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Discovery Days

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[2000]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
Description Level
File
Physical Description
12 photographs (tiff) : col.
Scope and Content
File contains photographs from festivities at Burnaby's Discovery Days festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs show festival attendees participating in a giant inflatable maze and an obstacle course, watching live entertainment, and other arts and crafts activities. Photographs also show entertainm…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[2000]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
Physical Description
12 photographs (tiff) : col.
Description Level
File
Record No.
535-1616
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No restrictions
Accession Number
2018-12
Scope and Content
File contains photographs from festivities at Burnaby's Discovery Days festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs show festival attendees participating in a giant inflatable maze and an obstacle course, watching live entertainment, and other arts and crafts activities. Photographs also show entertainment including Japanese Taiko drummers, a pottery demonstration, and square dancers. One photograph also shows a group of young people taking part in the Night of 2000 Lights parade despite the rain.
Subjects
Events - Festivals
Events - Parades
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on caption
Collected by editorial for use in a July 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-1616-1: "Intermittent showers didn't discourage the crowds from enjoying the live entertainment on stage."
535-1616-2: "The Japanese Taiko drummers are a rousing opening act on the entertainment stage."
535-1616-3: "Gayle Gibson keeps her eyes on the beanbags as she tries to learn how to juggle."
535-1616-4: "Drake, the three year-old iguana, takes in the Discovery Day festivities from the shoulder of her owner, Amanda Fenrick."
535-1616-5: "The hat making workshops just weren't for the kids."
535-1616-6: "Olivia Jean Dixon, 7, prepares her painting board in the Chevron activity tent."
535-1616-7: "Jeff Reich, a visiting artist from one of Burnaby's sister cities, Mesa, Arizona, demonstrates his technique on the potter's wheel."
535-1616-9: "The Wesburn Wranglers show off their square dancing moves."
535-1616-10: "Local boy scouts set up a Survivor-like obstacle course."
535-1616-11: "Even the heavy showers couldn't extinguish the enthusiasm of the torch and lantern parade at the Night of 2000 Lights."
535-1616-12: "A giant inflatable maze provides all kinds of mysteries and surprises."
Geographic Access
Deer Lake
Deer Lake Park
Historic Neighbourhood
Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Morley-Buckingham Area
Images
Less detail

Galiano Island, Oak Theatre and Calgary

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription85241
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1939 and 1941]
Collection/Fonds
Digney Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 film clip (9 min., 51 sec.) : digital, col., si.
Scope and Content
Item is a silent digitized colour film segment identified as Reel 7. The film segment opens with footage of the shores of Galiano Island and soon switches to a game of table tennis and a boat ride up Burrard Inlet with Grannie Swan and company. The boat ride continues to the marina at Horseshoe Bay…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[between 1939 and 1941]
Collection/Fonds
Digney Family fonds
Physical Description
1 film clip (9 min., 51 sec.) : digital, col., si.
Description Level
Item
Record No.
562-003-7
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
2014-04
Scope and Content
Item is a silent digitized colour film segment identified as Reel 7. The film segment opens with footage of the shores of Galiano Island and soon switches to a game of table tennis and a boat ride up Burrard Inlet with Grannie Swan and company. The boat ride continues to the marina at Horseshoe Bay where the family goes ashore. This footage is followed with a dark segment of footage of a paegant at the Oak Theatre in 1941 and the gardens of the Oak Theatre. The film has a break and continues with footage of the Digney family travels to the Calgary Breweries, Calgary Zoo, and the Calgary Stampede parade and fairgrounds, Alberta, closing with footage of the Rockies and Rogers Pass.
Subjects
Animals - Birds
Events - Parades
Names
Digney, Andy
Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"
Digney, Alice
Media Type
Moving Images
Photographer
Digney, Andy
Creator
Digney, Andy
Notes
Title based on contents of film
Geographic Access
Burrard Inlet
Historic Neighbourhood
Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Kingsway-Beresford Area
Images
Video

Galiano Island, Oak Theatre and Calgary, [between 1939 and 1941]

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