Accident to Brown - John Boys by Detonating Caps, Calling Attention to the Regulations Governing the Storage of Explosives
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport69398
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73017
- Meeting Date
- 28-May-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73017
- Meeting Date
- 28-May-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Board of Health Regulations
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport69658
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73554
- Meeting Date
- 30-Mar-1925
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73554
- Meeting Date
- 30-Mar-1925
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Establishment of Committee to Draft Regulations Governing the Operation of the Property Department
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport70799
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735052
- Meeting Date
- 17-Feb-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735052
- Meeting Date
- 17-Feb-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Order in Council re Traffic Regulations under the Highway Act
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport66140
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58326
- Meeting Date
- 21-Jun-1926
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58326
- Meeting Date
- 21-Jun-1926
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Protest Against the Regulations Reinforced by the BC Electric Railway Company in Respect to Settlers' Tickets on the Central Park Line
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68433
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59275
- Meeting Date
- 13-Feb-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59275
- Meeting Date
- 13-Feb-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Provincial Regulations Governing Interior Wiring
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68881
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59820
- Meeting Date
- 3-Jul-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59820
- Meeting Date
- 3-Jul-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Request for Approval re Regulations Governing Wiring of Electric Ranges
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport67360
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58248
- Meeting Date
- 23-Jul-1928
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58248
- Meeting Date
- 23-Jul-1928
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Rules and Regulations of the Burnaby Memorial Hall Committee
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport81162
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 91152
- Meeting Date
- 6-Jun-1921
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 91152
- Meeting Date
- 6-Jun-1921
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Interview with W.H. O'Brien July / August 1975 - Track 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory18
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1914-1932
- Length
- 0:08:44
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to W.H. "Harry" O'Brien's early childhood including the reasons why his family first moved to Burnaby, his first experiences of unemployment and what initially drew him to the Working Organization in Burnaby and their protest against evictions.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to W.H. "Harry" O'Brien's early childhood including the reasons why his family first moved to Burnaby, his first experiences of unemployment and what initially drew him to the Working Organization in Burnaby and their protest against evictions.
- Date Range
- 1914-1932
- Photo Info
- Harry and Gertrude (Sutherland) O'Brien on their wedding day, October 12, 1940. Item no. 315-005
- Length
- 0:08:44
- Subjects
- Organizations
- Protests and Demonstrations
- Geographic Access
- Inman Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Interviewer
- Bradbury, Dr. Bettina
- Interview Date
- July / August 1975
- Scope and Content
- Recording is a taped interview with W.H. "Harry" O'Brien by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury. Major themes discussed are: the Army of the Common Good, the Union of the Unemployed and the Common Good Credit Union (now the South Burnaby Credit Union). To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
- Biographical Notes
- W.H. “Harry” O’Brien was born in the coal mining town of Nanaimo, British Columbia on October 20, 1914. He came to Burnaby with his parents and five siblings in 1927. Harry’s mother, a school teacher, wanted her children to live closer to school in order to obtain a better education, so the O’Brien family settled at Inman Avenue, Burnaby. Harry's mother, Mary Anne Crossan, was Gilmore Avenue School's first teacher. Harry left school in June of 1929. Harry’s father worked as the caretaker at Central Park around this time and Harry helped him to clear brush, plant trees and enforce the land clearing and wood cutting permit regulations held by men who were on script. Although too young to vote by just over a week, Harry O'Brien worked as a scrutineer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) during the 1935 Federal Election. On October 12, 1940 Harry O'Brien married Gertrude Sutherland at St. John the Divine in Burnaby. The Sutherland family came to Burnaby from Winnipeg in 1933 and settled at Nelson Avenue. Harry began his involvement with the Unemployment Organization in Burnaby by participating in an organised protest against the municipality for homeowner evictions brought on by unpaid taxes. The South Burnaby Union of the Unemployed organised in order to protest rules around receiving Relief. Harry became involved, eventually becoming one of the spearheads of the organization, taking over as secretary by 1936. Harry was an original member of the Army of the Common Good, helping to produce over one hundred and twenty-five tons of vegetables from its own gardens to feed Burnaby citizens suffering from the lack of resources during the Depression years. The members of the Army of the Common Good who cut wood for consumption or worked in the gardens were given credit for their work through LU (Labour Units) which they could then use to buy groceries and that at the Army's Cooperative stores, one of which was at McKay Avenue, where Harry began working as Manager of Groceries in 1937. The Credit Union movement of British Columbia was also organized by Harry O'Brien and his fellow Army of the Common Good members. W.H. "Harry" O'Brien died July 1, 1992.
- Total Tracks
- 9
- Total Length
- 1:17:56
- Interviewee Name
- O'Brien, Harry
- 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
- 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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Audio Tracks
Track one of interview with W.H.
Track one of interview with W.H.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-25/100-13-25_Track_1.mp3Recommendation that the Burnaby Street Traffic Regulation Bylaw be Amended to Prohibit Persons From Riding in Front of Drivers of Motor Cycles and for Regulating the Number of Persons who Occupy the Front Seat of Motor Cars
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport69372
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 72890
- Meeting Date
- 14-May-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 72890
- Meeting Date
- 14-May-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Advisement re Act and Powers to Regulate and Restrict Piggeries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68099
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59035
- Meeting Date
- 21-Nov-1921
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59035
- Meeting Date
- 21-Nov-1921
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Amendment to Burnaby Waterworks Regulation By-law No. 2 1926
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport65097
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57194
- Meeting Date
- 4-Jun-1929
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57194
- Meeting Date
- 4-Jun-1929
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Attention to the Necessity for Regulating the Sale of Certain Patent Medicines
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport71160
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735669
- Meeting Date
- 14-Jun-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735669
- Meeting Date
- 14-Jun-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Bill to Regulate Horse Racing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68596
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73168
- Meeting Date
- 24-Nov-1924
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73168
- Meeting Date
- 24-Nov-1924
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Notice of Motion to Introduce an Amendment to the Waterworks Regulation Bylaw 1912
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68732
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59612
- Meeting Date
- 24-Apr-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59612
- Meeting Date
- 24-Apr-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Notice of Motion to Introduce Bylaw to Regulate Closing of Shops
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68901
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59840
- Meeting Date
- 3-Jul-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 59840
- Meeting Date
- 3-Jul-1922
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Recommendation for a Bylaw to Provide the Licensing and Regulation of Certain Premises Operating as Inns
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport70819
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735071
- Meeting Date
- 1-Mar-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 735071
- Meeting Date
- 1-Mar-1920
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Regulation of Traffic on Public Highways
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport70106
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73438
- Meeting Date
- 29-Oct-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73438
- Meeting Date
- 29-Oct-1923
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds