"Electrical " found 90 records

Scope and Content: Photograph of Eli Egriphan Nimrod Sampson Joseph Jeffrey Maneer (who did gold leaf lettering, and developed "BCER" script for all B.C. Electric Railway vehicles), Leonard Wilson, and Adney "Ab" Wilson, in Vancouver.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-280

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Eli Egriphan Nimrod Sampson Joseph Jeffrey Maneer (who did gold leaf lettering, and developed "BCER" script for all B.C. Electric Railway vehicles), Leonard Wilson, and Adney "Ab" Wilson, in Vancouver.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names: Maneer, Eli Egriphan Nimrod Sampson Joseph Jeffrey; Wilson, Adney "Ab"; Wilson, Leonard

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Eli Maneer, Ab Wilson and Leonard Wilson, 1907 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

First Airship at New Westminster

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39566

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.3 x 7.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of an airship flying above 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.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.3 x 7.7 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-885

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of an airship flying above 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.

Subjects: Transportation - Air; Advertising Medium

Names: Ginter, Harry

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Images

First Airship at New Westminster, 1909 thumbnail

Grace McGhee

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35153

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1909] (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 Grace McGhee (nee George) at McKay station along the Central Park Interurban line.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1909] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-010

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Grace McGhee (nee George) at McKay station along the Central Park Interurban line.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Train Stations; Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: McGhee, Grace George; British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McKay Avenue; Central Park Interurban line

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Grace McGhee, [1909] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

How it works : dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1826

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Williams, Archibald, 1871-1934

Edition: 8th ed. rev. and enl.

Publication Date: 1907

Call Number: 600 WIL

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV983.76.1

Call Number: 600 WIL

Edition: 8th ed. rev. and enl.

Author: Williams, Archibald, 1871-1934

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons

Publication Date: 1907

Physical Description: xii, [13]-461 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Inscription: "11964.A. 87"-handwritten in pencil and in blue ink on inside frant cover, crossed out. "487"-hanwritten in pencil on cover page. "xx"-handwritten on cover page, circled. "350"-handwritten on cover page. "The property of / St' Michael's School / Library / Presented by L. G. Tolson, Esq. / No. ___" -printed on sticker on inside fron cover. "L. G. Tolson, Esq." is handwritten. Words are crossed out with black marker. "lola"-hanwritten in link on title page.

Library Subject (LOC): Technology; Science; Inventions; Juvenile literature

Interview with Harry Royle June 20, 1975 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1898-1919

Length: 0:06:06

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Harry Royle's early life beginning at Gibraltar, through the war years.

1 image 1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Harry Royle's early life beginning at Gibraltar, through the war years.

Date Range: 1898-1919

Photo Info: Harry Royle smiling, in a suit and tie, photographed by Chidwich Studio [193-]. Item no. BV005.20.20

Length: 0:06:06

Interviewer: McLeod, Ross S.; Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: June 20, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Harry Royle by Ross S. McLeod (and Bettina Bradbury) June 20, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression and the running of a grocery store. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: Harry Royle was born in Gibraltar in 1898 to a Spanish mother and an English father (all of the Royle children except for one were born in Gibraltar). Harry's father served in the army for twenty-one years and because of that, the family moved regularly. While Harry was still a young baby, the Royle family moved to Ireland for six years, where he began his first years of schooling at the age of four. His dad retired from the army in 1907 and was sent to Canada with the BC Electric Company (the London General Army Buses Company). The rest of his family followed two years afterward in 1909 and settled in South Vancouver. Harry and his three brothers joined the army and were sent overseas as part of the second division. Luckily, they all returned home to Vancouver in 1919. Harry worked at the Hudson's Bay Company "counter jumping" before opening his own store in 1924 at 5527 Hastings Street and Ellesmere Avenue, a confectionery and general hangout for neighbourhood children."Harry's" was only twenty-five foot square and carried groceries obtained mainly from Kelly Douglas wholesalers. Most of Harry's customers worked at the mill at Barnet. Those that worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway were the few that still held jobs during the Depression. The store continued to serve the people of Capitol Hill throughout the Depression and war years, until Harry closed shop in 1945.

Total Tracks: 7

Total Length: 1:01:43

Interviewee Name: Royle, Harry

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

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

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

Harry Royle smiling, in a suit and tie, photographed by Chidwich Studio [193-]. Item no. BV005.20.20 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Harry Royle

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John DeForest subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 19045[1908]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 7 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs collected by John DeForest that show the Burnaby British Columbia Electric Railway Co. (BCER) substation and employees of the Westminster Branch BCER Company Ltd.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 19045[1908]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: John DeForest subseries

Physical Description: 7 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-30

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs collected by John DeForest that show the Burnaby British Columbia Electric Railway Co. (BCER) substation and employees of the Westminster Branch BCER Company Ltd.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: Deforest, John Albert

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; PC293

Letter from BC Electric Railway received for mistake re Poles on Boundary Road

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport77532

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 75868

Meeting Date: 23-Jun-1906

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 75868

Meeting Date: 23-Jun-1906

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 75868

23-Jun-1906 Meeting Minutes

Letter from Electric Train Company agreeing to grant to Council a right of way over their Road on Edmonds Street for a small nominal sum

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport79327

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 89337

Meeting Date: 21-Sep-1901

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 89337

Meeting Date: 21-Sep-1901

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 89337

21-Sep-1901 Meeting Minutes

Modern engineering practice : a reference library on electricity, steam, refrigeration, gas engines, marine and locomotive work, pattern making, founding, machine design, shop practice, tool making, forging, drawing, heating, ventilation, plumbing, carpentry, etc.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1462

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921

Publication Date: 1905

Call Number: 621 GUN vol.II

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV985.3695.1

Call Number: 621 GUN vol.II

Author: Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: American School of Correspondence

Publication Date: 1905

Physical Description: 422 p. : illus. , plates, diagrs. ; 25 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Engineering

Modern engineering practice : a reference library on electricity, steam, refrigeration, gas engines, marine and locomotive work, pattern making, founding, machine design, shop practice, tool making, forging, drawing, heating, ventilation, plumbing, carpentry, etc.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1463

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921

Publication Date: 1905

Call Number: 621 GUN vol. IV

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV985.3695.2

Call Number: 621 GUN vol. IV

Author: Gunsaulus, Frank W. (Frank Wakeley), 1856-1921

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: American School of Correspondence

Publication Date: 1905

Physical Description: 490 p. : illus. , plates, diagrs. ; 25 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Engineering

Photography for young people

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Jenks, Tudor, 1857-1922

Publication Date: 1908

Call Number: 771 JEN

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV988.42.25

Call Number: 771 JEN

Author: Jenks, Tudor, 1857-1922

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: F. A. Stokes

Publication Date: 1908

Physical Description: xi, 328 p., 15 plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Inscription: "L24758/90" [Handwritten text in pencil on back of back cover]

Library Subject (LOC): Photography

Notes: "Author of "electricity for young people"."--title page.

Plan of Proposed New Route of Interurban Railway - BC Electric Railway Company

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport75108

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81617

Meeting Date: 16-May-1908

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81617

Meeting Date: 16-May-1908

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 81617

16-May-1908 Meeting Minutes

Poles for Electric light on Nelson Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 89474

Meeting Date: 30-Aug-1907

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 89474

Meeting Date: 30-Aug-1907

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 89474

30-Aug-1907 Meeting Minutes

Portable substation at the Fraser Valley branch

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 17 x 12cm, mounted on board 27 x 22 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the portable "railcar" substation at the British Columbia Electric Railway Company's Fraser Valley Branch.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: John DeForest subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 17 x 12cm, mounted on board 27 x 22 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 293-006

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-30

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of the portable "railcar" substation at the British Columbia Electric Railway Company's Fraser Valley Branch.

Subjects: Buildings - Industrial - Powerhouses

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer's handwritten note (on the negative causing it to show) on recto of photograph reads: "Burnaby Substation/ B.C.E.R.C/O"