"Engineering" found 383 records

Notes: "A series of text books prepared especially and exclusively for instruction on locomotive engineering by motive power superintendents, master mechanics, traveling engineers and mechanical experts associated with the International School of Engineering" -- Title page; "Locomotive boilers and engines, their construction, care, operation and management, firemen's duties, heat, fuel combustion, injectors, lubrication, and the setting of valves. Also complete description of walschaert and other valve gears, their defects and how to remedy them" -- Title page; Includes index.

Cost accountant (Engineering Department)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1911-1913

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

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and application for employment for a posted position of a Cost Accountant and Board of Works Clerk for the Corporation of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1911-1913

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2635

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and application for employment for a posted position of a Cost Accountant and Board of Works Clerk for the Corporation of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Department of Construction Engineering be Created

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79965

Meeting Date: 12-Feb-1912

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79965

Meeting Date: 12-Feb-1912

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 79965

12-Feb-1912 Meeting Minutes

The elements of electrical engineering : a first year's course for students

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Sewell, Tyson

Edition: 6th revised ed.

Publication Date: 1915

Call Number: 621.3 SEW

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: HV980.2.73

Call Number: 621.3 SEW

Edition: 6th revised ed.

Author: Sewell, Tyson

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Crosby Lockwood and Son

Publication Date: 1915

Physical Description: 450 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Electrical engineering

Engineering Department Assistant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76735

Meeting Date: 27-May-1918

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76735

Meeting Date: 27-May-1918

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 76735

27-May-1918 Meeting Minutes

Engineering Department fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-2014

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 1m of textual records, approximately 2000 cartographic and architecural drawings

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records created by the Engineering department including environmental service files, physical plant plans, and administrative records.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-2014

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Physical Description: 1m of textual records, approximately 2000 cartographic and architecural drawings

Description Level: Fonds

Access Restriction: Subject to FOIPPA

Reproduction Restriction: Reproductions subject to FOIPPA

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of records created by the Engineering department including environmental service files, physical plant plans, and administrative records.

History: In 2020, responsibility for environmental management transferred to Climate Action and Energy, with Engineering retaining responsibility for geotechnical investigations and graffiti management. In 2022, Engineering became responsible for a consolidated Transportation group that aligns transportation planning and implementation functions. Green Fleet and Equipment also moved from Climate Action and Energy to the Public Works division of the Engineering Department. In 2022, Facilities Management was transferred from Engineering to the newly-created Lands and Facilities Department. James Lota served as General Manager, Engineering from 2021-2022. Jozsef Dioszeghy has served in the role since April 2022.

Media Type: Textual Record; Cartographic Material; Architectural Drawing

Creator: City of Burnaby

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds.

Engineering General and Administration series

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-1980

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by the Engineering Department related to its administration, general services, and fulfilment of its responsibility to ensure the adequacy and continuity of the City’s infrastructure. Records include meeting minutes, ledgers, local improvements and infrastructure…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-1980

Collection/Fonds: Engineering Department fonds

Series: Engineering General and Administration series

Description Level: Series

Scope and Content: Series consists of records created by the Engineering Department related to its administration, general services, and fulfilment of its responsibility to ensure the adequacy and continuity of the City’s infrastructure. Records include meeting minutes, ledgers, local improvements and infrastructure plans, local improvement and sewer utility assessment rolls, photographs, and annual reports for the year 1937-1944.

Media Type: Textual Record

The "mechanical world" pocket diary and year book for 1915 : a collection of useful engineering notes, rules, tables and data

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: [1915]

Call Number: 620.1 EMM

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV018.11.7

Call Number: 620.1 EMM

Place of Publication: Manchester

Publisher: Emmott & Co. Ltd.

Publication Date: [1915]

Physical Description: 439 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Mechanical engineering

Notes: "TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION" -- title page

Office Assistant for the Engineering Department

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79341

Meeting Date: 10-Feb-1913

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79341

Meeting Date: 10-Feb-1913

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 79341

10-Feb-1913 Meeting Minutes

Salary of Engineering Staff

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79339

Meeting Date: 10-Feb-1913

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 79339

Meeting Date: 10-Feb-1913

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 79339

10-Feb-1913 Meeting Minutes

Ernest & Katherine Hermon Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: 1911

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

2 images

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Yale Street

Associated Dates: 1911

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: Mr. Ernest Bolton Hermon, of the prominent engineering firm Hermon & Burwell, built this residence, and he and his wife, Katherine, lived here until 1935. The British Columbian described this home as “…a splendid mansion …which cost in the neighbourhood of $15,000.” Hermon was born into a Dutch family in Ontario in 1863, and moved to British Columbia in 1886. This is one of only three examples of the work of Samuel Maclure in Burnaby and is an outstanding example of his firm’s typical British Arts and Crafts style designs. Samuel Maclure (1860-1929) was known for his British Arts and Crafts style with meticulous attention paid to functional and beautiful interiors that utilized native wood combined with luxurious imported fittings. He was a leading exponent of the Art and Crafts design movement, and established a sophisticated local variation of residential architecture. Maclure’s Vancouver office, in association with his partner Cecil Croker Fox (1879-1916), received some sixty residential commissions between 1909-1915 as a result of the booming local economy and subsequent development of new residential districts. This partnership lasted until when Fox was killed overseas in active service during the First World War.The house has received some alterations, including stucco and brick being added to the lower floor, but it has retained its original form and massing including its symmetrical design, hipped roof and second floor half timbering.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Architect: Maclure & Fox

Area: 1133.42

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 3870 Yale Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

Images

Exterior view of the Ernest & Katherine Hermon Residence, 2013.. View from the northwest.. thumbnail

Photograph of Ernest Bolton Hermon, 1920. (Historic Photo). Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 558-104. thumbnail

Geoffrey & Kathleen Burnett Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: 1914

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Canada Way

Associated Dates: 1914

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Bylaw No. 13841

Enactment Date: 28/05/2018

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: With its long, narrow plan and hipped, cross-gabled roof, this impressive residence was designed for local surveyor and civil engineer Geoffrey Kirby Burnett, who married Kathleen Wallen (1888-1978) in 1916. It was designed by New Westminster architects R.W. Coventry Dick & Son. Beautifully conceived in the British Arts and Crafts style, it features a steeply-gabled roof over the side entry porch, with square timber columns. Other decorative details include half timbering in the gables, first storey casement windows with leaded transom lights and decorative window hoods on the side elevation.

Locality: Edmonds

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area

Architect: R.W. Coventry Dick & Son

Area: 903.70

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 7037 Canada Way

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

Images

Exterior view of the Geoffrey & Kathleen Burnett Residence, 2013.. Front elevation.. thumbnail

Horne-Payne Receiving Station

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Industrial building.

Associated Dates: 1913

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

2 images

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

Images

Exterior view of the Horne-Payne Receiving Station, 2015.. South elevation.. thumbnail

Historic view of the Horne-Payne Receiving Station, 1920. (View from the southwest. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 158-001. thumbnail

Hugh & Mary McCallum Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1912

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Regent Street

Associated Dates: c.1912

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: Typical of the Arts and Crafts style, the house has its original front gabled roof, triangular eave brackets, full open front verandah and pointed bargeboards. The house has received some alterations, including the addition of asbestos shingles over the original siding. It is one of the few surviving early homes of the Broadview subdivision which was established in 1911. This was the long-term home of Hugh McCallum Senior (1873-1960), a steam engineer from Scotland, and his wife Mary (née Baxter, 1875-1958). Hugh continued to live in the house after Mary’s death.

Locality: Broadview

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: West Central Valley Area

Area: 623.09

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 3838 Regent Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

Images

Exterior view of the Hugh & Mary McCallum Residence, 2013.. Front elevation.. thumbnail

James & Mary Herd Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: 1910

Other Names: STRATHMORE

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

2 images

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Other Names: STRATHMORE

Geographic Access: Boundary Road North

Associated Dates: 1910

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: Designed for James Herd (1863-1940) and his wife, Mary Jane Barrie Herd (née Fenton, 1870-1956), this house was described “as a fine new home valued at… $7,000” by The British Columbian in 1912. Named after Mrs. Herd’s birthplace in the Strathmore Valley, Scotland, this was one of the first homes to be built in the Vancouver Heights subdivision. A full width verandah takes advantage of remarkable views of downtown Vancouver and Burrard Inlet. Though the architecture of the house has been altered by the addition of stucco cladding and the replacement of the original windows, it remains an excellent example of the Craftsman style, with the triangular eave brackets, granite clad verandah piers, square support columns and varied roofline with broad eaves that are characteristic of the style. It was the long-time residence of Joseph Wellington Kelly (1876-1962), a stationary engineer, and his wife Margaret Ann Kelly (née Allan, 1880-1968), who were married in Vancouver in 1901. Their son, Allan C. Kelly (died 2001) was an architect, who worked for the architectural firm Townley & Matheson from 1928 until the 1970s. Among many other projects undertaken for the firm, Allan Kelly was the project architect for Vancouver City Hall.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Area: 708.39

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 510 Boundary Road North

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

Images

Exterior view of the James & Mary Herd Residence, 2013.. West elevation.. thumbnail

Historic view of the James & Mary Herd Residence, 1959. (West elevation. Historic Photo.) Copyright: City of Burnaby. Photo ID 447-025. thumbnail

Joseph & Anne Gartlan Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1913

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Oxford Street

Associated Dates: c.1913

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This house was owned by Joseph Paul Gartlan (1877-1967), a steam shovel engineer for the B.C. Electric Company from 1906 to 1943, and his wife, Annie Claudia Gartlan (née Wood, 1891-1933). Joseph was a long-time resident of the house, remaining until his death in 1967. Typical of the Edwardian era, this bungalow has a side gabled roof with a large front gable over the balcony, an open front verandah with square tapered columns, and a mix of narrow lapped wooden siding, square shingles and diamond shingles in the gable peak.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Area: 374.03

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 4111 Oxford Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

Images

Exterior view of the Joseph & Anne Gartlan Residence, 2013.. South elevation.. thumbnail

Vorce Station

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: The Vorce Station is a modest utilitarian passenger tram shelter, originally constructed at the foot of Nursery Street as part of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company’s Burnaby Lake Interurban Line. In 1953, it was moved to a local farm by the Lubbock family, and in 1977 it was relocated t…

Associated Dates: 1911

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

2 images

Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Associated Dates: 1911

Formal Recognition: Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register

Enactment Type: Bylaw No. 9807

Enactment Date: 23/11/1992

Description: The Vorce Station is a modest utilitarian passenger tram shelter, originally constructed at the foot of Nursery Street as part of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company’s Burnaby Lake Interurban Line. In 1953, it was moved to a local farm by the Lubbock family, and in 1977 it was relocated to Burnaby Village Museum. The wood-frame structure has a rectangular plan and hipped roof. It is enclosed on three sides, with an open side for access to the train platform and a single long built-in bench across the back of the station.

Heritage Value: The heritage value of the Vorce Station is as the last remaining interurban station in Burnaby and one of the few extant structures left in the Greater Vancouver region that were once part of the extensive British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) interurban system. The Vorce Station was designed and built by the BCER, and is typical of the small local passenger stations on the Burnaby Lake and Chilliwack interurban lines. It was named after C.B. Vorce, the Chief Engineer for the company. The impact of the interurban line on local development was extremely significant, as it connected the cities of New Westminster and Vancouver, and enabled the residents of Burnaby to form a cohesive municipality from the mainly rural lands remaining between the two larger centres. Much of the early development in Burnaby was due to the growth of the interurban rail lines. The heritage significance for this station also lies in its interpretive value within the Burnaby Village Museum. The Vorce Station is an important cultural feature for the interpretation of Burnaby’s transportation history to the public, and is an important surviving feature of the BCER interurban system.

Defining Elements: The character defining features of the Vorce Station include its: - rectangular form and pyramidal roof with overhanging eaves - simple vernacular design and utilitarian nature - cedar shingle wall cladding - cedar shingle-clad roof with galvanized pressed tin roof ridges - interior vertical tongue-and-groove panelling - heritage graffiti: initials and messages carved and scrawled on the walls - identifying sign with large letters visible at a distance

Locality: Deer Lake Park

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Organization: British Columbia Electric Railway; Burnaby Village Museum

Function: Primary Current--Museum; Primary Historic--Rail Station

Community: Burnaby

Cadastral Identifier: P.I.D. No. 011-030-356 Legal Description: Parcel 1, District Lot 79 and District Lot 85, Group 1, New Westminster District, Reference Plan 77594