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Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4938

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1950 and 1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.

History: Mary Davis was born February 3, 1910 in Stafford, England to Sam and Edith Finney and came to Canada as a child. Her family settled in Saskatchewan. She married her first husband, Clifford Reynolds Hamilton in 1940 in Rossland BC and was subsequently divorced in 1949 in Vancouver BC. She moved to Burnaby somtime between 1940 and the mid-1950's. Mary owned Davis Confectionary with her second husband (presumably named Davis) at the corner of Beresford and MacPherson. The store acted as a grocery store and also a drug store. Mary and her husband owned the store in the 1950's /1960's. Mary passed away in 2001, and had no children. Photograph was taken by famous Vancouver street photographer Foncie Pulice. Foncie began working as a street photographer in 1934 and retired in 1979. Foncie died in 2003.

Names: Finney, Edith; Davis, Mary

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV017.50.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1950 and 1960]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 12-Jun-2018

Photographer: Pulice, Foncie

Notes: Title base on contents of photograph; Stamped on verso: "FONCIE'S FOTOS/ 505 GRANVILLE ST./ VANCOUVER, B.C."

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Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney, [between 1950 and 1960] thumbnail

Royal Oak Apartments

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1678

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [April 1973]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the former Royal Oak Hotel at 3501 Kingsway (renumbered as the 5000 block of Kingsway) and Royal Oak Avenue, with Vancouver Business Maintenance and The Royal Oak Apartments now located in the building.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 8 x 11.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the former Royal Oak Hotel at 3501 Kingsway (renumbered as the 5000 block of Kingsway) and Royal Oak Avenue, with Vancouver Business Maintenance and The Royal Oak Apartments now located in the building.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Offices; Buildings - Residential - Apartments

Names: Royal Oak Hotel

Geographic Access: Kingsway; Royal Oak Avenue

Accession Code: BV985.6063.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [April 1973]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-03-05

Scale: 100

Photographer: Street, Frank

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note written in blue ballpoint pen on verso of photograph reads: "TAKEN BY FRANK STREET"

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Royal Oak Apartments, [April 1973] thumbnail