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Jesse Love House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark540
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The Jesse Love House is a vernacular example of a late Victorian-era wood-frame farmhouse with later Arts and Crafts alterations and additions, that has been relocated to the Burnaby Village Museum. This two-storey house has an L-shaped plan, with a compound gabled roof, overhanging eaves and a lar…
- Associated Dates
- 1893
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- Jesse & Martha Love Farmhouse
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Jesse & Martha Love Farmhouse
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1893
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 9807
- Enactment Date
- 23/11/1992
- Description
- The Jesse Love House is a vernacular example of a late Victorian-era wood-frame farmhouse with later Arts and Crafts alterations and additions, that has been relocated to the Burnaby Village Museum. This two-storey house has an L-shaped plan, with a compound gabled roof, overhanging eaves and a large wraparound verandah.
- Heritage Value
- The value of the Jesse Love House lies in its comprehensive representation of an early Burnaby farmhouse, and the typical additive growth of a home as the resident family prospered. Jesse Love (1849-1928) and his wife Martha Love (1858-1920) moved to Burnaby in 1893 with their family to start a fruit ranch and market garden on Cumberland Road in the East Burnaby district. Jesse Love was actively involved in community affairs, serving on the Burnaby School Board and also as a District Councillor in 1901 and from 1904-07. The original house was constructed by local builder George Salt and consisted of an entrance hall, dining room, lean-to kitchen, master bedroom and several rooms upstairs. As the family grew and prospered, additions were made to the house including a parlour, more bedrooms upstairs, and a large permanent kitchen. Jesse Love was actively involved in community affairs, and the kitchen became a local gathering spot for political discussion and civic organizations. The verandah, exterior shingle cladding, large windows, running water and electricity were eventually added as well. The heritage value for this house also lies in its interpretive value within the Burnaby Village Museum. The site is an important cultural feature for the interpretation of Burnaby’s heritage to the public. The house was moved to the Burnaby Village Museum in 1988 and both the interior and exterior were restored and interpreted to their 1925 period, including reproduction wallpaper.
- Defining Elements
- The character defining features of the Jesse Love House include its: - irregular form and massing - compound gable roof with cedar shingle cladding - Craftsman-style exterior features such as a shingled exterior and triangular eave brackets - multi-paned double-hung 2-over-2 wooden-sash windows; casement window assemblies with transoms in the Living Room - large wrap-around verandah - interior features such as pressed tin ceilings, original wallpapers and cedar panelled kitchen - reproduction Arts and Crafts parlour document wallpaper and border
- Locality
- Deer Lake Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Organization
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Builder
- George Salt
- Function
- Primary Current--Museum
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D. No. 011-030-356 Legal Description: Parcel 1, District Lot 79 and District Lot 85, Group 1, New Westminster District, Reference Plan 77594
- Boundaries
- Burnaby Village Museum is comprised of a single municipally-owned property located at 6501 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby.
- Area
- 38,488.63
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Landscape Feature
- Structure
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Documentation
- Heritage Site Files: PC77000 20. City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2
- Street Address
- 6501 Deer Lake Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Burnaby South High School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark770
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Associated Dates
- 1922-1988
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Southoaks Crescent
- Associated Dates
- 1922-1988
- Heritage Value
- Burnaby South and Burnaby North were Burnaby's first high schools. The first rooms of the school were built in 1922 on the same grounds as the Kingsway East Elementary School. In 1940, a two-storey building was erected and additions were made in 1963, 1967 and 1972. Kingsway East closed in 1925 and its buildings were used by the high school for Industrial Arts and Home Economics. In the early 1990s, a new "urban education centre" (Burnaby South/B.C. School for the Deaf) was opened, replacing the old Burnaby South High School.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Kingsway-Beresford Area
- Street Address
- 6650 Southoaks Crescent
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Joseph & Jane Wintemute House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark523
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The Wintemute House is a large two-storey wood-frame Victorian era country farm house with Victorian Italianate detailing. Designed in a symmetrical Foursquare form, it features a low-pitched hipped roof with deep eaves. Later additions to the rear of the house, and the extensive wraparound veranda…
- Associated Dates
- 1891
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- Burnett House
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Burnett House
- Geographic Access
- Berkley Street
- Associated Dates
- 1891
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 6889
- Enactment Date
- 07/03/1977
- Description
- The Wintemute House is a large two-storey wood-frame Victorian era country farm house with Victorian Italianate detailing. Designed in a symmetrical Foursquare form, it features a low-pitched hipped roof with deep eaves. Later additions to the rear of the house, and the extensive wraparound verandah and porte-cochere, were Edwardian era additions. It is located on its original site, in the modern subdivision of Buckingham Heights in southeast Burnaby. The Burnett House is one of the oldest surviving houses in Burnaby.
- Heritage Value
- Built circa 1891, the Joseph and Jane Wintemute House is valued as a representation of the early history of Burnaby and its agricultural origins. Built prior to the civic incorporation of Burnaby in 1892, the house was situated to face Douglas Road (now Canada Way), one of the first roads built to connect the rural farmlands of Burnaby to New Westminster. The original large property has been extensively subdivided and the house is now isolated in a modern subdivision. Designated in 1977, the Wintemute House is also significant as Burnaby's first protected municipal heritage site. The house is valued for its association with Joseph S. Wintemute (1832-1911) and Jane Wintemute (1832-1910), who came to British Columbia from Port Stanley, Ontario in 1865, traveling via the Isthmus of Panama. Joseph Wintemute, a skilled carpenter and contractor by trade, operated the Wintemute Furniture Factory in New Westminster, the first furniture plant established on the mainland of British Columbia. In 1891, he acquired this property, where he set up a cord wood sawmill to supply his factory. Wintemute was likely responsible for the design and construction of this commodious structure, as it was built in an Eastern Canadian style he would have been familiar with. After the lands were cleared of timber, the Wintemutes developed the property into a typical small-scale 'market garden,’ involved in the production of vegetables and fruits, such as strawberries, for sale at the New Westminster City Market. The Wintemute House is additionally significant for its association with the speculative land boom that occurred prior to the First World War, and ongoing suburban subdivision. Charles Gordon, a real estate agent, acquired the Wintemute farm and subdivided the acreage, which he marketed through the People’s Trust Company as 'Montrelynview' and offered this house as a draw prize to lot purchasers. With the collapse of the land boom, the house remained in Gordon’s possession until 1929 when it was purchased by his brother-in-law, Geoffrey Burnett, a local surveyor responsible for many of the original land surveys of Burnaby. David Burnett, Geoffrey's son, requested designation of the house when the family decided to subdivide the remaining 1.4 hectares of property in 1977. Furthermore, the Wintemute House is valued as an excellent example of a Victorian era country farm house, based loosely on the traditional farmhouses seen commonly in nineteenth century Ontario. Designed in a vernacular version of the Victorian Italianate style, the house displays restrained detailing, including several original multi-paned windows notable for their vertical proportions. The house retains many original exterior features, and the original interior layout, although modernized during the Edwardian era, is substantially intact, including finely crafted maple and cedar interior millwork that was produced by the Wintemute Furniture Factory. From 1904 to 1910, Charles Gordon, the second owner, made a number of alterations to the house including the addition of the wrap-around verandah, a porte-cochere and a 7.6 metre by 9 metre billiard room in the Arts and Crafts style, beamed and panelled in Douglas Fir. These later additions and alterations have value in demonstrating the evolution of the house and property and changing tastes at the turn of the nineteenth century.
- Defining Elements
- Key elements that define the heritage character of the Wintemute House include its: - picturesque original setting with views to the North Shore - residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its symmetrical cubic form and two-storey height, with later additions to the rear - Victorian Italianate architectural features such as the vertically-proportioned original windows with vestigial window hoods, low-pitched hipped roof and Classical Revival details such as the corner boards articulated as pilasters - hipped roof with deep boxed eaves - horizontal lapped narrow wooden siding - second storey balcony over front entry - wide wraparound columned verandah with porte-cochere, with square trimmed columns - irregular fenestration: original Victorian era double-hung 6-over-6 wood-sash windows with vertical proportions and segmental arched tops; Edwardian era double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows; and Edwardian era wooden-sash casement window assemblies with leaded transoms - central front entry with sidelights and transom - multi-paned French doors opening out to verandah - interior features such as its 3.7 metre ceiling height on the main and second floors; the coal grate fireplace with elaborate woodwork and glazed tile surround in the front parlour; five other fireplaces throughout the house; maple and cedar interior millwork; and the Douglas Fir panelled and beamed billiard room with hidden doors, seven-panelled doors, original light fixtures and mouldings - internal red brick chimneys with corbelled caps
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Function
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- 003-297-152
- Boundaries
- The Wintemute House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 7640 Berkley Street, Burnaby.
- Area
- 1566.73
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Names
- Wintemute, Joseph
- Street Address
- 7640 Berkley Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Helen 'The Swinging Girl' Neon Sign
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark591
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Commercial building.
- Associated Dates
- 1956
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear Sign
- Geographic Access
- Hastings Street
- Associated Dates
- 1956
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 12771
- Enactment Date
- 19/04/2010
- Description
- Commercial building.
- Heritage Value
- While the building here is of some importance as the former North Burnaby municipal office, its primary importance is its delightful neon sign that has become a North Burnaby landmark. Helen Arnold opened Helen’s Childrens Wear shop in the building next door to the old Municipal offices in 1948. In 1955, when North Burnaby moved out, she moved into the vacated building. As part of the renovations, Helen enlisted the assistance of her good friend Jimmy Wallace, owner of Vancouver’s Wallace Neon Company, to create a new sign for her expanded business. One of the company’s designers, Reeve Lehman, created the swinging neon girl that was installed in 1956. Designed in two parts, one section of the sign is cloud shaped and reads ‘Helen’s’ while the other section is a moving representation of a little girl on a swing. The sign is nine feet six inches high and nine feet wide, and the lower section is animated with an internal motor and gears. It immediately became a landmark on Hastings Street, and recently the sign’s design fame has spread far and wide as one of the best surviving examples of kinetic neon art in North America.
- Locality
- Vancouver Heights
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Willingdon Heights Area
- Community
- Burnaby
- Names
- Helen's Childrens Wear
- Street Address
- 4142 Hastings Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36306
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 25, [1950]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function. Alice Grant is handing a gift to another member as they stand at the head table, in front of the microphone. Both women seated on either side are watching with emotional smiles on their faces. There is a large bouquet of daffodils on…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 25, [1950]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- George Grant subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 243-026
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-06
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire function. Alice Grant is handing a gift to another member as they stand at the head table, in front of the microphone. Both women seated on either side are watching with emotional smiles on their faces. There is a large bouquet of daffodils on the table.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- North Shore Graphic Arts
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Stamp on verso of phototgraph reads: "NORTH SHORE GRAPHIC ARTS WEST VANCOUVER BC"
- Photographer identifies item as no. 139-50-20
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Interview with Eileen Kernaghan by Rod Fowler April 10, 1990 - Track 11
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory501
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1954-1990
- Length
- 00:11:23
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Eileen Kernaghan’s knowledge about William F. Wolsey’s “Temple of More Abundant Life”, which occupied the Art Centre’s heritage buildings Ceperley Mansion and Mather House from 1954 to the 1960s, and the stories of ghosts haunting these buildings, the Anderson…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Eileen Kernaghan’s knowledge about William F. Wolsey’s “Temple of More Abundant Life”, which occupied the Art Centre’s heritage buildings Ceperley Mansion and Mather House from 1954 to the 1960s, and the stories of ghosts haunting these buildings, the Anderson House, and the James Cowan Theatre.
- Date Range
- 1954-1990
- Photo Info
- Eileen Kernaghan standing in front of four poets at the Poetry Pocket Cafe in New Westminster, October 15, 1995. Item no. 535-0014
- Length
- 00:11:23
- Names
- Burnaby Arts Centre
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- April 10, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Eileen Kernaghan, conducted by Rod Fowler. Eileen Kernaghan 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 Eileen Kernaghan’s activities with the Burnaby Writers’ Society and the Burnaby Arts Council, describing the history of these organizations between 1967 and 1990. She describes the financial and other challenges facing the arts community, the various programs initiated by the Arts Council, and the development of the Burnaby Arts Centre facilities at Deer Lake. She also talks about her education, writing career, the Neville Street neighbourhood, and her and her husband’s bookstore business. Ghosts believed to inhabit some of the Arts Centre's heritage buildings are also a topic of conversation. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Eileen Kernaghan was born January 6, 1939, to William Alfred Monk (1910-2003) and Belinda Maude Monk (1908-1996), and grew up on a dairy farm near Grindrod in the North Okanagan. She attended a two room school in Grindrod, completed Junior and Senior High School in Enderby, and at age 17 in 1956, left home to attend UBC. She taught school in the North Okanagan area in the late 1950s, during which time she married her husband Patrick Kernaghan. They moved to Vancouver in 1961, Burnaby in 1963, and settled on Neville Street in the South Slope area in 1966 with their three children. Pat Kernaghan worked at Oakalla Prison as a correctional officer until his retirement in 1988. Eileen and Patrick Kernaghan owned and operated a bookstore on Neville Street from 1987 to 1999. They later moved to New Westminster. Eileen Kernaghan began her writing career at twelve years old with a story published in the Vancouver Sun. After her youngest child began school, with more free time, she started writing again and has become an award winning author of fantasy and science fiction novels. She helped found the Burnaby Writers’ Society in 1967, taught writing workshops, and wrote its popular Newsletter for many years. In 1971 the Society put together a small handbook for BC writers, a venture that was expanded and published by Douglas MacIntyre in 1975 as “The Upper Left-Hand Corner: a writer’s handbook for the Northwest”. The book became a Canadian best-seller. During this same period Eileen Kernaghan began her successful “Grey Isles” trilogy. In 1967 she joined the Burnaby Arts Council, worked as its Coordinator from 1973 to 1984, and was a determined advocate for municipal government support for the arts in Burnaby.
- Total Tracks
- 11
- Total Length
- 1:26:27
- Interviewee Name
- Kernaghan, Eileen
- 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.
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Audio Tracks
Track eleven of interview with Eileen Kernaghan
Track eleven of interview with Eileen Kernaghan
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-023/MSS187-023_Track%2011.mp3Speech given by Florence Hart Godwin May 28, 1973 - Track 5
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory282
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1898-1917
- Length
- 0:05:22
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Florence (Hart) Godwin's description of her family's stories of the New Westminster fire. She also mentions B.R. Hill and his three sons, Claude, Frank and Minard Hill.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Florence (Hart) Godwin's description of her family's stories of the New Westminster fire. She also mentions B.R. Hill and his three sons, Claude, Frank and Minard Hill.
- Date Range
- 1898-1917
- Photo Info
- Arthur Morrow, Kingsley Hart, Florence Hart (later Godwin), and Katherine Maude "Kitty" Hill (later Peers) in the woods at the south side of Deer Lake photographed by W.T. Cooksley [1908]. Item no. HV976.139.3
- Length
- 0:05:22
- Subjects
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Interviewer
- Burnaby Arts Council
- Interview Date
- May 28, 1973
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of a speech given by Florence Hart Godwin at a Burnaby Arts Council meeting held May 28, 1973. Major themes discussed are: pioneer families and early residences in the Burnaby Lake District.
- Biographical Notes
- Florence Hart was born in 1898 in New Westminster. Florence first saw Burnaby in April of 1905 on a trip made by horse and buggy from the family home in New Westminster where her father worked as a real estate agent. By 1911, he had built a permanent home for his family in Burnaby, building what is now known as the Hart house and is currently owned by the municipality. Frederick John “Fred” Hart married Alice Chapman in Yale BC on August 13, 1895. They had four children together; Kingsley Chapman born May 27, 1897, Florence Elizabeth born October 23, 1898, and ten years later, Edwyna and Jack. They followed their family nurse, Miss Maude Woodward to Burnaby and purchased thirteen acres of land at Deer Lake to build a summer cottage. Mrs Hill and the children spent the summer months there while Frederick continued working in New Westminster, joining his family on the weekends. Florence Hart attended Douglas Road School before boarding at Crofton House in Vancouver. Kingsley Hart had enlisted in the army on March 23, 1915 when he was only seventeen years old. He was killed in action on September 26, 1916. The Hart family then moved to Kerrisdale, Vancouver. Florence worked at the Carnegie Library. On August 7, 1922 Florence Hart married Harold “Hal” Godwin and moved back to Edmonds in Burnaby where they remained for their entire married lives. In 1929, Florence and Harold’s daughter, Elizabeth Godwin was born. Alice (Chapman) Hart died May 24, 1935 at the age of sixty-eight. Frederick John Hart died August 29, 1945 at the age of seventy-seven. Florence Hart Godwin was named Good Citizen of Burnaby in 1971 and received a life membership to the IODE (Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire) for her long tenure. Both Florence and her husband Harold were awarded life memberships from the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) for more than half a century of service. Harold Ward Godwin died December 12, 1962 at the age of sixty-six.
- Total Tracks
- 5
- Total Length
- 0:33:50
- Interviewee Name
- Godwin, Florence Hart
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- 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.
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Audio Tracks
Track five of speech given by Florence Hart Godwin
Track five of speech given by Florence Hart Godwin
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS137-005-1/MSS137-005-1_Track_5.mp3Belted kingfisher
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82754
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a belted kingfisher.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-009
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a belted kingfisher.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
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Bullock's oriole
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82753
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two Bullock's orioles.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-008
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two Bullock's orioles.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
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California quail
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82748
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1956]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two California quail.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1956]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-003
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two California quail.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Children finger painting in a classroom
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription52965
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1957 and 1968]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of kindergartners finger panting in a classroom at the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. One child is climbing on a chair to reach a high cupboard and others are busy working on their finger paintings.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1957 and 1968]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 246-005
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of kindergartners finger panting in a classroom at the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. One child is climbing on a chair to reach a high cupboard and others are busy working on their finger paintings.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Schools
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Ellesmere Avenue
- Hastings Street
- Street Address
- 300 Ellesmere Avenue North
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Capitol Hill Area
Images
Green-winged teal
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82749
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two green-winged teal.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-004
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two green-winged teal.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 2
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory517
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1942-1969
- Length
- 00:07:41
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s growing interest in Japanese culture and arts, studying the Japanese language after she was 22 in Montreal. She talks about how she learned paper-folding (origami), to make silk dolls, flower-arranging (Ikebana), and how to wear a kimono, and …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s growing interest in Japanese culture and arts, studying the Japanese language after she was 22 in Montreal. She talks about how she learned paper-folding (origami), to make silk dolls, flower-arranging (Ikebana), and how to wear a kimono, and then began to teach others these skills in Montreal .
- Date Range
- 1942-1969
- Length
- 00:07:41
- Subjects
- Education
- Arts
- Persons - Japanese Canadians
- Interviewer
- Fowler, Rod
- Interview Date
- February 27, 1990
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita 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 Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.
- Biographical Notes
- Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.
- Total Tracks
- 11
- Total Length
- 01:34:10
- Interviewee Name
- Miyashita, Toki
- 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.
Audio Tracks
Track two of interview with Toki Miyashita
Track two of interview with Toki Miyashita
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_2.mp3Macgillivray's warbler
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82751
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two Macgillvray's warblers.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-006
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two Macgillvray's warblers.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Mourning dove
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82755
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a mourning dove.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-010
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a mourning dove.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Personal material
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82732
- 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
- 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
- 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
Red-winged blackbird
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82752
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two red-winged blackbirds.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-007
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows two red-winged blackbirds.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Sparrow hawk
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82756
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a sparrow hawk.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1957]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 paintings : colour print ; 28 x 18.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-011
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a sparrow hawk.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Western meadowlark
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82750
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a Western meadowlark.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 1 painting : colour print ; 37 x 28 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 559-005
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- Painting shows a Western meadowlark.
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Arts - Paintings
- Media Type
- Graphic Material
- Creator
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Notes
- Title transcribed from item
- Simnett personal papers series
Images
Yvonne Edwards
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45221
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1950 and 1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 9.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby Lawyer Yvonne Edwards pointing out a drawing of a jester that is hanging on the wall by putting her hand on the bottom of the frame and turning to smile at the camera.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1950 and 1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 9.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-117
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby Lawyer Yvonne Edwards pointing out a drawing of a jester that is hanging on the wall by putting her hand on the bottom of the frame and turning to smile at the camera.
- Subjects
- Arts - Drawings
- Names
- Edwards, Yvonne
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Smith, Sheamus
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph