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Ross family subseries

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922(date of originals)-[1998]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Subseries
Physical Description
2 files of textual records and 2 photographs
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922(date of originals)-[1998]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Ross family subseries
Physical Description
2 files of textual records and 2 photographs
Description Level
Subseries
Accession Number
BHS1998-05
BHS1999-14
Scope and Content
Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.
History
Frederick "Fred" Sullivan Ross was born 1887 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He took his apprenticeship in mechanics in Glasgow prior to 1911, following which he immigrated to Canada. During the First World War he returned to Britain and joined the Royal Navy. He was a Chief Petty Officer, working in the engine room of a mine sweeper in the North Atlantic. Margaret Binnie Dougal was in 1884 in Linlithgow, Scotland. She trained as a nurse before emigrating to Canada in 1911. She also returned to Britain during the war years, nursing at Boulogne in France and later Bristol before returning to Vancouver in 1919. She met Fred through a mutual friend, Agnes Rhind. Fred and Margaret married in 1920 in Vancouver, BC. Their first home was in North Vancouver and was where their first child, Ronald, was born. In 1921 or 1922 they moved to the Burnaby Lake area, buying a three-quarter acre parcel of land at 2974 Sprott Street and had two more children, Ian and Alistair. Fred built, owned and operated the Ross Service Station on Douglas Road, established in 1922 or 1923. The station property ran from Douglas Road up to the Douglas Road School’s fence line. After the municipality appropriated part of the property in the 1930s to create a junction for the new Grandview Highway and existing Douglas Road, Fred got permission to build an upper station with two more pumps. The driveway curved down to the station from where Sprott Street now joins Canada Way and rejoined that road near its junction with Douglas Road. At Ross Service Station, Fred did automobile repairs and used the family car, a Studebaker Commander, as a towing vehicle. He created a garden north of the service station on the upper level where he grew chrysanthemums and daises. In the 1930s, Terry Rowley worked at the service station as one of Fred’s assistants. Fred ran the station until he sold it in about 1949. Margaret died December 29, 1969 at the age of 85. Fred died on August 21, 1971 at the age of 84.
Media Type
Textual Record
Photograph
Creator
Ross family
Notes
Title based on contents of subseries
PC58 and MSS146
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Frances L. Fleming

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription5161
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
1973
Collection/Fonds
Waplington family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph portrait of Frances Louise Fleming. Frances was a pioneer teacher of British Columbia and was the first woman administrator of a large BC secondary school, B.C.'s first woman superintendent of schools, a member of the first official Board of Trustees of the Sechelt Public library Associa…
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Waplington family fonds
Series
Waplington and Fleming families album series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 12.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph portrait of Frances Louise Fleming. Frances was a pioneer teacher of British Columbia and was the first woman administrator of a large BC secondary school, B.C.'s first woman superintendent of schools, a member of the first official Board of Trustees of the Sechelt Public library Association and spearheaded a campaign which resulted in opening a modern automated library. Frances Fleming was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1997.
Names
Fleming, Frances "Fanny" Waplington
Accession Code
BV016.46.116
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
1973
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
13-Aug-2018
Photographer
Anthony's of Kerrisdale
Notes
Title based on information from photograph album
Stamp on verso reads: "YOUR FILE NO.......... / Re Orders Available Through / ANTHONY'S OF KERRISDALE / 2059 W. 41st AVE. / Vancouver 13, BC_266-4242 / Copies or Reproductions of / This Photograph Strictly Prohibited"
Photograph is part of Photograph album BV016.46.52
Images
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