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Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45348
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1972
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly visiting Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities needed to be expanded.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1972
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 14 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-243
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly visiting Burnaby General Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities needed to be expanded.
- Names
- Burnaby General Hospital
- Dowding, Gordon
- Harlos, Dr. R.E.
- Lorimer, James G "Jim"
- Cocke, Dennis
- Dailly, Eileen
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Four provincial cabinet ministers Friday visited Burnaby general Hospital's emergency ward to see just how badly facilities need to be expanded. From left, Speaker Gordon Dowding, Chief of Medical Staff Dr. R.E. Harlos, Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Lorimer, Health Minister Dennis Cocke and Education Minister Eileen Dailly get first-hand look at stop-gap expansion, pending approval or otherwise of today's $95 million hospitals bylaw referendum. BGH emergency facilities are being expanded to handle 11 stretcher cases instead of present six."
- Geographic Access
- Kincaid Street
- Street Address
- 3935 Kincaid Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cascade-Schou Area
Images
Burnaby Lake papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58401
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a brief presented on August 14, 1953 to the Premier and Cabinet Ministers arguing that they should vote to "Make Burnaby Lake a Provincial Park" as well as a newspaper clipping exalting the value of the park (from 1997).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ephemera subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS081-014
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-10
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a brief presented on August 14, 1953 to the Premier and Cabinet Ministers arguing that they should vote to "Make Burnaby Lake a Provincial Park" as well as a newspaper clipping exalting the value of the park (from 1997).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
cabinet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact1022
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.24.13
- Description
- Cabinet; metal frame, glass on sides; similar in style to a tea cart
- Category
- 02. Furnishings
- Classification
- Furniture - - Storage & Display Furniture
- Object Term
- Cabinet
- Subjects
- Furniture
Images
cabinet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23663
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.1
- Description
- Cabinet, for display and storage, Rosewood or Mahogany, with gold decoration; top section and two sections with glass doors, bottom, and two drawers. Matches HV975.5.2
- Object History
- Contents of Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria, B.C.
Images
cabinet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact23664
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.2
- Description
- Cabinet (apothecary drawers), for display and storage, Western Red cedar, with gold decororation; top shelf, middle section and drawers. Matches HV975.5.1
- Object History
- Contents of Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria, B.C. Legend for the order of drawers is also in the collection HV975.5.1006.
Images
cabinet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24621
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.1117
- Description
- Wooden wall cabinet
- Object History
- Contents of Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
Images
Cabinet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90896
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV021.3.1
- Description
- Worn wooden cabinet made from Douglas Fir and cedar. The interior of the cabinet is painted a pale yellow. One third of the cabinet closest to the ground houses a large open shevling area with the back paneling visible. The middle of the cabinet has 5 slots for drawers with metal handles. One drawer is missing. The top third of the cabinet is split into 2 shelves with a yellow board bisecting the top shelf. Chinese characters are painted in black on the back of the shelving unit.
- Object History
- The cabinet was found in the Thrussell farmhouse on Marine Drive in Burnaby in the 1999.The Thrussell's land had been leased to Chinese tenant farmers by the Thrussell family and also previous owners. The City demolished the house, but they salvaged many items in the house before doing so. Of note are the Chinese characters and the joinery and construction of the cabinet. Chinese characters are painted in black on the back of the shelving unit The first two characters refer to pine wood and the last character is stem or branch.
- Category
- 02. Furnishings
- Classification
- Household Accessories - - Storage & Display Accessories
- Object Term
- Cabinet
- Colour
- Brown
- Yellow
- Measurements
- 42” high x 42” wide x 14” width
- Geographic Access
- Marine Drive
- Nelson Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Big Bend Area
Images
Cabinet in Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9500
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 9.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a wooden cabinet with glass doors inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. There is an open shelf on top with a sign with Chinese characters. The inside of one shelf has three rows of glass jars with Chinese character labels. The shelf below has more jars …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 9.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a wooden cabinet with glass doors inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. There is an open shelf on top with a sign with Chinese characters. The inside of one shelf has three rows of glass jars with Chinese character labels. The shelf below has more jars and some boxes also with Chinese character labels. Next to the cabinet is another shelf unit with drawers.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.310
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 4-Oct-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Cabinet in Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9502
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of large wooden cabinet with rows of drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The drawers all have labels on front, fourteen round canisters are visible on top of cabinet each with labels with Chinese characters. An old style cash register is on count…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of large wooden cabinet with rows of drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The drawers all have labels on front, fourteen round canisters are visible on top of cabinet each with labels with Chinese characters. An old style cash register is on counter in front.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.312
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 4-Oct-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
cabinet scraper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact14646
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV984.32.10
- Description
- A rectangular polished steel scraper blade. One edge is bevelled. Markings stamped on one side: "STANLEY" within a rectangular border and underneath within a hear shape border is "S.W.". Beneath this is "MADE IN CAN."
- Measurements
- Overall measurements: Length: 10.7 cm Width: 7.5 cm Thickness: 1 mm
Images
Cabinets of curiosities : collections of the Vancouver Museum, 1894-1981
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary981
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Vancouver Museum
- Publication Date
- c1982
- Call Number
- 708.11 CAB
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0919253067
- Call Number
- 708.11 CAB
- Author
- Vancouver Museum
- Contributor
- Maranda, Lynn, 1942-
- Mayer, Carol E. (Carol Elizabeth), 1945-
- Sayers, Ivan W. (Ivan William), 1946-
- Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association
- Publication Date
- c1982
- Physical Description
- iv, 92, v-xi p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Vancouver Museum
- Catalogs
- Notes
- "Prepared by ... Lynn Maranda, Carol Mayer and Ivan Sayers"--p. iv.
- Includes index.
Contract Extension - Traffic Signal Cabinet Replacement Program
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport83676
- Repository
- Legislative Services
- Report ID
- 94210
- Meeting Date
- 29-Aug-2022
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Item No.
- 12
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- Legislative Services
- Report ID
- 94210
- Meeting Date
- 29-Aug-2022
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Item No.
- 12
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Counter and wooden cabinet with drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9504
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a long wooden counter and cabinet with drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large round containers are visible on top of drawers and a scale hangs on a chain from the ceiling above the counter.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a long wooden counter and cabinet with drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large round containers are visible on top of drawers and a scale hangs on a chain from the ceiling above the counter.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.314
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 4-Oct-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Dentist's cabinet and display, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1207_001.jpg?width=280)
Dentist's cabinet and display
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription17143
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [198-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a dentist's cabinet and display inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a dentist's cabinet and display inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Civic - Museums
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.4.1207
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [198-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "598_42NNN22"
Images
![Dentist's cabinet and display, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1207_001.jpg)
Dishes with Chinese characters on wooden counter
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9518
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia; 9.9 x 13.6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of porcelain bowls, plates and spoons with Chinese characters on wooden countertop inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Plates, bowls are of various sizes. Wooden cabinet with drawers is visible behind counter.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia; 9.9 x 13.6 cm
- Material Details
- "3" written on front bottom right corner in black ink.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of porcelain bowls, plates and spoons with Chinese characters on wooden countertop inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Plates, bowls are of various sizes. Wooden cabinet with drawers is visible behind counter.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.328
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 20-Aug-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Display cabinet with dental specimans and equipment, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1203_001.jpg?width=280)
Display cabinet with dental specimans and equipment
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription17139
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [198-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of white metal display cabinet with dental specimans and equipment inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of white metal display cabinet with dental specimans and equipment inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Civic - Museums
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.4.1203
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [198-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "598_42NNN12"
Images
![Display cabinet with dental specimans and equipment, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1203_001.jpg)
![Display of dental equipment and tools, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1204_001.jpg?width=280)
Display of dental equipment and tools
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription17140
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [198-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of dental equipment and tools in a wooden cabinet with drawers on top of a white metal table inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Century Park Museum Association fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of dental equipment and tools in a wooden cabinet with drawers on top of a white metal table inside the Heritage Village Drug Store and Dentist exhibit.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Civic - Museums
- Names
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.4.1204
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [198-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "598_42NNN12"
Images
![Display of dental equipment and tools, [198-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2020/2020_0004_1204_001.jpg)
Drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9505
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of wooden cabinet with rows of drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large containers with labels with Chinese characters are visible at the top of the wooden cabinet.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of wooden cabinet with rows of drawers inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large containers with labels with Chinese characters are visible at the top of the wooden cabinet.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.315
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 4-Oct-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
drawing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91118
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.5.2010
- Description
- drawing; xerox copy; black ink on cartridge paper; caricature of Burnaby Village Musuem Operations Coordinator, Gilda Heath; drawn by Denis Nokony, 1998. Drawing of Gilda Heath inside the top drawer of a three drawer filing cabinet with her head, shoulders and hands visible, label on top drawer reads "PEOPLE", drawers below are labeled "MONEY and "TIME", stack of three boxes to the right of the filing cabinet with labels "VAN / ATRAX / ICP / GIFTSHOP / LYNNE / + EV", cylindrical container to the left of the filing cabinet holding rolled plans with label "TOP PRIORITY FILE". Small rectangular labels scattered beneath with numbers "241". Balloon in top left corner with text "HAVE / FUN / DAMMIT". Vase of flowers on top of filing cabinet with label "ARTIFACT / #12681". Signature in right corner reads "NOKONY-98-". Handwritten note in red pen on verso of drawing reads "Drawing by Denis Nokony / Retired 1998 Jun 03 / GILDA HEATH"
- Object History
- City of Burnaby Cultural Services Director, Denis Nokony drew the caricature in honour of Burnaby Village Museum, Operations Coordinator, Gilda Heath's retirement in June 3, 1998.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Art
- Object Term
- Drawing
- Colour
- Black
- White
- Measurements
- 28 cm x 20.5 cm
- Maker
- Nokony, Denis
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Publication Date
- 1998
- Subjects
- Arts - Drawings
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Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark534
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- The Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House is a two-storey modern post-and-beam structure, located on the southern shore of Deer Lake in Burnaby's Deer Lake Park. The site is steeply sloped, and the main entrance of the house is at the top of the slope facing onto Deer Lake Drive.
- Associated Dates
- 1965
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake Drive
- Associated Dates
- 1965
- Formal Recognition
- Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Council Resolution
- Enactment Date
- 26/05/2003
- Description
- The Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House is a two-storey modern post-and-beam structure, located on the southern shore of Deer Lake in Burnaby's Deer Lake Park. The site is steeply sloped, and the main entrance of the house is at the top of the slope facing onto Deer Lake Drive.
- Heritage Value
- The Baldwin House is valued as a prime example of Burnaby’s post-Second World War modern heritage and progressive architectural style, as well as for its personal connections to internationally-acclaimed architect, Arthur Erickson. Inspired by the modern domestic idiom established earlier in the twentieth century by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, Erickson conceived his architecture as responding directly to the site. A cohesive expression of simple orthogonal lines and ultimate transparency, this structure reduces the idea of post-and-beam West Coast modernism to its most refined elements. A fine example of the evolving talent of Erickson’s earlier work, this house is a landmark modern house in Burnaby and is unique in terms of siting and context. Having just won the 1963 competition for the new Simon Fraser University in Burnaby with his partner, Geoff Massey, and having built fewer than half a dozen homes previously, Erickson’s reputation was growing and his skill as a designer of modern buildings was in great demand. The same year that Erickson/Massey Architects designed SFU, Dr. William Baldwin and his wife, Ruth, personal friends of Erickson, commissioned him to design this house. Erickson was already familiar with the site; as a child he had spent time at this spot when his family visited friends who lived on Deer Lake. Both the Baldwin House and the university were completed in 1965. SFU became internationally famous; the Baldwin House was also considered an architectural success and was recognized in publications of the time. Only a single storey of this two-storey house is visible from the road, as it is built into the hillside in response to its steep site and proximity to Deer Lake. Like many other Erickson designs, this structure was conceived as a pavilion. Constructed of glass and wood, its transparency facilitates visual access to the lake’s edge, acting as an invitation, rather than a barrier, to the landscape. The house blends into the natural surroundings and the site includes other man-made landscape features such as a reflecting pool. As a reaction to the often grey quality of light in the region, Erickson exploits flat planes of water as a source of borrowed light. The refined and purposeful design, transparency, openness of plan and adjacency to the lake combine to give the house a floating appearance at the water's edge. The concept of a floating house set within an accompanying garden was inspired, in part, by the palaces and house boats of Dal Lake in Kashmir and the famed nearby Mughal Gardens. Although Erickson never visited Dal Lake, he travelled extensively throughout India, and specifically mentions the Kashmir reference in relation to this house. There is a rich complexity of other allusions worked into the fabric of the house, unified by a feeling for the conjunction of light, water and land at this special location. Widely renowned as Canada’s most brilliant modern architect, Erickson’s reputation is important to the development and growth of modern architecture in Canada and North America.
- Defining Elements
- The elements of the Baldwin House that define its character are those materials and details which respond to the location of the building and determine the relation between landscape and building, combining to create a single cohesive site. These include its: - close proximity to water - orthogonal plan and massing, with flat tar-and-gravel roof - stepped down massing orienting the house towards the water - post-and-beam construction, with the width of the beams matched to the width of the posts - wood and glass used as primary building materials - transparency and light achieved by the abundant use of glass - large undivided sheets of single glazing - butt glazed glass corners - abundant and generous balconies, which blur the transition from interior to exterior - horizontal flush cedar siding - use of salvaged brick for chimneys - use of chains as downspouts - built-in rooftop barbeque - built in furniture and fittings dating to the time of construction, such as original hardware, benches, bathroom vanities and kitchen cabinets - landscaped site including reflecting pool, plantings and a dock protruding into the lake
- Locality
- Deer Lake Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Function
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D. No. 011-946-032 and P.I.D. No. 011-946-067
- Boundaries
- The Baldwin House is comprised of two municipally-owned lots located at 6543 and 6545 Deer Lake Drive, Burnaby.
- Area
- 6,070.20
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Landscape Feature
- Ownership
- Public (local)
- Other Collection
- Canadian Architectural Archives, University of Calgary, Collection: Original Plans No. ERI 4A/76.13
- Documentation
- Heritage Site Files: PC77000 20. City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C., V5G 1M2
- Street Address
- 6543 Deer Lake Drive
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