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East Burnaby Public School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34827
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1911 or 1912] (date of original), copied 1985
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a class at Edmonds Street School. Stamped at top of postcard: "East, Burnaby. / Public School." Stamped at bottom of postcard, "W. Brown, Photo." Front row, left to right: George Gregson, [unidentified], and George Powys. Second row, left to right: Phyllis Brown, Hazel A…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1911 or 1912] (date of original), copied 1985
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Lewis family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.8 x 13.9 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 140-008
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1985-10
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a class at Edmonds Street School. Stamped at top of postcard: "East, Burnaby. / Public School." Stamped at bottom of postcard, "W. Brown, Photo." Front row, left to right: George Gregson, [unidentified], and George Powys. Second row, left to right: Phyllis Brown, Hazel Allen, Etta Bonsor, Mary Buchanan, Jane Allen, Lila Skelly, and Eileen Jordan. Third row (girls standing), left to right: Margaret Stride, Lucy Jackson, Esther Love, Grace Morrison, Lillie Lewis, Anna Doole, and Lillie Vernon. Back row (boys standing), left to right: Burnie Feedham, [unidentified], Leonard Ettinger, Edward Clayton, and Mr. Lowther (teacher).
- Names
- Allen, Hazel
- Allen, Jane
- Bonsor, Etta
- Brown, Phyllis
- Buchanan, Mary
- Clayton, Edward
- Doole, Anna
- East Burnaby School
- Edmonds Community School
- Ettinger, Leonard
- Feedham, Colonel Burnaby "Burnie"
- Gregson, George
- Jackson, Lucy
- Jordan, Eileen
- Morrison, Grace
- Porter, Lillie Lewis
- Powys, George
- Skelly, Lila
- Stanley, Esther Love
- Stride, Margaret
- Vernon, Lillie
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Brown, W.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Edmonds Street
- Street Address
- 7641 Edmonds Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Edmonds Area
Images
Roll of honour certificate
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription17526
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 30 Jun. 1931
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Public Schools of British Columbia, Roll of Honour certificate, awarded to Dorothy Mallett of Gilmore Avenue Public School, for Proficiency, signed by teacher, Annalou Mason, June 30, 1931.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Public Schools of British Columbia, Roll of Honour certificate, awarded to Dorothy Mallett of Gilmore Avenue Public School, for Proficiency, signed by teacher, Annalou Mason, June 30, 1931.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Accession Code
- BV021.28.11
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- 30 Jun. 1931
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2021-10-04
- Notes
- Title based contents of item
East Burnaby Public School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19802
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1911 or 1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of students at East Burnaby (Edmonds Street) School. Students are identified, front row, left to right: George Gregson, [unidentified], and George Powys. Second row, left to right: Phyllis Brown, Hazel Allen, Etta Bonsor, Mary Buchanan, Jane Allen, Lila Skelly, and Eileen Jordan. Third …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of students at East Burnaby (Edmonds Street) School. Students are identified, front row, left to right: George Gregson, [unidentified], and George Powys. Second row, left to right: Phyllis Brown, Hazel Allen, Etta Bonsor, Mary Buchanan, Jane Allen, Lila Skelly, and Eileen Jordan. Third row (girls standing), left to right: Margaret Stride, Lucy Jackson, Esther Love, Grace Morrison, Lillie Lewis, Anna Doole, and Lillie Vernon. Back row (boys standing), left to right: Burnie Feedham, [unidentified], Leonard Ettinger, Edward Clayton, and Mr. Lowther (teacher).
- Subjects
- Persons - Students
- Names
- Edmonds Community School
- Allen, Hazel
- Allen, Jane
- Bonsor, Etta
- Brown, Phyllis
- Buchanan, Mary
- Clayton, Edward
- Feedham, Colonel Burnaby "Burnie"
- Ettinger, Leonard
- Gregson, George
- Jackson, Lucy
- Jordan, Eileen
- Morrison, Grace
- Porter, Lillie Lewis
- Powys, George
- Stanley, Esther Love
- Stride, Margaret
- Vernon, Lillie
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.224
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1911 or 1912]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Related Material
- See also City of Burnaby Archives 140-008
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-04-18
- Photographer
- Brown, W.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
- Stamp in red ink at top of photograph postcard reads: "East Burnaby_Public School"
Images
Gilmore Avenue School report card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription17522
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1936-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 card ; folded
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Burnaby Public School monthly report card of Dorothy Mallet, Grade VIII, Gilmore Avenue School filled in by teacher M.A. Williamson and signed by one of her parents.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 card ; folded
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Burnaby Public School monthly report card of Dorothy Mallet, Grade VIII, Gilmore Avenue School filled in by teacher M.A. Williamson and signed by one of her parents.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Reports
- Accession Code
- BV021.28.7
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FIPPA
- Date
- 1936-1937
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2021-10-04
- Notes
- Title based contents of item
Interview with Merrill M. Gordon by Rod Fowler March 19, 1990 - Track 9
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory480
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1987-1990
- Length
- 00:07:57
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Merrill Gordon’s work on the Parks Board and involvement in the arts community. He talks about developing an art policy for Burnaby, the conflicting views about building a theatre at Metrotown, and the establishment of the Arts Centre at Deer Lake
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Merrill Gordon’s work on the Parks Board and involvement in the arts community. He talks about developing an art policy for Burnaby, the conflicting views about building a theatre at Metrotown, and the establishment of the Arts Centre at Deer Lake
- Date Range
- 1987-1990
- Photo Info
- Burnaby Alderman Merrill Gordon (second from right) following a candidates' meeting, 1973. Item no. 480-263
- Length
- 00:07:57
- Names
- Burnaby Arts Centre
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- March 19, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Merrill Gordon, conducted by Rod Fowler.Gordon Merrill was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Merrill Gordon’s childhood in the Depression, including his story about the family’s difficult trek to Burnaby from Alberta; his education, teachers and first volunteer activities at Grandview High School; his career at Fleck Brothers and the start of his own company Blaze Industries and later work in India; and his many volunteer activities in Burnaby. He describes how he started the Cliff Avenue United Football Club, the soccer club's subsequent growth and development, some of the people involved, and the founding of the youth soccer exchange. He also describes his work on the Parks Board and in the arts community, including the 1987 arts centre referendum, and involvement with the Burnaby Mountain Preservation Society (1988- ), and mentions his work for other groups including the New Vista Society, library board, and Burnaby Mental Health Committee. He also talks about his political career with the Better Burnaby Committee and Burnaby Voters Association, resulting in his 1972 election to Burnaby’s 1973 council. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Merrill M. Gordon was born in Saskatchewan in 1929 to parents farming north of North Battleford. After a fifth year of crop failure the family of four left the farm in 1934 to join relatives living near the corner of Union and Sperling in Burnaby. With little resources the family adapted as well as possible in the Depression years, moving often in the East Vancouver/North Burnaby area in an attempt to better their situation. Merrill’s father obtained work at sawmills including Kapoor’s Sawmill at Barnet, walking to work over Burnaby Mountain. After attending numerous public schools, Merrill Gordon eventually spent three years at Templeton School and then completed his education at Grandview High School of Commerce, majoring in accounting and commercial law. He worked a few years at Canadian Industries Ltd., then joined Fleck Brothers. In 1965 Merrill Gordon and his wife started their own company Blaze Industries of Canada that manufactured wood burning fireplaces, selling the company to AB Electrolux in 1980. After a short retirement, Merrill Gordon went back to work in 1981 for a company manufacturing solar panels, one project taking him and his wife intermittently to India over a four year period. Merrill Gordon helped found the political group Better Burnaby Committee, later the Burnaby Voters Association, with Alan Emmott and Bill Lewarne, ran for Burnaby Municipal Council and served one year as councillor in 1973. Merrill Gordon is well known for his over 40 years of volunteer work in Burnaby, particularly as founder in 1956 and director of the Cliff Avenue United Football Club, one of the largest soccer clubs in BC. He was also the founder of Burnaby Youth Soccer and the first youth soccer exchange with Washington State. His other volunteer work includes library trustee, Parks Commissioner (1987-1992), Director of New Vista Home for Seniors, Chair of campaign raising funds for building Shadbolt Arts Centre, and Chair of the Burnaby Mental Health Committee. In 1988 Merrill Gordon, Betty Gordon, Dean Lamont and several others formed the Burnaby Mountain Preservation Society, which advocated for the return of unused land to Burnaby from SFU and the subsequent creation of Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. Merrill Gordon and Elizabeth Balfour (nee Leitch) (1926-2012) married in 1953 and had two children.
- Total Tracks
- 11
- Total Length
- 1:31:44
- Interviewee Name
- Gordon, Merrill
- Interview Location
- unknown
- Interviewer Bio
- Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.
- Collection/Fonds
- SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds
- Transcript Available
- Transcript available
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Web Notes
- Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.
Images
Audio Tracks
Track nine of interview with Merrill Gordon
Track nine of interview with Merrill Gordon
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-020/MSS187-020_Track_9.mp3