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Burnaby Public Library Summer Reading Club wrap-up party
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97398
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the Burnaby Public Library's wrap-up party for its Summer Reading Club. Photographs depict Chantel Jones and Walter Pineda of the Holiday Inn at Metrotown making pancakes for the party's breakfast, and Summer Reading Club participant Graeme Zacharias playing with giant …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-2773
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the Burnaby Public Library's wrap-up party for its Summer Reading Club. Photographs depict Chantel Jones and Walter Pineda of the Holiday Inn at Metrotown making pancakes for the party's breakfast, and Summer Reading Club participant Graeme Zacharias playing with giant bubbles during the party.
- Subjects
- Events
- Events - Parties
- Persons - Children
- Names
- Burnaby Public Library
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-2773-1: "Chantel Jones and Walter Pineda, of the Holiday Inn at Metrotown, team up to flip pancakes at the Burnaby Library's wrap-up party for its Summer Reading Club. More than 6,100 kids signed up for the club, which required them to read at least 15 minutes a day for 50 days of the summer."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2773-2: "His summer reading completed, Graeme Zacharias, 8, makes giant soap bubbles at the wrap-up party and pancake breakfast for the Burnaby Library's Summer Reading Club. More than 6,100 kids signed up for the program, which required participants to read at least 15 minutes a day for 50 days through the summer."
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
Images
Highroads to reading : book five
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3244
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.115
- Call Number
- 428.6 HIG
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- W. J. Gage & Co. Ltd.
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1946
- Series
- Highroads to reading
- Printer
- W. J. Gage & Co. Limited
- Physical Description
- 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Edmonds St. Elem. Jr. H, School 1950 Douglas Road New Westminster, B.C." [stamped in purple ink on front and back endpapers] "S25" [phrase is crossed out and handwritten in black ink on front pastedown] "S25" [handwritten in black ink on other side of front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Readers (Elementary)
- Notes
- "Authorized for use in the Public Schools of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan" --t.p.
Highroads to reading : book six
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3245
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.116
- Call Number
- 428.6 HIG 1948
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- W. J. Gage & Co. Ltd.
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1948
- Series
- Highroads to reading
- Printer
- W. J. Gage & Co. Limited
- Physical Description
- 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "S25" [phrase is crossed out and written in black ink on front pastedown] "S25" [handwritten in black ink at top of front endpaper] "______ St. ____ Jr. H. School [Edmonds St. Elem. Jr. H. School] 1950 Douglas Road New Westminster, B.C." [stamped in purple ink on front endpaper] "S25" [handwritten in black ink on other side of front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Readers (Elementary)
- Notes
- "Authorized for use in the Public Schools of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan" --t.p.
Highroads to reading : book six
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3246
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.117
- Call Number
- 428.6 HIG 1947
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- W. J. Gage & Co. Ltd.
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Series
- Highroads to reading
- Printer
- W. J. Gage & Co. Limited
- Physical Description
- 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Grant Didmon" [handwritten in pencil on front pastedown] "John Sheppard" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper] "S25" [handwritten in black ink on front endpaper] "S25" [phrase is crossed out and written in black ink on other side of front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Readers (Elementary)
- Notes
- "Authorized for use in the Public Schools of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan" --t.p.
Highroads to reading. Book three
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3198
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Beresford, M. A.
- Publication Date
- 1940
- Call Number
- 428.6 BER
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.17
- Call Number
- 428.6 BER
- Author
- Beresford, M. A.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont.
- Publisher
- Macmillans in Canada
- Ryerson Press
- Publication Date
- 1940
- Series
- Highroads to reading
- Physical Description
- viii, 280 p. : ill (some col.) ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- "Second Street School" -- stamped on endpaper (front). "S 33" -- handwritten in pen on title page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Readers
- Notes
- Includes index.
Notes on map reading, 1929 (reprinted with amendments (nos. 1 to 4), 1939)
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3397
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV993.17.12
- Call Number
- 623.71 GRE
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa, Ont.
- Publisher
- Great Britain. War Office
- Publication Date
- 1942
- Printer
- Edmond Cloutier
- Physical Description
- 95 p. : maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Military maps
- Military topography
- Notes
- "Notified in army orders for September, 1929" -- cover
- by command of the army council, Sir Herbert (James) Creedy (1878-1973).
- Includes index.
Reading event
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98097
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three unidentified children watching a person in the foreground during a reading event.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3177
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three unidentified children watching a person in the foreground during a reading event.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Events
- Education
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on original file name
- Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
Reading outside Bob Prittie Metrotown Library
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96410
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified person reading a book outside of the Bob Prittie Library. A blossoming cherry tree is visible behind the reader.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2080
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified person reading a book outside of the Bob Prittie Library. A blossoming cherry tree is visible behind the reader.
- Names
- Burnaby Public Library
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a March 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "A good book, warm sunshine and blossoming trees make for a pleasant way to spend a Spring afternoon in the plaza at Burnaby's Bob Prittie Library on Monday."
- Geographic Access
- Willingdon Avenue
- Street Address
- 6100 Willingdon Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
Images
Reading Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription80692
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 19, 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 23.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children and adults at a reading program at Metrotown aimed at improving national literacy levels.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 19, 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 23.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-0958
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2012-11
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children and adults at a reading program at Metrotown aimed at improving national literacy levels.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Ponne, Simone
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on recto of photograph reads: "2342 C Bby Simone 72% Bby 3"
- Trim marks and/or reproduction instructions on recto (scan is cropped)
Images
Request for Demolition of Vacant Buildings on 11th Avenue prior to Third Reading of the Rezoning Bylaw - Rezoning Reference #48/95
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport7226
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 6364
- Meeting Date
- 22-Apr-1996
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 12
- Item No.
- 15
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 6364
- Meeting Date
- 22-Apr-1996
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 12
- Item No.
- 15
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Request for Demolition of Vacant Buildings on Eleventh [11th] Avenue Prior to Third Reading of the Rezoning Bylaw - Rezoning Reference #35/97
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport5407
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 61746
- Meeting Date
- 5-Oct-1998
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 25
- Item No.
- 5
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 61746
- Meeting Date
- 5-Oct-1998
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 25
- Item No.
- 5
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Woman reading under a tree
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97121
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified woman reading a newspaper underneath a tree on a park lawn.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2648
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified woman reading a newspaper underneath a tree on a park lawn.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Collected by editorial for use in an August 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Images
Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5472
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
Life with the Moores of Hart House : pioneer days on Burnaby's Deer Lake
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1179
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Call Number
- 971.1 PRI COPY 1
, information, and proof reading
Boulanger, Annie - Writer, interviews, transcribing taped interviews, suggestions, proof reading
Boulanger, Tom - computer programming assistance
Burnaby City Printshop - Evelyn, Karen, Robert, Nick - making master photographs
Crawford, Gary - educator, artist, proof reading
Donaughy
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282877
- Call Number
- 971.1 PRI COPY 1
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby, Community Heritage Commission
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- iv, 92 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Inscription
- "To Burnaby Village Museum / Harry Pride", handwritten in ink on title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Moore family
- Hart House (Burnaby, B.C.)--History
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pioneers
- Historic buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87) and index.
- Signed by the author.
- 2 copies held : copy 1.
Digital Books
Land of promise : Robert Burnaby's letters from colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5465
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282850
- 9780969282853
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby, Robert--Correspondence
- Merchants--British Columbia--Correspondence
- British Columbia--History--1849-1871
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
In the shadow by the sea : recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5173
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Call Number
- 971.133 PRI Copy 2
and edited some of the submissions. Burnaby historian and Archive
Coordinator Pixie McGeachie provided information from her personal files, retrieved images
from the Burnaby Historical Society community archives, and also assisted in proof reading the
final manuscript. Merv Magus, Artist and Cartoonist
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282885
- Call Number
- 971.133 PRI Copy 2
- Contributor
- Wolf, Jim
- Pride, Harry, 1925-
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Physical Description
- 246 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Industries--British Columbia--Burnaby--History
- Barnet Marine Park--Burnaby, B.C.
- Geographic Access
- Barnet Road
- Burrard Inlet
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 246) and index.
- "edited by Harry Pride and Jim Wolf"
- Copy 2 of 2
Digital Books
Follow that fire : the history of the Burnaby Fire Department
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5194
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Call Number
- 363.378 PEN COPY 3
when called to duty or drill.
The first reading before Council was on March 28, 1929. By-law No. 451 did not
receive a second reading and was withdrawn January 2, 19 30. In response to the for-
mation of a Municipal fire department, Central Park Ratepayers Association demand-
ed that a by-law be
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 363.378 PEN COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- [Burnaby, B.C.]
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : ill. (some col.), 2 maps, ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fire departments
- Fire fighters
- Name Access
- Burnaby Fire Department
- Notes
- Maps on lining papers.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
History of Burnaby and vicinity
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6890
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV017.17.1
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Place of Publication
- [S.l.]
- Publisher
- [s.n.]
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Printer
- Shoemaker , McLean & Veitch
- Physical Description
- 233 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "Presented To my valued fried Rev. D. W. Scott. a former neighbor at Capitol Hill with best wishes of the author George Green Victoria March 1 1947" [handwritten in black ink on page opposing front pastedown] "BMMM-WU SIGNED 1st ED 50.00" [handwritten in pencil on page opposing front pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Name Access
- Green, George
- Notes
- Autographed by author
- "By George Green, pioneer resident of Burnaby, and an ex-Councillor. Charter Member of the British Columbia Historical Association, Vancouver Branch, and an Executive Member."
- Copy 2 of 2
Images
Digital Books
Tram memories : in celebration of the restoration of Interurban 1223
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5863
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Call Number
- 388.460971 TRA
could have spent hours watching this scene! When the family
was all gathered together we would board one of these wonderful cars (usually a two-car
train at this time of day). We always avoided a car that had a metal plate hanging on the side
reading“Horne Payne” or“Douglas Road”, as we were traveling
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 388.460971 TRA
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Contributor
- Friends of Interurban 1223
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Printer
- City of Burnaby Printshop
- Physical Description
- 91 p. : ill., map ;,20 cm
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electric railroads
- Local transit
- Street-railroads
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Notes
- Editor : Pixie McGeachie
Images
Digital Books
Limbo
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription81200
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 16, 1998
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 14 x 17 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified girl, with cat face paint on doing the limbo at the Burnaby library’s celebration of reading event. Other unidentified children are in line waiting to limbo.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 16, 1998
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 14 x 17 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-1346
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2012-11
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified girl, with cat face paint on doing the limbo at the Burnaby library’s celebration of reading event. Other unidentified children are in line waiting to limbo.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black and blue ink on recto of photograph reads: "Bartel Bby 1854 / Bby 3 88%"
- Trim marks and/or reproduction instructions on recto (scan is cropped)
- Accompanying caption reads: "Sept 16, 1998 1854: / Limbo dancing was one of the activities at the Burnaby library's celebration of reading event on Saturday. Article "Summer reading earns rewards.""