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Burnaby burned down, it was a ground-level, two-room school. After it was destroyed, a new two-storey, four-room school house was built beside the original site in 1908. After Kingsway was paved, the school's name was changed to Kingsway West elementary. The class rooms were heated with cord wood fetched

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repaid by the repuration gained among knowing people for the general neat appearance ofits property. As in most Pacific lumber plants, the North Pacific burns all wood refuse in its fur- naces practically allowing no fuel expense. Most ofthis fuel is sawdust from the mill which is conveyed directly

at a salary of $50.00 per month and remained for ten years until 1904. She was a very stern person whose punishment for misbehaving students included going out to the back and chopping wood for the schoolroom stove. She came to school in a two wheeled buggy pulled by a pony which probably impressed the pupils

Avenue) was driven across the frozen lake in a car to their logging operations on the south side of the lake. As the logs were cut down horses pulled them back over the ice to the mill. When Doran's Mill started operations local residents were able to get slab wood for fuel and sawdust for road beds

o r t h from the eastern edge of their camp, the first rough road passed w i n d i n g back and forth around stumps and trees w i t h i n this right of way. (3) B e y o n d the valley, where the ground was higher, the wood was more open, and w i t h i n its quiet forest depths was an abundance

in the finishes and materials, including imported English materials such as Medmenham tiles in the fireplace surrounds, one of the earliest documented use of these tiles outside the United Kingdom. Detailed features of the interior woodwork were carved by Scottish-born master wood carver George Selkirk Gibson

built between 1853-56. After church they set about searching for lodgings and found a room which they could share for $5.00 a month or $4.00 a month each if bedding was supplied. On December 29 they “called on Begbie [Matthew Begbie] and we stuck on our revolvers and started forth into the back wood

more comfortable for her. Then as the wood arrived in nice twenty foot lengths of beams and boards, he decided that he should put a roof on because sometimes it rained in the summer. This was going so well that he decided to put on walls, and so it ended up being a completely closed-in building, I think his mother

covered with cedar, hemlock and maple trees. Hand mauls—woodworking tools used with chisels for splitting wood planks—are among the tools that have been found in gardens and during basement excavations near Royal Oak Avenue. Further south, in what is now the Big Bend neighborhood, the landscape was once

of the day were constructed from wood, being raised and turned by hand cranks. When Tom and another man were on one such ladder, it broke, killing his partner and seriously injuring him. After the accident, in discussion with his wife, Tom decided to quit the Vancouver Fire Department and become a pump

closely with Burnaby’s Chinese Canadian farmers. BV017.24.2, COURTESY OF CECIL LEE. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WORK IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY? Chinese lumber workers harvested and processed wood in a variety of workplaces in Burnaby. Chinese labour contractor Lee Deen recruited Chinese woodcutters to supply

of a Enghsh country house. The Bernard Hill house. The Claude Hill house. in the popular Queen Anne Revival style which was intended to mimic the medieval style of Tu- dor England, albeit with British Columbia wood frame construction. The house built by the Schou family dubbed "Norland" was impressive

jobs and were unable to pay taxes on their homes. Burnaby Council made arrangements for the male property owners to work off their taxes. Some worked by cutting down the huge stumps left after logging. The men would split the stumps, cut them into 4 foot lengths and then take the wood to Burnaby

. In 2001, the tram was moved from the Village to a large City-owned warehouse at 2857 Royal Oak in Burnaby. A call for volunteers drew responses from over 60 people offering their various skills. Not even 1223’s rotting wood and rusting metal deterred those who could visualize bringing the sad old tram back