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Fraser Wilson subseries
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [19--]-1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records nd graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one photographic album of locations in Vancouver photographed in the 1880s, sixteen original illustrations by Fraser Wilson and three files of textual records, including the comic book "Bill Northwood".
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [19--]-1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records nd graphic material
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-06
- BHS1985-23
- BHS1991-25
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of one photographic album of locations in Vancouver photographed in the 1880s, sixteen original illustrations by Fraser Wilson and three files of textual records, including the comic book "Bill Northwood".
- History
- Fraser Wilson was born in Vancouver on July 1, 1905 and brought up in the Grandview area, with fond memories of berry picking in the wilds of North Burnaby as a child. He left school in 1923 and, although interested in art, he didn’t try to make it a career until a double hernia forced him to stop working in factories and start apprenticing for commercial artists, later opening a sign shop of his own. In 1926 he worked in Australia as a set decoration painter, but had to return to Vancouver when his father fell ill in 1927. Wilson was a political cartoonist for the Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1937 to 1947. When he moved to Burnaby in April of 1943 he was also the artist and author of the cartoon-type serial “Bill Northwood - the personification of the modern Resource Manager” which served to teach the community why forests are important and should be preserved. He lost his job at the Vancouver Sun in 1947; he was the chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee of Newspaper Unions which was involved in the Vancouver Province strike and his publisher didn’t approve. Soon after, Bill White, then-president of the Marine Workers’ and Boilermakers Union, asked Wilson to decorate the Marine Workers’ Auditorium at 3337 West Pender, the Union's hall. The mural that Wilson painted depicts the BC labour movement to honour British Columbia’s workers. This mural launched a new career for Wilson; to this day, hospitals and libraries across British Columbia display his work in lobbies. In 1988, when the building housing the Marine Workers’ Auditorium was sold to a new owner, Fraser Wilson’s mural was removed from the wall, restored by Ferdinand Petrov of the Vancouver Centennial Committee, and installed permanently at the new Maritime Labour Centre on Victoria Drive in Vancouver. Throughout the 1960s, Wilson served as president of the Burnaby Historical Society. He ran for City Council as a Burnaby Citizens Association candidate in 1969 and 1970. Fraser Wilson died on 31 July 1992.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Wilson, Fraser
- Notes
- PC492, MSS062
- Title based on contents of subseries
Bill Northwood / Fraser Wilson
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58317
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1968
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 comic book
- Scope and Content
- Item is a comic book of the adventures of "Bill Northwood - the personification of the modern Resource Manager, somewhere or anywhere in Canada" written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson. The book seeks to teach the community why forests so are important and should be preserved. It was produced by …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1968
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 comic book
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS062-002
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-25
- Scope and Content
- Item is a comic book of the adventures of "Bill Northwood - the personification of the modern Resource Manager, somewhere or anywhere in Canada" written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson. The book seeks to teach the community why forests so are important and should be preserved. It was produced by the Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Ottawa.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Responsibility
- Written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson
Burnaby Citizens Association pamphlet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58318
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 pamphlet
- Scope and Content
- Item is a pamphlet from the Burnaby Citizen's Association promoting their 1969 election candidates including Bob Prittie for mayor and Fraser Wilson for council. Also on the bill are Andy Blair, Jim Dailly and Geo. H.F. McLean for council and Jack Fleming, Joan Johnston and Maurits Mann for the sch…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 pamphlet
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS062-003
- Accession Number
- BHS1985-23
- Scope and Content
- Item is a pamphlet from the Burnaby Citizen's Association promoting their 1969 election candidates including Bob Prittie for mayor and Fraser Wilson for council. Also on the bill are Andy Blair, Jim Dailly and Geo. H.F. McLean for council and Jack Fleming, Joan Johnston and Maurits Mann for the school board.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Events of the Week As Seen by Sun Cartoonist
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58316
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 newspaper clippings
- Scope and Content
- File contains two newspaper clippings of the political serial cartoon "Events of the Week As Seen by Sun Cartoonist ---- By Fraser Wilson"; one of which is from June of 1937 as it includes a scene of the wedding of actor and producer Gene Raymond to actor and singer Jeanette MacDonald. The other is…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 2 newspaper clippings
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS062-001
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-25
- Scope and Content
- File contains two newspaper clippings of the political serial cartoon "Events of the Week As Seen by Sun Cartoonist ---- By Fraser Wilson"; one of which is from June of 1937 as it includes a scene of the wedding of actor and producer Gene Raymond to actor and singer Jeanette MacDonald. The other is also from 1937 as it includes a newly elected Helena R Gutteridge, Vancouver's first female member of City Council.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Responsibility
- Written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson
Fraser Wilson illustrations
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58319
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1947]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Scope and Content
- File consists of sixteen original illustrations, most of which are political caricatures, written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson for the Vancouver Sun.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1947]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Material Details
- Original pen and ink illustrations; some include white ink and/or graphite detailing
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS062-004
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-25
- Scope and Content
- File consists of sixteen original illustrations, most of which are political caricatures, written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson for the Vancouver Sun.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Responsibility
- Written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson
Locations in Vancouver and British Columbia
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58315
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [19--]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 album (61 photographs : b&w) ; 26.5 x 31.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic album of locations in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and other locations in British Columbia and Alberta. Photographs are reproductions of photographs taken between approximately 1880-1900, which were collected and pasted into the album.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [19--]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 album (61 photographs : b&w) ; 26.5 x 31.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 492-001
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-06
- Scope and Content
- Photographic album of locations in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and other locations in British Columbia and Alberta. Photographs are reproductions of photographs taken between approximately 1880-1900, which were collected and pasted into the album.
- Names
- Wilson, Fraser
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on content of item
- Table of contents of pictures and page numbers pasted in the front cover of the album
- 1 photograph loose in between pages 12-13 of the album; reproduction of a photograph from Vancouver City Archives.