Mountain / June 25th 1922.".
Scope and Content
Photograph of Thomas Shankie standing atop Grouse Mountain. Thomas is wearing a light coloured long-sleeved shirt, a vest and a pair of dark trousers. Vegetation is visible in the foreground. Conifer trees and outcroppings of stone are visible in the background.
Subjects
Geographic Features - Mountains
Names
Shankie, Thomas, 1872-1959
Accession Code
BV016.43.15
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
25 Jun. 1922 (date of original), copied [2016]
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph.
Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".
Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor
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