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Recommendation for Corporation to Oppose any Legislation that Will Tend to Create a Monopoly or Increase Cost of Electrical Wiring re Electrical Licensing Act
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport68056
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58894
- Meeting Date
- 24-Oct-1921
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 58894
- Meeting Date
- 24-Oct-1921
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Advertisement of the Position of Assistant Electrical Inspector
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport53564
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 69648
- Meeting Date
- 3-Dec-1945
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 69648
- Meeting Date
- 3-Dec-1945
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Amendment to Burnaby Electrical By-law 1928
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport63513
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55705
- Meeting Date
- 30-May-1932
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55705
- Meeting Date
- 30-May-1932
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Appointment of Assistant Electrical and Plumbing Inspector - V. Dodd
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport49440
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 49310
- Meeting Date
- 8-Apr-1946
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 49310
- Meeting Date
- 8-Apr-1946
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Appointment of Electrical Inspector - F.J. Mann
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport49196
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 48824
- Meeting Date
- 24-Mar-1947
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 48824
- Meeting Date
- 24-Mar-1947
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Appointment of J.D. Holdom as Electrical Inspector
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport48944
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 49081
- Meeting Date
- 3-Nov-1947
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 49081
- Meeting Date
- 3-Nov-1947
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
City of Burnaby - Emergency Generator and Electrical System Main Building
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport58376
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90458
- Meeting Date
- 14-May-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90458
- Meeting Date
- 14-May-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
City of Burnaby - Emergency Generator and Electrical System - Main Building
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport58433
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90511
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jun-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90511
- Meeting Date
- 11-Jun-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
City of Burnaby - Emergency Generator and Electrical System - Main Building
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport58517
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90593
- Meeting Date
- 30-Jul-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90593
- Meeting Date
- 30-Jul-2012
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Electrical Charges for Firehall No. 4
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport44004
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43328
- Meeting Date
- 23-Apr-1956
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 43328
- Meeting Date
- 23-Apr-1956
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Electrical Service to Willingdon Heights Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport44519
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 44565
- Meeting Date
- 22-Aug-1955
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 44565
- Meeting Date
- 22-Aug-1955
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Emergency Generator and Electrical Vault Replacement for City Hall - Main Building
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport57654
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 78836
- Meeting Date
- 7-Feb-2011
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 78836
- Meeting Date
- 7-Feb-2011
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Emergency Power and Electrical Upgrades to City Hall - Main Building
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport55917
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 77289
- Meeting Date
- 6-Apr-2009
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 77289
- Meeting Date
- 6-Apr-2009
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Engagement of Electrical Inspector for Wiring at Dominion Bridge Company Plant
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport64510
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55647
- Meeting Date
- 24-Mar-1930
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55647
- Meeting Date
- 24-Mar-1930
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Resignation of Mr. V. Dodd, Electrical and Plumbing Inspector
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport53116
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 69198
- Meeting Date
- 7-Oct-1946
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 69198
- Meeting Date
- 7-Oct-1946
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Trades License Fee - Electrical Contractors
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport61545
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 54521
- Meeting Date
- 15-Jun-1931
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 54521
- Meeting Date
- 15-Jun-1931
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Wages for Electrical Contractors
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport64120
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55285
- Meeting Date
- 8-Jun-1931
- Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 55285
- Meeting Date
- 8-Jun-1931
- Format
- Council - Committee 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
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Horne-Payne Receiving Station
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark594
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Industrial building.
- Associated Dates
- 1913
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- 2nd Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1913
- Description
- Industrial building.
- Heritage Value
- Constructed as an electrical grid substation by the B.C. Electric Railway Company, the Horne-Payne substation was part of the expansion of this utility company to central Burnaby that occurred as a result of the opening of the Burnaby Lake Interurban line in 1911. The Receiving Station is intended to rearrange the company’s system of distributing power over the whole of the Burrard Peninsula. Power will come to the transformers there and be converted and distributed to the various substations in Vancouver, New Westminster and the suburbs...Work has already been started at the foundation for the new plant. (Vancouver Daily Province, April 29, 1913) When constructed the substation was situated within a forest clearing in a largely undeveloped section of northwest Burnaby. The area now surrounding the substation is heavily developed for semi-industrial purposes. This steel-frame and poured concrete structure was designed to be utilitarian, but with decorative detailing. The south-facing front of the structure features massed corners detailed with decorative relief panels at the roofline. Additionally, this well-balanced building displayed symmetrical fenestration with blind, and tall multi-paned steel-sash windows, some crowned with keystones. A tower added to the east side of the building’s front is the most substantial change made to the appearance of the Horne-Payne substation. This industrial structure was designed by prominent British Columbian architect, Robert Lyon (1879-1963). Born in Edinburgh, Lyon apprenticed and worked as an architect in Scotland until 1908 before moving to New York in 1909. In 1911, he began his career in Vancouver as an “architectural engineer,” with the B.C. Electric Company that lasted until 1918. After a short tenure in the lumber industry, Lyon returned to architecture, this time with his own firm in Penticton. Active in municipal politics, he was instrumental in the incorporation of Penticton as a city, and became its first mayor from 1948-1949. Lyon retired from architecture in 1958 and died in 1963. Lyon also designed the Central Park Gate in Burnaby.
- Locality
- Vancouver Heights
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- West Central Valley Area
- Architect
- Robert Lyon
- Area
- 47400.00
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 3700 2nd Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Central Park Tramline
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark732
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Associated Dates
- 1891
- Heritage Value
- In the 1890s, local entrepreneurs launched electric railways in Vancouver, New Westminster, and Victoria, eager to cash in on the promise of future growth in the major cities of the time. In the Lower Mainland, two companies started building electric rail in 1890: the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Co., which undertook the ambitious project of building the first real interurban line from New Westminster to Vancouver, and the Westminster Street Railway, who eventually built streetcar service and installed electric lighting in New Westminster. By April 20, 1891, both companies merged to form the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company. Local entrepreneurs Henry V. Edmonds, David Oppenheimer, Benjamin Douglas, and Samuel McIntosh, were the directors, all of whom had extensive real estate holdings in the area. Interurban service launched on June 3, 1891, travelling along 12 miles of track from New Westminster to eastern Vancouver, running through Burnaby – which was then an unincorporated area. Installing the single-track line from Vancouver to New Westminster through uneven, forested terrain was a mammoth undertaking. The clearing of the 100-foot right of way and laying the track called for a large work force, some of whom were Chinese "gandy dancers" who had worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway lines. The line was eventually taken over by the B.C. Electric Railway Company in 1897, who remained the owners until the line was finally closed on October 23, 1953 and replaced with the modern bus system. The construction of the SkyTrain along the old route in 1986 reintroduced passenger rail to this historic transportation corridor.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
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