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Kingsway
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39788
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.6 x 17.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Kingsway looking east, including automobiles, a motorcycle with side car, and the Sharp Service Station on the right at 4160 Kingsway (later renumbered as the 4300 block of Kingsway).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.6 x 17.7 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 031-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Kingsway looking east, including automobiles, a motorcycle with side car, and the Sharp Service Station on the right at 4160 Kingsway (later renumbered as the 4300 block of Kingsway).
- Subjects
- Geographic Features - Roads
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
Images
Automobile insurance
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription1021
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1923
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence and applications for automobile insurance that was purchased for cars belonging to the Municipality.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1923
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2800
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence and applications for automobile insurance that was purchased for cars belonging to the Municipality.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
![Young men with automobile, [192-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1995/1995_0008_0066_001.jpg?width=280)
Young men with automobile
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription20635
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-]
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of four young men seated on the front bumper of an automobile on a gravel road.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of four young men seated on the front bumper of an automobile on a gravel road.
- Accession Code
- BV995.8.66
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [192-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of photograph album BV995.8.1, pasted to page 22
Images
![Young men with automobile, [192-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1995/1995_0008_0066_001.jpg)
Allowance to Engineer for Automobile
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport67126
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57884
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jun-1928
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57884
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jun-1928
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Appreciation re Arrangements for Automobile Caravan Trip from the International Boundary to the City of Vancouver
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport66479
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57473
- Meeting Date
- 2-Apr-1928
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57473
- Meeting Date
- 2-Apr-1928
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Automobile Club of BC Demonstration re Proposed New Highway Signs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport66572
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58781
- Meeting Date
- 22-Nov-1926
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58781
- Meeting Date
- 22-Nov-1926
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Automobile Coaster or "Whoopee" Ridge in Central Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport65451
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57526
- Meeting Date
- 5-Aug-1929
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 57526
- Meeting Date
- 5-Aug-1929
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Automobile licenses
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription1086
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1917-1921
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence and registrations for two vehicles purchased by the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1917-1921
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2874
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence and registrations for two vehicles purchased by the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Burnaby Branch cash book
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65053
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1925
- Collection/Fonds
- Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 ledger book
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Burnaby Branch cash book. Included in the minute book are two loose sheets; a Statement of Receipts and Dispursements as well as a letter from the Bank of Toronto regarding an automobile purchase.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1925
- Collection/Fonds
- Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 ledger book
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS021-006
- Accession Number
- 2010-09
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Burnaby Branch cash book. Included in the minute book are two loose sheets; a Statement of Receipts and Dispursements as well as a letter from the Bank of Toronto regarding an automobile purchase.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Car Parked Near Exhibition Grounds after Fire, 1929
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34429
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 11.1 cm on page 17.5 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an automobile parked alongside the debris left by a fire at the New Westminster Exhibition grounds in 1929. Smoke or dust can be seen rising in the background.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Peers family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 11.1 cm on page 17.5 x 26 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 020-136
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an automobile parked alongside the debris left by a fire at the New Westminster Exhibition grounds in 1929. Smoke or dust can be seen rising in the background.
- Subjects
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Claude Hill and friends
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39268
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.9 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large group clustered in front of an automobile. Claude Hill is standing, second from the left, holding a pipe and wearing a military uniform. The rest of the people are unidentified.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.9 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-587
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large group clustered in front of an automobile. Claude Hill is standing, second from the left, holding a pipe and wearing a military uniform. The rest of the people are unidentified.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Dr Blythe Eagles' pamphlets
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58053
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919-1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of pamphlets collected by Dr. Blythe Eagles. Pamphlets include a University of Toronto Track Club programme with pencil notations, an Automobile Road Map of Vancouver, and a Gray Line Motor Tours brochure for Washington and Arlington, Virginia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919-1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Eagles family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS055-010
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-18
- Scope and Content
- File consists of pamphlets collected by Dr. Blythe Eagles. Pamphlets include a University of Toronto Track Club programme with pencil notations, an Automobile Road Map of Vancouver, and a Gray Line Motor Tours brochure for Washington and Arlington, Virginia.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
![Formal dress, [1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-620.jpg?width=280)
Formal dress
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39301
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.8 x 9 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of eight people standing in front of an automobile. All the men are wearing suits and the women are wearing long coats and hats. All are unidentified.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.8 x 9 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-620
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of eight people standing in front of an automobile. All the men are wearing suits and the women are wearing long coats and hats. All are unidentified.
- Subjects
- Clothing
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Formal dress, [1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-620.jpg)
The Green Timbers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34299
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 7.5 cm on page 23.5 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken looking down a tree-lined road, and is labelled "The Green Timbers". An automobile is parked along the side of the road. The Green Timbers was a famous roadway that went through Surrey and by the 1920s it was known as the only remaining stretch of virgin forest all the way from Ca…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Peers family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 7.5 cm on page 23.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 020-006
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken looking down a tree-lined road, and is labelled "The Green Timbers". An automobile is parked along the side of the road. The Green Timbers was a famous roadway that went through Surrey and by the 1920s it was known as the only remaining stretch of virgin forest all the way from California to British Columbia. In more recent years, this area in Surrey has been declared an urban forest park.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
![Roy Brainerd walking along Granville Street in Vancouver, [1945 or 1946]. Item no. 549-016 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/549-016.jpg?width=280)
Interview with Roy Brainerd by Eric Damer October 23, 2012 - Track 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory302
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1926-1939
- Length
- 0:08:54
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Roy Brainerd's early memories of growing up in Burnaby, including his school days at Douglas Road School, and his parents' working life.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the recording pertains to Roy Brainerd's early memories of growing up in Burnaby, including his school days at Douglas Road School, and his parents' working life.
- Date Range
- 1926-1939
- Photo Info
- Roy Brainerd walking along Granville Street in Vancouver, [1945 or 1946]. Item no. 549-016
- Length
- 0:08:54
- Interviewer
- Damer, Eric
- Interview Date
- October 23, 2012
- Scope and Content
- Recording is an interview with Roy Brainerd conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, October 23, 2012. Major theme discussed: growing up in Burnaby with particular focus on school days and the automobile industry.
- Biographical Notes
- Roy Brainerd’s parents, Lawrence and Violet Brainerd came to Vancouver in 1925 or 1926 and purchased a small house on Harwood Street in North Burnaby. There were two older children in the family already when Roy was born in 1928 at Royal Columbian hospital. His sister Patricia Brainerd (later White) was born in 1931, also at Royal Columbian Hospital. Roy’s father Lawrence rebuilt and renovated the house to fit his growing family, planting abundant vegetable gardens and building a chicken coop. Roy started at Douglas Road School in 1934 and then attended Hugh M. Fraser High School. Roy left his high school at fifteen to work for Snap-On Tools, working his way up from pushing a broom to becoming a branch manager. He retired in 1983 after forty-one years of service. Together with his wife Carol, Roy raised three daughters.
- Total Tracks
- 4
- Total Length
- 0:36:56
- Interviewee Name
- Brainerd, Roy
- Interview Location
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Interviewer Bio
- Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.
- Collection/Fonds
- Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds
- Transcript Available
- None
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
Images
![Roy Brainerd walking along Granville Street in Vancouver, [1945 or 1946]. Item no. 549-016 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/549-016.jpg)
Audio Tracks
Track one of recording of interview with Roy Brainerd
Track one of recording of interview with Roy Brainerd
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS171-004/MSS171-004_Track_1.mp3Patterson family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription32
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1898-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the Patterson family.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1898-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Patterson family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-19
- BHS1986-20
- BHS1988-13
- BHS1995-16
- BHS1996-05
- BHS1996-11
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the Patterson family.
- History
- Frances Mabel "May" Webb was born in Cradley, England on December 5, 1872. She sailed from England to Victoria, BC with her parents, Joseph William Webb and Frances Jane Webb (nee Yapp) on the SS Lake Winnipeg in 1889. One of the few possessions that she brought with her was an old wood-rimmed bicycle which she found quite useful after her move to Burnaby. She would ride it all the way from Patterson’s Trail and Westminster Road (today’s Patterson Avenue and Kingsway) to the Woodward’s store in Vancouver where she would place her grocery order. She packed a pearl handled revolver with her in order to scare any bears she might see along her ride. In 1890, Frances married Dugald Campbell Patterson (b. 1860, d. 1931) in Victoria, BC. In 1894, the couple built a pioneer homestead and farm on five acres at what would become the north east section of Central Park. Dugald founded Vulcan Iron Works (later Dominion Bridge Company) in New Westminister in 1903, and the couple settled in the Central Park district. By 1904, the family moved to the Edmonds district where in 1909 she operated the post office that her husband founded. In 1910, they began construction of a new house, complete with tennis courts and a gazebo, on 14 acres purchased for $720. The house is now located at 7106 18th Avenue and is a dedicated heritage building. The couple had seven children: William H. "Bill", Jean, Frances Mabel Lili., Dugald C. Jr, Mary, Charles Bruce, and Alice. The Pattersons were community-minded citizens that served Burnaby through their involvement with local municipal affairs and politics. In 1909, Dugald became the first postmaster of Edmonds. He also served as a School Trustee from 1912-13 and was one of the first residents to lobby Burnaby City Council to preserve the local ravines as parks. They also helped build the Central Park Presbyterian Church, along with other pioneer families. The family name is remembered and honoured by the naming of Patterson Avenue and the Patterson SkyTrain Station located in the Metrotown area. Frances Mabel assisted her husband with an insurance and real estate company that he founded in Burnaby and New Westminster. This experience would prove invaluable, as she would later become an insurance agent for the Wawanesa Insurance Company (founded in 1896). Frances never owned an automobile, so she met her insurance clients all over Burnaby, New Westminster and Vancouver by using the Lower Mainland’s street car system. The insurance profession continued to provide her with a steady income long after her husband’s death. Frances Mabel died in New Westminster, BC on August 30, 1960. Frances Mabel Lili Patterson was born on June 9, 1905 and was the fifth child born to Dugald Campbell and Frances Mabel Patterson. She became the first PBX switchboard operator for the Municipality of Burnaby in the early 1920’s. PBX, or Private Branch Exchange, was the term used for an internal telephone system. Frances later became president of the Professional Women’s Association of New Westminster, and volunteered her time with the May Day celebrations in New Westminster. She was also a dedicated member of the Rebekah Lodge (the women’s division of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows). While in the lodge, she met her future husband, Walter Duke and they married on July 12, 1939. They couple moved to Wenatchee, Washington after getting married, and Frances relocated to Victoria after her husband died. Frances died on January 13, 1974. Doreen Nettie Patterson was born December 12, 1927, the youngest daughter of Charles Bruce Patterson and Elva Eleanore Patterson (nee Elliott). At age 23, Doreen became the first woman from BC to enlist in the new Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service and by the fall of 1951, she had become a Wren in the Royal Canadian Navy. She received her basic training at HMCS Cornwallis and became a radio intelligence operator for the wireless communications base at Naval Radio Station Coverdale near Moncton, New Brunswick. In 1953, she was chosen to serve a term at the naval base in Churchill, Manitoba. She was one of only eleven women to ever serve there. After her career in the navy, Doreen worked in the accounting division for Simpsons-Sears in Burnaby near her grandparent’s original family home at Patterson Avenue and Kingsway. Doreen married Gerard Reitsma on August 18, 1960. Doreen died on April 30, 2000.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC171, PC213, PC322, PC326, MSS024, MSS039
Request for Endorsement re Compulsory Automobile Insurance
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport65751
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 56872
- Meeting Date
- 5-Dec-1927
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 56872
- Meeting Date
- 5-Dec-1927
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Ross family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription114
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922(date of originals)-[1998]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 files of textual records and 2 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922(date of originals)-[1998]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ross family subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 files of textual records and 2 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1998-05
- BHS1999-14
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.
- History
- Frederick "Fred" Sullivan Ross was born 1887 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He took his apprenticeship in mechanics in Glasgow prior to 1911, following which he immigrated to Canada. During the First World War he returned to Britain and joined the Royal Navy. He was a Chief Petty Officer, working in the engine room of a mine sweeper in the North Atlantic. Margaret Binnie Dougal was in 1884 in Linlithgow, Scotland. She trained as a nurse before emigrating to Canada in 1911. She also returned to Britain during the war years, nursing at Boulogne in France and later Bristol before returning to Vancouver in 1919. She met Fred through a mutual friend, Agnes Rhind. Fred and Margaret married in 1920 in Vancouver, BC. Their first home was in North Vancouver and was where their first child, Ronald, was born. In 1921 or 1922 they moved to the Burnaby Lake area, buying a three-quarter acre parcel of land at 2974 Sprott Street and had two more children, Ian and Alistair. Fred built, owned and operated the Ross Service Station on Douglas Road, established in 1922 or 1923. The station property ran from Douglas Road up to the Douglas Road School’s fence line. After the municipality appropriated part of the property in the 1930s to create a junction for the new Grandview Highway and existing Douglas Road, Fred got permission to build an upper station with two more pumps. The driveway curved down to the station from where Sprott Street now joins Canada Way and rejoined that road near its junction with Douglas Road. At Ross Service Station, Fred did automobile repairs and used the family car, a Studebaker Commander, as a towing vehicle. He created a garden north of the service station on the upper level where he grew chrysanthemums and daises. In the 1930s, Terry Rowley worked at the service station as one of Fred’s assistants. Fred ran the station until he sold it in about 1949. Margaret died December 29, 1969 at the age of 85. Fred died on August 21, 1971 at the age of 84.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Ross family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC58 and MSS146
Violet Dunbar
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38311
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Dr. Violet Eagles (nee Dunbar) standing next to an automobile at an unknown location. This photograph was taken prior to her marriage to Dr. Blythe Eagles.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Eagles family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 11 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 404-004
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2000-4
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Dr. Violet Eagles (nee Dunbar) standing next to an automobile at an unknown location. This photograph was taken prior to her marriage to Dr. Blythe Eagles.
- Names
- Eagles, Dr. Violet
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph.
Images
![Walking away, [1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-623.jpg?width=280)
Walking away
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39304
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9.5 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of ten people gathered around an automobile in a field. All are looking away from the camera and none are identified. The men are wearing suits and the women are all in long dresses and coats.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 9.5 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-623
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of ten people gathered around an automobile in a field. All are looking away from the camera and none are identified. The men are wearing suits and the women are all in long dresses and coats.
- Subjects
- Clothing
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Walking away, [1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/477/477-623.jpg)