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Window
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact29025
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.41.101
- Description
- Wooden frame around two rectangular shaped windows with a wooden separation bar. The frame and windows are both dark (brown/black). The wooden frame appears to be composed of mahogony. The windows are composed of a glass-like material yet do not appear to be ordinary glass. One side of the windows has a scallop shell pattern and the other side is plain. Two holes are drilled through the edges of the frame at the midpoint. Length: 114 cm Width: 25 cm Thickness: 2.1 cm
- Object History
- British Columbia Electric Railway transom window.
- Marks/Labels
- Small blue sticker "BCER - B52".
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Advertising Medium
- Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards
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Window
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact29026
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.41.102
- Description
- Wooden frame around two rectangular shaped windows with a wooden separation bar. The frame and windows are both dark (brown/black). The wooden frame appears to be composed of mahogony. The windows are composed of a glass-like material yet do not appear to be ordinary glass. One side of the windows has a scallop shell pattern and the other side is plain. Two holes are drilled through the edges of the frame at the midpoint. Length: 114 cm Width: 25 cm Thickness: 2.1 cm
- Object History
- British Columbia Electric Railway transom window.
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Building Components
- Building Components - Windows
Images
newsletter
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3548
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV988.9.2
- Description
- "The Buzzer" was a weekly newsletter published by BC Electric Railway Co. and distributed on busses and streetcars. It gave weekly updates for transporation in the region. This Vol 40, No 16, for April 20, 1955. It is a special edition entitled "Rails to Rubber" and outlines the progress of the company and transporation from 1890 to 1955 when Street Cars were replaced with Busses. It advertises "YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED / TO TAKE A LAST RIDE / FREE / aboard / VANCOUVER'S STREET CARS / ON / SUNDAY, APRIL 24 - 1 to 5 PM / See / OLD No 53 at the P.N.E. / Cerimonies / Marking Completion of the Change / from / RAILS TO RUBBER / commence at 3 PM / in the GARDEN BUILDING"
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Serial
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Vancouver
- Patent Date
- 04/20/1955
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Transportation - Buses
Images
Follow that fire : the history of the Burnaby Fire Department
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5194
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Call Number
- 363.378 PEN COPY 3
raging for sev-
eral days. Men from the British Columbia Electric Railway Company along with the
Gilley Bros, (loggers in the area) brought the fire under control, using a small fire
truck owned by the Gilleys.
When clearing land to construct Cariboo Road, a brush fire was left unattended on
the evening
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 363.378 PEN COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- [Burnaby, B.C.]
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : ill. (some col.), 2 maps, ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fire departments
- Fire fighters
- Name Access
- Burnaby Fire Department
- Notes
- Maps on lining papers.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.