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Digney family in Burnaby

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Item No.: 562-003-12

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

1 Video

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1939 and 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 562-003-12

Accession Number: 2014-04

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

Media Type: Moving Images

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

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

Notes: Title based on contents of film

Creator: Digney, Andy

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

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

Geographic Access: Burnaby - Bonsor Avenue; Burnaby - Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Digney family in Burnaby, [between 1939 and 1959]

Digney film 1 - Playing with Tawny

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1960] (date of original), copied 2019

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 mp4 video file (1 min., 22 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Scope and Content: Film segment taken from the front yard of Digney home at 6521 Bonsor Street. The Digney family dog named Tawny is playing with a sprinkler in the yard, barking at the camera man who is probably Dig Digney. Film continues with Joyce Digney throwing a piece of wood for the dog while Bruce Digney look…

1 Video

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1960] (date of original), copied 2019

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Accession Code: BV019.18.2

Storage Location: Digital only

Physical Description: 1 mp4 video file (1 min., 22 sec.) : digital, 23 fps, col., si.

Media Type: Moving Images

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Scope and Content: Film segment taken from the front yard of Digney home at 6521 Bonsor Street. The Digney family dog named Tawny is playing with a sprinkler in the yard, barking at the camera man who is probably Dig Digney. Film continues with Joyce Digney throwing a piece of wood for the dog while Bruce Digney looks on.