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Pictures of Hazel, throughout her life

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1897-2000]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 album (19 photographs ; b&w and col.) + 1 accompanying letter
Scope and Content
Photograph album containing photographs of Hazel Peterson throughout her life, from her childhood in San Francisco to her later years. The album also held a letter attesting to Hazel Peterson's vaccination in 1902; there is a lock of hair and a photographic button pinned to the letter.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1897-2000]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Hazel Peterson subseries
Physical Description
1 album (19 photographs ; b&w and col.) + 1 accompanying letter
Description Level
Item
Record No.
504-045
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2000-08
Scope and Content
Photograph album containing photographs of Hazel Peterson throughout her life, from her childhood in San Francisco to her later years. The album also held a letter attesting to Hazel Peterson's vaccination in 1902; there is a lock of hair and a photographic button pinned to the letter.
Subjects
Persons - Children
Names
Peterson, Hazel
Peterson, Edwin
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title taken from handwritten note inside the original album
Note on verso of 504-045-1 reads: "hair light blond / eyes violet blue / Mrs Erickson / [?]"
Note on verso of 504-045-10 reads: "Hazel Peterson, Dennis & Irene / Aug 18 1994"
Photographer's stamp on verso of 504-045-18 reads: "Souvenir Snaps / 401 W. Hastings St. / Vancouver, B.C. / Extra copies by number"
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My Memory Book album

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[19--]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 album (ca. 260 photographs ; b&w and sepia) ; 18 x 29.5 cm
Scope and Content
Album contains photographs of Hazel Peterson and her family, at home and around the Lower Mainland, including trips to parks, beaches, and places in towns and cities. The album is likely from the early 1920s.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[19--]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Hazel Peterson subseries
Physical Description
1 album (ca. 260 photographs ; b&w and sepia) ; 18 x 29.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
504-048
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2000-08
Scope and Content
Album contains photographs of Hazel Peterson and her family, at home and around the Lower Mainland, including trips to parks, beaches, and places in towns and cities. The album is likely from the early 1920s.
Names
Peterson, Hazel
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title taken from cover of album
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Early life materials

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1908-1937
Collection/Fonds
William Randolph Beamish fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
7 p. of textual records, 3 small b&w prints, and other material.
Scope and Content
File consists of records pertaining to the birth and early life of Beamish, including a pin worn in his bib as a baby; a hand-painted pin given to him as a baby to wear in his bib by Mrs. T.S. Gillis, taken from her blouse; a Beamish Family Pedigree compiled by C.T.M. Beamish; a photograph of his b…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1908-1937
Collection/Fonds
William Randolph Beamish fonds
Series
William Randolph Beamish scrapbook series
Physical Description
7 p. of textual records, 3 small b&w prints, and other material.
Material Details
File contains two small objects (broach pins)
Description Level
File
Record No.
66673
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Scope and Content
File consists of records pertaining to the birth and early life of Beamish, including a pin worn in his bib as a baby; a hand-painted pin given to him as a baby to wear in his bib by Mrs. T.S. Gillis, taken from her blouse; a Beamish Family Pedigree compiled by C.T.M. Beamish; a photograph of his biological mother, Gertrude Applegate (nee Pearce); a photo of Gertrude Pearce and her mother; a graduation photo of Ran; a letter dated July 21, 1937, retroactively certifying Ran's birth and baptism; a photocopy of a letter signed by Ran’s birth parents giving him up for adoption; a photocopy of a letter signed by Ran’s adopted parents accepting his adoption; and a photocopy of Ran’s Certificate of Baptism, certifying his adoption.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
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Ditches and water courses (Sprott)

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1908
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual records, cartographic material and architectural material
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, certificates signed by the District Engineer attesting to the fact that ditches were constructed according to the Ditches and Waterworks Act, as well as notices to residents that ditches were to be built along their property. File also includes 2 blueprint plans and 1…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1908
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual records, cartographic material and architectural material
Description Level
File
Record No.
2393
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, certificates signed by the District Engineer attesting to the fact that ditches were constructed according to the Ditches and Waterworks Act, as well as notices to residents that ditches were to be built along their property. File also includes 2 blueprint plans and 1 linen map of DL 79.
Media Type
Textual Record
Cartographic Material
Architectural Drawing
Notes
Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
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B.C. Electric Railway Franchise - Agreement

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1909-1913
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawings
Scope and Content
File contains records relating to agreements made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the B.C. Electric Railway Co., for rail line extensions. File also includes a blueprint plan of station structures for Vancouver Fraser Valley and Southern Railway Co. and a newspaper clipping.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1909-1913
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawings
Description Level
File
Record No.
2075
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains records relating to agreements made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the B.C. Electric Railway Co., for rail line extensions. File also includes a blueprint plan of station structures for Vancouver Fraser Valley and Southern Railway Co. and a newspaper clipping.
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Notes
Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case. File includes original newspaper clipping.
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Board of Railway Commissioners

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription396
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1909-1912
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual record, cartographic material, and architectural drawings
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence and reports related to the activities of the Board of Railway Commissioners such as the movement of stations, culvert work, and the maintenance of crossings. File also includes white linen plan and blueprint plans (4) of culverts at Cariboo Road and V.W. and Y.Rlwy Jun…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1909-1912
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual record, cartographic material, and architectural drawings
Description Level
File
Record No.
2096
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence and reports related to the activities of the Board of Railway Commissioners such as the movement of stations, culvert work, and the maintenance of crossings. File also includes white linen plan and blueprint plans (4) of culverts at Cariboo Road and V.W. and Y.Rlwy Junction, 1911.
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Cartographic Material
Notes
Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
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Costs, tenders and other records for waterworks system for DL 186

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1910-1911
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawing
Scope and Content
File contains records related to the installation of fire hydrants after the construction of waterworks station on DL 186. File also includes a blueprint diagram of a Slide Gate Fire Hydrant as well as costs, tenders and other reports and advertisements regarding types of equipment used during wate…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1910-1911
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawing
Description Level
File
Record No.
2081
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains records related to the installation of fire hydrants after the construction of waterworks station on DL 186. File also includes a blueprint diagram of a Slide Gate Fire Hydrant as well as costs, tenders and other reports and advertisements regarding types of equipment used during waterworks construction.
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Notes
For related records see also file 6-3-4-8 and file 6-3-5-1. Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
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Correspondence - Central Park

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911-1926
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
3 folders textual records and architectural drawings
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, permits, financial statements, and reports regarding improvements to Central Park. File also contains correspondence regarding advertising signs in the park, the Central Park Women's Institute and includes a 1925 plan for Central Park Camp Septic Tank. As well, the f…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911-1926
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
3 folders textual records and architectural drawings
Description Level
File
Record No.
2165
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, permits, financial statements, and reports regarding improvements to Central Park. File also contains correspondence regarding advertising signs in the park, the Central Park Women's Institute and includes a 1925 plan for Central Park Camp Septic Tank. As well, the file contains correspondence pertaining to the lease agreement granting Burnaby jurisdiction over Central Park.
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Notes
A plan of proposed pavilion and Bath House for Central Park : M9-A-5-8
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Application for pool room license (Bone, J.)

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911-1912
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual record and architectural drawings.
Scope and Content
File contains an application for Billiard and Pool Room License made by Jonathon Bone. File also includes petitions from those who felt a pool hall was a "necessity" and those who felt it would be "detrimental to the youth" (148 residents).
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911-1912
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual record and architectural drawings.
Description Level
File
Record No.
2392
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains an application for Billiard and Pool Room License made by Jonathon Bone. File also includes petitions from those who felt a pool hall was a "necessity" and those who felt it would be "detrimental to the youth" (148 residents).
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Notes
A plan of "Proposed Billiard Room, Tobacconist Store, Barber Shop to be erected at Edmonds" : M9-A-5-6.
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Ed Eckley subseries

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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
Series
Community Archives Collection series
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
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Ed Brown family fonds

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.
Description Level
Fonds
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.
History
The following is copied from an article written by Brown's grandson, Jim Ervin, for "Old Autos" in 2003, in an article entitled "Grandfather was a trucker...": The roots of my family run deep in Burnaby, especially on my mother’s side. It was her father, my grandfather, who started one of Burnaby’s first trucking businesses, E.S. Brown’s Transfer. I could find no record of when he actually began operations but I have pictures to show that he was using horses before he had trucks. One of my enclosed pictures dates from about 1910 since I know the birth dates of his two oldest daughters and they are in the picture as very small children. He met and married my grandmother, whose maiden name was Jennie Birtch, from Ontario, and I still have relatives back east from both branches of the family. They were married on Sept. 27, 1905. But where, I can’t say. They had their first child, Hazel, born April 2, 1908. Then came seven more daughters but no sons to help with the family business. The business was located at the family home at 3131 Royal Oak Ave. in South Burnaby. That was close to the top of one of the steepest hills in Burnaby and must have made for a real test of man and machine to drive it, especially in winter. The children loved it for sleigh riding but probably not father. My mother, Inez, was the second oldest daughter, born Oct. 9, 1909. She would have been born, along with her sister Hazel, in the big house shown in the picture and built by my grandfather. But this house was to later burn down. That’s when Edward Sadler Brown decided to move his family from the side of the hill to the top and much closer to the main road, Kingsway. Most of the area was forest at that time and one of Ed’s first jobs was to haul shingle bolts out of the forest, with a team of horses. Please don’t ask me what a shingle bolt is but my mother knew and used to have to grease the skids placed on the logging trails for the loaded sleds to be pulled out on. One time, as she told me, there was a huge forest fire and my grandfather barely escaped with his life and one last load. Later, when the area had been cleared, he helped to build the Oakalla Prison Farm, now replaced by town-houses on Royal Oak Ave. This job led to him becoming the first contractor to haul the license plates made by the prisoners. Some of these plates would be worn by Ed’s own trucks. The trucks, which he eventually acquired, included some pretty obscure makes such as Hufman, Garford, Stewart (which my mother often said was no good), Gotfredson and the more common names of Chevrolet and GMC. A Ford Model T would probably have been too light for the kind of hauling Ed was doing in the 1920s. I always thought that his main cargo was coal and coke, but I received quite a surprise with some recently discovered information. It started when I was removing boxes of general junk from the house to the garage to make more space. One of those boxes broke open and one item which came out wasn’t junk by any means. It was a copy of a business card for Brown’s Transfer, a company which hauled coal, coke, wood and did furniture moving as well. My mother often described my grandfather as a “go-getter” for business. I believe I see what she meant. Never was I so glad to have a cardboard box break open and to retrieve such an important item. My mother was a saver like you wouldn’t believe, a habit which the Great Depression drilled into her. In another box containing old receipts, I found a copy of one from Brown’s Transfer which offered even more insight into the company. The receipt isn’t dated but only the last number of the year required filling in on the form. And this dates it as issued sometime during the 1920s. The surprising thing is the amount of items sold by my grandfather. Not just coal, wood and coke anymore. Now he was into sand, gravel, cement, brick lime, tile and sewer pipe. Furniture moving seemed to be sort of a sideline, mentioned in smaller letters at the bottom. But notice some of the other items on the hand written receipt. There’s lumber, grass seed, paint, glass, a loan (spelled lone) on painting a house. I’m not sure that I understand that one or the payment on house or the one about the toilet. But it’s obvious that this was a man who knew how to make a buck in many ways. He was almost his own building supply store, it would seem. Also mentioned on the form is an office location at 4009 Kingsway. The building is no longer there but it did survive into my life time. Often, my mother would point out to me where the office once was on the north side of Kingsway, near McKay Ave. Still standing, though, ist he old family home at the former address (now changed) of 3131 Royal Oak Ave. That’s where my mother and all seven of her sisters were born. These were the “swampers” on dad’s trucks, a job hard enough for a man. Ed did hire men as well to work as drivers and even employed his own mechanic. But for the girls, it wasn’t really a paying kind of job. “Some times he would buy us an ice-cream cone,” my mother would say. In those days, parents wanted large families to help with all the work which needed doing. Payment in dollars and cents just wasn’t usually part of the deal. I never knew my grandmother, Jennie, who died in 1946 at age 61, an early age to go but likely reflective of a lifetime of hard work and too many children. However, I did know my grandfather who lived into his 70s.His company came to a rather sad end, as related by my mother, in the dirty 30s. Apparently a certain sister of my grandmother, great aunt to myself, reported to the local school board that grandfather was supplying them with an inferior grade of coal for the schools. Then the school board cancelled his contract and that put him into bankruptcy. Whether the story is true or not doesn’t seem to matter much any more since no one who could have known is still among the living. Ed Brown, the industrious, rugged individualist did make a small come-back in the early 1950s with his own plumbing business. The details of that enterprise, I don’t know. But I do remember his old International panel truck he used. People such as my grandfather made a great contribution to Burnaby.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of fonds
BHS298
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Mortgage (Edmonds Development Co.)

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawing
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and an agreement made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the Edmonds Development Co., Ltd., dealing with a mortgage for a building on Lot 8, blocks 1 and 3, DL 95. File also includes ink plans/sketches of a smokehouse for this buil…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1920
Collection/Fonds
City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Series
Clerk's Department record series
Physical Description
Textual records and architectural drawing
Description Level
File
Record No.
2670
Accession Number
2001-02
Scope and Content
File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and an agreement made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the Edmonds Development Co., Ltd., dealing with a mortgage for a building on Lot 8, blocks 1 and 3, DL 95. File also includes ink plans/sketches of a smokehouse for this building which was purchased by City in 1918.
Media Type
Textual Record
Architectural Drawing
Notes
For related records see 8-4-1-4. Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.
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Victorian Order of Nurses in Burnaby scrapbook

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65440
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1931
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 scrapbook
Scope and Content
Item is a scrapbook "... depicting the History, growth and work of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Burnaby, British Columbia." Complied by the South Burnaby Auxiliary, this scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, 43 photographs and text. Also included are fiftieth anniversary napkins and loose pap…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1912-1931
Collection/Fonds
Victorian Order of Nurses fonds
Physical Description
1 scrapbook
Description Level
Item
Record No.
MSS021-052
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2010-09
Scope and Content
Item is a scrapbook "... depicting the History, growth and work of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Burnaby, British Columbia." Complied by the South Burnaby Auxiliary, this scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, 43 photographs and text. Also included are fiftieth anniversary napkins and loose papers containing personnel polices.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of item
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SnapShots album

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription93394
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 album (118 photographs ; b&w and sepia) ; 18 x 29.5 cm
Scope and Content
Album contains photographs of Hazel Peterson and her family. Many appear to document a family trip to Alaska on a steam ship ca.1915.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Hazel Peterson subseries
Physical Description
1 album (118 photographs ; b&w and sepia) ; 18 x 29.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
504-047
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2000-08
Scope and Content
Album contains photographs of Hazel Peterson and her family. Many appear to document a family trip to Alaska on a steam ship ca.1915.
Subjects
Travel
Transportation - Ships
Names
Peterson, Hazel
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title taken from cover of album
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Edmonds School subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription41
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916] (date of origial)-1979
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and other materials
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs depicting Edmonds School, including its students, staff, and surrounding area, as well as a collection of records related to a research project in which students interviewed former Edmonds School students.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1916] (date of origial)-1979
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Edmonds School subseries
Physical Description
Textual records and other materials
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1988-07
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of photographs depicting Edmonds School, including its students, staff, and surrounding area, as well as a collection of records related to a research project in which students interviewed former Edmonds School students.
History
Edmonds School traces its history back to the opening of the first school in Burnaby in 1894. The "Burnaby school" was a typical one-room school house constructed on a small site on the opposite side of Canada Way (then named Douglas Road) and 18th Avenue. In 1896, when West Burnaby School, was built the school was renamed the "East Burnaby School." By 1908, the original small school house and its little playground became too small to contain the growing number of school-aged children living in the area. That year the Municipality of Burnaby and the Burnaby School Board funded a new four room school to house 75 students on the present site facing Edmonds Street. This building was known for many years as the old "gray school" because of its drab paint colour. In 1913, a four-room addition completed this school which was then renamed the "Edmonds Street School." In 1922, the school was was expanded with a new four-room "bungalow" building on the Douglas Road side of the property. By 1925, four more rooms were added to house the student population of this rapidly growing district, which peaked at 580 by 1930. After World War II, the old school was designated as a junior high school and in 1949, the present building was opened on an expanded site. By 1953 and 1955 the school received more additions to accommodate a student enrolment that had expanded to thirteen hundred students. The original gray building was demolished in 1956 and the bungalow building, which had served for many years as the elementary school, was destroyed by fire in 1989. The school was later rebuilt as Edmonds Community School.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Sound Recording
Creator
Edmonds Community School
Notes
Title based on contents of subseries
PC207, MSS036
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Agricultural Exhibit

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34527
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 20.4 x 25.3 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, preserves, flowers, and plants are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign above the display reads, "Burnaby." A sign above a container on the lower left reads, "Ginseng / Grown in Lozel…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Photographs subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 20.4 x 25.3 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
039-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2007-04
Scope and Content
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, preserves, flowers, and plants are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign above the display reads, "Burnaby." A sign above a container on the lower left reads, "Ginseng / Grown in Lozells District by Mr. Romer."
Subjects
Agriculture - Crops
Exhibitions - Agricultural
Agriculture - Fruit and Berries
Plants - Flowers
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
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Riverway I and II

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1920 and 1940] (date of originals), copied [1990]
Collection/Fonds
Mary Forsyth fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w copy prints ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photographs described as "shacks on Byrne" and an aerial photograph of the "Timber preserves.”
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1920 and 1940] (date of originals), copied [1990]
Collection/Fonds
Mary Forsyth fonds
Physical Description
2 photographs : b&w copy prints ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm
Description Level
File
Record No.
572-004
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2014-27
Scope and Content
Photographs described as "shacks on Byrne" and an aerial photograph of the "Timber preserves.”
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Transcribed title from file
Descriptions for photographs taken from envelopes originally containing copy prints
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Studio portrait of Blythe Eagles

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1920 and 1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph is a studio portrait of Blythe Eagles as a young man. The photograph was taken by Weber's Studio New Haven, Connecticut.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1920 and 1930]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Eagles family subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Material Details
Photograph is a studio proof - it was not fixed and is therefore severely reddened and faded
Description Level
Item
Record No.
491-004
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1991-18
Scope and Content
Photograph is a studio portrait of Blythe Eagles as a young man. The photograph was taken by Weber's Studio New Haven, Connecticut.
Names
Eagles, Dr. Blythe
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Weber's Studio
Notes
Title based on contents of photographs
Envelope which contained the original photograph proof reads: "Weber's Studio/ 1075 Chapel Street New Haven Connecticut..."
Images
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Agricultural and floral societies' papers

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922 (date of original) -1970
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
File
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 cm x 8 cm
Scope and Content
File consists of miscellaneous promotional materials and certificates pertaining to agricultural and floral societies in British Columbia, including the Burnaby Rhododendron Society. File also contains one photograph a display at an agricultural fair.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922 (date of original) -1970
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Bancroft family subseries
Physical Description
1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 cm x 8 cm
Description Level
File
Record No.
MSS030-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
BHS1986-44
Scope and Content
File consists of miscellaneous promotional materials and certificates pertaining to agricultural and floral societies in British Columbia, including the Burnaby Rhododendron Society. File also contains one photograph a display at an agricultural fair.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of file
Images
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Yanko family album

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1924-1990
Collection/Fonds
Yanko family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 scrapbook : 32 x 34 cm ; 68 p.
Scope and Content
Item is a scrapbook documenting the families of husband and wife John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko. The scrapbook consists of ca. 255 (mostly black and white, some colour) photographs from the family, with captions that identify the subjects and locations of the photogr…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1924-1990
Collection/Fonds
Yanko family fonds
Physical Description
1 scrapbook : 32 x 34 cm ; 68 p.
Material Details
Hardcover scrapbook album with clear plastic page covers and a metal binding. Three-dimensional scrapbooking embellishments are affixed to some of the pages.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
MSS170-006
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2012-09
Scope and Content
Item is a scrapbook documenting the families of husband and wife John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko. The scrapbook consists of ca. 255 (mostly black and white, some colour) photographs from the family, with captions that identify the subjects and locations of the photographs. Included in the album are plastic sleeves housing textual records including: correspondence; a baptism certificate; and the title page of another scrapbook.
Names
Yanko, John Ivan
Yanko, Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of item
Printed in brown writing on front cover of photographic album: "Y"
Photographs are dated 1924-1967; textual records included in album are dated 1908,1990
Envelope affixed to scrapbook page titled "moments & memories" with note "Dupelicate [sic] photos" contains 8 additional prints, which are described on the right-hand side of the scrapbook page.
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