Kathleen Collins subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97425
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of booklets written by Kathleen E. Collins, Primary Superintendent for the Burnaby School Board for use in Burnaby classrooms.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Kathleen Collins subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2004-04
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of booklets written by Kathleen E. Collins, Primary Superintendent for the Burnaby School Board for use in Burnaby classrooms.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Collins, Kathleen
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- MSS109
Kathleen Moore family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription75
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1918]-1985
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs and 1 pamphlet
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a photograph of the Moxham residence on 6th Street in Burnaby, photograph of Edmonds Street School class, and a pamphlet called "Gilmore Generations". Also included are two photographs of the Brook House at 7725 4th Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1918]-1985
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Kathleen Moore family subseries
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs and 1 pamphlet
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1985-03
- BHS1985-09
- BHS1991-33
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a photograph of the Moxham residence on 6th Street in Burnaby, photograph of Edmonds Street School class, and a pamphlet called "Gilmore Generations". Also included are two photographs of the Brook House at 7725 4th Street.
- History
- Kathleen Moxham was born in England in 1911. She emigrated from England with her family in 1912, settling first in New Westminster, BC. A year later, they moved to a large house on Sixth Street in Burnaby, BC. Kathleen’s father, Godfrey Moxham, worked as a contractor. He cleared land and built houses, including the Brook House (now the Normanna Rest Home). He died April 8, 1968. Kathleen attended Edmonds Elementary School and later Burnaby South High School. She remembers going on strike with fellow Edmonds Elementary students in 1919 when teachers refused to allow students a spring holiday after so much time had been lost to school closures brought on by the influenza epidemic earlier in the school year.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Moore, Kathleen Agnes Moxham
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- PC 135, PC139, PC266, MSS156
Kay North subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Kay North subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-04
- BHS1991-38
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- History
- Kay Rorison North was one of the twin daughters of Burnaby carpenter William Rorison and Alma Cropley Rorison. Kay and her twin Evelyn were nine month old when her parents moved them and her two older brothers, Bill and Hugh, to Burnaby in 1922. Her younger brother, John, was not yet born. Kay's grandmother, Matilda Louise Cropley, bought three acres of land on Marine Drive (then called River Road) in South Burnaby and William built two houses on the property: one for his family and, six years later, one for his wife's widowed mother. They built a barn and kept cows, goats and the occasional pig. Her father built wooden toys and board games for the children. Kay went to Riverway West School with thirty-one other children, with grades one to four taught together in the one-room school house. She also attended Sunday school at Riverway mission for eight years and taught it there for another fifteen. Kay and her husband Doug have two daughters.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North, Kay Rorison
- Notes
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
- PC269, MSS051
Knight family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64497
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- History
- Milton "Milt" Waller Knight was born in Canada circa 1904. His wife Virginia Harrington was born in Duluth, Minnesota circa 1905 and lived most of her life in Canada. Virginia was the first person in British Columbia to breed budgies when she began in 1932 and by 1939 she and her husband created the first crested budgie in the world. By 1942, Virginia was also housing two-hundred and fifty birds at the home of her mother, Mrs. N.M. Herington, which was located at 1775 West 13th Avenue in Burnaby. Milton and Virginia Knight moved into their own home during the war years but, as they could not get their large aviary moved, they were forced to sell their crested birds. When they started up in their birds again, they obtained some of their crested back. By 1948 they had created two types of crested: those with a miniature cockatiel crest and those with a crest like a crested canary. By 1950 they had created the crested in over twelve colours of budgie, including cobalt and yellow-wing greens. The Knights lived together at 3718 Sperling Avenue (later renumbered 5255 Sperling Avenue) and opened Lakeview Aviaries on their one acre property at Deer Lake where Virginia specialized in budgies (Budgerigars) and bred the first albino in Canada and the first crested variety in the world. She kept Java rice birds, button quail, red factor canaries, cockatiels, finches, love birds and twelve varieties of budgerigar. She was a member of the British Columbia Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society. The facilities at Lakeview Aviaries included two heated aviary cages and three outdoor flight cages constructed by Milton. Lakeview housed the only "hospital" facilities in the city for cage birds, which featured an electrically heated, thermostatically controlled hospital cage. Virginia, known in the community as “the Bird Doctor” nursed many sick birds back to health free of charge for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or SPCA. The Knights often donated their trained birds to sick and injured children, for Virginia believed, “Budgies do wonders for the kiddies. They make them forget their troubles and of course a happy mental outlook is a definite aid to better physical health.” The couple’s personal pets included eight different types of parrot, three talking budgies, a dancing bare-eyes cockatoo, three talking cockatiel, and “Hoppy” her pet owl. By 1952, they had a toucan and a macaw as pets. In later years, they added two small dogs. By 1965, Milton had over 25 years of service as a truck driver at the Vancouver Service Department. He was also an avid collector of antique watches and clocks. He reconditioned the timepieces, systematically restoring them to their original condition. He was a member of the National Association of Clock and Watch Collectors. Milt also treasured old music boxes and restored their large metal discs and rolls to “as new” condition. Milton Knight died March 7, 1966 at 62 years of age. Virginia Knight lived alone at 5755 Sperling Avenue after her husband’s death and continued her work at the Lakeview Aviary where she “doctored 700-800 [birds] a year free of charge (except medicine) and gave SPCA donations up to $1000 a year.” Virginia Knight passed away November 10, 1987 at 82 years of age.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Knight, Milton
- Knight, Virginia
- Notes
- MSS117, PC510
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
Lee Lightfoot subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97411
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-]-1999
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of papers and ephemera items collected by Lee Lightfoot.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-]-1999
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Lee Lightfoot subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1995-10
- BHS2001-05
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of papers and ephemera items collected by Lee Lightfoot.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Lightfoot, Lee
- Notes
- Title based on collector of subseries
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
Len Amiel subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97441
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2001
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 book
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one copy of the book "When the Ice Age Came to Vancouver", written by Len Amiel.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2001
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Len Amiel subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 book
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2003-12
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one copy of the book "When the Ice Age Came to Vancouver", written by Len Amiel.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Amiel, Len
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
Lochdale Community Hall subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58095
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records pertaining to the Lochdale Community Hall with emphasis on financial records and meeting minutes.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Lochdale Community Hall subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-19
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records pertaining to the Lochdale Community Hall with emphasis on financial records and meeting minutes.
- History
- The Lochdale Social Club of Lochdale, BC began in January 1925. The object of the club was "to promote friendly assistance and social intercourse within the community." The club later changed its name to the Lochdale Community Hall Association.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Lochdale Community Hall
- Notes
- MSS056
- Title based on contents of subseries
Love Family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription80
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1918]-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the family and home of early Burnaby resident, Jesse Love.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1918]-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Love family subseries
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-24
- BHS1991-29
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the family and home of early Burnaby resident, Jesse Love.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Love family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC232, PC264
Lubbock family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription23
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of textual records and photographs created by and for the Lubbock family related to the family and their Burnaby Lake Riding Academy.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Lubbock family subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-24
- BHS1992-17
- BHS1994-02
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of textual records and photographs created by and for the Lubbock family related to the family and their Burnaby Lake Riding Academy.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Lubbock family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC286, PC289, PC342, PC139
Mabel Rogers subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97412
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a notebook belonging to Mabel Turner. The notebook includes autographs, writing, and artwork from her time as a student in Winnipeg.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Mabel Rogers subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-16
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a notebook belonging to Mabel Turner. The notebook includes autographs, writing, and artwork from her time as a student in Winnipeg.
- History
- Mabel Rogers (nee Turner) lived at 1704 Frederick Street, Burnaby from 1943 to 1997. In 1997 she moved to Rideau Manor retirement residence.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Rogers, Mabel Turner
- Notes
- Title based on content and collector of subseries
Margaret McCallum subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription84
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1906 and 1908]]-1974
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the E.W. Nicholson Dairy in the Broadview District and May Day, as well as newspaper clippings and pamphlets that include maps and the history of Burnaby, with focus on the Broadview district.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1906 and 1908]]-1974
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Margaret McCallum subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-42
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the E.W. Nicholson Dairy in the Broadview District and May Day, as well as newspaper clippings and pamphlets that include maps and the history of Burnaby, with focus on the Broadview district.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- McCallum, Margaret
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- PC375, MSS029
Marjorie Coe subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription86
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927]-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby in the early 20th century.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927]-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Marjorie Coe subseries
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-11
- BHS1986-40
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby in the early 20th century.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Coe, Marjorie
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- PC161, PC189
Mary Forsyth subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97409
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1966] (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 manuscript
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a photocopied copy of Alan D. Hassell's "The Hassells of Early Radio - My Life and Times with Uncle Billy" manuscript collected by Mary Forsyth.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1966] (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Mary Forsyth subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 manuscript
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1993-15
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of a photocopied copy of Alan D. Hassell's "The Hassells of Early Radio - My Life and Times with Uncle Billy" manuscript collected by Mary Forsyth.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Forsyth, Mary
- Notes
- Title based on collector of subseries
Morris family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription90
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1942
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the Dr. Morris family and home at Marine Drive and Boundary Road.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1942
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Morris family subseries
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-08
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the Dr. Morris family and home at Marine Drive and Boundary Road.
- History
- Wesley Gardiner Morris was born in Summerside Prince Edward Island in 1884; his wife Laura Maude Weegar was born in Maxville, Ontario in 1886. Wesley graduated from McGill University in 1914, becoming a doctor, and received a gold medal in Chemistry. The couple was married in Maxville, Ontario in 1914 and lived in their first home in Chauvin, Alberta before moving to Burnaby in 1916. They lived on Imperial Street until their new home at 4265 Trafalgar Street (now 4241 Maywood Street) was built. Dr. Wesley Morris practiced medicine at his office at the corner of Kingsway and Sussex in part of Miss George’s Drugstore. During and following the Depression years, Dr. Morris was often paid in kind by his patients or they would pay off their bills by assisting with jobs around the family home. The couple lived in the home on Trafalgar Street raising their six daughters: Margaret, Betty, Dorothy, Jessie, Gertrude and Muriel until the Depression when they were forced to sell their home and move to ‘the ranch’ on Marine Drive. The ranch covered 13 acres of property on either side of Marine Drive from Boundary Road east including a ravine with a creek. Dr. Morris was known for his skill in setting fractures and due to his expertise he was called to an accident in the 1940s at the McMillan Bloedel mill on the Fraser River. Except for Gertrude (Ramage) all of their daughters graduated from Burnaby South High School. Following graduation from high school, Margaret (Sheldon) completed a business course, while both Betty (Purrot) and Dorothy (Johston) became nurses. Jessie (Hunter) joined the R.C.A.F. and after learning Morse code was posted to communications. Gertrude taught piano lessons and later received her real estate license. All of the girls were married in the 1950s and moved away from the property on Marine Drive with the exception of Muriel who was still in high school. Laura suddenly took ill in 1945 and died. Soon after her passing, Wesley purchased a lot at 4648 Marine Drive (DL 175) and built a small two bedroom home for himself and daughter Muriel. The old family home was rented, then sold, and later demolished around 1980. Dr. Wesley Morris died in 1960 and was buried alongside his wife Laura at Ocean View Memorial Cemetery in Burnaby. After her father died, Muriel continued to live in the small house later marrying Tom Di Guistini who settled there with her. Tom died in 1981 just two years before Muriel’s retirement as the secretary of Magee Secondary School in Vancouver. Soon after retirement, Muriel sold their home on Marine Drive and moved to a condominium near Central Park.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC278
Muriel Davis subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65813
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of an essay written by Muriel Davis entitled "Growing up in the Great Depression".
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Muriel Davis subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1997-22
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of an essay written by Muriel Davis entitled "Growing up in the Great Depression".
- History
- Master cabinet maker Arthur Davis and his wife Nellie Davis (nee Chard) emigrated from England, settling in South Burnaby around 1912. They built a house on Rumble Road, two doors down from Nelson Avenue School. Arthur and Nellie had five children: Arthur Jr., Alec, Mildred, Robert and Muriel, who was born in 1920. The family attended Alta Vista Baptist Church. Arthur Sr. built five more family homes over a 20 year period, all within the Imperial-Royal Oak area. Alec Davis died of an illness in 1940. Muriel attended Nelson Avenue School, and later Burnaby South High School. At the age of four, Nellie started her on lessons that went on for fifteen years. These lessons included dance, drama, piano, singing, choir practice and bagpipes. Muriel married pilot officer Gordon Skelhorne and went by Jean Shelhorne. Gordon studied medicine and became a family doctor. Jean received a Masters in Education and worked as an adult educator and counsellor. They had two children together, a daughter and a son. The son died in adolescence, the daughter now has a son of her own. Jean and Gordon Skelhorne moved from Burnaby to Mississauga, Ontario around 1963.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Skelhorne, Muriel "Jean" Davis
- Notes
- MSS149
- Title based on creator of subseries
Norah Code subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription93
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904-1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs taken and compiled by Norah Code during the course of her work as editor of the Burnaby Courier newspaper. Photographs depict Central Park and various 1958 BC Centennial events and people. Also included are photographs and news clippings related to the old Bonsor …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904-1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Norah Code subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs and textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1997-05
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs taken and compiled by Norah Code during the course of her work as editor of the Burnaby Courier newspaper. Photographs depict Central Park and various 1958 BC Centennial events and people. Also included are photographs and news clippings related to the old Bonsor Hall and scrapbooks about the Burnaby Rhythm Rascals seniors' music troupe.
- History
- Norah Code was the editor of the Burnaby Courier newspaper.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Code, Norah
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- PC345, MSS126
North Burnaby Board of Trade subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription124
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of documents related to the North Burnaby Board of Trade (previously Burnaby Board of Trade), including its certificate of formation, reports and bylaws pertaining to both the Burnaby Fire Department and Barnet Park, correspondence, District of Burnaby financial reports, annual r…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- North Burnaby Board of Trade subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2005-08
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of documents related to the North Burnaby Board of Trade (previously Burnaby Board of Trade), including its certificate of formation, reports and bylaws pertaining to both the Burnaby Fire Department and Barnet Park, correspondence, District of Burnaby financial reports, annual reports, a map, and photographs of Burnaby parks, schools and neighbourhoods.
- History
- The Burnaby Board of Trade formed on September 4, 1926 and registered with the province December 14, 1926. George Conway Brown was elected as Secretary. On May 30, 1927, The Governor General officially granted the Board to change its name to the North Burnaby Board of Trade. The Board's boundaries, under Secretary Thomas B. Blake, were changed from "the Municipality of Burnaby" to "that portion of the Municipality of Burnaby which lies north of Still Creek, Burnaby Lake and Brunette River" British Columbia. On April 26, 1932, the North Burnaby Board of Trade Constitution and Bylaws were adopted with A.G. Kidd as Secretary. Membership was open to all persons directly or indirectly engaged or interested in the trade and commerce or the economic welfare of the district of North Burnaby. The Secretary was the executive officer of the Board, ordered to keep the books, conduct the correspondence, preserve official documents, take minutes at all meetings, have custody of the seal and be in charge of all funds and accounts held by the Board. The North Burnaby Board of Trade was involved in many historic municipal decisions including the development of Barnet Park and establishing a unified Fire Department under one Fire Chief.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North Burnaby Board of Trade
- Notes
- PC476, MSS118
- Title based on contents of subseries
North Burnaby Fish and Game Club subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription94
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1956-1970
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one minute book and one photograph created by the North Burnaby Fish and Game Club.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1956-1970
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 1 photograph
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-31
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one minute book and one photograph created by the North Burnaby Fish and Game Club.
- History
- The North Burnaby Fish and Game Club was created out of the desire of Burnaby citizens for a club for sports fishermen, hunters, and archers. The inaugural meeting was held January 31, 1956 and Bill Killer, Maurice Griffin, Lloyd Smith, Gerry Wells, Joe Shand, Carson White and Bob Maitland were empowered by the 60 men present to form the organization. The club was officially registered in Victoria on March 12, 1958.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North Burnaby Fish and Game Club
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC265, MSS063
North Burnaby Kiwanis Club subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription59096
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1949-1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of the administrative records of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club. Subseries also includes photographs of Club members and events, felt badges, and member name plates.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1949-1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- North Burnaby Kiwanis Club subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of the administrative records of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club. Subseries also includes photographs of Club members and events, felt badges, and member name plates.
- History
- The North Burnaby Kiwanis Club was first organized on May 31, 1949. The club was officially incorporated in 1954 with W.G. Switzer as its first president. The territorial limits of the club were of Burnaby from north of the Grandview highway to the easterly limits of the municipality, using the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) right-of-way as their division line. Membership consisted of men in good character and community standing, residing, having interest in, or engaged in recognised lines of business, agricultural, institutional and professional life within the territorial limits of the club. The North Burnaby Kiwanis Club’s goals were: to give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life; to encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships; to promote the adoption and application of higher social, business and professional standards; to develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship; to provide, through this club, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build a better community; to cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will. The final meeting of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club was held January 17, 1977.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North Burnaby Kiwanis Club
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- MSS092, PC501