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Charlotte and David Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921 or 1922]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 15 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of unidentified men and women standing outside of a building. The woman third from the left in the second row is identified as Charlotte Hill holding David Hill.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921 or 1922]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 15 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-161

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of unidentified men and women standing outside of a building. The woman third from the left in the second row is identified as Charlotte Hill holding David Hill.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Occupations - Nurses

Names: Hill, Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal; Hill, David O. E. "Dave"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph and contents of photograph; Note in pencil on album page photograph reads: "Charlotte with David / (3rd from left - 2nd row)"; Photograph stamp on verso reads: "Leonard Frank / Photographic Artist / 553 Granville St / Sey 1029 Vancouver, BC"

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Charlotte and David Hill, [1921 or 1922] thumbnail

Interview with Jack McGeachie June 18, 1975 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1929-1938

Length: 0:09:54

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's memories of Burnaby during the Depression years including his sister's personal and work history.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's memories of Burnaby during the Depression years including his sister's personal and work history.

Date Range: 1929-1938

Photo Info: McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464

Length: 0:09:54

Names: McGeachie, Florence Mary

Subjects: Occupations - Nurses; Recreational Activities - Dancing

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: June 18, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie. Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School. John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company. Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 0:51:13

Interviewee Name: McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"

Interview Location: Rosewood

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.

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McGeachie family; John Aloysius thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie

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Winnie Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard is a portrait of Winnie Hill.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1900 and 1920]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

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

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-129

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard is a portrait of Winnie Hill.

Subjects: Occupations - Nurses

Names: Rowe, Winnifred L. "Winnie" Hill

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page photograph reads: "Winnie Hill"; Note in blue pen on recto reads: "Aunt Winnie"; Photograph stamp on recto reads: "Briston. Worthing"

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Winnie Hill, [between 1900 and 1920] thumbnail

Bill Banks in front of his garage

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of W. M. (Bill) Banks standing in coveralls in front of his garage at Britton and Kingsway. Bill Banks was a mechanic with whom the Burnaby Fire Department had an agreement to maintain the fire truck and drive it to emergencies on an on-call basis. An unidentified man in a suit is standi…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 10 cm

Material Details: Photograph was likely taken out of an album as there is black paper residue on its recto

Scope and Content: Photograph of W. M. (Bill) Banks standing in coveralls in front of his garage at Britton and Kingsway. Bill Banks was a mechanic with whom the Burnaby Fire Department had an agreement to maintain the fire truck and drive it to emergencies on an on-call basis. An unidentified man in a suit is standing on the left, smoking.

Subjects: Occupations - Fire Fighters; Occupations - Mechanics; Buildings - Commercial - Service Stations

Names: Banks, William "Bill"; Burnaby Garage

Geographic Access: Kingsway; Britton Street

Accession Code: BV999.55.11

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [1925]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Bill Banks in front of his garage, [1925] thumbnail

Burnaby Garage

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Banks' garage at Britton and Kingsway, with a sign at the edge of the driveway (to the left) which reads, "BURNABY GARAGE." Bill Banks was a mechanic with whom the Burnaby Fire Department had an agreement to maintain the fire truck and drive it to emergencies on an on-call basis.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Banks' garage at Britton and Kingsway, with a sign at the edge of the driveway (to the left) which reads, "BURNABY GARAGE." Bill Banks was a mechanic with whom the Burnaby Fire Department had an agreement to maintain the fire truck and drive it to emergencies on an on-call basis.

Subjects: Occupations - Fire Fighters; Occupations - Mechanics; Buildings - Commercial - Service Stations

Names: Burnaby Garage

Geographic Access: Kingsway; Britton Street

Accession Code: BV999.55.12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [1925]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Stride Avenue Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Jun-09

Scale: 100

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Canadian Ophthalmic College

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia composite ; 41 x 51.5 cm

Scope and Content: Composite photograph of graduates of the Canadian Ophthalmic College in Toronto, Ontario. Names are listed beneath each of the oval photographs (grouped in four rows). In the top row (from left) are; C. Anderson, W.E. Owen, J.W. Abray, J.A. Epstein (a woman), H.W. Edgar, B.H. Ashbourne, A.G. MacHaf…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia composite ; 41 x 51.5 cm

Scope and Content: Composite photograph of graduates of the Canadian Ophthalmic College in Toronto, Ontario. Names are listed beneath each of the oval photographs (grouped in four rows). In the top row (from left) are; C. Anderson, W.E. Owen, J.W. Abray, J.A. Epstein (a woman), H.W. Edgar, B.H. Ashbourne, A.G. MacHaffie. Second row; J. Munro, T.H. Dick, G.S. Pringle, W.G. Maybee "Principal" and below it "E. Bind Assist." (largest photograph); E. Boyaner, I.R. Higgins, D.B. Curtis. Third row; V.M. Young, F.G. Smith, W.L. Wells, E.W. Watt, W.D. Graham, A.R. Hopkins. Fourth row; O.T. Walker, E.E. Miller, R.A. Burke, J.E. Hamilton, H.A. Smith, H.L. McDiarmid; "Freeland".

Other Title Information: Title based on contents of photograph.

Subjects: Occupations; Occupations - Teachers

Accession Code: HV974.5.11

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [1920]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 200

Scan Date: 01-May-2019

Images

Canadian Ophthalmic College, [1920] thumbnail

Ed Brown and daughters with his truck

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46007

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-009

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2008-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

Subjects: Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Transportation - Trucks

Names: E.S. Brown's Transfer Company; Brown, Ed

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Ed Brown and daughters with his truck, [1925] thumbnail

Ed Brown and his daughters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46002

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and four of his daughters sitting in one of Ed's trucks (a GMC).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2008-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and four of his daughters sitting in one of Ed's trucks (a GMC).

Subjects: Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Transportation - Trucks

Names: Brown, Ed; E.S. Brown's Transfer Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Royal Oak Avenue

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Ed Brown and his daughters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46006

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-008

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2008-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

Subjects: Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Transportation - Trucks

Names: E.S. Brown's Transfer Company; Brown, Ed

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Ed Brown and his daughters

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 jpg. : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-010

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2008-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.

Subjects: Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Transportation - Trucks

Names: E.S. Brown's Transfer Company; Brown, Ed

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Ed Brown and his daughters, [1925] thumbnail

Ed Brown beside his transfer truck

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown standing beside his truck that is loaded with telephone poles.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Ed Brown family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-38

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown standing beside his truck that is loaded with telephone poles.

Subjects: Transportation - Trucks; Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs

Names: Brown, Ed; E.S. Brown's Transfer Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Royal Oak Avenue

Images

Ed Brown beside his transfer truck, [1920] thumbnail

Ed Brown sitting on his transfer truck

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and Morton Kidd sitting on top of Ed's transfer truck that has been loaded with telephone poles.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1920]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Ed Brown family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 298-003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-38

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ed Brown and Morton Kidd sitting on top of Ed's transfer truck that has been loaded with telephone poles.

Subjects: Transportation - Trucks; Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Entrepreneurs

Names: Brown, Ed; Kidd, Morton; E.S. Brown's Transfer Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.

Geographic Access: Royal Oak Avenue

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Ed Brown sitting on his transfer truck, [1920] thumbnail

Kitchen crew at Paradise Inn

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: June 1924

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the kitchen crew sitting and standing in three rows in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of eighteen men and one woman are mostly dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping th…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Material Details: Photograph pierced (most likely by tacks) on all four corners and has a large tear on the right side

Scope and Content: Photograph of the kitchen crew sitting and standing in three rows in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of eighteen men and one woman are mostly dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. The man seated second to the right in the front row, wearing a baker's uniform is Charles J. Caunt. All other individuals are unidentified.

Subjects: Clothing - Uniforms; Occupations - Bakers; Occupations - Cooks

Names: Caunt, Charles J.

Accession Code: BV988.44.52

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: June 1924

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For another photograph of Mr. Caunt with the Kitchen crew at Paradise Inn, see BV988.27.1

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-04-16

Notes: Title based on note on verso of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "Kitchen Crew at Paradise Inn/ Rainier National Park, Wash/ June 1924"; Photographer identifies photograph as no. 2535

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Kitchen crew at Paradise Inn, June 1924 thumbnail

Kitchen staff at Paradise Inn

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: June 1924

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of cooks, pantrymen, bakers and fellow kitchen staff standing in a row in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of men are dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. Bak…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of cooks, pantrymen, bakers and fellow kitchen staff standing in a row in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of men are dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. Baker, Charles J. Caunt is standing on the far right. All other men are unidentified.

Subjects: Clothing - Uniforms; Occupations - Bakers; Occupations - Cooks

Names: Caunt, Charles J.

Accession Code: BV988.27.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: June 1924

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: The baker's uniform in this accession, (BV988.27.2-.5) belonged to Mr. C. J. Caunt, depicted in the photograph.

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-04-16

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer identifies photograph as no. 2538; Note in black ink on verso of photgraph reads: "Cooks, Pantrymen, Baker, Etc/ Pardise Inn, Rainier National Park, Wash/ June 1924/ 1 cook absent"; Second note in blue pen (written later) reads: "C. J. (Charlie) CAUNT on extreme right."

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Kitchen staff at Paradise Inn, June 1924 thumbnail

McKay Market

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926 (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 McKay Market at 2624 McKay Avenue (later renumbered 6555 McKay Avenue). Identified: (back) Ed Morash, driver of delivery truck (brother of Murial Morash Crosby); (in doorway) William Tate Wilson, store owner and later Reeve of Burnaby, 1943-44.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926 (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.: 204-604

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of McKay Market at 2624 McKay Avenue (later renumbered 6555 McKay Avenue). Identified: (back) Ed Morash, driver of delivery truck (brother of Murial Morash Crosby); (in doorway) William Tate Wilson, store owner and later Reeve of Burnaby, 1943-44.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Grocery Stores; Occupations - Truck Drivers; Occupations - Grocers; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: McKay Market; Morash, Ed; Wilson, William Tate

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McKay Avenue

Street Address: 6555 McKay Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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McKay Market, 1926 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

ARJ and HJ at Lunch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two men sitting beside a campfire. A pot is suspended by wooden pole over the hot coals. A caption accompanying the photograph reads: "A.R.J. [and] H.J. - Lunch." The men are only identified by their initials. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travell…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-128

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of two men sitting beside a campfire. A pot is suspended by wooden pole over the hot coals. A caption accompanying the photograph reads: "A.R.J. [and] H.J. - Lunch." The men are only identified by their initials. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the later 1920s.

Subjects: Occupations - Lumberjacks; Geographic Features - Forests

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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Arthur Francis Peers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1927]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 11.8 cm on page 17.5 x 26.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Arthur Francis Peers standing near railway tracks at an unknown location. Snow can be seen covering the ground and Arthur is pictured wearing winter jacket, boots, hat and mittens. In his right hand he is holding a box camera and he is smoking a pipe. Throughout the late 1920s, Arthu…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1927]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 11.8 cm on page 17.5 x 26.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-171

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Arthur Francis Peers standing near railway tracks at an unknown location. Snow can be seen covering the ground and Arthur is pictured wearing winter jacket, boots, hat and mittens. In his right hand he is holding a box camera and he is smoking a pipe. Throughout the late 1920s, Arthur Peers travelled throughout the Fraser Valley, British Columbia during the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway and documented a lot of the work through his photographs. A caption to this picture reads: "Breaking camp."

Subjects: Photographic Tools and Equipment - Cameras; Occupations - Photographers

Names: Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Arthur Francis Peers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34492

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.8 x 13.5 cm on page 17.5 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Arthur Francis Peers on a raft on Texas Lake. Arthur Peers, later of the Royal Canadian Navy and Order of the British Empire worked on the surveys for the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the late 1920s and documented a lot of the work through his photographs.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.8 x 13.5 cm on page 17.5 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-199

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Arthur Francis Peers on a raft on Texas Lake. Arthur Peers, later of the Royal Canadian Navy and Order of the British Empire worked on the surveys for the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the late 1920s and documented a lot of the work through his photographs.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds; Transportation - Rafts; Occupations - Photographers

Names: Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

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At a work camp

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34484

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six men at a work camp at Avola, BC. The men are identified as: standing (l to r) Bill B., Ted B., "Cook," and Shorty and sitting (l to r) Bill S. and Frank H. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the c…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-191

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of six men at a work camp at Avola, BC. The men are identified as: standing (l to r) Bill B., Ted B., "Cook," and Shorty and sitting (l to r) Bill S. and Frank H. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the later 1920s.