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The Giving Heart / Leila Orman
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription62957
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 book (soft-cover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a book by Leila Orman entitled "The Giving Heart" with the dedication; "To my Mother, Daisy Marie Orman, whose complete faith in God is the foundation of this story."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Leila Orman subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 book (soft-cover)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS104-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Item is a book by Leila Orman entitled "The Giving Heart" with the dedication; "To my Mother, Daisy Marie Orman, whose complete faith in God is the foundation of this story."
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Grant family papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58007
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1964
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the Grant family. Included in the file is George Grant's Application (and Testimonials) for the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture (written in 1909), various certificates awarded to members of the Gr…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1964
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- George Grant subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS048-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-06
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the Grant family. Included in the file is George Grant's Application (and Testimonials) for the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture (written in 1909), various certificates awarded to members of the Grant family, as well as a Coat of Arms and Emblems illustration for Canada and its Provinces.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Heritage Legislation papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58162
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers collected by Evelyn Salisbury. Included in the file are correspondence and reports (pertaining to Heritage Legislation promised in the 1990 Throne Speech), other correspondence and a list (and black and white photocopies) of images.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Evelyn Salisbury subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS061-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-24
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers collected by Evelyn Salisbury. Included in the file are correspondence and reports (pertaining to Heritage Legislation promised in the 1990 Throne Speech), other correspondence and a list (and black and white photocopies) of images.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Joan Bellinger writings
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98235
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1968-1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of articles, stories, and poems written by Joan Bellinger and published by a variety of outlets including the Vancouver Sun, the Western Producer, Sunday Magazine, and Discover British Columbia and other travel and gardening magazines. The writings are collected in a coil-bound exerc…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1968-1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Bernard Bellinger subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS035-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-17
- Scope and Content
- File consists of articles, stories, and poems written by Joan Bellinger and published by a variety of outlets including the Vancouver Sun, the Western Producer, Sunday Magazine, and Discover British Columbia and other travel and gardening magazines. The writings are collected in a coil-bound exercise book. File also includes a copy of the Spring 1990 edition of Lougheed Mall's "Discover" magazine that includes an article by Bellinger titled "A Flood of Memories from Years Gone by".
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Jubilee Labor Hall share purchases
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57984
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1954
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a notebook with bound, perforated quarter pages, as well as their corresponding (loose) certificates of share purchases for Jubilee Labor Hall Limited between the years 1925 and 1932. Also included in the file is a Transfer of Property form from the Department of National Revenue a…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1954
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Jubilee Labor Hall subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS041-002
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-01
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a notebook with bound, perforated quarter pages, as well as their corresponding (loose) certificates of share purchases for Jubilee Labor Hall Limited between the years 1925 and 1932. Also included in the file is a Transfer of Property form from the Department of National Revenue allowing for the transfer of shares due to the death of early shareholder Ernest Ringle in 1954.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Kingsway West School Reunion address list
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66592
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 28, 1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 booklet
- Scope and Content
- Item is Vera (Jackson) Pel's copy of the Kingsway West School Reunion address list.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 28, 1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Vera Jackson Pel subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 booklet
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS053-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FOIPPA
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-37
- Scope and Content
- Item is Vera (Jackson) Pel's copy of the Kingsway West School Reunion address list.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title
Legal documents
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65755
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains legal documents (mainly police reports) pertaining to a Burnaby Lake Interurban Accident July 12, 1953. Includes two scale drawings of Gilmore Avenue and the British Columbia Electric Railway crossing in relation to the accident.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Donald N. Brown subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS148-002
- Access Restriction
- Subject to FOIPPA
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FOIPPA
- Accession Number
- BHS2003-04
- Scope and Content
- File contains legal documents (mainly police reports) pertaining to a Burnaby Lake Interurban Accident July 12, 1953. Includes two scale drawings of Gilmore Avenue and the British Columbia Electric Railway crossing in relation to the accident.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
May Day invitations
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57753
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of invitations to the crowning of Beulah Toebaert as Burnaby's 1927 May Queen, as well as invitations to a Complimentary Banquet for "MISS BEULAH TOEBAERT / AND MAIDS OF HONOUR". Both events were to take place on May 28, 1927.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- George Jeffery subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS013-002
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of invitations to the crowning of Beulah Toebaert as Burnaby's 1927 May Queen, as well as invitations to a Complimentary Banquet for "MISS BEULAH TOEBAERT / AND MAIDS OF HONOUR". Both events were to take place on May 28, 1927.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Newsprint pages
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58428
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1971 -1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a collector's edition Daily Mail newspaper replicated from 1900 and four pages (pertaining to Bonsor Hall) from the Thursday, September 2, 1971 edition of the Burnaby Leader.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1971 -1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Norah Code subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS126-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- BHS1997-05
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a collector's edition Daily Mail newspaper replicated from 1900 and four pages (pertaining to Bonsor Hall) from the Thursday, September 2, 1971 edition of the Burnaby Leader.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents file
North Burnaby Kiwanis Club papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription59099
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1963-1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club including correspondence, bylaws, regulations and Kiwanis International pamphlets.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1963-1973
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- North Burnaby Kiwanis Club subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS092-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club including correspondence, bylaws, regulations and Kiwanis International pamphlets.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Oakalla Prison Farm site plan
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64507
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- November 1980 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 p. (photocopies)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photocopies of two slightly different sections of a site plan for the Oakalla Prison Farm in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- November 1980 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ed Eckley subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 p. (photocopies)
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS120-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS2006-01
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photocopies of two slightly different sections of a site plan for the Oakalla Prison Farm in Burnaby.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Ocean View Burial Park papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription62796
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to Ocean View Burial Park, including their by-laws as well as two deeds of land purchased from the Burial Park by Hazel Erickson Peterson for use by her and her heirs.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Hazel Peterson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS094-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS2000-08
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to Ocean View Burial Park, including their by-laws as well as two deeds of land purchased from the Burial Park by Hazel Erickson Peterson for use by her and her heirs.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Patterson family papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57973
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1900-2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the Patterson family. Included in the file is a Deed of Land from 1910, student report cards for Bruce and Dugald Campbell Patterson as well as histories and correspondence pertaining to the Webb family (Frances Mabel Webb Patterson's family). Also included is a p…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1900-2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Patterson family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS039-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-05
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the Patterson family. Included in the file is a Deed of Land from 1910, student report cards for Bruce and Dugald Campbell Patterson as well as histories and correspondence pertaining to the Webb family (Frances Mabel Webb Patterson's family). Also included is a photocopied history of D.C. Patterson Senior (from an early publication).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Pictorial History
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64571
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1990-1995
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook entitled "Pictorial History" which traces the history of the Burnaby Centennial Parker Carousel from its transportation from the Pacific National Exhibition to fundraising displays, through reconstruction and restoration of the carousel and its horses, salvaging and repurposing …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1990-1995
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Friends of the Carousel subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- Material Details
- Scrapbook is a three-ring black binder with a bright, multi-coloured flower pattern
- Scrapbook is comprised mainly of colour photographs
- Tag along spine of scrapbook reads: "Pictorial History"
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS121-002
- Accession Number
- BHS2006-02
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook entitled "Pictorial History" which traces the history of the Burnaby Centennial Parker Carousel from its transportation from the Pacific National Exhibition to fundraising displays, through reconstruction and restoration of the carousel and its horses, salvaging and repurposing Oakalla Prison floorboards and building the Pavilion, to opening day.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Provincial Council of Women of BC directories
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58042
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969-1978
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of five Provincial Council of Women of BC directories which include phone numbers, addresses and positions of each of the members (loose pages of notes are interspersed among the directories' pages).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969-1978
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Eagles family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS055-002
- Access Restriction
- Subject to FOIPPA
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FOIPPA
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-18
- Scope and Content
- File consists of five Provincial Council of Women of BC directories which include phone numbers, addresses and positions of each of the members (loose pages of notes are interspersed among the directories' pages).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Robert Burnaby papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66135
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1977-1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of documents relating to research on the Robert Burnaby family undertaken by Betty Millway and 1 booklet titled "Royal Leicester."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1977-1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Millway family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS157-002
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-11
- Scope and Content
- File consists of documents relating to research on the Robert Burnaby family undertaken by Betty Millway and 1 booklet titled "Royal Leicester."
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
South Burnaby Garden Club correspondence
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57897
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1962-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence pertaining to the South Burnaby Garden Club. Included in the correspondence are Show schedules and membership lists.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1962-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- South Burnaby Garden Club subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS124-002
- Accession Number
- BHS2008-17
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence pertaining to the South Burnaby Garden Club. Included in the correspondence are Show schedules and membership lists.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Star Weekly Complete Novels
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64499
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of newsprint
- Scope and Content
- File consists of four "Star Weekly Complete Novel[s]" written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published in Toronto.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of newsprint
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS117-002
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- File consists of four "Star Weekly Complete Novel[s]" written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published in Toronto.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Valley View Players and Burnaby Little Theatre activities
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58416
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1960
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, programmes and other promotional materials complied by Gladys Killip documenting her involvement in the activities of the Valley View Players and Burnaby Little Theatre activities.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1960
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Gladys Killip subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS125-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-12
- Scope and Content
- File consists of newspaper clippings, programmes and other promotional materials complied by Gladys Killip documenting her involvement in the activities of the Valley View Players and Burnaby Little Theatre activities.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Wright family textual records
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82705
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1928-2012]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records : ill. (col.)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of original and photocopy of handwritten family trees, published pamphlet entitled "Genealogy of the Wright Family" and photocopied family histories of the Wright family and how they relate to the Vidal family. Key person mentioned is William Elliot Wright, a naval officer who settled…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1928-2012]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records : ill. (col.)
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS176-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2013-03
- Scope and Content
- File consists of original and photocopy of handwritten family trees, published pamphlet entitled "Genealogy of the Wright Family" and photocopied family histories of the Wright family and how they relate to the Vidal family. Key person mentioned is William Elliot Wright, a naval officer who settled in Upper Canada.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Military Personnel
- Names
- Wright, William Elliot
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file