"Cemeteries" found 24 records

George & Mary Buxton Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1912

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

2 images

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

Exterior view of the George & Mary Buxton Residence, 2013.. View from the south.. thumbnail

Historic view of the George & Mary Buxton Residence, 1925. (View from the southeast. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 513-008. thumbnail

Application for Permit to Operate a Cemetery in NE 1/4 of DL 150

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73709

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 74044

Meeting Date: 9-Jun-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 74044

Meeting Date: 9-Jun-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 74044

9-Jun-1919 Meeting Minutes

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

2 documents

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

Report 73671

3-Mar-1919 Meeting Minutes

Bylaw Number: 239 - Cemetery Bylaw 1919

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/bylaw23209

Repository: Legislative Services

Bylaw Number: 239

Final Adoption: 1919 Jan 29

Format: Bylaws - Adopted

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

1 document

Repository: Legislative Services

Bylaw Number: 239

Final Adoption: 1919 Jan 29

Format: Bylaws - Adopted

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Bylaw 239

Cemetery Site, DL 150

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73213

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77198

Meeting Date: 27-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77198

Meeting Date: 27-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 77198

27-Jan-1919 Meeting Minutes

Cemetery Site in DL 150

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73177

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77178

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77178

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 77178

6-Jan-1919 Meeting Minutes

Proposed Cemetery Site, DL 150

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73195

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77190

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77190

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 77190

6-Jan-1919 Meeting Minutes

Petition re Proposed Cemetery

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73196

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77191

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77191

Meeting Date: 6-Jan-1919

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 77191

6-Jan-1919 Meeting Minutes

Ocean View Burial Park - Landscape

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Cemetery site.

Associated Dates: 1919

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

3 images

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

View of Ocean View Burial Park, 2015.. Landscape within Ocean View Burial Park.. thumbnail

View showing landscape of the cemetery, 2015. (Exterior Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. thumbnail

Historic view of the Ocean View Burial Park, 1930. (General view of the landscaping. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 306-002. thumbnail

Application for Approval of North-East Quarter DL 150 as a Cemetery Site

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport73149

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77159

Meeting Date: 23-Dec-1918

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77159

Meeting Date: 23-Dec-1918

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 77159

23-Dec-1918 Meeting Minutes

Ocean View Cemetery

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription1139

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1918-1956

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1918-1956

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2930

Accession Number: 2001-02

Media Type: Textual Record

City of Vancouver Proposal re Acquisition of DL 205 For Cemetery Site in Exchange for Site in DL 143 and 148

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport71917

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76373

Meeting Date: 14-Dec-1917

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76373

Meeting Date: 14-Dec-1917

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76373

14-Dec-1917 Meeting Minutes

Protest Against Use by City of Vancouver of Portion of DL 205 for Cemetery Purposes

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport71838

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76339

Meeting Date: 22-Oct-1917

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76339

Meeting Date: 22-Oct-1917

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76339

22-Oct-1917 Meeting Minutes

Provincial Board of Health re Cemetery Site at Douglas Road and Edmonds Street

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport74465

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81039

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81039

Meeting Date: 11-Sep-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 81039

11-Sep-1916 Meeting Minutes

Cemetery site (proposed) - Douglas Road and Edmonds Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record and cartographic material

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and report on the proposal to create a cemetery site at Douglas Road and Edmonds Street. File also includes a linen plan of the area.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record and cartographic material

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2854

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and report on the proposal to create a cemetery site at Douglas Road and Edmonds Street. File also includes a linen plan of the area.

Media Type: Textual Record; Cartographic Material

Notes: Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.

Road Tax on Employee's at Cemetery Site

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80225

Meeting Date: 21-Jun-1915

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80225

Meeting Date: 21-Jun-1915

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80225

21-Jun-1915 Meeting Minutes

Gillis family fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914-1940 (date of originals), copied 2011

Collection/Fonds: Gillis family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 4 photographs (jpeg)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of scanned photographs of the members of the Gillis family.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914-1940 (date of originals), copied 2011

Collection/Fonds: Gillis family fonds

Physical Description: 4 photographs (jpeg)

Material Details: Records exist only in electronic format

Description Level: Fonds

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2011-10

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of scanned photographs of the members of the Gillis family.

History: Duncan Gillis was born on March 25, 1892, in Vancouver, B.C., to James Gillis and Isabelle (Adams) Gillis. He had four older siblings: Isabel, Allan, James, and Marion. Duncan died on April 2, 1985, in Kamloops, B.C. James and Isabelle were from New Brunswick and lived in Minnesota for a time, which is where the three oldest children were born, and then came to British Columbia and pioneered in Yennadon (Maple Ridge) in 1890. Florence Ethel Denton was born on December 9, 1894, in Vancouver, B.C. to Edwin Denton and Elizabeth Anne (Zinn) Denton. She had three siblings: John, Edwin, and Beatrice. Florence died on February 28, 1962, in Kamloops, B.C. Edwin Denton was born in England and met Elizabeth in Ohio were she was born. They were married in 1890 in Vancouver. Florence’s older brother, John Montague Denton, was born on August 7, 1892. He enlisted on October 6, 1915, as part of the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) 72nd Batalion and was killed in France on November 1, 1916, at the age of 24. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Duncan married Florence on June 27, 1914, in Eburne, B.C. Florence was the first schoolteacher at the newly built school in Yennadon (Maple Ridge), which was built by Duncan’s father James in 1913. This is how they met. Duncan was working as a carpenter and saw filer before enlisting on January 8, 1916, at the age of 23. He served overseas and was captured as a prisoner of war (POW) for a time. When Duncan returned to Canada, he and Florence had three sons: Boyd Leslie “Bud” born on January 7, 1920; Norman Montague born on August 20, 1921; and Donald Allan Gillis born on February 23, 1923. They raised their family in Burnaby, B.C., and lived there until 1960, then moving to Kamloops, B.C. Bud served overseas as a Flying Officer (Wireless Gunner) during World War II for the 428 (RCAF) Squadron. He was on his fifteenth operation and took part in the raid on Aachem on the night of July 13 (14), 1943, when the plane was shot down over Holland. It was later determined that he had been captured as a POW at Stalag 6 and wasn’t released until May 14, 1945, returning home in August of 1945. He married Mary Irene Thoen and had five children: James, Steven, Donna, Gregory, and Pamela. Boyd was also a carpenter and saw filer and had a saw shop in Kamloops where he raised his family. He also enjoyed woodworking in his spare time and built three airplanes. Boyd died in 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta. Norman Montague served overseas as a Flight Engineer Sergeant during World War II for the 138 RCAF Squadron. His plane crashed in the woods while attempting to land at RAF Woodridge, England, returning from an operational flight. He was pronounced dead on admission to hospital, December 17, 1943, at the age of 22. He is buried in Rushden Cemetery, Northamptonshire, England. Donald served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve during World War II. He enlisted on May 9, 1942, and was a Signalman on a Corvette in the Atlantic. In 1944, after hearing of the loss of his two older brothers, the RCNR moved him to the Pacific, where he was until November 9, 1945. He married May Yule Ferrier and had two children, Robert and Barbara. Donald graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1951 with a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering. He worked for the City of Burnaby for five years and for the Greater Vancouver Regional District for 32 years, while living in Burnaby, B.C. and raising his family. He retired to the Sunshine Coast, Halfmoon Bay, B.C. in 1988, where he still lives today.