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Burnaby, Vancouver and the north shore

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 21 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized film segment identified as Reel 6. The film segment opens with colour footage of people lawn bowling at Burnaby's Central Park. Dot Digney, Sid and Connie Swan can be seen bowling. This footage is followed with Andy Digney and Charles E. Jones at the Bird's of Paradise b…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1937 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 21 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized film segment identified as Reel 6. The film segment opens with colour footage of people lawn bowling at Burnaby's Central Park. Dot Digney, Sid and Connie Swan can be seen bowling. This footage is followed with Andy Digney and Charles E. Jones at the Bird's of Paradise bird sanctuary followed by footage of Stanley Park. The footage continues and interchanges between black and white and colour as the Digney's take a ferry ride to North Vancouver where they visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge and Fishermen's Cove. The reel closes with footage of skiers on Grouse Mountain and a fire at Pier D in 1938.

Subjects: Animals - Birds; Sports - Lawn Bowling; Sports - Skiing

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Jones, Charles E.; Digney, Dorothy

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Kingsway-Beresford Area

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Burnaby, Vancouver and the north shore, [between 1937 and 1938]

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Digney family home at Christmas

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (1min., 18 sec.) : digital, col. ; si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized copy of a silent colour film segment of the Digney family at Christmas. Film opens with views of a rhododendrun bush and moves into footage showing the outside and inside their home at Christmas time.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (1min., 18 sec.) : digital, col. ; si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-002-6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2012-15

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized copy of a silent colour film segment of the Digney family at Christmas. Film opens with views of a rhododendrun bush and moves into footage showing the outside and inside their home at Christmas time.

Subjects: Holidays - Christmas

Names: Digney, Andy

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film; Film clip originates from digitized version of original 16 mm film footage (item 562-002). This segment was part of digitized portion titled 'Royal Visit'

Geographic Access: Central Park; Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Digney family home at Christmas, 1939

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Digney family in Burnaby

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 17sec.) : digital, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized film colour segment identified as Reel 12. The film is a compilation of Digney family events. The film opens with children Paul and Bruce Digney running around the Digney family yard at their home on Bonsor Avenue with Andy and Ernest (Dig) Digney looking on. This is followed by…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 17sec.) : digital, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized film colour segment identified as Reel 12. The film is a compilation of Digney family events. The film opens with children Paul and Bruce Digney running around the Digney family yard at their home on Bonsor Avenue with Andy and Ernest (Dig) Digney looking on. This is followed by interspersed footage of the family's pet dog Nero and puppies along with some brief glimpses of the Royal visit (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) and cavilicade in 1939 along Kingsway. The film then switches to footage of Digney family Christmas festivities, a cat playing with a fish in a bowl and summer time at Pelican Lake in the 1940s and ends with a dog playing with a ball.

Subjects: Events - Parades; Animals - Dogs; Holidays - Christmas; Animals - Cats

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney, Bruce; Digney, Paul

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue; Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Digney family in Burnaby, [between 1939 and 1959]

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Digney film 1 - Outdoor Christmas display

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1954 and 1963] (date of original), copied 2019

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (25 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Scope and Content: Film clip of an outdoor Christmas display with a mechanical Santa, his sleigh and two reindeer with "Merry Xmas Happy New Year" in behind. Reindeer part of the display rotates on a motor. This could be in Burnaby outside of the Digney's home on Kaymar Drive. The wooden display was created by Andy D…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (25 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Scope and Content: Film clip of an outdoor Christmas display with a mechanical Santa, his sleigh and two reindeer with "Merry Xmas Happy New Year" in behind. Reindeer part of the display rotates on a motor. This could be in Burnaby outside of the Digney's home on Kaymar Drive. The wooden display was created by Andy Digney.

Creator: Digney, Andy

Subjects: Holidays - Christmas

Names: Digney, Andy

Geographic Access: Kaymar Drive

Accession Code: BV019.18.3.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1954 and 1963] (date of original), copied 2019

Media Type: Moving Images

Notes: Title based on contents of film segment; Film segment originates from digitized version of original 8 mm film (See BV019.18.3)

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Digney film 1 - Outdoor Christmas display, [between 1954 and 1963] (date of original), copied 2019

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Digney Film 3 - Visit to Vancouver Zoo in Stanley Park

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1967] (date of original), copied 2019

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (1 min., 15 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Scope and Content: Film footage of Joyce Digney, her mother, Dorothy Brookes and her young son Drew Digney visiting the Vancouver Zoo located in Stanley Park in Vancouver. Film clip documents them watching pelicans feeding and swimming in a pond and walking along the pathways within the park.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 video recording (mp4) (1 min., 15 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Scope and Content: Film footage of Joyce Digney, her mother, Dorothy Brookes and her young son Drew Digney visiting the Vancouver Zoo located in Stanley Park in Vancouver. Film clip documents them watching pelicans feeding and swimming in a pond and walking along the pathways within the park.

Creator: Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"

Subjects: Exhibitions - Zoos; Animals; Animals - Birds

Names: Digney, Joyce; Digney, Drew

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV019.18.5.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1967] (date of original), copied 2019

Media Type: Moving Images

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Photographer: Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"

Notes: Title based on contents of film segment; Film segment originates from digitized version of original 8 mm film (See BV019.18.5)

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Digney Film 3 - Visit to Vancouver Zoo in Stanley Park, [1967] (date of original), copied 2019

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Galiano Island, Oak Theatre and Calgary

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1941]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (9 min., 51 sec.) : digital, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized colour film segment identified as Reel 7. The film segment opens with footage of the shores of Galiano Island and soon switches to a game of table tennis and a boat ride up Burrard Inlet with Grannie Swan and company. The boat ride continues to the marina at Horseshoe Bay…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1941]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (9 min., 51 sec.) : digital, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-7

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized colour film segment identified as Reel 7. The film segment opens with footage of the shores of Galiano Island and soon switches to a game of table tennis and a boat ride up Burrard Inlet with Grannie Swan and company. The boat ride continues to the marina at Horseshoe Bay where the family goes ashore. This footage is followed with a dark segment of footage of a paegant at the Oak Theatre in 1941 and the gardens of the Oak Theatre. The film has a break and continues with footage of the Digney family travels to the Calgary Breweries, Calgary Zoo, and the Calgary Stampede parade and fairgrounds, Alberta, closing with footage of the Rockies and Rogers Pass.

Subjects: Animals - Birds; Events - Parades

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney, Alice

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Kingsway-Beresford Area

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Galiano Island, Oak Theatre and Calgary, [between 1939 and 1941]

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McLean family Christmas

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1963

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 19 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film and opens with footage of Sharon McLean in a costume with her sister Teresa McLean while their brother looks on and switches to footage of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning. Teresa McLean can be seen with a doll and toys while and her …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1963

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 19 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 567-001-9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-03

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film and opens with footage of Sharon McLean in a costume with her sister Teresa McLean while their brother looks on and switches to footage of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning. Teresa McLean can be seen with a doll and toys while and her brothers and family members are busy unwrapping Christmas gifts in their living room. The film closes with young Teresa McLean and family members building a snowman in their backyard.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Holidays - Christmas; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: McLean, Teresa; McLean, George H.F.; McLean, Edna; McLean, Sharon

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: McLean, George H.F.

Notes: Title based on content of film; Films originated in an 8mm format and were digitized by George McLean before being donated to the CBA

Street Address: 4378 Halley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cascade-Schou Area

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McLean family Christmas, 1963

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McLean family Christmas

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1966

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 24 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film providing footage of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning, playing in the snow and building a snowman on a street outside their home on Halley Avenue South and eating Christmas dinner. The film closes with McLean family and friends playing …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1966

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 24 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 567-001-16

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-03

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film providing footage of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning, playing in the snow and building a snowman on a street outside their home on Halley Avenue South and eating Christmas dinner. The film closes with McLean family and friends playing pool and games in their recreation room.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Holidays - Christmas; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: McLean, Teresa; McLean, George H.F.; McLean, Brad; McLean, Edna; McLean, Sharon

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: McLean, George H.F.

Notes: Title based on content of film; Films originated in an 8mm format and were digitized by George McLean before being donated to the CBA

Street Address: 4378 Halley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cascade-Schou Area

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McLean family Christmas, 1966

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McLean family Christmas and new years celebrations

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 15 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film segment providing glimpses of the McLean family celebrating Christmas at thier home at 4378 Halley Avenue South in Burnaby. The film footage shows the family opening presents on Christmas morning, seated at the table for Christmas dinner and adults dancing an…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 15 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 567-001-3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-03

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film segment providing glimpses of the McLean family celebrating Christmas at thier home at 4378 Halley Avenue South in Burnaby. The film footage shows the family opening presents on Christmas morning, seated at the table for Christmas dinner and adults dancing and celebrating New Years Eve in their recreation room.

Subjects: Holidays - Christmas; Celebrations - New Years Eve; Recreational Activities - Dancing

Names: McLean, Teresa; McLean, Sharon; McLean, Edna; McLean, George H.F.

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: McLean, George H.F.

Notes: Title based on content of film; Films originated in an 8mm format and were digitized by George McLean before being donated to the CBA

Street Address: 4378 Halley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cascade-Schou Area

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McLean family Christmas and new years celebrations, 1962

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McLean family Christmas and snow fun

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1964

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 23 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film and opens with a Christmas tree and the McLean family opening their presents on Christmas morning. The film follows with the McLean children playing, skiing and toboganning in the snow on Burnaby Mountain. The film closes with Teresa and playmate swinging and…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1964

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 23 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 567-001-13

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-03

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent colour film and opens with a Christmas tree and the McLean family opening their presents on Christmas morning. The film follows with the McLean children playing, skiing and toboganning in the snow on Burnaby Mountain. The film closes with Teresa and playmate swinging and going down a slide in the McLean's back yard.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Holidays - Christmas; Natural Phenomena - Snow; Sports - Skiing; Geographic Features - Mountains

Names: McLean, Teresa; McLean, George H.F.; McLean, Brad; McLean, Edna; McLean, Sharon

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: McLean, George H.F.

Notes: Title based on content of film; Films originated in an 8mm format and were digitized by George McLean before being donated to the CBA

Geographic Access: Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area

Street Address: 4378 Halley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cascade-Schou Area

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McLean family Christmas and snow fun, 1964

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McLeans at Christmas

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 15 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent, colour digital film segment providing glimpses of Christmas and recreational activities. The film opens with glimpses of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning, followed by them playing a game of pool and table tennis games in the family's recreation ro…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962

Collection/Fonds: George H.F. McLean fonds

Physical Description: 1 digital file ( 4 min., 15 sec ) : digital , col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 567-001-5

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-03

Scope and Content: Item consists of one silent, colour digital film segment providing glimpses of Christmas and recreational activities. The film opens with glimpses of the McLean family opening presents on Christmas morning, followed by them playing a game of pool and table tennis games in the family's recreation room, sharing a meal and the youngest McLean, Teresa being given a bath by her mother, Edna.