postcard
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact50030
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV006.3.36
- Description
- Postcard, colour photo, glossy, arranged horizontally; three images; top photo is full width of card, shows exterior of "ADMIRAL HOTEL", round windows along upper floor; lower left photo is reception? with mirrored ceiling, lower right is dining room; on reverse in blue, "ADMIRAL HOTEL / 4125 E. Hastings, Burnaby / Greater Vancouver, British Columbia" "Located 6 blocks east of Empire Stadium and within 15 minutes from downtown theatres and shopping. All rooms with private baths and piped-in music. You enjoy dining in the beautiful Harbour Lounge of our "luxury-liner" hotel. Entire hotel built in ship's motif. All main floor facilities completely air-conditioned (by refrigeration). Lots of Parking."; illustration of R.C.M.P. officer at upper left, mounted officer upper right; at bottom left, "Rolly Ford Photo" "C-1245"; print in white on blue line up centre, dividing card in half, "PUB. BY NATURAL COLOR PRODUCTIONS, LTD., VANCOUVER, B.C."; logo at bottom "GM" "LITHOGRAPHY" "DESIGN" "PHOTOGRAPHY", and "MADE IN CANADA" "GRANT-MANN" below; at upper right, "POST CARD", "ADDRESS" below; outline of rectangle, "4c CANADIAN POSTAGE"; slightly darkened around edges, "$5" in pencil; corners are worn
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Vancouver
- Title
- Admiral Hotel No. C-1245
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Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5472
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
History of Burnaby Resource Guide
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7492
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2019
on Kingsway became Burnaby’s
first premises licensed to sell alcohol in 1955 and the Admiral Hotel on
Hastings became Burnaby’s second a few years later.
The new, more liberal attitude was also apparent in the relations between
people of diverse cultures. Immigrants from continental Europe increased
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Digital Resource
- Accession Code
- BV019.63.1
- Author
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, BC
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 21 p. : ill.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Directories
- Object History
- Created from research gathered by Burnaby Village Museum staff into the diverse History of Burnaby.
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Digital Books
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5860
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
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