Railways
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98236
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [date unknown]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 maps : col. ; 89 cm x 76 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains sheet 7 and 8 of a map of Canadian railways. Sheets depict British Columbia, Yukon, and the eastern portions of Albert and Northwest Territories. Sheet 7 includes an index of railways.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [date unknown]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ephemera subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 maps : col. ; 89 cm x 76 cm
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 64999
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File contains sheet 7 and 8 of a map of Canadian railways. Sheets depict British Columbia, Yukon, and the eastern portions of Albert and Northwest Territories. Sheet 7 includes an index of railways.
- Media Type
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Title based on contents of files
Florence Hart Godwin photograph album
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3049
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Florence Hart Godwin fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Flore…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Florence Hart Godwin fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 album (29 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Florence Hart Godwin. The first page of the album reads "Florence, with Grandma's and Auntie Felicia's best love, Xmas 1910" and the other pages contain photographs. The album was given to Florence Hart for Christmas in 1910, by her grandmother Jane Chapman (nee Isbell) and her Aunt Felicia Chapman. Album contains photographs of the Alice and Frederick J. Hart and Chapman families, including childhood photographs of the five Hart children, Kingsley, Florence, Fredricka, Edwyna and Jack; the Hart family at their home in New Westminster and at "Avalon" their summer residence and home on Deer Lake.
- Names
- Godwin, Florence Hart
- Accession Code
- HV976.168.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-07-24
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph album
- 29 b&w copy prints accompanying
- Item level descriptions available per album page
Images
Documents
Typewritten directory excerpts
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription98238
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1879-1918 (date of originals), [197-] (date copied)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File includes typewritten copies of sections from three directories: an 1897-1898 directory headed with New Westminster containing six names and longer list of names for Central Park district; Burnaby residents listed in Henderson's Greater Vancouver Directory 1914 (except North Burnaby residents)…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1879-1918 (date of originals), [197-] (date copied)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ephemera subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 64998
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File includes typewritten copies of sections from three directories: an 1897-1898 directory headed with New Westminster containing six names and longer list of names for Central Park district; Burnaby residents listed in Henderson's Greater Vancouver Directory 1914 (except North Burnaby residents); and Burnaby Lake, Capitol Hill, Central Park, East Burnaby, Edmonds, Fraser Arm, Jubilee Station, Lochdale, Lozells, McKay district sections of a 1918 directory.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Correspondence
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64758
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1898-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Ernest Winch fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence from Ernest Winch sent from Canada to his mother and sister Carolyn (Carrie) in England. As well, correspondence from Ernest to his brothers Alfred and Walter, containing many of Ernest's early Socialist ideas.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1898-1952
- Collection/Fonds
- Ernest Winch fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS129-004
- Accession Number
- 2010-06
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence from Ernest Winch sent from Canada to his mother and sister Carolyn (Carrie) in England. As well, correspondence from Ernest to his brothers Alfred and Walter, containing many of Ernest's early Socialist ideas.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Tax sale papers 1898
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription347
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2040
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Tax sale papers 1898
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription349
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2042
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Tax sale papers 1898
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription350
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2043
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Tax sale papers 1900
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription351
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899-1902
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2044
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records related to the sale of land at Burnaby tax sales.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Stave Lake Power Company
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription663
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains only one copy of "The British Columbia Gazette" dated September 21, 1899 (volume 39, no. 38). This includes a printed version of the Certificate of Incorporation for Stave Lake Power Co.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1899
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2388
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains only one copy of "The British Columbia Gazette" dated September 21, 1899 (volume 39, no. 38). This includes a printed version of the Certificate of Incorporation for Stave Lake Power Co.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Columbian newspaper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64469
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 9, 1899
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 newspaper + 1 supplement
- Scope and Content
- File contains the newspaper; "The Daily Columbian" September 8, 1899 which covers topics such as the Boer War and the Dreyfus Affair along with the paper's supplement; "The Columbian Fire Anniversary Supplement" September 9, 1899 which marks the anniversary of Great Fire of New Westminster, 1898 an…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- September 9, 1899
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Bailey family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 newspaper + 1 supplement
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS115-004
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-55
- Scope and Content
- File contains the newspaper; "The Daily Columbian" September 8, 1899 which covers topics such as the Boer War and the Dreyfus Affair along with the paper's supplement; "The Columbian Fire Anniversary Supplement" September 9, 1899 which marks the anniversary of Great Fire of New Westminster, 1898 and describes the progress and rebuilding that had been accomplished over the year.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Proposed Tramline North of Burnaby Lake
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription659
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [190-?]
- 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 one blueprint plan [190?] of the proposed site.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [190-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2384
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains one blueprint plan [190?] of the proposed site.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
Patterson family papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57973
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1900-2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the Patterson family. Included in the file is a Deed of Land from 1910, student report cards for Bruce and Dugald Campbell Patterson as well as histories and correspondence pertaining to the Webb family (Frances Mabel Webb Patterson's family). Also included is a p…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1900-2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Patterson family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS039-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-05
- Scope and Content
- File contains papers pertaining to the Patterson family. Included in the file is a Deed of Land from 1910, student report cards for Bruce and Dugald Campbell Patterson as well as histories and correspondence pertaining to the Webb family (Frances Mabel Webb Patterson's family). Also included is a photocopied history of D.C. Patterson Senior (from an early publication).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Survey maps - Sundries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription664
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1902-1910
- 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 various maps - 1 ink on paper and 5 linen plans by Albert J. Hill as well as survey descriptions (textual).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1902-1910
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2389
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains various maps - 1 ink on paper and 5 linen plans by Albert J. Hill as well as survey descriptions (textual).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
Tax sale papers 1904
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription338
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1903-1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- File contains financial records of tax assessments of holdings in Burnaby as well as news clippings regarding tax sale lands.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1903-1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2031
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains financial records of tax assessments of holdings in Burnaby as well as news clippings regarding tax sale lands.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
North Road crossing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription656
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1903-1915
- 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 minutes from the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada meetings, correspondence, and copies of the Board of Railway Commissioners Railway Act, 1903 regarding a bridge and crossing over the Brunette River. File also includes white linen plans of proposed bridge and crossing.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1903-1915
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2381
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains minutes from the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada meetings, correspondence, and copies of the Board of Railway Commissioners Railway Act, 1903 regarding a bridge and crossing over the Brunette River. File also includes white linen plans of proposed bridge and crossing.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
Cameron Road
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription324
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1904]
- 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 Cameron Road Plan.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1904]
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2017
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains Cameron Road Plan.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
Ditches - Woolard v. Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription670
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904-1907
- 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 court transcripts from the trial John Woolard v. Municipality of Burnaby which arose from charges brought against Burnaby for interfering with a ditch built by Woolard. File includes a blueprint plan of "Profile on Water Surface in Holland Road Ditch and Woollard's…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904-1907
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2395
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence and court transcripts from the trial John Woolard v. Municipality of Burnaby which arose from charges brought against Burnaby for interfering with a ditch built by Woolard. File includes a blueprint plan of "Profile on Water Surface in Holland Road Ditch and Woollard's Ditch " (1904) and a linen plan of Woollard's and Hooland Road ditches (lot 155a, group 1).
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
The Daily Columbian - October 3, 1904
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription1723
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- Pages of "The Daily Columbian," October 3, 1904, containing a list of tax sale lands accompanied by the names and addresses of property owners.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 3543
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- Pages of "The Daily Columbian," October 3, 1904, containing a list of tax sale lands accompanied by the names and addresses of property owners.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
The Weekly Columbian - October 4, 1904
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription1724
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Scope and Content
- Pages of "The Weekly Columbian," October 4, 1904, containing a list of tax sale lands accompanied by the names and addresses of property owners.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 3544
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- Pages of "The Weekly Columbian," October 4, 1904, containing a list of tax sale lands accompanied by the names and addresses of property owners.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Gunn Road diversion (Banfield, J.J.)
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription319
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1905-1911
- 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 records, including blueprint, related to the proposed diversion of Gunn Road.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1905-1911
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record and cartographic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2010
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records, including blueprint, related to the proposed diversion of Gunn Road.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Cartographic Material
- Notes
- White linen plan : Diversion of Gunn Road Lots 10 and 4 Group One" : M9-A-3-17.