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Edward S. Brown and Jane C. Brown Mortgage

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport74961
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
74615
Meeting Date
19-Apr-1911
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
74615
Meeting Date
19-Apr-1911
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Application of Herbert Brown to Permit Him to Carry On a Temporary Glazing Business at 4403 Pender Street

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
69638
Meeting Date
19-Nov-1945
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
69638
Meeting Date
19-Nov-1945
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Application of Renewal of E.S. and J.C. Brown Mortgage on N1/2 of Block 33 DL 32 by Michael Barry

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
79733
Meeting Date
27-Oct-1913
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
79733
Meeting Date
27-Oct-1913
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Appointment of C. Brown as Board of Works Clerk

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
74632
Meeting Date
1-May-1911
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
74632
Meeting Date
1-May-1911
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Appointment of Charles B. Brown as Approving Officer

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
70729
Meeting Date
19-Aug-1941
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
70729
Meeting Date
19-Aug-1941
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Appointment of Returning Officer - Charles B. Brown - For Vote on Burnaby District Improvement Bylaw 1948 to be Taken August 28, 1948

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
48434
Meeting Date
16-Aug-1948
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
48434
Meeting Date
16-Aug-1948
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Brown family

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1917 (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 the Brown family. Identified: (from left) Janet Maclean (grandmother), Alex Brown (brother), Janet Brown (sister), carried by a grand-uncle. The others in the photo are unidentified. This may have been taken at the Brown family home at 3846 Triumph Street.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1917 (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.
204-532
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1988-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Brown family. Identified: (from left) Janet Maclean (grandmother), Alex Brown (brother), Janet Brown (sister), carried by a grand-uncle. The others in the photo are unidentified. This may have been taken at the Brown family home at 3846 Triumph Street.
Names
Brown, Alex
Maclean, Janet Mackintosh Macfarlane
McLeod, Janet Brown
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Triumph Street
Street Address
3846 Triumph Street
Historic Neighbourhood
Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Burnaby Heights Area
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Brown family

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912 (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 the Brown family. Identified: (front) Elsa "Birdie" Brown (mother of Janet Brown McLeod) and Philip Brown (father). The other woman is an unidentified aunt. The photograph was probably on taken on Capitol Hill, North Burnaby.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912 (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.
204-533
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1988-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Brown family. Identified: (front) Elsa "Birdie" Brown (mother of Janet Brown McLeod) and Philip Brown (father). The other woman is an unidentified aunt. The photograph was probably on taken on Capitol Hill, North Burnaby.
Names
Brown, Elsa "Birdie"
Brown, Philip
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Historic Neighbourhood
Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Capitol Hill Area
Images
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Brown family

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911 (date of original), copied 1986
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 8.9 x 12.7 cm print
Scope and Content
Photograph of Elsa Brown and Janet Maclean, daughter and mother.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911 (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 ; 8.9 x 12.7 cm print
Description Level
Item
Record No.
204-535
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1988-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Elsa Brown and Janet Maclean, daughter and mother.
Subjects
Documentary Artifacts - Portraits
Names
Brown, Elsa "Birdie"
Maclean, Janet Mackintosh Macfarlane
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
This picture forms the bottom half of a single 12.7 x 17.8 cm print, the top is 204-534
Images
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Brown family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36572
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia postcard 8 x 13.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photographic postcard of Ed Brown and his wife Jennie Birtch Brown with daughters Hazel and Inez in a horse-drawn wagon in front of their home.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Ed Brown family subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia postcard 8 x 13.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1992-38
Scope and Content
Photographic postcard of Ed Brown and his wife Jennie Birtch Brown with daughters Hazel and Inez in a horse-drawn wagon in front of their home.
Subjects
Transportation - Wagons
Transportation - Horses
Names
Brown, Ed
Brown, Hazel
Ervin, Inez Brown
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
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Brown family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46475
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1912]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Scope and Content
Photograph of members of the Brown family standing in front of a large tree. Identified are Ed Brown (next to horse) with his wife Jennie and one of their children (in a baby carriage).The man to the left is unknown.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1912]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-013
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of members of the Brown family standing in front of a large tree. Identified are Ed Brown (next to horse) with his wife Jennie and one of their children (in a baby carriage).The man to the left is unknown.
Subjects
Plants - Trees
Animals - Horses
Names
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
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Brown-John family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76887
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1914 (date of original), digitally copied 2012
Collection/Fonds
Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Brown-John family; Victor, his wife Winnifred, their two eldest sons Victor and Archie, and twin boys Frank and Roy.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1914 (date of original), digitally copied 2012
Collection/Fonds
Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds
Series
Burna-Boom Oral History project series
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg) : col. ; 300ppi
Description Level
Item
Record No.
549-004
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2012-30
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Brown-John family; Victor, his wife Winnifred, their two eldest sons Victor and Archie, and twin boys Frank and Roy.
Names
Brown-John, Victor Joseph Charles
Brown-John, Winnifred Douglas
Brown-John, Victor
Brown-John, Archie
Brown-John, Frank
Brown-John, Roy
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Historic Neighbourhood
Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
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Charles Brown family subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription27
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1930]-[1950]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
8 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs taken and collected by Charles Brown's family. Brown was a long-time employee and former Municipal Clerk of Burnaby.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1930]-[1950]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Charles Brown family subseries
Physical Description
8 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1992-49
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs taken and collected by Charles Brown's family. Brown was a long-time employee and former Municipal Clerk of Burnaby.
History
Charles B. "Charlie" Brown began working for the municipality of Burnaby in 1911 as a stenographer in the Engineer's office. He was appointed assistant municipal clerk in 1927 and assumed the role of municipal clerk in 1933. He served as municipal clerk from 1933-1954 and chief administrative officer from 1954 until his retirement in 1959. Charles was married to Lillian Bernice "Bernie" Bryan Brown.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Brown, Charles B. "Charlie"
Notes
Title based on creator and contents of subseries
PC307
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Conveyance of Lot 2, Block 35, DL 30 to William Brown Scott

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport53453
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
69537
Meeting Date
13-Aug-1945
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Report ID
69537
Meeting Date
13-Aug-1945
Format
Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
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Donald N. Brown subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1925 (date of original)-1995
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and other material
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs taken by Freeman Donald N. Brown while involved in Burnaby Historical Society activities and textual records pertaining to his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Also included in the subseries are documents and photographs from his involvement with vari…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1925 (date of original)-1995
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Donald N. Brown subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and other material
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1987-03
BHS2003-04
BHS1992-20
BHS1995-09
BHS2000-10
BHS1991-41
BHS2001-12
BHS2004-01
BHS2004-12
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs taken by Freeman Donald N. Brown while involved in Burnaby Historical Society activities and textual records pertaining to his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Also included in the subseries are documents and photographs from his involvement with various community groups including the Oakalla Lands Citizens' Committee, renovations of Burnaby Village Museum, and the restoration of Interurban tram no. 1223.
History
Donald Neil "Don" Brown was born in Birmingham, England. In 1922, while still an infant, he and his family moved to Winnipeg, Canada. On September 8, 1939, Don left his Senior Matriculation classes to join the Royal Canadian Engineers. Two weeks later, he eloped with his high school sweetheart, Helen J., just months before he was to be shipped overseas with the 3rd Contingent of Canadian Troops. He served in the army with the Royal Canadian Engineer’s 12th Field Company and saw action in both Sicily and Italy. In 1945, Don returned to obtain his Senior Matriculation and a year of university studies before re-enlisting in the army as a Second Lieutenant. He spent the next two years stationed in Chilliwack with Helen and their first child. In 1947, he left the army to join the ranks of the British Columbia Provincial Police force, embarking on a three-decade long career. His first assignment brought him to Burnaby where he served from 1947-1954, first as a member of the BC Police Department and then as a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. In 1954, Don was transferred to Regina, Saskatchewan and then to Ottawa, Ontario to serve in the Crime Detection Laboratories. He became a qualified Examiner of Questioned Documents and provided expert testimony in handwriting, counterfeiting, graphic arts, and alterations. He attained the rank of first Corporal, and then Sergeant in the RCMP. He was transferred to Vancouver to be the Second in Charge of a new laboratory and head of the Document Section in July, 1963. On December 9, 1967, Helen Brown ran as an independent for the position of Alderman on the Burnaby Council. She was not elected. In May 1970, Don was promoted to Sub-Inspector and transferred to Edmonton to take command of the new Crime Detection Laboratory. By 1972, he was promoted to full Inspector. Transferred back to Vancouver in 1975, Don became the Officer-in-Charge of a new Crime Laboratory and took over the National Police Services pilot project for British Columbia. He was rewarded for this work with a promotion to Superintendent in September 1975. In 1976, after a distinguished 35 years combined service to the armed forces and the police, Don retired and founded his own laboratory to carry on his work in the field of questioned documents. He became a Fellow (Emeritus) of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a Life Member (Emeritus) and Past Director of the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences, a Member of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners. After his retirement, Don became involved in local politics and, with the blessing of his wife and six children, joined the Burnaby Voters’ Association as their Secretary. In 1978 he was elected to a two-year term as a Burnaby School Trustee. During the next municipal election in November 1979, he successfully ran for Alderman. Don Brown served Burnaby as Alderman from 1979 to 1985. During this time, Don also became a member of the Community College for the Retired, the Horsemen’s Society and the Burnaby Historical Society. He also gave his support to Arts Council programs and numerous other community functions over the years and author "Why?: The Last Years of the British Columbia Policy 1858-1950" about the BC Provincial Police. In 1991, Don was appointed as Chair of the Burnaby Centennial Committee, dedicating himself to making Burnaby’s Centennial celebration a memorable success. His contributions were always supported by his wife Helen, and their work during the Centennial Year was just one example of the strength of their 66-year partnership. They were both formally recognized for their efforts when they were chosen to receive the Kushiro Cup and named the Citizens of the Year in 1992. Also that year, Don was a recipient of the Canadian 125 Medal and one year later, in March 1993, Donald Brown was awarded Burnaby’s highest honour and was made a Freeman of the City of Burnaby. Don passed away in 2009.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Moving Images
Creator
Brown, Donald N. "Don"
Notes
Title based on contents of fonds
PC194, PC241, MSS098, MSS148
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Ed Brown and family beside his truck

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46004
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family standing in front of one of Ed's first trucks.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-006
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family standing in front of one of Ed's first trucks.
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
Brown, Ed
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
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Ed Brown family fonds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97218
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.
Description Level
Fonds
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.
History
The following is copied from an article written by Brown's grandson, Jim Ervin, for "Old Autos" in 2003, in an article entitled "Grandfather was a trucker...": The roots of my family run deep in Burnaby, especially on my mother’s side. It was her father, my grandfather, who started one of Burnaby’s first trucking businesses, E.S. Brown’s Transfer. I could find no record of when he actually began operations but I have pictures to show that he was using horses before he had trucks. One of my enclosed pictures dates from about 1910 since I know the birth dates of his two oldest daughters and they are in the picture as very small children. He met and married my grandmother, whose maiden name was Jennie Birtch, from Ontario, and I still have relatives back east from both branches of the family. They were married on Sept. 27, 1905. But where, I can’t say. They had their first child, Hazel, born April 2, 1908. Then came seven more daughters but no sons to help with the family business. The business was located at the family home at 3131 Royal Oak Ave. in South Burnaby. That was close to the top of one of the steepest hills in Burnaby and must have made for a real test of man and machine to drive it, especially in winter. The children loved it for sleigh riding but probably not father. My mother, Inez, was the second oldest daughter, born Oct. 9, 1909. She would have been born, along with her sister Hazel, in the big house shown in the picture and built by my grandfather. But this house was to later burn down. That’s when Edward Sadler Brown decided to move his family from the side of the hill to the top and much closer to the main road, Kingsway. Most of the area was forest at that time and one of Ed’s first jobs was to haul shingle bolts out of the forest, with a team of horses. Please don’t ask me what a shingle bolt is but my mother knew and used to have to grease the skids placed on the logging trails for the loaded sleds to be pulled out on. One time, as she told me, there was a huge forest fire and my grandfather barely escaped with his life and one last load. Later, when the area had been cleared, he helped to build the Oakalla Prison Farm, now replaced by town-houses on Royal Oak Ave. This job led to him becoming the first contractor to haul the license plates made by the prisoners. Some of these plates would be worn by Ed’s own trucks. The trucks, which he eventually acquired, included some pretty obscure makes such as Hufman, Garford, Stewart (which my mother often said was no good), Gotfredson and the more common names of Chevrolet and GMC. A Ford Model T would probably have been too light for the kind of hauling Ed was doing in the 1920s. I always thought that his main cargo was coal and coke, but I received quite a surprise with some recently discovered information. It started when I was removing boxes of general junk from the house to the garage to make more space. One of those boxes broke open and one item which came out wasn’t junk by any means. It was a copy of a business card for Brown’s Transfer, a company which hauled coal, coke, wood and did furniture moving as well. My mother often described my grandfather as a “go-getter” for business. I believe I see what she meant. Never was I so glad to have a cardboard box break open and to retrieve such an important item. My mother was a saver like you wouldn’t believe, a habit which the Great Depression drilled into her. In another box containing old receipts, I found a copy of one from Brown’s Transfer which offered even more insight into the company. The receipt isn’t dated but only the last number of the year required filling in on the form. And this dates it as issued sometime during the 1920s. The surprising thing is the amount of items sold by my grandfather. Not just coal, wood and coke anymore. Now he was into sand, gravel, cement, brick lime, tile and sewer pipe. Furniture moving seemed to be sort of a sideline, mentioned in smaller letters at the bottom. But notice some of the other items on the hand written receipt. There’s lumber, grass seed, paint, glass, a loan (spelled lone) on painting a house. I’m not sure that I understand that one or the payment on house or the one about the toilet. But it’s obvious that this was a man who knew how to make a buck in many ways. He was almost his own building supply store, it would seem. Also mentioned on the form is an office location at 4009 Kingsway. The building is no longer there but it did survive into my life time. Often, my mother would point out to me where the office once was on the north side of Kingsway, near McKay Ave. Still standing, though, ist he old family home at the former address (now changed) of 3131 Royal Oak Ave. That’s where my mother and all seven of her sisters were born. These were the “swampers” on dad’s trucks, a job hard enough for a man. Ed did hire men as well to work as drivers and even employed his own mechanic. But for the girls, it wasn’t really a paying kind of job. “Some times he would buy us an ice-cream cone,” my mother would say. In those days, parents wanted large families to help with all the work which needed doing. Payment in dollars and cents just wasn’t usually part of the deal. I never knew my grandmother, Jennie, who died in 1946 at age 61, an early age to go but likely reflective of a lifetime of hard work and too many children. However, I did know my grandfather who lived into his 70s.His company came to a rather sad end, as related by my mother, in the dirty 30s. Apparently a certain sister of my grandmother, great aunt to myself, reported to the local school board that grandfather was supplying them with an inferior grade of coal for the schools. Then the school board cancelled his contract and that put him into bankruptcy. Whether the story is true or not doesn’t seem to matter much any more since no one who could have known is still among the living. Ed Brown, the industrious, rugged individualist did make a small come-back in the early 1950s with his own plumbing business. The details of that enterprise, I don’t know. But I do remember his old International panel truck he used. People such as my grandfather made a great contribution to Burnaby.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of fonds
BHS298
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Ed Brown family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46003
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family home. This was the first home of Ed and Jennie Brown on Royal Oak Avenue and was built by Ed. Ed can be seen sitting in the wagon with two of his daughters, Hazel and Inez, while Jennie is on the verandah. The other men in the photograph are unidentified.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-005
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family home. This was the first home of Ed and Jennie Brown on Royal Oak Avenue and was built by Ed. Ed can be seen sitting in the wagon with two of his daughters, Hazel and Inez, while Jennie is on the verandah. The other men in the photograph are unidentified.
Subjects
Transportation - Carriages
Transportation - Horses
Buildings - Residential - Houses
Names
Brown, Ed
Brown, Hazel
Ervin, Inez Brown
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
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Ed Brown family subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916]-[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
3 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the Brown family.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916]-[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Ed Brown family subseries
Physical Description
3 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
BHS1992-38
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs of the Brown family.
History
Ed Brown and Jennie Birtch Brown had five daughters: Dickie Brown (later Catli), Flossie Brown, Laura Brown (later Francescini), Reta Brown, and Elsie Brown (later Nykyfork). Ed owned and operated E.S. Brown's Transfer trucking company, located at 3131 Royal Oak Avenue.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Brown, Ed
Notes
Title based on contents of subseries
PC298
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Fern Brown

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36145
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1901 and 1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 10 cm + 1 p.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Fern Brown (nee Ablitt) sitting on the grass of her parent's property at the northeast corner of Kingsway and Nelson Avenue. She has a doll in a baby carriage with her and ribbons in her hair. The Hutton grocery store can be seen in the distance.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1901 and 1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Burnaby Public Library photograph subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 10 cm + 1 p.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
228-006
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1989-22
Scope and Content
Photograph of Fern Brown (nee Ablitt) sitting on the grass of her parent's property at the northeast corner of Kingsway and Nelson Avenue. She has a doll in a baby carriage with her and ribbons in her hair. The Hutton grocery store can be seen in the distance.
Subjects
Toys - Dolls
Names
Brown, Fern
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Page attached to verso of photograph gives a short history of Fern Brown
Geographic Access
Kingsway
Nelson Avenue
Historic Neighbourhood
Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Marlborough Area
Images
Less detail

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