"Esmond Avenue" found 19 records

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

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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

Names: Macdonald, Angus; British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company

Street Address: 3814 Oxford Street

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Angus & Margaret MacDonald Residence, 2013.. Oblique view. thumbnail

BBY-3814-Oxford-Street-c1930-476-005 thumbnail

Bea Carpenter

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1954] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.5 x 3.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Beatrice "Bea" Carpenter at the door of a 1950 Studebaker car parked on Yale Street. The Esmond Avenue intersection is in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1954] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.5 x 3.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-130

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Beatrice "Bea" Carpenter at the door of a 1950 Studebaker car parked on Yale Street. The Esmond Avenue intersection is in the background.

Names: Hunter, Beatrice "Bea" Carpenter

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

Geographic Access: Yale Street; Esmond Avenue North

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

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Bea Carpenter, [between 1950 and 1954] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Carpenter family and friend

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: August 28, 1943 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Charles Carpenter, Ernestine Summers, Bea Carpenter, and Don Carpenter, at the back of 515 Esmond Street North. The photograph was taken facing away from the house.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: August 28, 1943 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-131

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Charles Carpenter, Ernestine Summers, Bea Carpenter, and Don Carpenter, at the back of 515 Esmond Street North. The photograph was taken facing away from the house.

Names: Carpenter, Charles "Charlie"; Carpenter, Donald "Don"; Hunter, Beatrice "Bea" Carpenter; Summers, Ernestine

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue North

Street Address: 515 Esmond Avenue North

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

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Carpenter family and friend, August 28, 1943 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Celtic Heritage Society property on Hastings Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mal Mahon of the Celtic Heritage Society standing in front of a piece of property at the 3800 block of Hastings Street in North Burnaby, where the Society hoped to build a Celtic Culture Centre and Theatre.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2002]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col.

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-2609

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mal Mahon of the Celtic Heritage Society standing in front of a piece of property at the 3800 block of Hastings Street in North Burnaby, where the Society hoped to build a Celtic Culture Centre and Theatre.

Subjects: Organizations - Societies and Clubs

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Ray, Steve

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a July 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "Mal Mahon of the Celtic Heritage Society on the 500 foot long piece of property they are hoping to build a Celtic Culture Centre and Theater."

Geographic Access: Hastings Street; Esmond Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Celtic Heritage Society property on Hastings Street, [2002] thumbnail

Charlie Carpenter

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.8 x 4.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Charlie Carpenter at the back of Esmond Street, facing east.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.8 x 4.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-140

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Charlie Carpenter at the back of Esmond Street, facing east.

Names: Carpenter, Charles "Charlie"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue North

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Charlie Carpenter, [1933] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Donald and Bea Carpenter

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37541

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933 or 1934] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.6 x 3.1 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Donald and Bea Carpenter, dressed for a school play at back of 515 Esmond Street North.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1933 or 1934] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.6 x 3.1 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-129

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Donald and Bea Carpenter, dressed for a school play at back of 515 Esmond Street North.

Subjects: Clothing - Costumes

Names: Carpenter, Donald "Don"; Hunter, Beatrice "Bea" Carpenter

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue North

Street Address: 515 Esmond Avenue North

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Donald and Bea Carpenter, [1933 or 1934] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

François & Cezarie Comeau Residence

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Residential building.

Associated Dates: c.1925

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue

Associated Dates: c.1925

Description: Residential building.

Heritage Value: This home was built for Francois Xavier “Frank” Comeau (1863-1943), a blacksmith who moved from Quebec to Vancouver in about 1890, and his wife Cezarie Marie (née Fortin, 1860-1950), also from Quebec, whom he married in 1903. Featuring a front gabled roof with decorative triangular eave brackets, this comfortable Craftsman bungalow displays other characteristics typical of the style such as lapped siding at the foundation, a shingle-clad main floor, casement windows and stained glass transoms on the front elevation. The most notable feature of the plan is the inset verandah with subtle segmental-arched openings and tapered square columns.

Locality: Vancouver Heights

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Area: 566.71

Contributing Resource: Building

Ownership: Private

Street Address: 306 Esmond Avenue

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Exterior view of the Francois & Cezarie Comeau Residence, 2013.. Front elevation.. thumbnail

House near Esmond and Trinity

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 5, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Scope and Content: Photograph shows Overlynn, the Charles J. Peter house located near Esmond Avenue and Tritinty Street with a view of Seton Villa Rest Home in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 5, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 556-032

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2013-13

Scope and Content: Photograph shows Overlynn, the Charles J. Peter house located near Esmond Avenue and Tritinty Street with a view of Seton Villa Rest Home in the background.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage

Names: Seton Villa Retirement Centre

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Scope note taken directly from BPL photograph description.; 1 b&w copy negative : 10 x 12.5 cm accompanying; Photographers identified by surnames only: Carr and Vardeman

Geographic Access: McGill Street

Street Address: 3755 McGill Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

House near Esmond and Trinity, September 5, 1976 thumbnail

MacDonald house

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 20.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Angus and Margaret MacDonald house located at Oxford Street and Esmond Avenue. The MacDonald House is one of Burnaby’s landmark residential heritage buildings and was built in 1909 as part of the exclusive subdivision known as “Vancouver Heights.” The family came to Vancouver fro…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: North Burnaby Board of Trade subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 20.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 476-005

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2005-8

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Angus and Margaret MacDonald house located at Oxford Street and Esmond Avenue. The MacDonald House is one of Burnaby’s landmark residential heritage buildings and was built in 1909 as part of the exclusive subdivision known as “Vancouver Heights.” The family came to Vancouver from Nova Scotia in 1891 and Angus MacDonald, an electrical contractor, served as a Councillor for the City of Vancouver from 1904-1908. Upon his retirement from the B.C. Electric Railway Company, he moved to Burnaby and was a prominent resident serving his North Burnaby ‘Ward’ as a Burnaby Councillor between 1911 and 1916. MacDonald Street in Burnaby was named in his honour. This house which cost $7,000 to construct is reputed to have been the second house built in the Vancouver Heights subdivision. After the death of Margaret MacDonald in 1939 and Angus MacDonald in 1941, the MacDonald family sold the house in 1944 to local grocer John R. and Anne Roane. In 1956, the property was purchased by the late Dr. John Alex MacDonald and his wife Violet E. MacDonald.

Subjects: Buildings - Heritage; Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Oxford Street; Esmond Avenue

Street Address: 3814 Oxford Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Men playing soccer

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 5, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Scope and Content: Photograph shows men playing soccer at the park surrounding the reservoir. The reservoir is bounded by Esmond Avenue, Trinity Street, Eton Street and Ingleton Avenue. There is a view of Capitol Hill in the background.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: September 5, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 556-390

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2013-13

Scope and Content: Photograph shows men playing soccer at the park surrounding the reservoir. The reservoir is bounded by Esmond Avenue, Trinity Street, Eton Street and Ingleton Avenue. There is a view of Capitol Hill in the background.

Subjects: Sports - Soccer

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Scope note taken directly from BPL photograph description.; 1 b&w copy negative : 10 x 12.5 cm accompanying; Photographers identified by surnames only: Carr and Vardeman

Geographic Access: Eton Street

Street Address: 3877 Eton Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Men playing soccer, September 5, 1976 thumbnail

Opening of the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1931

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 the official opening of the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church at 140 Esmond Avenue at Pandora Street during the Great Depression. The opening followed years of financial difficulty and a breakaway from the Presbytery. The church was dedicated by the Lieutenant Governor of British …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1931

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.: 204-414

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the official opening of the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church at 140 Esmond Avenue at Pandora Street during the Great Depression. The opening followed years of financial difficulty and a breakaway from the Presbytery. The church was dedicated by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (in top hat).

Subjects: Officials - Lieutenant Governors; Events - Openings

Names: Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue

Street Address: 140 Esmond Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Opening of the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church, 1931 thumbnail

Pioneer tales of Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c1987

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

1 image 1 digital book

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 096928280x

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

Contributor: Sone, Michael

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: Corporation of the District of Burnaby

Publication Date: c1987

Physical Description: 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Inscription: "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page

Library Subject (LOC): Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby; Frontier and pioneer life; Biography

Object History: Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.

Notes: "Editor Michael Sone".; Includes index.; 4 copies held: copy 4

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Digital Books

Vancouver Heights

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921] (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 the Vancouver Heights area, with Burrard Inlet in background, taken from Triumph Street and Esmond Avenue looking northwest. In the centre of the photograph is the Wilks house at 3707 Dundas Street, with the light-coloured house in the middle being 3738 Dundas Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1921] (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.: 204-302

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Vancouver Heights area, with Burrard Inlet in background, taken from Triumph Street and Esmond Avenue looking northwest. In the centre of the photograph is the Wilks house at 3707 Dundas Street, with the light-coloured house in the middle being 3738 Dundas Street.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Annotation under photograph reads, "Vancouver Hts & Burrard Inlet / 1921"

Geographic Access: Triumph Street; Dundas Street; Esmond Avenue

Street Address: 3707 Dundas Street; 3738 Dundas Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Vancouver Heights, [1921] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38238

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1998

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 15 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified women walking a dog past the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1998

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 15 x 25 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 373-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified women walking a dog past the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church.

Subjects: Buildings - Religious - Churches

Names: Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue

Street Address: 140 Esmond Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

Images

Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Description: Church building.

Associated Dates: 1930

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Esmond Avenue

Associated Dates: 1930

Description: Church building.

Heritage Value: This church replaced the first Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church, which opened in 1911 and later became the Masonic Hall. This site was purchased in 1928, but the new church was not completed until 1930, due to the financial constraints of the Depression era. B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Bruce dedicated the church on Feb. 16, 1931. The building has retained its Classical Revival form and detailing, including its symmetrical design, columns flanking the recessed main entrance and arched windows with keystone detailing. The Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church was designed by Australian-born architect H.H. Simmonds (1883-1954). After serving in the First World War, Simmonds resumed his local practice, and even during the Depression, his output remained prolific. In the 1920s and 30s, Simmonds was commissioned by the City of Vancouver to replace several pavilions at the Pacific National Exhibition with a consistent grouping of Art Deco buildings including the surviving Livestock Building (1929), Women and Fine Arts Building (1931) and Forum (1933).