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Ed Eckley subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64503
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1911 (date of original)-[1998]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 boxes of textual records and 1 photographic album
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records created and collected by Edmund Eckley on the history of the Oakalla Prison Farm in Burnaby. Included in the subseries are notes for an oral presentation, maps, plans, contracts, memorandums and Oakalla policies, rules and regulations, as well asan album containing pho…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1911 (date of original)-[1998]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ed Eckley subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 boxes of textual records and 1 photographic album
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2006-01
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records created and collected by Edmund Eckley on the history of the Oakalla Prison Farm in Burnaby. Included in the subseries are notes for an oral presentation, maps, plans, contracts, memorandums and Oakalla policies, rules and regulations, as well asan album containing photographs of the Oakalla Prison Farm just after it was closed down and some photocopied images and text.
- History
- Edmund R. Eckley is believed to have worked as a logging manager in Tahsis, British Columbia. Later, he and his wife Teresa lived at 7810 Rayside Street in Burnaby. Ed was a volunteer interpreter at Burnaby Village Museum in the 1990s. He wrote the interpreters’ notes for the first temporary exhibit held in Stride Studios [1995] at the Burnaby Village Museum entitled “Captive Heritage Oakalla Revealed” which traced the history of Oakalla Prison from construction to closure. He also designed his own walking tour of the Oakalla site prior to it being torn down. On January 14, 1998 Ed presented "A Short History of the Oakalla Prison Farm" for the Burnaby Historical Society. Ed also served as vice-president and fundraising chair for Friends of Interurban 1223 until the project's completion in 2008. Teresa worked as a school teacher for the Burnaby School District until her retirement in 2004. Following retirement, Teresa and Ed moved to Vancouver, where they currently reside.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Eckley, Edmund R.
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- MSS120, PC511
Expenditures
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport42365
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 38086
- Meeting Date
- 24-Feb-1958
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 38086
- Meeting Date
- 24-Feb-1958
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Fair programmes
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57869
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947-1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 40 pamphlets
- Scope and Content
- File contains forty Annual Fall Fair / Flower and Vegetable Show programmes pertaining to the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (before 1958), and the South Burnaby Garden Club.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947-1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- South Burnaby Garden Club subseries
- Physical Description
- 40 pamphlets
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS028-017
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-36
- Scope and Content
- File contains forty Annual Fall Fair / Flower and Vegetable Show programmes pertaining to the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (before 1958), and the South Burnaby Garden Club.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Family and political photograph album
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3654
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1914-1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 album (ca. 85 photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph album containing ca. 85 photographs, including both personal and work-related subjects such as the Winch family and homes, and Winch's political work and travels. Also included are some textual records relating to Winch's political work.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 album (ca. 85 photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph album containing ca. 85 photographs, including both personal and work-related subjects such as the Winch family and homes, and Winch's political work and travels. Also included are some textual records relating to Winch's political work.
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Winch, Linda Marian Hendy
- Winch, Grace
- Winch, Eileen
- Winch, Ernest "Ernie"
- Winch, Eric
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation "CCF"
- New Democratic Party
- Douglas, Tommy
- MacInnis, Grace
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.11
- Date
- 1914-1977
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- A selection of photographs from scrapbook have been described at item level (BV013.12.36 to BV015.35.117)
Images
Documents
Finance Committee subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96454
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1956
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 8 textual records contained in minute books
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of committee records for the Finance Committee including minute books.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1956
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Series
- Council Committee series
- Subseries
- Finance Committee subseries
- Physical Description
- 8 textual records contained in minute books
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of committee records for the Finance Committee including minute books.
- History
- The Finance Committee was first established in 1895, and was active between 1895-1928; 1931-1932; and 1943-1958. The role of the Finance Committee was to provide financial oversight for the City. In 1929 and 1930 the Finance Committee was called the Finance and Fire Committee. This committee disbanded on January 5, 1959.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Financial records
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64495
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947-1953
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of six envelopes containing cancelled cheques and bank receipts pertaining to the Jermyn family mushroom farm at 4840 Ardingly Avenue (insurance papers are also included in one of the envelopes).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1947-1953
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Jermyn family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS116-002
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-54
- Scope and Content
- File consists of six envelopes containing cancelled cheques and bank receipts pertaining to the Jermyn family mushroom farm at 4840 Ardingly Avenue (insurance papers are also included in one of the envelopes).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Fire Department Scrapbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription5783
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Fire Department fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual records and graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Scrapbook contains hundreds of newspaper clippings taped onto pages, along with a few black and white photographs. Many pages have come loose and the book is in generally very poor condition because of the tape used to affix the clippings. The book has been bound together by a wooden spine that i…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Fire Department fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual records and graphic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 8734
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- Scrapbook contains hundreds of newspaper clippings taped onto pages, along with a few black and white photographs. Many pages have come loose and the book is in generally very poor condition because of the tape used to affix the clippings. The book has been bound together by a wooden spine that is attached with four screws. On the cover in blue ink is written "B.F.D. #2" with the years "1938-1963" written in red ink.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Flood Damage
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport43459
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43858
- Meeting Date
- 17-Dec-1956
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43858
- Meeting Date
- 17-Dec-1956
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Flood Damage Due to Excessive Rainfall
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport43468
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43871
- Meeting Date
- 17-Dec-1956
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43871
- Meeting Date
- 17-Dec-1956
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Gardening Association papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57875
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1954
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute, the Vancouver Rose Society, and the Vancouver Horticultural Society and Farmers Institute and the British Columbia Department of Agriculture. Also included in the file is a bulletin from the Pacifi…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1954
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- South Burnaby Garden Club subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS028-021
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-36
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute, the Vancouver Rose Society, and the Vancouver Horticultural Society and Farmers Institute and the British Columbia Department of Agriculture. Also included in the file is a bulletin from the Pacific National Exhibition and a photograph depicting "Cam's Pure Popcorn" stand which is decorated with a painting of a clown.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Notes on verso of photograph 488-001 reads: "Note on verso reads: "J. Campbell / R.R.5 Langley Prairie BC / ... / Disabled Veteran"
Images
General ledger
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription2049
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1950-1953
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1950-1953
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 3918
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Contains an index.
General ledger
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription2050
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1954-1955
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1954-1955
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 3919
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Contains an index.
George Green's scrapbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57750
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1940-1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook created by George Green, containing clippings of newspaper articles concerning Burnaby's history, along with his annotated corrections. Sitting loosely inside the cover of the scrapbook are five newspaper clippings as well as two type-written letters and an envelope.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1940-1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- George Green subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook
- Material Details
- Cardboard cover, rag paper pages, bound with rope
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS014-001
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook created by George Green, containing clippings of newspaper articles concerning Burnaby's history, along with his annotated corrections. Sitting loosely inside the cover of the scrapbook are five newspaper clippings as well as two type-written letters and an envelope.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Green, George
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
Gift album from Israeli government
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3661
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1959
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 album (180 photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph album received from the Israeli government by Harold as a member of a Canadian Parliamentary delegation visiting Israel in 1959, containing ca. 180 photographs, newspaper clippings, stamps, brochures, and other ephemera relating to Israel and the delegates' visit. The album is …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 album (180 photographs)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph album received from the Israeli government by Harold as a member of a Canadian Parliamentary delegation visiting Israel in 1959, containing ca. 180 photographs, newspaper clippings, stamps, brochures, and other ephemera relating to Israel and the delegates' visit. The album is signed by the Speaker of the Knesset (the Israeli legislature).
- Subjects
- Government - Federal Government
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.18
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1959
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
Documents
![Girl Guide scrapbook, [1950-1969] (date of original), copied 2016 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2015/2015_0035_0165_folded.jpg?width=280)
Girl Guide scrapbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4593
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1950-1969] (date of original), copied 2016
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook (2 digital files : col. (pdfs) + 31 photographs : col. (tiffs))
- Scope and Content
- File consists of images of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and some original programs. Many pages of the scrapbook identify themes for newspaper articles such as: "Expansion in Douglas District"; "New Guides / - New Flag"; "Fly ups"; "Honours to Guides"; "Progress at Wilson Creek"; "1959…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook (2 digital files : col. (pdfs) + 31 photographs : col. (tiffs))
- Scope and Content
- File consists of images of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and some original programs. Many pages of the scrapbook identify themes for newspaper articles such as: "Expansion in Douglas District"; "New Guides / - New Flag"; "Fly ups"; "Honours to Guides"; "Progress at Wilson Creek"; "1959 / Mrs McKee-Wilson meets Prince Phillip in Victoria"; "Mrs. Roper / becomes / Area Commissioner / 1962"; "Gold Cord to Marilyn Pringle / April 1964"; "Baden Powell Day"; "Fifty Years of C.G.G. / in Burnaby"; "Gold Cord Presentation"; "Guides Lend a Hand" and "An Active District" . Original programs are identified as: "Thinking Day Services / Feb. 1964"; "Thinking Day Service / Edmonds District Guides and Brownies / February 21st 1965"; "Thinking Day Ceremony / Edmonds Junior High School / February 26, 1961" and "Guider's Own Service / Christ Church Memorial Hall / Victoria, B.C. / Saturday April 4th, 1959".
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.165
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1950-1969] (date of original), copied 2016
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Images
![Girl Guide scrapbook, [1950-1969] (date of original), copied 2016 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2015/2015_0035_0165_folded.jpg)
Documents
Girl Guiding
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4588
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1939-1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook album (99 photographs+ textual records + other material)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of 18 loose pages of a scrapbook created by Ivy McGeachie (nee Ivy Oldham) who was involved in guiding in Burnaby between 1942 -1948. The front page of the scrapbook is titled “Girl / Guiding” and has a wood-burnt image of a camp fire and a singed photo of a flag pole. The scrapbook …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook album (99 photographs+ textual records + other material)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of 18 loose pages of a scrapbook created by Ivy McGeachie (nee Ivy Oldham) who was involved in guiding in Burnaby between 1942 -1948. The front page of the scrapbook is titled “Girl / Guiding” and has a wood-burnt image of a camp fire and a singed photo of a flag pole. The scrapbook contains photographs along with bits and pieces of ephemera. Included in the material is a four page, type-written diary of a Girl Guide camp held at Aldergrove Beach in August of 1963. Many of the photographs document the activities of the 2nd Burnaby Girl Guide Company and include photos of Ivy and Margaret McGeachie in uniform on roller skates; Burnaby District Camp (Aldergrove, BC) / 1948; Hiking; Canadian Girl Guide Golden Jubilee; Open House at St. Alban’s church hall; a hand tinted photo of Ivy McGeachie 1939 and the 2nd Kamloops Folk Dance – Yale Cariboo Musical festival 1951.
- Creator
- McGeachie, Ivy Ashliegh
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.160
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1939-1951
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on content of file
- Some photographs within scrapbook have been described at item level (BV015.35.191 to BV015.35.210)
Images
Documents
Greeting card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66110
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1942 and 1966]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 card
- Scope and Content
- Item is a greeting card containing a black and white photograph of the H.M.C.S. Cornwallis naval base. The interior of the card reads "With Best Wishes/ for Christmas / and the New Year / from / John"
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1942 and 1966]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ephemera subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 card
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 42712
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Item is a greeting card containing a black and white photograph of the H.M.C.S. Cornwallis naval base. The interior of the card reads "With Best Wishes/ for Christmas / and the New Year / from / John"
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
Greeting cards
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription74505
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [195-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 cards + 2 envelopes
- Scope and Content
- File contains two greeting cards believed to have been purchased in the 1950s. One is a thank-you card and the other a get-well-soon.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [195-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 cards + 2 envelopes
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS170-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- File contains two greeting cards believed to have been purchased in the 1950s. One is a thank-you card and the other a get-well-soon.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Guests [anniversary and birthday guest book]
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3660
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1958, 1987
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 v. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item is a guest book containing signatures of guests at two events: a dinner celebrating Winch's 25th anniversary of holding political office (October 24, 1958), and Winch's 80th birthday (June 18, 1987). Taped inside the front cover is a program "25 Years Serving B.C." The first section is inscrib…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 v. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Item is a guest book containing signatures of guests at two events: a dinner celebrating Winch's 25th anniversary of holding political office (October 24, 1958), and Winch's 80th birthday (June 18, 1987). Taped inside the front cover is a program "25 Years Serving B.C." The first section is inscribed "October 24 1958 - Congratulations Harold - and here's to a long association in Vancouver East. Sincerely -." Signatories include numerous Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation members and MLAs. The second section is inscribed "Celebrating June 18, 1987 - 80th Birthday, Harold Winch / at the Home of Don & Helen Winch." Signatories include family members and friends.
- Names
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.17
- Date
- 1958, 1987
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Related Material
- See photograph BV013.12.76.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
Harold Edward Winch collection
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3638
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1914]-2003
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- approx. 23 cm of textual records + approx. 600 photographs (b&w + col.)
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of records relating to Harold Edward Winch's family life and political career. It includes photographs of Winch's parents, family, and wife Jessie, as well as photographs, correspondence and other textual records from Harold's political work and experiences, a travel diary, gues…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- approx. 23 cm of textual records + approx. 600 photographs (b&w + col.)
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of records relating to Harold Edward Winch's family life and political career. It includes photographs of Winch's parents, family, and wife Jessie, as well as photographs, correspondence and other textual records from Harold's political work and experiences, a travel diary, guest books, and certificates. The collection includes a number of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and New Democratic Party newspapers. The collection also includes records relating to Winch's death, such as obituaries, memorials, articles, and a guest book. Finally, the collection includes a small number of records relating to Winch's father, Ernie Winch, and his own political career. The collection has been arranged into five series: 1) Harold E. Winch biographical records (1933-2003) 2) Harold E. Winch photographs series (1914-[ca. 1990]) 3) Harold E. Winch political photograph album and records series ([1937]-1993) 4) Harold E. Winch personal records series (1949-1993) 5) Harold E. Winch newspaper collection series (1936-1986)
- History
- Harold Edward Winch (June 18, 1907-February 1, 1993) was born in Loughton, Essex, England to Ernest “Ernie” Edward Winch (March 22, 1879-January 11, 1957) and his wife Linda Marian (nee Hendy). Harold was the eldest of six children; the others were Eileen, Charlie, Grace, Alan, and Eric. Ernest moved to BC in 1909, followed by Linda, Harold, and Eileen in 1910. The remaining children were born in BC. Ernie, a brick mason, built the family a series of homes in the Lower Mainland as the family moved around for a number of years, living in Burnaby, White Rock, Mission, and Vancouver before finally settling back in Burnaby. Ernie Winch joined the Social Democratic Party of Canada in 1911 and became secretary of the party in 1913, and was heavily involved in trade unions and the labour and socialist movements. He helped re-establish the Socialist Party of Canada (BC) in 1932, which soon merged with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Ernie was a CCF MLA in Burnaby from 1933 until his death in 1957, following which his son-in-law Cedric Cox (husband of Eileen) won the seat in a byelection. Ernie was particularly interested in institutions, including jails, mental hospitals, and industrial schools, and founded the New Vista Society in 1943 to provide a live-in rehabilitation program to women with psychiatric problems. The organization later expanded to focus on low-cost housing for seniors, and an apartment complex was built for this purpose in Burnaby. Both Ernie and Harold were lifelong members of the New Vista Society board of trustees. Harold Winch trained as an electrician, but also followed his father into politics, serving as a CCF MLA in Vancouver East from 1933 to 1953 – Ernie and Harold were two of the first seven CCF MLAs. The Winches set a Guinness world record for the longest father-and-son parliamentary tenure. Like his father, Harold was also highly involved in the labour movement, and acted as a liaison between workers and government during the Depression, particularly during the relief camp strike in Vancouver in 1935 which precipitated the On to Ottawa trek. He was the leader of the BC CCF from 1938 to 1953, and Leader of the Opposition from 1941 to 1953. In 1953, Harold stepped down from provincial politics to enter the federal arena, and served as a CCF MP for Vancouver East from 1953 to 1961, when the CCF became the New Democratic Party (NDP); Harold continued to serve as an NDP MP from 1961 to 1972, when he retired for health reasons. In federal office, Harold remained dedicated to the working class and humanitarian causes, issuing reports on subject such as unemployment, veterans’ rights, low-cost housing for seniors, animal welfare, drug addiction, and mental health concerns. Harold earned honorary law degrees from both UBC (1973) and SFU (1974). He was involved in numerous humanitarian and other organizations and his roles included president and treasurer of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; co-founder of the Immigrant Services Society of Vancouver; director of the Boag Foundation; and lifelong member of the Association for Protection of Fur Bearing Animals. Harold married Dorothy Ada Hutchinson (December 1, 1907-October 24, 1974) on May 11, 1929. They had three children: Donald, Gerald ("Jerry"), and Shirley. Following Dorothy’s death, Harold married Jessie Margaret Mendels (nee Sweezey) (June 29, 1913-May 9, 2006) on May 19, 1981. Jessie grew up in Grand Forks, BC, and her family moved to Vancouver when she was in high school. Her first husband was George Edward Mendels (November 2, 1905-September 2, 1978). She had no children. Jessie served as a St. John’s ambulance driver during World War II. She was also active in the CCF and NDP parties in BC, having been Provincial Secretary for the CCF in the 1940s, a vice-president of the party in the 1950s, and Provincial Secretary for the NDP in the 1960s. Like Harold, she later served as a director of the Boag Foundation. Jessie traveled widely throughout her life. The collection contains a small number of Jessie’s photographs. Harold Winch died in White Rock, where he and Jessie had retired, on February 1, 1993.
- Responsibility
- Winch, Harold Edward
- Accession Code
- BV013.12
- Date
- [1914]-2003
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Records within fonds have been arranged by subject and format.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds