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Leila Orman subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription62945
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1918-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1918-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Leila Orman subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.
- History
- A. Leila Orman was born June 2, 1901 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. She is the youngest daughter of Daisy Marie Orman, her sister Daisy Hilda Orman (later Targett) being three and a half years her senior. At five years old Leila began a long fight with a crippling type of rheumatoid arthritis. By the time she was thirteen, she experienced completely ankylosed joints. Her family travelled all over hoping to find a cure, but to no avail. In 1913 her father joined his two brothers in Calgary, and by 1915 the family had joined him. Leila developed an interest in painting and knitting, and composed her own poems. She began writing news articles for the Calgary Daily Herald in the 1930s, and her first sonnet was published in that paper on August 28, 1934. She had a strong interest in the arts, often writing about music and the visual arts. While living in Calgary, she became a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club as well as a member of the Canadian Author’s Association. When her father retired in 1938, the family moved to Rosewood Avenue in Burnaby. Leila wrote on a typewriter with two sticks to type out the letters. She was an avid reader and was able to turn the pages with a special stick with elastic bands wound around the ends. Canadian novelist Maida Parlow French became her lifelong friend and encouraged her to write her own autobiography, but she was not able to finish it. Leila wrote “The Giving Heart” in October of 1948. By 1952, she was writing the "Across the Board" column for the British Columbia Saturday Magazine with the intention of inspiring other “incapacitated folk” to live up to their full potential: “If [she] could reach a few people, and encourage them to reach up and out, [she] should feel the effort well worthwhile.” A member of the St. Alban’s Prayer Healing Fellowship group, Leila wrote the “Christian Manifesto for World Peace” in 1963. The Prayer Group met twice monthly at one of the members’ homes and undertook to pray daily for the sick and for world peace. After Leila’s mother died in 1955, Leila’s friend Jeanie Brown kept house for her and was her constant companion. Jeanie Brown and Leila lived together for over thirteen years until an accident sent Leila to hospital and later to nursing home where she died on February 16, 1976.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Orman, A. Leila
- Notes
- MSS104 and PC506
- Title based on content of subseries
Libonati's Gun Shop exterior
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66101
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1970]
- Collection/Fonds
- Libonati family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph depicts an exterior view of Libonati's Gun Shop and Sporting Goods at 4261 Kingsway, along with other businesses on that block. Businesses left to right: Quality Auto Electric, Libonati's Gun Shop and Sporting Goods and Inter City Bowl bowling alley. Not shown in the picture were two o…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1970]
- Collection/Fonds
- Libonati family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 522-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2011-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph depicts an exterior view of Libonati's Gun Shop and Sporting Goods at 4261 Kingsway, along with other businesses on that block. Businesses left to right: Quality Auto Electric, Libonati's Gun Shop and Sporting Goods and Inter City Bowl bowling alley. Not shown in the picture were two other business east of the bowling alley; namely, Low Cost Transmission and Kilpatrick Nursing Home which was at the corner of Chaffey before Chaffey was realigned. Libonati's Gun Shop was owned and operated by Denzil (Dan) Libonati, a long-time Burnaby businessman. Cars in the picture are a 1959 Willy's Jeep (Denzil's) and 1958 Chevrolet (unknown owner).
- Names
- Libonati's Gun Shop
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 4261 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area