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- Friends of Interurban 1223 1
- Hayes, Derek, 1947- 2
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- Luxton, Donald, 1954- 1
Canada : an illustrated history
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1430
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Hayes, Derek, 1947-
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Call Number
- 971 HAY
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781553652595
- 9781553650461
- 1553650468
- 1553652592
- Call Number
- 971 HAY
- Author
- Hayes, Derek, 1947-
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Physical Description
- 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada--History--Pictorial works
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 282) and index.
Fighting for Canada : Chinese and Japanese Canadians in military service
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1368
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0662691318
- Call Number
- 971.004 MCL
- Place of Publication
- [Ottawa]
- Publisher
- Department of National Defence
- Publication Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- 112, 112 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "To / Burnaby Village Museum, / From / Chinese Canadian Military / Museum / Howe Lee / President / 2008 May 08" handwritten in ink on inside cover of book.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Chinese--Canada--History--20th century
- Japanese--Canada--History--20th century
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Chinese Canadian
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese Canadian
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Chinese Canadian
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Japanese Canadian
- Canada--Armed Forces--History
- Notes
- In English and French, with French on inverted pages.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-112).
Historical atlas of Canada : Canada's history illustrated with original maps
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1455
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Hayes, Derek, 1947-
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Call Number
- 911.71 HAY
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1553650778
- 9781550549188
- 1550549189
- 9781553650775
- Call Number
- 911.71 HAY
- Author
- Hayes, Derek, 1947-
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 35 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Canada--Historical geography--Maps
- Canada--Discovery and exploration--Maps
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.
- Oversized book
The one-room school in Canada
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary740
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Cochrane, Jean, 1932-
- Publication Date
- c2001
- Call Number
- 371.00971 COC
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1894004698
- Call Number
- 371.00971 COC
- Author
- Cochrane, Jean, 1932-
- Place of Publication
- Calgary
- Publisher
- Fifth House
- Publication Date
- c2001
- Physical Description
- 168 p. : ill.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Rural Schools--Canada--History
- Education--Canada--History
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
The triumph of citizenship : the Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1415
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Roy, Patricia, 1939-
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Call Number
- 971.1004951 ROY
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780774813815
- 9780774813808
- Call Number
- 971.1004951 ROY
- Author
- Roy, Patricia, 1939-
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, BC
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Physical Description
- vii, 390 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Chinese--British Columbia--History
- Japanese--British Columbia--History
- British Columbia--Race relations
- British Columbia--Politics and government
- British Columbia--Emigration and immigration--History
- British Columbia--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects
- Immigrants--British Columbia--History
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-377) and index.
- Limited edition of 400 copies.
Canadian Heritage Information Network, CHIN, the year in perspective = Réseau canadien d'information sur le patrimoine (RCIP), un regard sur l'année
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6507
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1910-2518
- 0662495195
- Call Number
- 069 CHI
- Place of Publication
- Gatineau, Que.
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Museums--Government policy--Canada
- Periodicals
- Notes
- Text in English and French on inverted pages.
Household counts : Canadian households and families in 1901
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1420
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780802038029
- 9780802038609
- 0802038603
- 0802038026
- Call Number
- 306.850971 SAG
- Contributor
- Sager, Eric W., 1946-
- Baskerville, Peter A.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 485 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Families--Canada--History--20th century
- Households--Canada--History--20th century
- Families--Canada--Statistics
- Canada--Population--History
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents: Transitions in household and family structure : Canada in 1901 and 1991 / Stacie D. A. Burke -- Canadian fertility in 1901 : a bird's-eye view / Peter Gossage, Danielle Gauvreau -- Family geographies : a national perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Family geographies : an urban perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Rural to urban migration : finding house hold complexity in a New World environment / Kenneth M. Sylvester -- Family geographies : Montreal, Canada's metropolis / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen -- Families, fostering, and flying the coop : lessons in liberal cultural formation, 1871-1901 / Gordon Darroch -- Canadian children who lived with one parent in 1901 / Bettina Bradbury -- Boundaries of age : exploring the patterns of young-old age among men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901 / Lisa Dillon -- Inequality, earnings, and the Canadian working class in 1901 / Eric W. Sager -- 'Leaving God behind when they crossed the Rocky Mountains' : exploring unbelief in turn-of-the-century British Columbia / Lynne Marks -- Giving birth : families and the medical marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901 / Peter Baskerville -- Language, ancestry, and the competing constructions of identity in turn-of-the-century Canada / Chad Gaffield -- Constructing normality and confronting deviance : familial ideologies, household structures, and divorce in the 1901 Canadian census / Annalee Lepp. Edited by Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville
The laws of heaven : the values behind 100 years of success
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1362
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Rockett, Eve
- Publication Date
- c2003
- Call Number
- 381.148 ROC
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969758537
- Call Number
- 381.148 ROC
- Author
- Rockett, Eve
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- H. Y. Louie Co. Limited
- Publication Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- 95 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "Gift from H.Y. Louie Co. / Oct 17/09 ", written in ink on piece of paper inserted in front cover page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver--History
- Supermarkets--Canada, Western--History
- Retail trade--Canada, Western--History
- Wholesale trade--Canada, Western--History
- Notes
- "Produced for H.Y. Louie Co. Limited by The Art Department, a division of Canada Wide Magazines & Communications"--T.p. verso.
Canadascope: Canada's international magazine for group/tour & travel planners, winter 2008, vol. 9, no.1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6509
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1719-9476
- Call Number
- 917.104 CAN v, 9, no.1
- Contributor
- James, Gary
- Place of Publication
- Montreal, Que.
- Publisher
- Canadascope
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- v. : col. ill., maps ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Tourism--Canada
- Canada--Description and travel
- Periodicals
- Notes
- "President, publisher: James D. Smith"
- "Editor: Gary James
Makúk : a new history of Aboriginal-white relations
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1426
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780774811408
- 9780774811392
- 0774811390
- Call Number
- 970.1004 LUT
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Publication Date
- c2008
- Physical Description
- xii, 431 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Whites--Relations with Indians
- Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Economic conditions
- Indigenous peoples--Employment--British Columbia
- Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--History
- Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Government Relations
- Indigenous peoples--Canada--Government relations
- British Columbia--Ethnic relations
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-401) and index.
Sears catalogue : fun in the sun
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3863
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Publication Date
- 2004
- Call Number
- 381 SEA
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV004.81.1
- Call Number
- 381 SEA
- Author
- Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Sears Canada Inc.
- Publication Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 435 p. : ill. : 26 cm.
- Inscription
- Sears / Catalogue / Fun in the Sun
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Manufactures
- Sears Canada
- Catalogs
- Notes
- Includes index.
- "Featuring our Swimwear Event, including a new swimsuit finder. Plus, look inside for our Window Event" --Cover
In the shadow by the sea : recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5173
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Call Number
- 971.133 PRI Copy 2
of the exceptional photographs of the Kapoor Sawmill and its
staff.
We are grateful for the generosity of the Shell Canada Limited for their $3,000 grant which
provided this book with its beautiful bound cover and the ability to distribute free copies ofthis
book to every public school library in Burnaby. This grant
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282885
- Call Number
- 971.133 PRI Copy 2
- Contributor
- Wolf, Jim
- Pride, Harry, 1925-
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Physical Description
- 246 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Industries--British Columbia--Burnaby--History
- Barnet Marine Park--Burnaby, B.C.
- Geographic Access
- Barnet Road
- Burrard Inlet
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 246) and index.
- "edited by Harry Pride and Jim Wolf"
- Copy 2 of 2
Digital Books
Life with the Moores of Hart House : pioneer days on Burnaby's Deer Lake
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1179
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Call Number
- 971.1 PRI COPY 1
LIFE WITH THE MOORES
OF
HART HOUSE
Pioneer Days on Burnaby's Deer Lake
��LIFE WITH THE MOORES
OF
HART HOUSE
Pioneer Days on Burnaby's Deer Lake
Harry Pride
^ ^ • v ^ C C i t y o f
XiyBurnaby
Published by the City of Burnaby
Community Heritage Commission
2002
�National Library of Canada Cataloguing
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282877
- Call Number
- 971.1 PRI COPY 1
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby, Community Heritage Commission
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- iv, 92 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Inscription
- "To Burnaby Village Museum / Harry Pride", handwritten in ink on title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Moore family
- Hart House (Burnaby, B.C.)--History
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pioneers
- Historic buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87) and index.
- Signed by the author.
- 2 copies held : copy 1.
Digital Books
Burnaby's heritage : an inventory of buildings and structures
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5437
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Luxton, Donald, 1954-
- Wolf, Jim
- Edition
- Rev.
- Publication Date
- 2011
- c2007
- Call Number
- 971.133 LUX COPY 1
s a n d S t r u c t u r e s
�Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Luxton, Donald, 1954-
Burnaby’s Heritage : an inventory of buildings and structures / Donald
Luxton, Jim Wolf.
Written by Donald Luxton & Jim Wolf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-9692828-9-3
1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282893
- Call Number
- 971.133 LUX COPY 1
- Edition
- Rev.
- Author
- Luxton, Donald, 1954-
- Wolf, Jim
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2011
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 157 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Architecture
- Historic buildings
- Buildings
- Historic sites
- Subjects
- Buildings
- Buildings - Heritage
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 2 copies held: copy 1.
Digital Books
Land of promise : Robert Burnaby's letters from colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5465
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR COPY 3
Burnaby, Numbers: 24, 29, 39 and 40 reproduced with permission of
Pat Burnaby and Meg Kennedy Shaw.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Burnaby, Robert, 1828-1878
Land of Promise
Includes biographical references and index.
ISBN 0-9692828-5-0
1.Burnaby, Robert
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282850
- 9780969282853
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby, Robert--Correspondence
- Merchants--British Columbia--Correspondence
- British Columbia--History--1849-1871
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
Tram memories : in celebration of the restoration of Interurban 1223
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5863
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Call Number
- 388.460971 TRA
Burnaby Lake Station which is in my basement. Did you know that
these station lights were made from enamel wash basins with a wooden insert and complete
with four light bulbs?
Our friends have since “passed on” and the property at Burris and Grandview Highway
(Canada Way) has long since been sold off
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 388.460971 TRA
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Contributor
- Friends of Interurban 1223
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Printer
- City of Burnaby Printshop
- Physical Description
- 91 p. : ill., map ;,20 cm
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electric railroads
- Local transit
- Street-railroads
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Notes
- Editor : Pixie McGeachie
Images
Digital Books
Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19150
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1950-2022
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 3 sound recordings (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) + 65 photographs + 26 photographs (jpg) + 1 portfolio (15 col. photographs + 12 col. laser prints) + 1 col. laser print + 6 business cards + 1 identification card + 1 booklet
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of an oral history interview with Jimmy Chow and his wife, Donna Polos; photographs of Jimmy Chow and his family soon after they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s as well as a sampling of photographs and records documenting Jimmy Chow's career in the film industry. Fonds is arranged…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow and Donna Polos fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 3 sound recordings (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) + 65 photographs + 26 photographs (jpg) + 1 portfolio (15 col. photographs + 12 col. laser prints) + 1 col. laser print + 6 business cards + 1 identification card + 1 booklet
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of an oral history interview with Jimmy Chow and his wife, Donna Polos; photographs of Jimmy Chow and his family soon after they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s as well as a sampling of photographs and records documenting Jimmy Chow's career in the film industry. Fonds is arranged into series: 1) Jimmy Chow and Donna Polos interviews series 2) Jimmy Chow family photographs series 3) Property master photographs series 4) Property master records series
- History
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow was born in Lin Pong Lee, Hoiping, China in 1948. In 1950, Jimmy Chow and his mother, Gim Gee Chow (1913-1991) fled China to escape the Communist Revolution and to be reunited with his father, Robin Chung Dip Chow (1906-1990) who’d immigrated to Canada many years earlier. Jimmy’s elder sister Shao-Lin Chow stayed behind in China. Jimmy’s father, Robin Chung Dip Chow immigrated to Canada in 1921 at 14 years of age and was forced to pay the Chinese head tax of $500. In 1950, Jimmy and his mother first fled to Hong Kong before immigrating to Canada and arriving in Vancouver. Jimmy Chow’s birth name is Hipman Chow but when he arrived in Canada, his father indicated that he needed an English name and he was given the name “Jimmy” but retained his birth name “Hipman Chow”. Over the years, Jimmy has also used the name “James H. Chow” and is often credited by this name in the film industry. For the first four years after immigrating, Jimmy and his parents lived in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec where his father had work in hotels and restaurants. While living in Asquith, Saskatchewan Jimmy attended school and began to learn English. In 1954, Jimmy and his parents returned to Vancouver, first living in the area of Strathcona before settling in the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant where they purchased a house located on 15th Avenue east of Main Street. While living in Mount Pleasant, Jimmy attended both elementary and high school. While attending high school, Jimmy began working at the local grocery store where he worked for many years living at home and saving his money. In 1970 while attending Vancouver City College, Jimmy met his future wife Donna Polos. Two years later, they moved in together, married in 1981 and started a family. Jimmy and Donna first lived in North Burnaby before purchasing a house on Victory Street in Burnaby where they raised their three children. Growing up in a traditional Chinese Canadian family, Jimmy was always one who went against the grain. Although his father wanted him to get a business degree, Jimmy had aspirations for a different career path. Through the referral of a friend, he entered the film industry in 1973 working for CBC Vancouver. While working at the CBC, Jimmy gained valuable experience working on the set of the television series The Beachcombers, which launched his career in the film industry. Over a 45 year career, Jimmy worked on over 50 blockbuster movies, historical period films, science fiction films and fantasy films, where he honed in on his expertise as a set decorator, art director and property master. He built an international reputation through working with production companies, prop makers and antique sellers across the globe. As a property master in the film industry, Jimmy Chow has been responsible for designing, managing, and sourcing props for films such as: The BFG, Warcraft: The Beginning, X-Men 2, Fantastic Four, Watchman, Tron: Legacy, Little Women, Seven Years in Tibet, Shanghai Noon, The Shipping News, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Changeling, Man of Steel (Superman), Snow Falling on Cedars, Legends of the Fall, And the Sea Will Tell, Once a Thief and many more. With Jimmy's many years of professional experience in the film industry, he has been a union member of IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians...) from July 1979, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science from 2018 and has worked as a guest lecturer in film production at Capilano University and Langara University. He was also a key contributor to the Burnaby Village Museum’s 2014 temporary exhibition Burnaby Makes Movies. Donna Polos was born in Vancouver in 1949 to parents Mayme "May" Helen Tillikana Polos (1931-1977) and Donald James Polos (1926-2017). Donna’s maternal grandparents, Elvi Tienhara and Toiva Tillikana immigrated to Canada from Helsinki, Finland. Donna’s paternal grandmother, Pauline Chimiki Polos emigrated from Ukraine to Argentina and then to Winnipeg. Donna’s paternal grandfather, James "Jimmy" Kostopolus emigrated as an orphan from Sparta Greece at the age of 12 years. In 1908, he first immigrated to the United States where he was denied entry so immigrated to Canada, entering through Halifax at Pier 17. When immigrating, James changed his last name to "Polos". Jimmy Polos arrived in Halifax with only five dollars in his pocket. He lived in Halifax for many years before making his way to Vancouver where he established three restaurants and raised his family. James was the proprietor of three restaurants in Burnaby including; the Home Apple Pie Café (1941-1944) located on East Hastings near Princess Avenue; Jimmy’s Café (1945-1955) located on East Hastings near Hawks Avenue and another restaurant located near 10th Avenue and Alma Street. Donna grew up with her family in Vancouver, first living in the downtown eastside before moving to a home near Joyce Station. Donna attended elementary school and high school while growing up in the neighbourhood of Joyce Station. Donna moved out of her family home at 21 years of age and lived with roommates before moving in with Jimmy Chow in 1972. Donna attended Vancouver City College and the University of British Columbia where she obtained her teaching degree in 1974. Donna first taught at Gilmore Elementary School before being hired to teach at Clinton Elementary School where she taught for nine years. While raising their three children, Donna worked part time teaching in schools in Burnaby. In 1991, after a near death experience, Donna became interested in fine art and took drawing and watercolour painting classes. This experience led her to experimenting with different painting techniques on paper and fabric. In 2008, Donna retired from teaching but continued her art career often working as an Artist in Residence at various schools and exhibiting her work. While living in Burnaby Donna has been politically active with a particular passion for heritage, housing and preserving the natural environment. Donna was instrumental in advocating and petitioning for the establishment of a tree bylaw in Burnaby which was eventually adopted by the City.
- Creator
- Chow, Hipman "Jimmy"
- Polos, Donna
- Accession Code
- BV022.21
- BV023.11
- Date
- 1950-2022
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Graphic Material
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Hipman "Jimmy" Chow's name in Cantonese is Chow Hipman and in Mandarin is Zhou Xiamin.
British Columbia : land of promises
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1422
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0195410483
- Call Number
- 971.1 ROY
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 216 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- British Columbia--History
- British Columbia--History--Pictorial works
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-211) and index.