"Cameron Area" found 6 records

Heritage Value: In 1921, the pamphlet "Beautiful Burnaby" was produced and it described the Burquitlam neighbourhood as such: "No part of Burnaby has more consistently laboured to advance its prosperity than Burquitlam. Enterprise and intelligence has hewn homes from the forest and developed land into highly productive gardens and poultry ranches. Burquitlam is the growing suburb to the north of the City of New Westminster. It is reached by the Sapperton carline direct from Edmonds being only a few minutes ride from New Westminster market. It is also served by the B.C.E.R. Burnaby Lake line and adjoins on the best golf links in Greater Vancouver."

Historic Neighbourhood: Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cameron Area; Lyndhurst Area

Images

Garage and mushroom house

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1969] (date of original), digitally copied 2013

Collection/Fonds: Stiglish family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy-print ; 9 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the garage where Jack Stiglish repaired machinery and housed his tools, and the mushroom house beside it. A sign propped up between the two buildings reads "manure" with an arrow pointing to the right.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1969] (date of original), digitally copied 2013

Collection/Fonds: Stiglish family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy-print ; 9 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 552-006

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2013-07

Scope and Content: Photograph of the garage where Jack Stiglish repaired machinery and housed his tools, and the mushroom house beside it. A sign propped up between the two buildings reads "manure" with an arrow pointing to the right.

Subjects: Agricultural Tools and Equipment; Agriculture - Farms

Names: Stiglish, F.J. "Jack"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "view of father's garage where his tools were + he repaired the machinery / sign saying bags of manure this way / mushroom house next to garage"; Original spelling of surname was "Stiglich"

Geographic Access: Keswick Avenue

Street Address: 3782 Keswick Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cameron Area

Images

Garage and mushroom house, [before 1969] (date of original), digitally copied 2013 thumbnail

Interview with Allan Nixon by Rod Fowler February 21, 1990 - Track 8

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1928-1990

Length: 00:07:51

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Al Nixon's father Basil Nixon, who was Provincial Fire Marshall, and his mother Agnes, whose father Thomas Douglas was murdered in 1934, perhaps for political reasons. He also talks about the Burquitlam neighbourhood where his Douglas grandparents lived in the…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Al Nixon's father Basil Nixon, who was Provincial Fire Marshall, and his mother Agnes, whose father Thomas Douglas was murdered in 1934, perhaps for political reasons. He also talks about the Burquitlam neighbourhood where his Douglas grandparents lived in the heritage home "Seven Gables" on Sullivan Street. He relates some childhood events, including the train wreck on Burnette Creek in 1936.

Date Range: 1928-1990

Length: 00:07:51

Historic Neighbourhood: Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lyndhurst Area; Cameron Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 21, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Al Nixon, conducted by Rod Fowler. Al Nixon was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about the history and operations of the Burnaby Fire Department from its beginning in 1911 to 1990, and Al Nixon’s stories about the various ways photographs, records and artifacts about the department were collected and saved. The interview takes place while looking at photographs, but the information is clear nonetheless (His photographs have been deposited in the Burnaby Archives). Al Nixon also talks about his father's career as a firefighter, and about his Douglas grandparents and their home “The Gables” [Seven Gables] and neighbourhood in Burquitlam. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Al Nixon was born in New Westminster Feb. 8, 1936, the son of Provincial Fire Marshal Basil Nixon (1904-1975) and Agnes Douglas (1909-?). His mother’s family immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1922 and lived in a large ca. 1900 home in Burquitlam at 9957 Sullivan Road called “Seven Gables” (recently demolished). His grandfather Thomas Douglas, a Coquitlam Councillor and Socialist, was murdered in 1934 in his North Road service station. Al Nixon began his career as a firefighter with the Burnaby Fire Department in 1957, eventually becoming Deputy Fire Chief Operations in 1987 and Fire Chief in 1991, before retiring in 1993. In the mid 1980's Al Nixon became interested in the department’s history after finding a photograph scrapbook at one of the firehalls. It was in very bad condition but he recognized its value and began a project to collect and save photographs, artifacts and stories about the Burnaby Fire Department, a 6 month project that turned into years. The photographs and information gathered by Al Nixon became part of Douglas Penn’s book “Follow that Fire: the history of the Burnaby Fire Department”.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 0:43:35

Interviewee Name: Nixon, Al

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track eight of interview with Al Nixon

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North Road near Lougheed Highway

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1914]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 15.7 x 19.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a paved road lined with electric poles on both sides and a wood plank sidewalk on one side of the road. There are two men in suits on the left, in the distance. Also visible are houses to the right. An earlier catalogue record from 1988 conjectures that the photograph is a view of No…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 15.7 x 19.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a paved road lined with electric poles on both sides and a wood plank sidewalk on one side of the road. There are two men in suits on the left, in the distance. Also visible are houses to the right. An earlier catalogue record from 1988 conjectures that the photograph is a view of North Road near the modern day intersection of Lougheed Highway, looking south to New Westminster. The record also dates the negative, ca. 1914.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Roads

Geographic Access: North Road; Lougheed Highway

Accession Code: HV972.11.14

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1914]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cameron Area

Related Material: 600 dpi .TIF scan of master copy contact sheet image available at Q:\51305 BVM Collections\BVM Photographs\1970

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 14/8/2006

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w contact print accompanying negative

Images

North Road near Lougheed Highway, [1914] thumbnail

Subdivision plans in New Westminster District Group 1 – Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1893-1910]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Map collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 4 plans : blueprint ink on paper mounted on 2 sides of cardboard 76 x 102 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a large board of two New Westminster District Gp 1 - subdivision plans mounted on one side and two New Westminster District Gp 1 - subdivision plans mounted on the other side. Side A: 1. Blueprint "Plan / of Subdivision / of / Lot 6 / Group One / New Westminster District / Scale…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Map collection

Series: Survey and Subdivision plans series

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 4 plans : blueprint ink on paper mounted on 2 sides of cardboard 76 x 102 cm

Material Details: Scales [between 1:1584 and 1:3960]; Index number on edge of board reads: "16"

Scope and Content: Item consists of a large board of two New Westminster District Gp 1 - subdivision plans mounted on one side and two New Westminster District Gp 1 - subdivision plans mounted on the other side. Side A: 1. Blueprint "Plan / of Subdivision / of / Lot 6 / Group One / New Westminster District / Scale 5 chs = 1 in. / Map No 748" (Geographic location: Burnaby) 2. Blueprint "Plan / of Subdivision / of a Portion / of / Lot 29 / Group One / New Westminster Dist. / Scale 2 chs = 1 in. / Map No." Name identified in Block H is "Reichenbach" (Geographic location: Burnaby) Side B: 1. Blueprint "Plan / of Subdivision / of North 1/2 of Lot 80 / Group One / New Westminster District / Scale 3 chs = 1 in. / Map No 719" Plan is signed by: "Garden, Hermon & Burwell P.L.S. / Vancouver Jan. 23rd, 1893" (Geographic location: Burnaby) 2. Blueprint "Plan / of Subdivision / of Lot 79, Gr.1 / New Westminster Dist. / Scale 4 chas = 1 in. / Map No 536" Plan is signed by "Garden Hermon & Burwell / Provincial Land Surveyors". (Geographic location: Burnaby)

Creator: Garden, Hermon and Burwell

Accession Code: HV977.93.16

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1893-1910]

Media Type: Cartographic Material

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood); Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area; Edmonds Area; Cameron Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scale: 72

Notes: Title based on contents of file; Scale is measured in chains. (One chain equals 792 inches); The term "Lot" can also refer to a "District Lot”

Images

Subdivision plans in New Westminster District Group 1 – Burnaby
, [1893-1910] thumbnail

View at back of mushroom houses

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1969] (date of original), digitally copied 2013

Collection/Fonds: Stiglish family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy-print ; 9 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the equipment at the back of the mushroom houses used to get compost ready to be used in the mushroom houses.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [before 1969] (date of original), digitally copied 2013

Collection/Fonds: Stiglish family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w copy-print ; 9 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 552-005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2013-07

Scope and Content: Photograph of the equipment at the back of the mushroom houses used to get compost ready to be used in the mushroom houses.

Subjects: Agricultural Tools and Equipment; Agriculture - Farms

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "curing [illegible] - with compost on for mushroom houses / at back of mushroom houses no 5 and no 6"; Original spelling of surname was "Stiglich"