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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
2003 Outstanding Citizen of the Year- Cice Brown
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport1921
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 65238
- Meeting Date
- 5-Apr-2004
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 65238
- Meeting Date
- 5-Apr-2004
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
2005 Outstanding Citizen of the Year - Dennis Brown
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport726
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 66421
- Meeting Date
- 10-Apr-2006
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 66421
- Meeting Date
- 10-Apr-2006
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
![Alison Grainger-Brown, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2660.jpg?width=280)
Alison Grainger-Brown
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97252
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Alison Grainger-Brown, the volunteer coordinator at the BC Correction Facility for Women, speaking to an unidentified woman next to a car on a street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2660
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Alison Grainger-Brown, the volunteer coordinator at the BC Correction Facility for Women, speaking to an unidentified woman next to a car on a street.
- Subjects
- Public Services - Correctional
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an August 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Alison Grainger-Brown, the volunteer co-ordinator at the BC Correction Facility for Women, also escorts prisoners into the community as part of a re-integration program."
Images
![Alison Grainger-Brown, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2660.jpg)
Application of Renewal of E.S. and J.C. Brown Mortgage on N1/2 of Block 33 DL 32 by Michael Barry
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport72640
- 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
Appointment of C. Brown as Board of Works Clerk
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75003
- 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
Brown family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35674
- 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
- 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.
- 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
Images
Brown family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35675
- 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
- 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.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Capitol Hill Area
Images
Brown family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35677
- 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
- 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
- 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
![Brown family, [1916] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-001.jpg?width=280)
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
- 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.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
Images
![Brown family, [1916] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-001.jpg)
![Brown family, [1912] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-013.jpg?width=280)
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
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
Images
![Brown family, [1912] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-013.jpg)
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
- 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
C.G. Brown Pool Re-Opening
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport3564
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 63566
- Meeting Date
- 23-Jul-2001
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 19
- Item No.
- 1
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 63566
- Meeting Date
- 23-Jul-2001
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 19
- Item No.
- 1
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
![Cice Brown and Interurban 1223, [2004] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2365.jpg?width=280)
Cice Brown and Interurban 1223
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96807
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Cice Brown, the City of Burnaby's Citizen of the Year and a member of the Friends of Interurban 1223, posing in the interurban tram 1223 undergoing restorations.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2004]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2365
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Cice Brown, the City of Burnaby's Citizen of the Year and a member of the Friends of Interurban 1223, posing in the interurban tram 1223 undergoing restorations.
- Subjects
- Persons - Volunteers
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an April 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Cice Brown is being honoured by the City of Burnaby as its Citizen of the Year for her work with Friends of the Interurban."
Images
![Cice Brown and Interurban 1223, [2004] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2365.jpg)
![Commercial realtor Scott Brown, [2002] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1970.jpg?width=280)
Commercial realtor Scott Brown
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96287
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of commercial real estate broker Scott Brown. Brown is standing in front of the Madison Centre on Lougheed Highway with his arms wide open. A sign in the window of the office tower reads: "For Lease."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-1970
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of commercial real estate broker Scott Brown. Brown is standing in front of the Madison Centre on Lougheed Highway with his arms wide open. A sign in the window of the office tower reads: "For Lease."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a February 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Scott Brown, a commercial real estate broker, says things are looking up for businesses looking for office space in Burnaby, as new space in buildings like the Madison Centre have increased the vacancy rates."
- Geographic Access
- Lougheed Highway
- Planning Study Area
- Brentwood Area
Images
![Commercial realtor Scott Brown, [2002] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1970.jpg)
Donald Brown Community Police Office
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport273
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 66872
- Meeting Date
- 5-Mar-2007
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 66872
- Meeting Date
- 5-Mar-2007
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
![Don Brown at Bonsor, [2002] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2778.jpg?width=280)
Don Brown at Bonsor
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97403
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Don Brown posing against a playing field's fence. The Bonsor Recreation Complex, where the South Burnaby Metro Club is based, and neighbouring office and apartment towers are visible in the background.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2778
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Don Brown posing against a playing field's fence. The Bonsor Recreation Complex, where the South Burnaby Metro Club is based, and neighbouring office and apartment towers are visible in the background.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Don Brown surveys all that has grown from the South Burnaby Men's Club's initial investment of $7500 to begin acquiring properties in the heart of Burnaby in 1965. He says the playing fields and Bonsor Recreation Centre, where the South Burnaby Metro Club is now based, are "an oasis" in the densely developed Metrotown area."
- Geographic Access
- Bonsor Avenue
- Street Address
- 6550 Bonsor Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
Images
![Don Brown at Bonsor, [2002] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2778.jpg)
![Don Brown with book, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2667.jpg?width=280)
Don Brown with book
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97262
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Don Brown, a former Burnaby RCMP officer and Burnaby alderman, posing against a police car with a copy of his book: "Why? The Last Years of the British Columbia Provincial Police 1858-1950."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2667
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Don Brown, a former Burnaby RCMP officer and Burnaby alderman, posing against a police car with a copy of his book: "Why? The Last Years of the British Columbia Provincial Police 1858-1950."
- Names
- Brown, Donald N. "Don"
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an August 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Retired police officer Don Brown, who's written a book on the history of the old British Columbia Provincial Police force, says its time the province look into re-establishing such a force."
Images
![Don Brown with book, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2667.jpg)
![Ed Brown and family beside his truck, [1915] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-006.jpg?width=280)
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.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
Images
![Ed Brown and family beside his truck, [1915] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/251/298-006.jpg)
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.
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