"Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)" found 11 records

Building and opening the Digney Speedway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1948 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 47sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent film segment identified as Reel 16. The film footage shows land being cleared to make way for the Digney Speedway located near the corner of Irmin Street and MacPherson Avenue, one of the men seen in this footage clearing the land is named Lucky Fordham. The film continue…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1948 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 47sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-16

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent film segment identified as Reel 16. The film footage shows land being cleared to make way for the Digney Speedway located near the corner of Irmin Street and MacPherson Avenue, one of the men seen in this footage clearing the land is named Lucky Fordham. The film continues with footage of a press dinner in the garden of Andy Digney's home on Bonsor Avenue in Burnaby and is followed with footage of the Digney Speedway in operation for the grand opening on July 8, 1948. Midget cars and jalopies (stock cars) can be seen racing on the speedway. Some of the footage of the raceway pit and races switches to black and white.The film closes with colour footage of a truck moving Lucky Fordham's house from Bonsor Ave to the speedway.

Subjects: Sports - Automobile Racing

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney Speedway; Fordham, Lucky

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood); Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Clinton-Glenwood Area; Maywood Area

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Building and opening the Digney Speedway, [between 1948 and 1949]

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Digney family at Bonsor Avenue and family outings

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1946 and 1947]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (13 min., 10 sec.) : digital,col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 15. Film footage opens with Andy and Alice Digney in the yard of the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue and their son Ernest Frank (Dig) and his wife Dorothy (Dot) with thier infant son Paul at age 6 months and later as a toddler wi…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1946 and 1947]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (13 min., 10 sec.) : digital,col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-15

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 15. Film footage opens with Andy and Alice Digney in the yard of the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue and their son Ernest Frank (Dig) and his wife Dorothy (Dot) with thier infant son Paul at age 6 months and later as a toddler with a variety of family members. Footage also includes a view of Prince George, family members with Elephants and ponies from the Bible Brothers Circus, the Crystal Pool and Butchart Gardens in Victoria. The film closes with Paul, grandpa Dig and the family dog, Nero back in the yard of their home on Bonsor Avenue.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Animals; Animals - Horses; Animals - Dogs

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney, Paul; Digney, Dorothy; Digney, Alice

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Digney family at Bonsor Avenue and family outings, [between 1946 and 1947]

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Digney family in Burnaby

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 17sec.) : digital, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized film colour segment identified as Reel 12. The film is a compilation of Digney family events. The film opens with children Paul and Bruce Digney running around the Digney family yard at their home on Bonsor Avenue with Andy and Ernest (Dig) Digney looking on. This is followed by…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (5 min., 17sec.) : digital, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized film colour segment identified as Reel 12. The film is a compilation of Digney family events. The film opens with children Paul and Bruce Digney running around the Digney family yard at their home on Bonsor Avenue with Andy and Ernest (Dig) Digney looking on. This is followed by interspersed footage of the family's pet dog Nero and puppies along with some brief glimpses of the Royal visit (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) and cavilicade in 1939 along Kingsway. The film then switches to footage of Digney family Christmas festivities, a cat playing with a fish in a bowl and summer time at Pelican Lake in the 1940s and ends with a dog playing with a ball.

Subjects: Events - Parades; Animals - Dogs; Holidays - Christmas; Animals - Cats

Names: Digney, Andy; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Digney, Bruce; Digney, Paul

Media Type: Moving Images

Photographer: Digney, Andy

Creator: Digney, Andy

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue; Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Digney family in Burnaby, [between 1939 and 1959]

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Gardner Family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1944 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Gardner family and other relatives. Identified: (front) Urban Gardner (brother) with pet dog, Toby; (2nd row, left to right) Will Swain (uncle visiting from Winnipeg), Hazel Gardner Willis (sister), Fred Willis (husband of Hazel); (back row, left to right) Nell Pentland (aunt vis…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1944 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-474

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Gardner family and other relatives. Identified: (front) Urban Gardner (brother) with pet dog, Toby; (2nd row, left to right) Will Swain (uncle visiting from Winnipeg), Hazel Gardner Willis (sister), Fred Willis (husband of Hazel); (back row, left to right) Nell Pentland (aunt visiting from Winnipeg), Sarah Gardner (mother), Harry Gardner (father), and an unidentified woman. This later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Gardner, Harry Norman; Gardner, Sarah Ann Swain; Gardner, Urban; Pentland, Nell; Swain, Will; Willis, Fred; Willis, Hazel Gardner

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

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Gardner Family, 1944 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Gardner Family Chicken Farm

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Harry Gardner and Sarah Gardner in front of the property they rented for use as a chicken farm. 2604 Fern Avenue was located across from the family home, and for two years the family used it as a fryer chicken and egg farm. The Bonsor recreation centre was later buil…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-472

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Harry Gardner and Sarah Gardner in front of the property they rented for use as a chicken farm. 2604 Fern Avenue was located across from the family home, and for two years the family used it as a fryer chicken and egg farm. The Bonsor recreation centre was later built there after it became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

Subjects: Agriculture - Farms

Names: Gardner, Harry Norman; Gardner, Sarah Ann Swain

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fern Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Gardner Family Chicken Farm, 1927 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Gardner family farm

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Gardner and a pet goat at the family chicken farm. The centre house in the background is the family home across Fern Avenue. This area later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-473

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Hazel Gardner and a pet goat at the family chicken farm. The centre house in the background is the family home across Fern Avenue. This area later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

Subjects: Animals - Goats; Agriculture - Farms

Names: Willis, Hazel Gardner

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fern Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

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Gardner family farm, 1927 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Gardner family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Gardner family home at 2619 Fern Avenue, which later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue. The house was built before the First World War, and the Gardners moved into it in 1925.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-470

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Gardner family home at 2619 Fern Avenue, which later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue. The house was built before the First World War, and the Gardners moved into it in 1925.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fern Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Gardner family home, 1925 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

G.R. Heyworth

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.7 x 8.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of G.R. Heyworth standing outside Jubilee Drug Store, Jubilee Avenue and Imperial Street (later the location of Bonsor Park, 6550 Bonsor Avenue). Signs read, "Jubilee Drug [Store] / G.R. [Heyworth]" and "Ask for Keystone Brand School Supplies." Magazines and school supplies are display…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Heyworth family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.7 x 8.9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 187-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-38

Scope and Content: Photograph of G.R. Heyworth standing outside Jubilee Drug Store, Jubilee Avenue and Imperial Street (later the location of Bonsor Park, 6550 Bonsor Avenue). Signs read, "Jubilee Drug [Store] / G.R. [Heyworth]" and "Ask for Keystone Brand School Supplies." Magazines and school supplies are displayed in the window. Note the dirt road.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Stores; Occupations - Entrepreneurs

Names: Heyworth, G.R.; Jubilee Drug Store

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "5580"

Geographic Access: Jubilee Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

G.R. Heyworth, [192-] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Harry and Sara Gardner

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harry Norman Gardner and his wife, Sarah Ann Gardner. They had two children: Hazel and Urban. This photograph was taken in the garden of the family home at 2619 Fern Avenue, which later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-471

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harry Norman Gardner and his wife, Sarah Ann Gardner. They had two children: Hazel and Urban. This photograph was taken in the garden of the family home at 2619 Fern Avenue, which later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.

Names: Gardner, Harry Norman; Gardner, Sarah Ann Swain

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fern Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Harry and Sara Gardner, 1928 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Jubilee Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.4 x 7.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of stores on Jubilee Avenue looking north from Imperial Street (later the location of Bonsor Park, 6550 Bonsor Avenue). Signs visible read; "Jubilee Drug Store," "Drugs," "Jubilee [Mercantile?] Co. / Groceries," "Nabob Tea," and "[Carvers or Corvers]." An accompanying description in the…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [192-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Heyworth family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.4 x 7.1 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 187-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-38

Scope and Content: Photograph of stores on Jubilee Avenue looking north from Imperial Street (later the location of Bonsor Park, 6550 Bonsor Avenue). Signs visible read; "Jubilee Drug Store," "Drugs," "Jubilee [Mercantile?] Co. / Groceries," "Nabob Tea," and "[Carvers or Corvers]." An accompanying description in the accession file states that a man named Pat Flannagan ran the grocery.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Stores; Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards

Names: Jubilee Drug Store; Jubilee Mercantile Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "5272"

Geographic Access: Jubilee Avenue; Bonsor Avenue

Street Address: 6550 Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Marlborough Area

Images

Jubilee Avenue, [192-] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Paul Digney and family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1948 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 21 sec.) : digital, col., si.

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 13. Film provides footage of Paul Digney as a young child as he interacts with family members and pet dogs at the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue in Burnaby. The film contains views of the Digney family home, yard and neighborhoo…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1948 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 film clip (10 min., 21 sec.) : digital, col., si.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-003-13

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2014-04

Scope and Content: Item is a digitized silent colour film segment identified as Reel 13. Film provides footage of Paul Digney as a young child as he interacts with family members and pet dogs at the Digney family home on Bonsor Avenue in Burnaby. The film contains views of the Digney family home, yard and neighborhood in summer and winter time. Some of the footage shows some wear.