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Bylaw Amendments Pertaining to Cemeteries and the Preservation of Trees
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport5234
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 61910
- Meeting Date
- 18-Jan-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 2
- Item No.
- 3
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 61910
- Meeting Date
- 18-Jan-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 2
- Item No.
- 3
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Bylaw Amendments Pertaining to Cemeteries and the Preservation of Trees - Response to 1999 Jan. 18 Delegation
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport5148
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 62013
- Meeting Date
- 1-Mar-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 2
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 62013
- Meeting Date
- 1-Mar-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 7
- Item No.
- 2
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Frail memorials : the cemeteries of Langley
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1432
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Sommer, Warren, 1951-
- Publication Date
- c2005
- Call Number
- 971.133 SOM
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 971.133 SOM
- Author
- Sommer, Warren, 1951-
- Place of Publication
- Fort Langley, B.C.
- Publisher
- Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre
- Publication Date
- c2005
- Physical Description
- 104 p. : ill.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cemeteries
- British Columbia--History
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ocean View and Forest Lawn Cemeteries - Response to delegation
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport4920
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 62229
- Meeting Date
- 14-Jun-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 16
- Item No.
- 3
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 62229
- Meeting Date
- 14-Jun-1999
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 16
- Item No.
- 3
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Request for Provision in Municipal Act for Non-Exemption from Taxation of Private Cemeteries or Graveyards
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73351
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73671
- Meeting Date
- 3-Mar-1919
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 73671
- Meeting Date
- 3-Mar-1919
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Ocean View Burial Park - Landscape
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark629
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Cemetery site.
- Associated Dates
- 1919
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Imperial Street
- Associated Dates
- 1919
- Description
- Cemetery site.
- Heritage Value
- Burnaby’s landmark Ocean View Burial Park was British Columbia’s first non-sectarian cemetery created as a for-profit business enterprise. Organized by a group of local investors headed by Lieut. Col. G.H. Dorrell, the Ocean View Cemetery Company offered a place for burials that was not owned or associated with a civic government, religious or fraternal organization. The cemetery’s design was the vision of Albert F. Arnold, an officer of the Canadian Financiers Trust Company, who was “...always depressed by the lack of beauty in so many places of internment and inevitable neglect that finally reduced them to long-grassed places of unhappy memories.” One local newspaper described the landscape of the cemetery: "The design includes ornamental trees and shrubs, beautiful flower beds and smooth winding walks and drives, with a total absence of the usual somewhat ostentatious reminders of the harvest garnered by the grim reaper."
- Locality
- Alta Vista
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Suncrest Area
- Architect
- Albert F. Arnold
- Area
- 359280.00
- Contributing Resource
- Landscape Feature
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 4000 Imperial Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
George & Mary Buxton Residence
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark583
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Residential building.
- Associated Dates
- c.1912
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Buxton Street
- Associated Dates
- c.1912
- Description
- Residential building.
- Heritage Value
- George Searby Buxton (1867-1955), an English-born carpenter, built this Arts and Crafts dwelling and resided here with his wife and local teacher Mary Isabel Buxton (née Nattriss, 1865-1941). George and Mary are both buried in the picturesque St. Helen’s Anglican Church cemetery in Surrey. The house retains this style’s characteristic elements such as half-timbering, an oriel window and turned verandah supports, as well as its distinctive windows, which are casements in the lower portion of the frame and a fixed multi-paned sash in the upper. The original siding has been covered with a later coat of stucco. The house survives in well-maintained condition.
- Locality
- Central Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
- Area
- 868.85
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 4807 Buxton Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
![Archie and Dale in a cemetery, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2709-1.jpg?width=280)
Archie and Dale in a cemetery
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97313
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of two people, identified as Archie and Dale, in a cemetery. Photographs depict Archie and Dale looking at or posing with headstones and a close-up of an individual headstone.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-2709
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of two people, identified as Archie and Dale, in a cemetery. Photographs depict Archie and Dale looking at or posing with headstones and a close-up of an individual headstone.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Monuments - Gravestones
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Collected by editorial for use in a September 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Individuals identified by original file names of photographs
Images
![Archie and Dale in a cemetery, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2709-1.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0363_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19941
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.363
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
- Note in white ink on album page reads: "Possibly Robert's (Bob) Grave - Died from Flu"
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0363_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0364_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19942
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.364
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0364_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0365_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19943
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.365
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0365_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0366_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19944
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.366
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0366_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0367_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19945
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.367
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0367_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0368_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19946
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.368
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0368_001.jpg)
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0369_001.jpg?width=280)
Bob Love's grave covered with flowers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19947
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love covered with flowers in a cemetery. Bob Love died tragically in 1918 after succumbing to the Spanish Flu.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.369
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Bob Love's grave covered with flowers, [1918] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0369_001.jpg)
![Forest Lawn Memorial Park, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3130-1.jpg?width=280)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98050
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : b&w
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified individuals at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, protesting the City's report on the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Master Plan. Photographs depict an individual amongst felled trees and an individual holding a sign that reads "Corporate Spite!" in front of the gates.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : b&w
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3130
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of unidentified individuals at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, protesting the City's report on the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Master Plan. Photographs depict an individual amongst felled trees and an individual holding a sign that reads "Corporate Spite!" in front of the gates.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Protests and Demonstrations
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Collected by editorial for use in a March 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
- Street Address
- 3789 Royal Oak Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
Images
![Forest Lawn Memorial Park, [1999] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-3130-1.jpg)
![Grave site, [191-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0371_001.jpg?width=280)
Grave site
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19949
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [191-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a grave site with cross bordered by rocks. Two flower arrangements are situated on either side of cross. This could be the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love or a member of the Love or Stanley families.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a grave site with cross bordered by rocks. Two flower arrangements are situated on either side of cross. This could be the grave site of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love or a member of the Love or Stanley families.
- Subjects
- Cemeteries
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.371
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [191-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-09
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)
Images
![Grave site, [191-] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2022/2022_0032_0371_001.jpg)
Interview with Bill Gruenthal
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19636
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (wav) (74 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (74 min., 37 sec.)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Bill Gruenthal conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on July 31 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:27:01 Bill Gruenthal provides details on his family background, his early life experiences, how he got into the insurance business,…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Many Voices Project Interviews subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 sound recordings (wav) (74 min., 37 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (74 min., 37 sec.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Eric Damer Interviewee: Bill Gruenthal Location of Interview: Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: July 31, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:14:37 Digital master recordings (wav) were recorded onto two separate audio tracks, edited and merged together and converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Bill Gruenthal conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Registrar, Eric Damer on July 31 2023. 00:00:00 – 00:27:01 Bill Gruenthal provides details on his family background, his early life experiences, how he got into the insurance business, his knowledge and interest in Judaism, places that he and his wife lived before moving to Burnaby, family life in Burnaby and his political involvement in running for the Burnaby school board. 00:27:02 – 00:42:50 Bill Gruenthal talks about the Burquest Jewish Community Association, it’s background and his involvement, experiences of discrimination in his career, a brief history of the Jewish people and some cultural traditions. 00:42:51 – 00:56:04 Bill Gruenthal mentions some of the charities that he supports including Burnaby Hospital, his volunteer work within the community and community organizations including the Nikkei Place Foundation and shares more details on his insurance career. 00:56:05 – 01:14:37 Bill Gruenthal shares information about his Burnaby neighbourhood and Jewish funeral customs and provides his impressions of new development at Brentwood, Burnaby Council and other development projects in Burnaby.
- History
- Interviewee biography: Bill Gruenthal was born in the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, in 1935 after his parents had fled Germany in advance of the then worsening political situation. Bill’s father died in 1942; some years later his mother remarried to an Irish-born senior civil servant in that government. He had a difficult and somewhat dangerous job. Soon after marriage, the family, including Bill’s older brother, Martin, immigrated to Canada in January 1947 on the strength of his step-father’s British Passport. They traveled via New York, where Bill’s uncle and his family resided and who put up the family. Later that month, the parents travelled by CP rail from Montreal to Vancouver, followed by Bill and his brother in March 1947 who travelled from New York to White Rock on an American railroad. While passing through the Fraser Valley Bill’s parents took an interest in Silverdale, a small hamlet west of Mission where the four eventually settled. Bill finished High School in Mission and soon joined the insurance industry. Bill connected with the Jewish Community in Vancouver where he met his soon-to-be wife. Upon marriage they were transferred to Calgary; after five years suffering its cold weather they were transferred back to Vancouver. They settled in Burnaby in 1966 as an affordable neighbourhood with easy access to his office downtown Vancouver. Outside work, Bill helped raise his family of three daughters who all graduated Burnaby High School (Alpha). They joined Temple Sholom in Vancouver, and he volunteered and still volunteers for a number of non-profits, including The Jewish Museum and Archives and Nikkei Place Foundation (Burnaby). He was an early long-term supporter and a past president of Burquest Jewish Community Association, mostly involving persons from Burnaby, New Westminster, and the Tri-Cities area (hence the name). He ran for political office in Burnaby in 1976 but was not elected. He delivers food in Burnaby for the Food Bank and is a donor to many worthy causes including Burnaby General Hospital. Interviewer biography: Eric Damer is a Burnaby Village Museum Interpreter, Museum Registrar, Researcher and Blacksmith. Eric pounded hot steel for the first time in 1977 in junior high. Fifteen years later, he joined Burnaby Village Museum where he has smithed for three decades. He also provides historical research for museum exhibits and special projects. Outside the museum, Eric is a social historian with a special interest in educational history.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Migration
- Persons - Jewish Canadians
- Transportation
- Transportation - Rail
- Religions - Judaism
- Cemeteries
- Organizations
- Elections
- Names
- Gruenthal, Bill
- Gruenthal, Noemi Yadlow
- O'Connor, Herta Ingrid Gruenthal
- O'Connor, John
- Burquest
- Jacobson, Max Alec
- Temple Shalom
- Brentwood Shopping Centre
- Brentwood Park School
- Alpha Secondary School
- Burnaby School Board
- Responsibility
- Damer, Eric
- Accession Code
- BV023.16.14
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Planning Study Area
- Brentwood Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Transcription available
Documents
Audio Tracks
Interview with Bill Gruenthal, [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
Interview with Bill Gruenthal, [1950-2023] (interview content), interviewed 31 Jul. 2023
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2023_0016_0014_003.mp3Interview with Shanaz Khan
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription20284
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1956-2023] (interview content), interviewed 24 Sep. 2023
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (wav) (65 min., 54 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (63 min., 54 sec.)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Shanaz Khan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum registrar Rajdeep on September 24, 2023. 00:00:00- 00:09:59 Shanaz Khan shares information about herself, her family and life in Fiji before she immigrated to Vancouver in 1972 and her fi…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Museum Oral Histories series
- Subseries
- Many Voices Project Interviews subseries
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 sound recording (wav) (65 min., 54 sec.) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (63 min., 54 sec.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Rajdeep Interviewee: Shanaz Khan Location of Interview: Love farmhouse at Burnaby Village Museum Interview Date: September 24, 2023 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 01:05:54 Digital master recording (wav) was converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a recording of an oral history interview with Shanaz Khan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum registrar Rajdeep on September 24, 2023. 00:00:00- 00:09:59 Shanaz Khan shares information about herself, her family and life in Fiji before she immigrated to Vancouver in 1972 and her first experiences after immigrating to Vancouver including where her family lived, her work as an accountant for major banks in Vancouver, training and working as a chef and living in Surrey and Vancouver. 00:10:00 - 00:14:59 Shanaz shares experiences in her career as an accountant working in Vancouver and Tumbler Ridge and her experiences of racism that she faced in her workplace. Shanaz talks about her life after retirement and her volunteer work. 00:015:00 - 00:22:53 Shanaz talks about her life in Burnaby for the last 19 years and what she likes about living here. Shanaz recollects locations of stores in Vancouver where her family shopped to find traditional foods and where her family lived after immigrating. Shanaz shares some of her favourite traditional foods. 00:22:54 - 00:37:41 Shanaz recollects some of her childhood experiences growing up in Fiji and her experiences of swimming in Fiji, Hawaii and in Vancouver. Shanaz talks about her fitness regime and places that she likes to exercise in Burnaby including trails and green spaces and reflects on the changes to Burnaby with increased development, the cost of housing and the crime rate. 00:37:42 - 00:52:41 Shanaz talks about the traditional clothing and western clothing that she’s worn and accessed while living in Burnaby and Vancouver. Shanaz describes some traditional Islamic religious practices including the nikah (marriage), funerals, prayers, Eid, Hajj and her own personal practices as well as locations of mosques and cemeteries available to Muslims in the lower mainland. 00:52:42 - 01:05:54 Shanaz talks about her parent’s religious and ancestral background, her religious upbringing and the demographics of Fiji.
- History
- Interviewee biography: Shanaz Khan was born and raised in Suva, Fiji in the 1950's. In the early 1970's, Shanaz immigrated to Vancouver with her parents and younger brother. Shanaz attended John Oliver High School and took one year of accounting courses at Langara College. Over the years Shanaz worked as an accountant in major banks and for a mining company in Tumbler Ridge. Shanaz also worked as a chef at various restaurants and bakeries after completing training at a Vancouver Culinary School. Shanaz has made her home in Burnaby for the past 19 years. Following her retirement, Shanaz has volunteered for different organizations including the YWCA. Interviewer biography: Rajdeep was born and raised in the Lower Mainland and is of Punjabi (South Asian) descent. She has an Associate of Arts degree in Asian Studies from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She is a student in the Restoration of Natural Systems program at the University of Victoria. Rajdeep works at Simon Fraser University as a Program Assistant and as a researcher with the City of Burnaby. At Burnaby Village Museum, Rajdeep contributed to the exhibit “Truths Not Often Told: Being South Asian in Burnaby”.
- Creator
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Subjects
- Buildings - Religious - Mosques
- Cemeteries
- Ceremonies - Funerals
- Ceremonies - Weddings
- Education
- Housing
- Migration
- Occupations
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Religions - Islam
- Religions - Christianity
- Social Issues
- Social Issues - Racism
- Sports - Swimming
- Names
- Khan, Shanaz
- Responsibility
- Rajdeep
- Accession Code
- BV023.16.18
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1956-2023] (interview content), interviewed 24 Sep. 2023
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Transcription available
Documents
Audio Tracks
Interview with Shanaz Khan, [1956-2023] (interview content), interviewed 24 Sep. 2023
Interview with Shanaz Khan, [1956-2023] (interview content), interviewed 24 Sep. 2023
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2023_0016_0018_002.mp3![Lockout at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, [2005] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1956-2.jpg?width=280)
Lockout at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96273
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2005]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of Forest Lawn Memorial Park groundskeepers and maintenance workers on lockout. Photographs depict the workers, wearing "Construction & Specialized Workers' Union Local 1611 Locked Out by SCIC" signs, on the picket line outside of the cemetery gates.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2005]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-1956
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of Forest Lawn Memorial Park groundskeepers and maintenance workers on lockout. Photographs depict the workers, wearing "Construction & Specialized Workers' Union Local 1611 Locked Out by SCIC" signs, on the picket line outside of the cemetery gates.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a February 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Groundskeepers and maintainence [sic] workers at Burnaby's Forest Lawn Cemetery walk a picket line after they were locked out on Wednesday."
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
- Street Address
- 3789 Royal Oak Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
Images
![Lockout at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, [2005] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1956-2.jpg)