Narrow Results By
Subject
- Advertising Medium 2
- Buildings - Commercial - General Stores 1
- Buildings - Commercial - Train Stations 1
- Buildings - Industrial - Factories 1
- Buildings - Industrial - Powerhouses 5
- Buildings - Residential - Houses 1
- Clothing - Costumes 1
- Clothing - Uniforms 1
- Construction - Road Construction 1
- Construction Tools and Equipment 1
- Documentary Artifacts - Portraits 1
- Energy Production Tools and Equipment 1
Person / Organization
- Bradbury, Dr. Bettina 1
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company 11
- British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company 1
- Clarke, Ellen 1
- Clarke, Joseph 1
- Exworthy, William Albert "Bert" 1
- Ginter, Harry 2
- Hill, Arthur Claude 1
- Lister, Jack 1
- Love, George Richard 1
- Macdonald, Angus 1
- Maneer, Eli Egriphan Nimrod Sampson Joseph Jeffrey 1
Airship at New Westminster
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39568
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.2 x 10.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large crowd gathering around an airship in a clearing in New Westminster. The craft bears a banner reading "Motor Boats Built by Hinton Electric Ltd. At Victoria." The airship was piloted by Harry Ginter and made twice daily flights over the 1909 exhibition.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.2 x 10.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-887
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large crowd gathering around an airship in a clearing in New Westminster. The craft bears a banner reading "Motor Boats Built by Hinton Electric Ltd. At Victoria." The airship was piloted by Harry Ginter and made twice daily flights over the 1909 exhibition.
- Names
- Ginter, Harry
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Alteration of Highways Caused by Improvements BC Electric Railway Company
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75658
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82012
- Meeting Date
- 3-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82012
- Meeting Date
- 3-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Angus & Margaret MacDonald House
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark495
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Set on a large corner lot at North Esmond Avenue and Oxford Street, the Angus & Margaret MacDonald House is a prominent, two and one-half storey Queen Anne Revival-style residence. The high hipped roof has open projecting gables. The house is a landmark within the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood of…
- Associated Dates
- 1909
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Oxford Street
- Associated Dates
- 1909
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 12174
- Enactment Date
- 11/12/2006
- Description
- Set on a large corner lot at North Esmond Avenue and Oxford Street, the Angus & Margaret MacDonald House is a prominent, two and one-half storey Queen Anne Revival-style residence. The high hipped roof has open projecting gables. The house is a landmark within the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood of North Burnaby, on a high point of land overlooking Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains.
- Heritage Value
- The MacDonald House is valued as one of Burnaby’s most elaborate examples of the Queen Anne Revival style. The house retains many of its original features, including a prominent front corner turret wrapped by a clamshell verandah. The eclectic and transitional nature of Edwardian-era architecture is demonstrated by the late persistence of these Queen Anne Revival details, combined with the use of newly-popular classical revival elements such as Ionic columns. The interior retains a number of original architectural elements, and the early garage at the rear originally housed Angus MacDonald’s Cadillac, one of the first known automobiles owned by a Burnaby resident. Constructed in 1909, this house was built for Angus MacDonald (1857-1943) and his wife, Margaret Isabella Thompson MacDonald (1862-1939). Angus MacDonald, an electrical contractor, relocated from Nova Scotia to Vancouver in 1891 and served on Vancouver Council from 1904-08. The MacDonald family moved to Burnaby upon his retirement from the B.C. Electric Railway Company, and he then served the North Burnaby Ward as a councillor from 1911-1916 and again in 1921. MacDonald Street in Burnaby was named in his honour. The MacDonald House has additional significance as one of the surviving landmark residences, built between 1909 and 1914, during the first development of Vancouver Heights. In 1909, C.J. Peter and his employer, G.F. and J. Galt Limited, initiated the development of this North Burnaby neighbourhood, promoting it as one of the most picturesque districts in the region and an alternative to the CPR’s prestigious Shaughnessy Heights development in Vancouver. Buyers were obligated to build houses worth $3,500 at a time when the average house price was $1,000. Reputed to be the second house built in the subdivision, this house cost $7,000 to build.
- Defining Elements
- Key elements that define the heritage character of the MacDonald House include its: - prominent corner location in the Vancouver Heights neighbourhood, with views to Burrard Inlet and the North Shore Mountains - residential form, scale and massing as exemplified by its two and one-half storey height, full basement, compound plan, and high hipped roof with gabled projections at the front and side - wood-frame construction including wooden lapped siding, trim and mouldings - rubble-stone granite foundation - Queen Anne Revival details such as scroll-cut modillions, octagonal corner turret, wraparound, clamshell verandah with classical columns, and projecting square and semi-octagonal bays - external red-brick chimney with corbelled top - original windows including double-hung, 1-over-1 wooden sash windows in single and double assembly, and arched-top casement windows in the gable peaks - original interior features such as the main staircase, a panelled dining room with a fireplace and built-in cabinets, a living room with a parquet floor, and a rear den with an oak mantle and tiled hearth - associated early wood-frame garage at the rear of the property - landscape features such as mature coniferous and deciduous trees surrounding the property
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Organization
- British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company
- Function
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Vancouver Heights
- Cadastral Identifier
- P.I.D.011-999-462
- Boundaries
- The MacDonald House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 3814 Oxford Street, Burnaby.
- Area
- 566.71
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Documentation
- City of Burnaby Planning and Building Department, Heritage Site Files
- Street Address
- 3814 Oxford Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Appreciation to BC Electric Railway re Edmonds H. Car Line
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport74444
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80537
- Meeting Date
- 16-Aug-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80537
- Meeting Date
- 16-Aug-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
The Art of Railroading
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7506
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Alymer-Small, Sidney
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Call Number
- 385 ALY
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 385 ALY
- Author
- Alymer-Small, Sidney
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Publisher
- Railway Publications Society
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Printer
- Frederick J. Drake & Co.
- Physical Description
- 924 p. : ill. 6 cm thick
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroads--Design and construction
- Railroads
- Electric railroads
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- Electrical Railroading / Electricity as applied to railroad transportation
A textbook on steam engineering: elements of electricity and magnetism, dynamos and motors, operation of dynamos and motors, heat and steam, types of steam boilers, boiler details, boiler fittings, combustion, firing, and draft.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary426
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV988.60.4
- Call Number
- 621.1 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pa.
- Publisher
- International Textbook Company
- Publication Date
- c1902
- Series
- I.C.S. text books.
- Physical Description
- 5 v. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Steam engineering
- Engineering
- Notes
- Includes index.
Bancroft family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription63795
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Bancroft family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-44
- BHS2004-06
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the Bancroft family and friends and ephemera pertaining to agricultural farming and the air force.
- History
- Rose Croucher was born to Ann Eliza "Annie" (b. August 1861, d. 1962) and R. Coucher in January 1895. In 1907, the Croucher family moved to British Columbia. As a student, Rose studied geometrical drawing using Blair’s Canadian Drawing Series workbooks. On on February 21, 1914, Rose married James Oakes Bancroft in Vancouver, BC. Together they had three children: James A. (b. 1916 or 1917), Rosie (date unknown), and George E. (b. August 1927). The Bancroft family were poultry farmers throughout the early 1900s, transporting their farmed eggs from Burnaby to the Hudson’s Bay Company Vancouver using the British Columbia Electric Railway system. Rose Bancroft also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Park Poultry Co-op Association in the 1920s until her husband's death in 1930 at the age of 42. In the late thirties and early forties, while James A. Bancroft was stationed in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force, his younger siblings lived together with their mother and grandmother at 1963 21st Avenue in Burnaby. Rosie Bancroft studied French and English history in Social Studies in 1937; her brother George studied the seasons in General Science II in 1942. Rose died in 1965 at the age of 76.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Cartographic Material
- Creator
- Bancroft, Rose
- Notes
- MSS030, PC490, PC507, and MSS110
- Title based on creator and contents of subseries
BC Electric Railway Application
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75426
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80920
- Meeting Date
- 19-Nov-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80920
- Meeting Date
- 19-Nov-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Bridge Over Tenth Avenue and Boundary Road
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75613
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 81860
- Meeting Date
- 5-Sep-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 81860
- Meeting Date
- 5-Sep-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company asking permission to move the track at Burnaby Station
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport79262
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89310
- Meeting Date
- 18-Jun-1901
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89310
- Meeting Date
- 18-Jun-1901
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company - Construction of Spur Line on Edmonds Street Block 3 DL 28
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport76589
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82428
- Meeting Date
- 13-Aug-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82428
- Meeting Date
- 13-Aug-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company granting permission to Council to run a culvert under their track at Jubilee Rd crossing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport78950
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89045
- Meeting Date
- 7-Apr-1900
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89045
- Meeting Date
- 7-Apr-1900
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company instructed to fill drain with rock on the Vancouver Road near Slaughter house
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport78930
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89037
- Meeting Date
- 14-Mar-1900
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 89037
- Meeting Date
- 14-Mar-1900
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company Proposals re Amended plans for High Level Crossing at Smith Avenue
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75693
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82041
- Meeting Date
- 17-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82041
- Meeting Date
- 17-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company Proposed Alterations at Central Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75714
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82056
- Meeting Date
- 31-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 82056
- Meeting Date
- 31-Oct-1908
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company re Commercial Line
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport78336
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 83054
- Meeting Date
- 13-Aug-1904
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 83054
- Meeting Date
- 13-Aug-1904
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company's Application
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport74976
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80717
- Meeting Date
- 24-Sep-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80717
- Meeting Date
- 24-Sep-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
BC Electric Railway Company's Appreciation
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75240
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80775
- Meeting Date
- 22-Oct-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 80775
- Meeting Date
- 22-Oct-1909
- Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
B.C. Electric Railway Franchise
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription380
- 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 record
- Scope and Content
- File contains records relating to the operation of the B.C. Electric Railway Franchise in the municipality of Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1913
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2073
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File contains records relating to the operation of the B.C. Electric Railway Franchise in the municipality of Burnaby.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
B.C. Electric Railway Franchise
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription383
- 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
- Scope and Content
- File includes a 1912 report regarding the Corporation of the District of Burnaby vs B.C. Electric Railway in the Supreme Court of BC.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1912
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 2076
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- File includes a 1912 report regarding the Corporation of the District of Burnaby vs B.C. Electric Railway in the Supreme Court of BC.
- Media Type
- Textual Record