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Pixie McGeachie fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription10417
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1939 and 1949] (date of originals), copied 2008 ; 1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Pixie McGeachie fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 24 photographs (tiffs) : b&w + 1 membership card
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs from a McGeachie family album documenting a time that Jack and Pixie McGeachie spent at their log cabin on Mount Seymour and a membership card for the Century Park Museum Association. Jack McGeachie, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained the cabin with f…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Pixie McGeachie fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 24 photographs (tiffs) : b&w + 1 membership card
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs from a McGeachie family album documenting a time that Jack and Pixie McGeachie spent at their log cabin on Mount Seymour and a membership card for the Century Park Museum Association. Jack McGeachie, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained the cabin with friends on Mount Seymour from 1938 until after the Second World War. Fonds is arranged into series: 1) Pixie McGeachie photographs series 2) Pixie McGeachie documents series
- History
- Doreen "Pixie" Johnson was born in 1922 and married John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie in April 1942. Jack and Pixie McGeachie lived on Rosewood Street (formerly named Campbell Street pre 1951) in Burnaby from 1948 where they raised their two children; David and Kathi. Pixie was well known for her volunteer work in Burnaby. Pixie served for over 20 years as the volunteer archivist for the Burnaby Historical Society; served as president of the Century Park Museum Association and the Friends of the Interurban 1223 and a six year term on Burnaby's Heritage Commission. Pixie was also a Burnaby historian and author who published a column in the Burnaby Examiner Newspaper entitled "Burnaby History" as well as three books about Burnaby History entitled "Bygones of Burnaby"; "Burnaby - A Proud Century" and "Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's letters from Colonial B.C." Due to her diligent volunteer work in Burnaby, Pixie was the recipient of many awards between 2002 and 2008. Awards included: 2002 - the Kushiro cup for Citizen of the Year; 2006 - Heritage BC project award for her work with Friends of the Interurban 1223 and in 2008 - Heritage BC - Ruby Nobb Award. Jack McGeachie passed away in 1981, at the age of 67 years and Pixie McGeachie passed away in August 2010 at the age of 88 years. On September 24, 2010, Pixie was honoured by the City of Burnaby when they dedicated the reading room of the City of Burnaby Archives by naming it the "Pixie McGeachie Reading Room".
- Creator
- McGeachie, Doreen "Pixie"
- Accession Code
- BV008.17; BV013.4.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [between 1939 and 1949] (date of originals), copied 2008 ; 1976
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
Who's who in western Canada : a bibliographical dictionary of notable living men and women of western Canada, volume 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1820
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.61.2
- Call Number
- 920 WHO
- Contributor
- Parker, C. W. (Charles Wallace), 1864-1932
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- Canadian Press Association
- Publication Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- 390 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Presented to Burnaby Historical Society _______ B Brown __M_ Burnaby 1932 to 1959" [handwritten in blue ink on front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada
- Dictionaries
- Biography
- Notes
- "Edited by C.W. Parker" --title page
Burnaby heritage resource inventory : Metrotown (including the historic communities of Central Park, Patterson, McKay, West Burnaby, Jubilee, Royal Oak)
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1117
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR
- Author
- Watson, Ann A.
- Place of Publication
- [Burnaby, B.C.]
- Publisher
- Burnaby Historical Society
- Publication Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- v, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Historic buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Metrotown (Burnaby, B.C.)
- Directories
- Notes
- "August 1986"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-125) and index.
The Fraser's history, from glaciers to early settlements : papers from a seminar presented at the annual meeting of the British Columbia Historical Association on May 27, 1977, at Burnaby, British Columbia
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1129
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969068700
- 9780969068709
- Call Number
- 971.1 FRA COPY 1
- Contributor
- Eagles, Blythe
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Burnaby Historical Society
- Publication Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 50 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fraser River Valley (B.C.)--History--Congresses
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 50).
- Contents: From glaciers to the present / by W.H. Mathews -- Archaeological history of the Lower Fraser River / by C.E. Borden -- The Fraser River gold rush / by G.P.V. Akrigg -- Agricultural settlement of the Fraser Valley / by John E. Gibbard.
- 6 copies held : copy 1.