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Complete practical railroading : a complete series of text-books on modern railway transportation
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary4957
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV006.24.45
- Call Number
- 385 NAT
- Contributor
- International School of Engineering
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- International School of Engineering
- Publication Date
- c1911
- Printer
- Allied Printing
- Physical Description
- 492 p., xix : ill. : 18 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Trainmen--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Trainmen
- Railroads--Design and construction
- Railroads
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- "A series of text books prepared especially and exclusively for instruction on locomotive engineering by motive power superintendents, master mechanics, traveling engineers and mechanical experts associated with the International School of Engineering" -- Title page
- "Locomotive boilers and engines, their construction, care, operation and management, firemen's duties, heat, fuel combustion, injectors, lubrication, and the setting of valves. Also complete description of walschaert and other valve gears, their defects and how to remedy them" -- Title page
- Includes index.
Copper River and Northwestern Ry. : standard spiral tables
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2612
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Hawkins, E. C.
- Edition
- Rev.
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Call Number
- 385 HAW
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV974.23.4
- Call Number
- 385 HAW
- Edition
- Rev.
- Author
- Hawkins, E. C.
- Publisher
- Office of Chief Engineer Cordova, Alaska
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- "J. D. Smith" [handwritten on the inside front cover in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Alaska
- Railroads--Alaska
- Railroads--Alaska--Design and construction
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- "Compiled January 1908, Revised April 1909"
Delco systems : instruction, operation and care ; wiring diagrams, internal circuits of ignition relay, cut out relay, circuit breaking relay, vibrating regulator relay, coils, voltage regulator, switches, motor generators and all important parts and wiring diagrams of all Delco systems used on motor cars to date
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6415
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.48.26
- Call Number
- 629.2 PHI
- Place of Publication
- Dayton, Ohio
- Publisher
- Auto Electric Systems Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- c1915
- Series
- Information
- Physical Description
- 80 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Design and construction
- Delco Engineering Laboratories Company
- Automobiles--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Electronic organs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1075
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Anderson, H. Emerson
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publication Date
- c1960
- Call Number
- 786.9 AND
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 786.9 AND
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Author
- Anderson, H. Emerson
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, Ind.
- Publisher
- Howard W. Sams
- Publication Date
- c1960
- Physical Description
- 270 p. : ill. l 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electronic organ--Construction
Mission furniture : how to make it
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1351
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0921335903
- 9780921335900
- Call Number
- 684.104 MIS
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Publisher
- Algrove Pub.
- Publication Date
- c1999
- Physical Description
- 120 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Furniture, Mission--Design and construction
- Furniture making
- Notes
- Reprint of 3 part set published: Chicago : Popular Mechanics, 1909-1912.
- Includes indexes.
- "Over 150 projects"--Cover.
The player piano : an historical scrapbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1077
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Roehl, Harvey N.
- Publication Date
- c1958
- Call Number
- 789 ROE
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 789 ROE
- Author
- Roehl, Harvey N.
- Place of Publication
- Watkins Glen, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Century House
- Publication Date
- c1958
- Physical Description
- [112] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Player piano--History
- Player piano--Construction
Rebuilding the player piano
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1076
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Givens, Larry, 1937
- Publication Date
- c1963
- Call Number
- 789 GIV
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0911572031
- Call Number
- 789 GIV
- Author
- Givens, Larry, 1937
- Place of Publication
- Vestal, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Vestal Press
- Publication Date
- c1963
- Physical Description
- xi, 64 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Player piano--Construction
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5860
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
house was located at Westminster R o a d (now
K i n g s w a y ) a n d a trail later n a m e d W i l s o n A v e n u e i n honor of the family. M i s s W i l s o n ' s mother h a d
arrived i n Burnaby i n 1891 as M r s . Samuel Walmsley, whose husband was w o r k i n g o n the
construction
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
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Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7551
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Call Number
- 371 CAR
to accommodate the increase
in population. At this point in Burnaby’s
population explosion, many children of WW II
veterans were entering grade 8, requiring the
construction of several Junior High Schools
over the next ten years, including McPherson,
Alpha, Moscrop, Kensington and Cariboo Hill.
There was no
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0-9781979-2-6
- Call Number
- 371 CAR
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- vii, 35 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Schools--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Subjects
- Education
- Notes
- "Includes index"
- A history of the Burnaby school district and individual school buildings in Burnaby, BC, between 1893 and 2013.
- The “First Nations cemetery” described on page 109 in Mary Johnson’s recollections was originally written as “Indian” and may refer to the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Sikh cremations at the Vancouver Cemetery.
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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
in 1886. The construction of
an electric interurban tramline between these two
cities created the impetus for local landowners and
residents to incorporate the Municipality of Burnaby
in 1892. Early growth, however, was hampered by
the onset of an economic depression in the 1890s.
Despite this setback
- 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
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
in the inlet was revived with
the announcement chat Port Moody would become the terminus for the Canadian
Pacific Railway in 1879. It provided the only route for New Westminster residents
who wished to access Burrard Inlet during the real estate frenzy and construction
activity that began at the head of Port
- 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
Deer Lake Park : heritage resource inventory
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5468
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Wolf, Jim
- Publication Date
- c1998
- Call Number
- 971.133 WOL COPY 2
with the beauty of the lake and its
valley, realizing its recreational value for his
men, their families and the future residents of
the Capital City. He immediately ordered the
construction of a trail to link the Royal Engi-
neers camp at Sapperton with Burnaby Lake.
Called "the pleasure path" when it was com
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282834
- 9780969282839
- Call Number
- 971.133 WOL COPY 2
- Author
- Wolf, Jim
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby, Community Heritage Commission
- Publication Date
- c1998
- Physical Description
- 47 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Deer Lake Park (Burnaby, B.C.)--History
- Historic buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Notes
- 2 copies held : copy 2.
Digital Books
Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5472
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
History of Burnaby and vicinity
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6890
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV017.17.1
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Place of Publication
- [S.l.]
- Publisher
- [s.n.]
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Printer
- Shoemaker , McLean & Veitch
- Physical Description
- 233 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "Presented To my valued fried Rev. D. W. Scott. a former neighbor at Capitol Hill with best wishes of the author George Green Victoria March 1 1947" [handwritten in black ink on page opposing front pastedown] "BMMM-WU SIGNED 1st ED 50.00" [handwritten in pencil on page opposing front pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Name Access
- Green, George
- Notes
- Autographed by author
- "By George Green, pioneer resident of Burnaby, and an ex-Councillor. Charter Member of the British Columbia Historical Association, Vancouver Branch, and an Executive Member."
- Copy 2 of 2
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Follow that fire : the history of the Burnaby Fire Department
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5194
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 363.378 PEN COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- [Burnaby, B.C.]
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 160 p. : ill. (some col.), 2 maps, ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fire departments
- Fire fighters
- Name Access
- Burnaby Fire Department
- Notes
- Maps on lining papers.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
Bygones of Burnaby : an anecdotal history
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5462
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Publication Date
- 1976
- c1975
- Call Number
- 971.133 MCG COPY 4
." In those early days land could
be procured by a settler staking out a parcel of ground, registering it and
1
�agreeing to pay the government $1.00 per acre for his holdings. If the
settler did not have the required dollars then he could work out the
amount on road construction in and around New Westminster
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 971.133 MCG COPY 4
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Century Park Museum Association
- Publication Date
- 1976
- c1975
- Physical Description
- 108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Notes
- 4 copies held: copy 4.
Digital Books
Chinese Canadian history in Burnaby resource guide
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7608
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- [2022]
- Call Number
- 971.1 CHI
and European miners.
RBCM d-08746
�Chinese railroad workers played a key role in
the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway
(CPR). From 1881 to 1885, over 17,000 Chinese
railroad workers were recruited to complete the
western portion of the railway, which connected
British Columbia to Nova Scotia across
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Digital Resource
- Accession Code
- BV022.8.1
- Call Number
- 971.1 CHI
- Contributor
- City of Burnaby
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, BC
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- [2022]
- Physical Description
- 36 p. ; ill. (some col.), maps, ports
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Social Life and Customs
- Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Burnaby--History
- Chinese--British Columbia--History
- Pharmacy--Canada
- Pharmacy--United States
- Pharmaceutical museums
- Directories
- Object History
- Chinese Canadians have contributed to Burnaby’s growth for over a century. The long and intertwining histories between Chinese Canadians, Indigenous people and other communities have shaped the founding of Burnaby and British Columbia. This resource guide was created because their life experiences and important contributions to Burnaby’s development are not widely known.
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History of Burnaby Resource Guide
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7492
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2019
a
colonial legacy on a small lake.
Burnaby Lake, ca. 1900
Burnaby Village Museum BV003.61.3
�5
Chinese Newcomers to Burnaby
Burnaby attracted many British
newcomers, but also newcomers
of other nationalities. Many tram
construction workers had migrated
from China and lived in Burnaby.
Chinese Canadian Lee
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Digital Resource
- Accession Code
- BV019.63.1
- Author
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, BC
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 21 p. : ill.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Directories
- Object History
- Created from research gathered by Burnaby Village Museum staff into the diverse History of Burnaby.
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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
son the
Reverend Thomas Burnaby joined the movement ... to promote
Subscription Concerts.
� L a n d o f P r o m i s e 25
In September of 1860, Robert Burnaby was again called upon to chair a
meeting which had been scheduled to discuss the construction of a new
road between Esquimalt and Victoria
- 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
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
that summer so that mom could stay here and oversee the builders
renovating the bigger house on the property. M y brothers were too young to work, so she had to
do the supervising of the construction. I stayed in town with dad, where he maintained a
limited medical practice. Some of his old patients
- 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.