13 records – page 1 of 1.

Brown family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46470
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1927
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown's five children. Identified are: Elsie, Laura, Flossie, Reta, and Dickie. This photograph was taken in front of the Browns' McKay Avenue home.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1927
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-012
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown's five children. Identified are: Elsie, Laura, Flossie, Reta, and Dickie. This photograph was taken in front of the Browns' McKay Avenue home.
Names
Brown, Reta
Catli, Dickie Brown
Brown, Flossie
Francescini, Laura Brown
Nykyfork, Elsie Brown
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
McKay Avenue
Images
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Brown family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46475
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1912]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Scope and Content
Photograph of members of the Brown family standing in front of a large tree. Identified are Ed Brown (next to horse) with his wife Jennie and one of their children (in a baby carriage).The man to the left is unknown.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1912]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-013
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of members of the Brown family standing in front of a large tree. Identified are Ed Brown (next to horse) with his wife Jennie and one of their children (in a baby carriage).The man to the left is unknown.
Subjects
Plants - Trees
Animals - Horses
Names
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
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The Brown sisters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46466
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1930 and 1935]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Scope and Content
Photograph of four of Ed Brown's daughters, dressed in their lacrosse uniforms: Inez, Flossie, Laura and Elsie.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1930 and 1935]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-011
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of four of Ed Brown's daughters, dressed in their lacrosse uniforms: Inez, Flossie, Laura and Elsie.
Subjects
Sports - Lacrosse
Sports - Team Sports
Clothing - Uniforms
Names
Ervin, Inez Brown
Brown, Flossie
Francescini, Laura Brown
Nykyfork, Elsie Brown
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown and daughters with his truck

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46007
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1925]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1925]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-009
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown and family beside his truck

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46004
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family standing in front of one of Ed's first trucks.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-006
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family standing in front of one of Ed's first trucks.
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
Brown, Ed
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown and his daughters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46002
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and four of his daughters sitting in one of Ed's trucks (a GMC).
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-004
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and four of his daughters sitting in one of Ed's trucks (a GMC).
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
Brown, Ed
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown and his daughters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46006
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1920]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-008
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown and his daughters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46008
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1925]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1925]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : b&w
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-010
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Ed Brown and his daughters on one of his trucks.
Subjects
Occupations - Truck Drivers
Occupations - Entrepreneurs
Transportation - Trucks
Names
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Ed Brown family fonds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97218
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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Ed Brown family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46003
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family home. This was the first home of Ed and Jennie Brown on Royal Oak Avenue and was built by Ed. Ed can be seen sitting in the wagon with two of his daughters, Hazel and Inez, while Jennie is on the verandah. The other men in the photograph are unidentified.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-005
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Ed Brown family home. This was the first home of Ed and Jennie Brown on Royal Oak Avenue and was built by Ed. Ed can be seen sitting in the wagon with two of his daughters, Hazel and Inez, while Jennie is on the verandah. The other men in the photograph are unidentified.
Subjects
Transportation - Carriages
Transportation - Horses
Buildings - Residential - Houses
Names
Brown, Ed
Brown, Hazel
Ervin, Inez Brown
Brown, Jennie Birtch
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Royal Oak Avenue
Images
Less detail

Kingsway West School Class

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46482
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1920 (date of original), copied 2008
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm print
Scope and Content
Photograph of a Kingsway West School class with Bessie McLaren standing in the front row, fourth from the left and Mr. Sommerville, the teacher and school principal standing on the far right, in the second to last row.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1920 (date of original), copied 2008
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17 cm print
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-015
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of a Kingsway West School class with Bessie McLaren standing in the front row, fourth from the left and Mr. Sommerville, the teacher and school principal standing on the far right, in the second to last row.
Subjects
Occupations - Teachers
Names
Kingsway West School
Taylor, Bessie McLaren
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Photographer identifed as "Bridgman"
Geographic Access
Kingsway
Street Address
4800 Kingsway
Historic Neighbourhood
Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Maywood Area
Images
Less detail

Men with horses

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46472
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Scope and Content
Photograph of a group of six men holding on to the reins of twelve horses, lined up in a row in a field. Ed Brown has been indentified as one of the men. The rest are unknown.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1915]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w jpg.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-014
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of a group of six men holding on to the reins of twelve horses, lined up in a row in a field. Ed Brown has been indentified as one of the men. The rest are unknown.
Subjects
Animals - Horses
Names
Brown, Ed
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Supply yard

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription46005
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Scope and Content
Photograph of what may be the supply yard used by Ed Brown. Ed Brown owned and operated E.S. Brown's Transfer trucking company in Burnaby. The business was located at 3131 Royal Oak Avenue. Three children (probably children of Ed and his wife Jennie) are loading material onto a home-made wagon.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1910]
Collection/Fonds
Ed Brown Family fonds
Physical Description
1 jpg. : sepia
Description Level
Item
Record No.
298-007
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2008-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of what may be the supply yard used by Ed Brown. Ed Brown owned and operated E.S. Brown's Transfer trucking company in Burnaby. The business was located at 3131 Royal Oak Avenue. Three children (probably children of Ed and his wife Jennie) are loading material onto a home-made wagon.
Subjects
Transportation - Wagons
Names
E.S. Brown's Transfer Company
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

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