"Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)" found 32 records

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne 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 mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

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 business computerization 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

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

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

Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track two of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Personal material

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910-1978]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1910-1978]

Collection/Fonds: Hazel Simnett collection

Series: Simnett personal papers series

Physical Description: 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS167-008

Accession Number: 2013-22

Scope and Content: File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.

Subjects: Arts - Paintings; Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers; Documentary Artifacts - Photographs; Performances - Concerts; Organizations - Societies and Clubs; Personal Symbols - Certificates; Transportation; Persons - Royalty

Names: Simnett, Hazel; Simnett, Frederick "Fred"; Simnett, Mary Ann; Lansdowne, James Fenwick

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Graphic Material

Notes: Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together; Simnett personal papers series

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1926-1989

Length: 00:10:22

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

Date Range: 1926-1989

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:10:22

Subjects: Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Business

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne 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 mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

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 business computerization 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

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

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 one of interview with Bill Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-019/MSS187-019_Track_1.mp3

England family home on Royal Oak Avenue

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1927 and 1930] (date of original) , copied 2020

Collection/Fonds: Mary England fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Craftsman style house located at 1906 Royal Oak Avenue near Victory Street in Burnaby (address was changed to 7353 Royal Oak Aveue after 1958). The house was built in 1914 and was the home of Alfred Henry and Mary England (nee Gooding). Alfred H. England died suddenly in 1917. Mary…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Mary England fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Craftsman style house located at 1906 Royal Oak Avenue near Victory Street in Burnaby (address was changed to 7353 Royal Oak Aveue after 1958). The house was built in 1914 and was the home of Alfred Henry and Mary England (nee Gooding). Alfred H. England died suddenly in 1917. Mary England continued to live in the house before settling in a house that she had built on Griffiths Avenue in 1930.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Names: England, Mary; England, Alfred Henry

Geographic Access: Royal Oak Avenue; Victory Street

Accession Code: BV020.9.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1927 and 1930] (date of original) , copied 2020

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood); Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 12-Feb-20

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

England family home on Royal Oak Avenue, [between 1927 and 1930] (date of original) , copied 2020 thumbnail

Riverway West School Photo

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Kantonen Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph is a class picture at Riverway West school taken about 1930. Only one student has been identified - fourth from the left in the second row is Terttu Ulriki Kantonen (Bertha).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Kantonen Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 531-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-06

Scope and Content: Photograph is a class picture at Riverway West school taken about 1930. Only one student has been identified - fourth from the left in the second row is Terttu Ulriki Kantonen (Bertha).

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Kantonen, Terttu Ullriki "Bertha"; Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Riverway West School Photo, 1930 thumbnail

Rumble Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rumble Road east of Patterson.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-022

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rumble Road east of Patterson.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Roads

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Stone, Gene

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Rumble Street; Patterson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Bill Speirs

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Speirs, leaning against the back of an automobile in front of the Speirs family home on Watling Street (near Frederick Avenue). Bill and his wife, Dell Speirs, moved to Burnaby in 1929.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-180

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Speirs, leaning against the back of an automobile in front of the Speirs family home on Watling Street (near Frederick Avenue). Bill and his wife, Dell Speirs, moved to Burnaby in 1929.

Names: Speirs, Bill

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Watling Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Bill Speirs, [1930] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Speirs family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dell Speirs in front of the Speirs family home on Watling Street (near Frederick Avenue). Dell was the wife of Bill Speirs.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-181

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Dell Speirs in front of the Speirs family home on Watling Street (near Frederick Avenue). Dell was the wife of Bill Speirs.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Names: Speirs, Dell

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Watling Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Speirs family home, 1930 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Ocean View Burial Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the roundabout at Ocean View Burial Park.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 306-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-48

Scope and Content: Photograph of the roundabout at Ocean View Burial Park.

Subjects: Cemeteries

Names: Ocean View Burial Park

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Frank, Leonard

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer identifies item as no. 19610

Geographic Access: Imperial Street

Street Address: 4000 Imperial Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Suncrest Area

Images

Ocean View Burial Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a grave site and the surrounding cemetery land at Ocean View Burial Park.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 24 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 306-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-48

Scope and Content: Photograph of a grave site and the surrounding cemetery land at Ocean View Burial Park.

Subjects: Cemeteries

Names: Ocean View Burial Park

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Frank, Leonard

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer identifies item as no. 19652

Geographic Access: Imperial Street

Street Address: 4000 Imperial Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Suncrest Area

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Jimmy Stott

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 3.1 cm print on contact sheet 21.5 x 26.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Jimmy Stott standing at the back of his home at 3213 Neville Street (later renumbered 5561 Neville Street). A Rumble Street house can be seen in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 3.1 cm print on contact sheet 21.5 x 26.8 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-681

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Jimmy Stott standing at the back of his home at 3213 Neville Street (later renumbered 5561 Neville Street). A Rumble Street house can be seen in the background.

Names: Stott, Jimmy

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Neville Street

Street Address: 5561 Neville Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

Images

Jimmy Stott, [1930] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Nelson Avenue School class

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35321

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1931 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Grade 5 class at Nelson Avenue School. Patsy Speirs (later Patsy Coe) is in the 3rd row, 4th from the left. Some classmates, not identified, were Lucy Speckman, now Standen (Patsy's best friend); Bev Lewarne (sister of Mayor Bill Lewarne); and, Ruth Thomson The school is located at…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1931 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-178

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Grade 5 class at Nelson Avenue School. Patsy Speirs (later Patsy Coe) is in the 3rd row, 4th from the left. Some classmates, not identified, were Lucy Speckman, now Standen (Patsy's best friend); Bev Lewarne (sister of Mayor Bill Lewarne); and, Ruth Thomson The school is located at 4850 Irmin Street, at the corner of Nelson Avenue and Rumble Street.

Names: Coe, Patsy Speirs; Nelson Avenue School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Irmin Street

Street Address: 4850 Irmin Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Nelson Avenue School class, 1931 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Interview with Ethel Lewarne and Beverley Burrell 24-Jun-75 - Track 3

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1931-1935

Length: 0:08:52

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Ethel Lewarne and her daughter Beverley (Lewarne) Burrell's memories of Ethel's survival strategies during the Depression.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Ethel Lewarne and her daughter Beverley (Lewarne) Burrell's memories of Ethel's survival strategies during the Depression.

Date Range: 1931-1935

Photo Info: Leer family; Ethel Leer Lewarne is standing on the far right, 1911. Item no. 204-052

Length: 0:08:52

Subjects: Occupations - Entrepreneurs

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: 24-Jun-75

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with Ethel (Leer) Lewarne and Beverley (Lewarne) Burrell by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 24, 1975. Major theme discussed is: the Depression. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: Ethel Cecilia Leer was born in 1899 in London, England to George Frederick and Sarah Ann Leer. In 1908, the Leer family immigrated to Vancouver, Canada. George Frederick Leer began working for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Ethel’s younger brother George Leer was born about this time. A third child was born but unfortunately did not live past infancy. The Leers arrived in Burnaby in 1911 and bought two lots in Alta Vista at the corner of Portland and McGregor. George Frederick and Sarah Ann were active members of the All Saints Anglican Church on Royal Oak. Ethel went to Dundonald school from 1911 to 1913 with Miss Bowell as her teacher, then on to Britannia High School from 1913 to 1915. Ethel’s father, George Frederick Leer died March 23, 1919 at the age of forty-one. Ethel Cecilia Leer married Alfred Lewarne on December 26, 1921 in Burnaby. Alfred was born February 9, 1893 in Cornwall, England. Before marriage he worked for a creamery in Vancouver. After marriage, Alfred began his own ice cream business in Burnaby. The Lewarnes bought a lot along Nelson Avenue and built a house. Their first child Patricia "Tricia" (later McCleod) was born in 1923, their second was Beverley “Bev” (later Burrell). Their third child, William A. “Bill” Lewarne was born in 1926. Bill grew up to become one of the most popular Mayors in Burnaby’s history, serving from 1981 to 1987. He also served as a member of Council from 1973 to 1975 and 1977 to 1981. After Alfred Lewarne’s death on May 5, 1962 at the age of sixty-nine, Ethel continued living in the family home. Ethel’s mother, Sarah Ann Leer died May 11, 1963 at the age of eighty-seven.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 1:00:59

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, Ethel Leer; Burrell, Beverley "Bev" Lewarne

Interviewer Bio: Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

Images

Leer family; Ethel Leer Lewarne is standing on the far right, 1911. Item no. 204-052 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track three of interview with Ethel Lewarne and Beverley Burrell

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Rumble Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1932

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rumble Street looking east toward Patterson Avenue, located where the house on the left can be seen.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1932

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 011-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Rumble Street looking east toward Patterson Avenue, located where the house on the left can be seen.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Roads; Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Annotation at bottom of Copy 2 reads, "Rumble St. just after Municipal dump was filled / Facing east house on left is where Patterson Avenue [is]"

Geographic Access: Rumble Street; Patterson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area; Suncrest Area

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Bezanson brothers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1932

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Bezanson brothers, Charlie and Albert. The boys are shown with a homemade bobsled used to careen down Royal Oak Road hill past Oakalla.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1932

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-714

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Bezanson brothers, Charlie and Albert. The boys are shown with a homemade bobsled used to careen down Royal Oak Road hill past Oakalla.

Subjects: Transportation - Sleds; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: Bezanson, Albert "Al"; Bezanson, Charlie

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Royal Oak Avenue

Street Address: 7883 Royal Oak Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

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Jean and Ian Macdonald with newspapers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37817

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Jean and Ian Macdonald, at Rumble Street and Patterson Avenue, holding World War One era newspapers. One of the newspapers covers the outbreak of the War and the other proclaims the end.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-405

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Jean and Ian Macdonald, at Rumble Street and Patterson Avenue, holding World War One era newspapers. One of the newspapers covers the outbreak of the War and the other proclaims the end.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers

Names: Macdonald, Ian; Taylor, Jean Macdonald

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Rumble Street; Patterson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Jean and Ian Macdonald with newspapers, [1932] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Lewarne family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35196

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 20.3 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lewarne family home on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 20.3 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-053

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lewarne family home on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Lewarne family home, [1933] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Evelyn Le Grove

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38047

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1933 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 2.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 26.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Evelyn Le Grove at McGregor Avenue and Portland Street in the snow. A house can be seen in the background.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: February 1933 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 2.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 26.6 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-634

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Evelyn Le Grove at McGregor Avenue and Portland Street in the snow. A house can be seen in the background.

Names: Le Grove, Evelyn Hardy

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: McGregor Avenue; Portland Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Evelyn Le Grove, February 1933 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Burnaby and Digney recreational events

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription85208

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1934 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 30 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized colour and black and white film segment identified as Reel 3. The film segment opens with footage of Digney family automobile travels and of Pelican Lake, Alberta where the family spent their summer, the footage switches to footage of a parade somewhere in the Rockies (B…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1934 and 1938]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 30 sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a silent digitized colour and black and white film segment identified as Reel 3. The film segment opens with footage of Digney family automobile travels and of Pelican Lake, Alberta where the family spent their summer, the footage switches to footage of a parade somewhere in the Rockies (Banff) which begins in black and white and changes to colour format. This is followed by colour footage of car racing at the Digney Speedway located on 10 acres of property on MacPherson Ave. Jelopy stock car racing is seen taking place with crowds of people looking on.

Subjects: Sports - Swimming; Events - Parades; Persons - Children; Persons - Crowds; Sports - Automobile Racing

Names: Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney Speedway

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: MacPherson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

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Burnaby and Digney recreational events, [between 1934 and 1938]

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Moving_Images/_Unrestricted/562-003-3.m4v

Outdoor Pool at Mcpherson Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1934

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.0 x 27.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of children in the Mcpherson Park outdoor swimming pool. A sign beside the pool reads, "Warning Dogs Forbidden / By Order / Health [Officer]."

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1934

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.0 x 27.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 055-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of children in the Mcpherson Park outdoor swimming pool. A sign beside the pool reads, "Warning Dogs Forbidden / By Order / Health [Officer]."

Subjects: Sports - Swimming; Buildings - Recreational - Outdoor Swimming Pools

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McPherson Park; Rumble Street

Street Address: 5485 Rumble Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area

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England family home on Royal Oak Avenue

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