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![14th Avenue neighbourhood friends, [1925] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-205.jpg?width=280)
14th Avenue neighbourhood friends
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35348
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the 14th Avenue neighbourhood friends. Back row, left to right: Pearl Scott, Frances Bryson, Alice Salt, and Dorothy Hutchins (holding baby). Middle row, left to right: Hazel Butler, Doris Bamber, Frances Salt, and Jessica Scott. Front row, left to right: Evelyn Salt, Gladys Butler, a…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-205
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the 14th Avenue neighbourhood friends. Back row, left to right: Pearl Scott, Frances Bryson, Alice Salt, and Dorothy Hutchins (holding baby). Middle row, left to right: Hazel Butler, Doris Bamber, Frances Salt, and Jessica Scott. Front row, left to right: Evelyn Salt, Gladys Butler, and Isabel Scott.
- Names
- Bamber, Doris
- Bryson, Frances
- Butler, Gladys
- Hutchins, Dorothy
- Kemp, Hazel Butler
- Salt, Alice
- Salt, Evelyn
- Salt, Frances
- Salt, Isabel
- Scott, Jessica
- Scott, Pearl
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 14th Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
![14th Avenue neighbourhood friends, [1925] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-205.jpg)
![Armstrong Avenue School, [between 1911 and 1919] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/325-016.jpg?width=280)
Armstrong Avenue School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37144
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the side elevation of Armstrong Avenue School. A man is visible walking along the sidewalk, near the school.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Disney family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 325-016
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the side elevation of Armstrong Avenue School. A man is visible walking along the sidewalk, near the school.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Schools
- Names
- Armstrong Avenue School
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Disney, John Harold "Jack"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Armstrong Avenue
- Street Address
- 8757 Armstrong Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Armstrong Avenue School, [between 1911 and 1919] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/325-016.jpg)
![Armstrong Avenue School, [between 1911 and 1919] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/325-017.jpg?width=280)
Armstrong Avenue School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37145
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the front of Armstrong Avenue School.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1911 and 1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Disney family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12.5 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 325-017
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the front of Armstrong Avenue School.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Schools
- Names
- Armstrong Avenue School
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Disney, John Harold "Jack"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Armstrong Avenue
- Street Address
- 8757 Armstrong Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Armstrong Avenue School, [between 1911 and 1919] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/325-017.jpg)
Armstrong Avenue school site
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34064
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1911
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 6.2 x 10.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of men sawing down a tree at the Armstrong Avenue School site at 8757 Armstrong Avenue. The accompanying description refers to it as the "bee tree."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1911
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 6.2 x 10.4 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 007-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of men sawing down a tree at the Armstrong Avenue School site at 8757 Armstrong Avenue. The accompanying description refers to it as the "bee tree."
- Names
- Armstrong Avenue School
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Postcard has been cropped
- Geographic Access
- Armstrong Avenue
- Street Address
- 8757 Armstrong Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
The Beamishes and friends
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37680
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.8 x 3.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of people standing with a Model T Ford in front of 277 17th Avenue (later renumbered 8059 17th Avenue). Left to right: Mrs. Brunette, Mrs. W. Pointer, Ethel Derrick, Rev. and Mrs. W.J.Beamish, and Alma Beamish.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Image Bank subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.8 x 3.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 370-268
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of people standing with a Model T Ford in front of 277 17th Avenue (later renumbered 8059 17th Avenue). Left to right: Mrs. Brunette, Mrs. W. Pointer, Ethel Derrick, Rev. and Mrs. W.J.Beamish, and Alma Beamish.
- Subjects
- Transportation - Automobiles
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
- Negative has a pink cast
- Geographic Access
- 17th Avenue
- Street Address
- 8059 17th Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
Beamish family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35641
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Beamish family.William Randolph "Ran" Beamish (long-time Reeve of Burnaby later on); Ilma Beatrice Beamish (sister); Ethel Agnes Beamish (sister); (in window in background) Mrs. Agnes Beamish (mother). The photograph was taken in front of the family home at 277 17th Avenue (later …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-499
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Beamish family.William Randolph "Ran" Beamish (long-time Reeve of Burnaby later on); Ilma Beatrice Beamish (sister); Ethel Agnes Beamish (sister); (in window in background) Mrs. Agnes Beamish (mother). The photograph was taken in front of the family home at 277 17th Avenue (later renumbered 8059 17th Avenue) in East Burnaby.
- Subjects
- Officials - Mayors and Reeves
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 17th Avenue
- Street Address
- 8059 17th Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
![Brookes family home, [1920] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-102.jpg?width=280)
Brookes family home
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35245
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Brookes family home at 441 12th Avenue (later renumbered 7979 12th Avenue), at the corner of 4th Street in East Burnaby. The Brookes family, headed by James Brookes, moved into this house in 1917. The house was later cut in two and moved to another part of the lot, becoming a gard…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-102
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Brookes family home at 441 12th Avenue (later renumbered 7979 12th Avenue), at the corner of 4th Street in East Burnaby. The Brookes family, headed by James Brookes, moved into this house in 1917. The house was later cut in two and moved to another part of the lot, becoming a gardener's house in 1927 when "Normanna" was built. Note the greenhouse in front of the house. This house was built by Burnaby's first Reeve, Charles Shaw, and is now a designated heritage site at 7725 4th Street.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 4th Street
- Street Address
- 7725 4th Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
![Brookes family home, [1920] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-102.jpg)
Brookes family home, "Normanna"
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35246
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of "Normanna," the Brookes family residence. This new Brookes family home was built in 1927 on the same site as the original house at 441 12th Avenue (later renumbered 7979 12th Avenue). Eventually, this became Normanna Norwegian rest home. The original house was built by Burnaby's firs…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-103
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of "Normanna," the Brookes family residence. This new Brookes family home was built in 1927 on the same site as the original house at 441 12th Avenue (later renumbered 7979 12th Avenue). Eventually, this became Normanna Norwegian rest home. The original house was built by Burnaby's first Reeve, Charles Shaw, and is now a designated heritage site at 7725 4th Street.
- Subjects
- Geographic Features - Gardens
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Buildings - Residential - Seniors Housing
- Buildings - Heritage
- Names
- Normanna Rest Home
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 4th Street
- Street Address
- 7725 4th Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
Brook family home
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34803
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of the Brook family home at 7979 12th Avenue, East Burnaby. This house later became the Normanna Rest Home, 7725 4th Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Kathleen Moore family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.4 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 135-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1985-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of the Brook family home at 7979 12th Avenue, East Burnaby. This house later became the Normanna Rest Home, 7725 4th Street.
- Names
- Normanna Rest Home
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Moore, Godfrey
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- The accession register notes that the photos in the this collection were taken by Kathleen Moore's father
- Geographic Access
- 4th Street
- Street Address
- 7725 4th Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
![Burnaby Lake Interurban, [before 1954] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/328-001.jpg?width=280)
Burnaby Lake Interurban
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37174
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [before 1954]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby.…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [before 1954]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 328-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-14
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby. The uppermost window in the house was the donor's bedroom.
- Subjects
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Fareham Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Burnaby Lake Interurban, [before 1954] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/328-001.jpg)
Burnaby Lake Interurban line
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36810
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 12.7 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a tram on the Burnaby Lake Interurban line at the Cumberland Road station.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.0 x 12.7 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 315-268
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1994-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a tram on the Burnaby Lake Interurban line at the Cumberland Road station.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Burnaby Lake Interurban line
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
Coldicutt House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34549
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.0 x 21.1 cm mounted on 25.1 x 30.1 cm cardboard
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of the Coldicutt House at 7510 6th Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.0 x 21.1 cm mounted on 25.1 x 30.1 cm cardboard
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 044-009
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of the Coldicutt House at 7510 6th Street.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 6th Street
- Street Address
- 7510 6th Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
Crowning the May Queen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38673
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1928
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 24.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the crowning ceremony for Burnaby's 1928-1929 May Queen, Sylvia Murley on the raised dais receiving her crown, flanked by numerous flower girls and attendants.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1928
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- North Burnaby Board of Trade subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 24.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 476-016
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2005-8
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the crowning ceremony for Burnaby's 1928-1929 May Queen, Sylvia Murley on the raised dais receiving her crown, flanked by numerous flower girls and attendants.
- Subjects
- Events - May Day
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Lloyd's Studio
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Robert Burnaby Park
- Wedgewood Street
- Street Address
- 8155 Wedgewood Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lakeview-Mayfield Area
Images
![Edwin Butler, [1925] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-204.jpg?width=280)
Edwin Butler
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35347
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Edwin Butler with pet dog, Bing, and pet cat, Boots. Edwin was married to Margaret Butler. They first settled in Burnaby at 278 14th Avenue (later renumbered 8062 14th Avenue), East Burnaby in 1924.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-204
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Edwin Butler with pet dog, Bing, and pet cat, Boots. Edwin was married to Margaret Butler. They first settled in Burnaby at 278 14th Avenue (later renumbered 8062 14th Avenue), East Burnaby in 1924.
- Subjects
- Animals - Cats
- Animals - Dogs
- Names
- Butler, Edwin
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- 14th Avenue
- Street Address
- 8062 14th Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Second Street Area
Images
![Edwin Butler, [1925] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-204.jpg)
![Ella and Frank Street, [192-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-005.jpg?width=280)
Ella and Frank Street
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36073
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 4.5 x 8.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ella Street and her son Frank, posing for the picture with a Model T Ford at the family home on Cumberland Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Helen Street subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 4.5 x 8.5 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 217-005
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-6
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ella Street and her son Frank, posing for the picture with a Model T Ford at the family home on Cumberland Street.
- Subjects
- Transportation - Automobiles
- Names
- Street, Ella
- Street, Frank
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 col. copy negative accompanying
- Ella Jane Street (nee Bryson) was born in Allen's Corner, Chateauguay County, Quebec on December 5, 1873 to John Alexander Bryson and Mary Ann Grant.
- Ella married Ernest Street in Saskatoon on March 17, 1909. The couple had one child, Frank Bryson Street, born in Young, Saskatchewan on January 27, 1910.
- Frank Bryson Street married Helen Margret Pound at Ocean Falls, BC on July 21, 1938. The couple had two sons: Frank Sheridan Street born April 20, 1940 and Ernest David Street born April 27, 1942.
- Additional Street family biographical information available in accession file.
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Ella and Frank Street, [192-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-005.jpg)
![Ella Street, [after 1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-003.jpg?width=280)
Ella Street
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36071
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [after 1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col ; 6.5 x 5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ella Street standing next to a cow - probably at the Street family home on Cumberland Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [after 1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Helen Street subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col ; 6.5 x 5 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 217-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-6
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ella Street standing next to a cow - probably at the Street family home on Cumberland Street.
- Subjects
- Animals - Cows
- Names
- Street, Ella
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 col. copy negative accompanying
- Note in pencil on verso reads: "1205 Cumberland"
- Ella Jane Street (nee Bryson) was born in Allen's Corner, Chateauguay County, Quebec on December 5, 1873 to John Alexander Bryson and Mary Ann Grant.
- Ella married Ernest Street in Saskatoon on March 17, 1909. The couple had one child, Frank Bryson Street, born in Young, Saskatchewan on January 27, 1910.
- Additional Street family biographical information available in accession file.
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Ella Street, [after 1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-003.jpg)
![Ernest and Frank Street, [between 1920 and 1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-004.jpg?width=280)
Ernest and Frank Street
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36072
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 6 x 11 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ernest Street and his son Frank feeding the animals at the family farm on Cumberland Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1920 and 1925]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Helen Street subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 6 x 11 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 217-004
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-6
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Ernest Street and his son Frank feeding the animals at the family farm on Cumberland Street.
- Names
- Street, Ernest
- Street, Frank
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 col. copy negative accompanying
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Ernest and Frank Street, [between 1920 and 1925] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-004.jpg)
![Ernest Street family home, [192-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-001.jpg?width=280)
Ernest Street family home
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36069
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph ; sepia ; 7.5 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a person sitting in front of the home identified as the Ernest Street family home at 1205 Cumberland Street (old street numbering).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [192-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Helen Street subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph ; sepia ; 7.5 x 13.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 217-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-6
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a person sitting in front of the home identified as the Ernest Street family home at 1205 Cumberland Street (old street numbering).
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Cumberland Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cariboo-Armstrong Area
Images
![Ernest Street family home, [192-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/205/217-001.jpg)
Hawkshaw family home
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35164
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Hawkshaw family home, 763 Wedgewood Street (later renumbered 7743 Wedgewood Street), East Burnaby. The Hawkshaw family lived here between 1920 and 1929. Mabel Hawkshaw and her son, Cedric, are outside.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-021
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Hawkshaw family home, 763 Wedgewood Street (later renumbered 7743 Wedgewood Street), East Burnaby. The Hawkshaw family lived here between 1920 and 1929. Mabel Hawkshaw and her son, Cedric, are outside.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Wedgewood Street
- Street Address
- 7743 Wedgewood Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Lakeview-Mayfield Area
Images
Interview with Jack McGeachie June 18, 1975 - Track 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory35
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1914-1922
- Length
- 0:09:27
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.
- Date Range
- 1914-1922
- Photo Info
- McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464
- Length
- 0:09:27
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residences - Houses
- Geographic Access
- Formby Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Richmond Park Area
- Second Street Area
- Interviewer
- Bradbury, Dr. Bettina
- Interview Date
- June 18, 1975
- Scope and Content
- Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
- Biographical Notes
- John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie. Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School. John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company. Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.
- Total Tracks
- 8
- Total Length
- 0:51:13
- Interviewee Name
- McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"
- Interview Location
- Rosewood
- Interviewer Bio
- Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Oral history subseries
- Transcript Available
- None
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Web Notes
- Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
Images
Audio Tracks
Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie
Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-10/100-13-10_Track_1.mp3