51 records – page 1 of 2.
Addingley, Amy.
New York:
The Platt & Peck Co.
, c1913.
(Book)
808.88 ADD
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.112
- Call No.
- 808.88 ADD
- Author
- Addingley, Amy
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Platt & Peck Co.
- Publication Date
- c1913
- Physical Description
- 94 p. ; 25 cm.
- Inscription
- "To 'Muzzie' happy new Year from her 'Goody Girl'" [handwritten in pencil on first page]
- Subjects LoC
- Friendship
The renewing of friendship
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary1964
Black, Hugh, 1868-1953.
New York:
Fleming H. Revell Company
, c1903.
(Book)
177.6 BLA
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.104
- Call No.
- 177.6 BLA
- Author
- Black, Hugh, 1868-1953
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Fleming H. Revell Company
- Publication Date
- c1903
- Series
- The Friendship Booklets
- Physical Description
- 28 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "B5 h", pencilled inside back cover
- Subjects LoC
- Friendship
Gilmore Community School friendship tea
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumtextualrecord17530
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 3 p.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an invitation and program for Gilmore Community School's Friendship Tea, May 13, 2004 along with a one page handwritten note by Dorothy Atkinson (nee Mallett).
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 3 p.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an invitation and program for Gilmore Community School's Friendship Tea, May 13, 2004 along with a one page handwritten note by Dorothy Atkinson (nee Mallett).
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Invitations
- Documentary Artifacts - Programs
- Documentary Artifacts - Letters and Envelopes
- Accession Code
- BV021.28.15
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- 2004
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based contents of item
Friendship City Visit - Changshu, China
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport59122
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 99068
- Meeting Date
- 23-Sep-2013
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 99068
- Meeting Date
- 23-Sep-2013
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Friendship city visit - Dalian, China
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport59219
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 99163
- Meeting Date
- 18-Nov-2013
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 99163
- Meeting Date
- 18-Nov-2013
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Friendship Agreement - City of Burnaby and City of Changshu, China
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport49665
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 67235
- Meeting Date
- 19-Nov-2007
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 67235
- Meeting Date
- 19-Nov-2007
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Proposed economic development and friendship city mission - China and Korea
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport57491
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 78312
- Meeting Date
- 13-Sep-2010
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 78312
- Meeting Date
- 13-Sep-2010
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
10th Anniversary of the Burnaby-Kushiro Sister City Friendship
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport25160
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 18689
- Meeting Date
- 2-Sep-1975
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
1 Document
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 18689
- Meeting Date
- 2-Sep-1975
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Love and friendship : a little book of choice thoughts
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary2570
Ellis, J.
London:
Robert Scott
, 1919.
(Book)
802 ELL
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.74.13
- Call No.
- 802 ELL
- Author
- Ellis, J.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Robert Scott
- Publication Date
- 1919
- Series
- Golden harvest series
- Physical Description
- 95 p. ; 16 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper: "To John as a little keepsake which may prove a help + comfort to him in the days that are to come from his loving sister Eileen Sept. 1919" [written in black ink] Front fly leaf: "May this little book prove to be a comrade through a lonely hour. Eileen" [written in black ink]
- Subjects LoC
- Love--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Friendship--Quotations, maxims, etc.
- Quotations, English
- Notes
- arranged by J.E.
2012 Sister / Friendship City Visit, China and Taiwan
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport58515
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90591
- Meeting Date
- 30-Jul-2012
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 90591
- Meeting Date
- 30-Jul-2012
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship - Request that Burnaby Adopt a Soviet Community
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport54366
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 70463
- Meeting Date
- 20-Dec-1943
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 70463
- Meeting Date
- 20-Dec-1943
- Type/Format
- Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Sister/Friendship City Visits to Kurshiro, Japan and Taichung, Taiwan in 2020
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport82435
- Repository
- Office of the City Clerk
- Report ID
- 93039
- Meeting Date
- 04-Nov-2019
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Item No.
- 5
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- Office of the City Clerk
- Report ID
- 93039
- Meeting Date
- 04-Nov-2019
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Item No.
- 5
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Response to Sister/Friendship City Relationship Proposal with the City of Yangzhou, China
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport82579
- Repository
- Office of the City Clerk
- Report ID
- 93184
- Meeting Date
- 24-Feb-2020
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Item No.
- 18
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- Office of the City Clerk
- Report ID
- 93184
- Meeting Date
- 24-Feb-2020
- Type/Format
- Council - Committee Report
- Item No.
- 18
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Sister Pledge in Commemoration of 50 Years of Friendship between Burnaby and Kushiro
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivetextualrecord89073
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2015
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Item No.
- 59943
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of the Sister City Pledge certificate in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Sister City Affiliation between the City of Burnaby and the City of Kushiro and the pen that was used to sign it.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2015
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- Item
- Series
- Sister Cities series
- Item No.
- 59943
- Access Restriction
- Open access
- Accession Number
- 2016-01
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of the Sister City Pledge certificate in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Sister City Affiliation between the City of Burnaby and the City of Kushiro and the pen that was used to sign it.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title
Friendship Pledge in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Sister City Affiliation between Burnaby and Kushiro
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivetextualrecord24490
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Item No.
- 27496
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of Friendship Pledge in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Sister City Affiliation between Burnaby and Kushiro and the pen that was used to sign it.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 2005
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- Item
- Series
- Sister Cities series
- Item No.
- 27496
- Access Restriction
- Open access
- Accession Number
- 2006-12
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of Friendship Pledge in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Sister City Affiliation between Burnaby and Kushiro and the pen that was used to sign it.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Letter from Pacific Association of Communication in Friendship Indian Centres re: Request for Permission to Conduct a Marathon
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/councilreport21194
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 13594
- Meeting Date
- 26-Feb-1979
- Type/Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 16
- Item No.
- 12
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
2 Documents
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 13594
- Meeting Date
- 26-Feb-1979
- Type/Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 16
- Item No.
- 12
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
The overall boys : a first reader
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary2060
Grover, Eulalie Osgood, 1873-1958.
Chicago:
Rand McNally & Co.
, c1905.
(Book)
420 GRO
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.29.7
- Call No.
- 420 GRO
- Contributor
- Corbett, Bertha L.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- Physical Description
- 123 p. : ill. (col.) ; 20 cm.
- Notes
- "Illustrated by Bertha L. Corbett"
The Pickwick papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary3594
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Chicago:
M. A. Donohue
, 1901.
(Book)
823.83 DIC v.14
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV997.51.15
- Call No.
- 823.83 DIC v.14
- Author
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Contributor
- Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue
- Publication Date
- 1901
- Series
- Dickens works
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 792 p. : ill., front. ; 20 cm
- Subjects LoC
- English literature
- Men--Societies and clubs
- Male friendship
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Notes
- Introduction by Charles Dickens the younger
- Volume 14 of 15.
Facing the world
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary1945
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
Chicago:
M.A. Donohue & Co.
(Book)
813.4 ALG
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.85
- Call No.
- 813.4 ALG
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- M.A. Donohue & Co.
- Physical Description
- 249 p.: ill.
- Subjects LoC
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys--Juvenile fiction
- Fiction--19th century
- Notes
- Illustration is a bicycle advertisement at the beginning of the book
- "Mead Cycle Company Dept. D. 210, Chicago, U.S.A.XXX
Kushiro / Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto58208
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : col. ; 7 x 11.5 cm and 10 x 14 cm
- Item No.
- 261-014
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of an event in celebration of the sister cities of Kushiro and Burnaby and their 23rd anniversary of friendship.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Evelyn Salisbury subseries
- Description Level
- File
- Item No.
- 261-014
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-24
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : col. ; 7 x 11.5 cm and 10 x 14 cm
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of an event in celebration of the sister cities of Kushiro and Burnaby and their 23rd anniversary of friendship.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Campfire girls in the Alleghany mountains : or, a Christmas success against odds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary2146
Francis, Stella M.
Chicago:
M. A. Donohue
, c1918.
(Book)
813.5 FRA
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV978.44.2
- Call No.
- 813.5 FRA
- Author
- Francis, Stella M.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue
- Publication Date
- c1918
- Series
- Campfire girls' series
- Physical Description
- 157 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "To Verna With Love From Mother Xmas 1928" [handwritten on front pastedown in black ink]
- Subjects LoC
- Camp Fire Girls--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Object History
- Given to donor.
Chapter Seven: Inman Avenue School Neighbourhood, Central Park District p. 213
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumlibrary6021-213
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1994
"Canadian". Since our whole family
was here, none of us craved to go back
to England. We enjoyed the freedom
and spaciousness of this new land and
the friendship and warmheartedness
of our friends and neighbours, when a
great deal of Burnaby was still wild
countryside. Burnaby has now
1 Digital Chapter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Letter from Murray to May Bateman
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/museumtextualrecord15155
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- March 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- E.W. Bateman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a handwritten letter to May Bateman from a person named "Murray". Return address at the top of the letter is "Y.M.C.A. Vancouver, B.C.". Murray writes to May expressing his extreme gratitude for her friendship.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- E.W. Bateman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Series
- World War II letters series
- Physical Description
- 2 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a handwritten letter to May Bateman from a person named "Murray". Return address at the top of the letter is "Y.M.C.A. Vancouver, B.C.". Murray writes to May expressing his extreme gratitude for her friendship.
- Names
- Bateman, Marianne May
- Accession Code
- BV020.27.42
- Access Restriction
- Restricted access
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- March 1947
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1967-1989
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Item No.
- MSS061-049
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a booklet entitled "Japan Today" produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan in 1967. Other papers pertaining to Japan are included in the file regarding Burnaby's Sister City Kushiro and the Koganei Citizen's International Friendship Association. Also included in the file a…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1967-1989
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Subseries
- Evelyn Salisbury subseries
- Item No.
- MSS061-049
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-24
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a booklet entitled "Japan Today" produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan in 1967. Other papers pertaining to Japan are included in the file regarding Burnaby's Sister City Kushiro and the Koganei Citizen's International Friendship Association. Also included in the file are papers pertaining to Burnaby municipal manager Mel Shelley.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Leila Orman papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivetextualrecord63022
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Item No.
- MSS104-010
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers authored by Leila Orman including; the manuscripts for "The Man Who Went West, Looks Back", "The Fifth Sparrow", "To a Little Girl Called Beth", "The Power and the Glory of the Cell", "Christ in Others", "Christ in You", the "Christian Manifesto For Peace", the poem "To a D…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1951-1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Subseries
- Leila Orman subseries
- Item No.
- MSS104-010
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers authored by Leila Orman including; the manuscripts for "The Man Who Went West, Looks Back", "The Fifth Sparrow", "To a Little Girl Called Beth", "The Power and the Glory of the Cell", "Christ in Others", "Christ in You", the "Christian Manifesto For Peace", the poem "To a Doctor", "An Essay on Hands", "On Friendship" and "The Lighthouse." Various correspondence is also included in the file.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV004.50.37
- Description
- Pin; green, gold, black, yellow; "Burnaby 1984"; flying bee holding a torch, "B.C. Summer Games"
- Object History
- The B.C. Games were established in 1977, and the first summer games were held in 1978. In 1984 the B.C. Summer Games was held in Burnaby. Premier W.R. Bennett's vision for this organization was "an opportunity to bring all parts of BC together, large and small communities, in the spirit of sport an…
1 Image
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV004.50.37
- Description
- Pin; green, gold, black, yellow; "Burnaby 1984"; flying bee holding a torch, "B.C. Summer Games"
- Object History
- The B.C. Games were established in 1977, and the first summer games were held in 1978. In 1984 the B.C. Summer Games was held in Burnaby. Premier W.R. Bennett's vision for this organization was "an opportunity to bring all parts of BC together, large and small communities, in the spirit of sport and friendship". Commemorative pin for the 1984 B.C. Summer Games held in Burnaby.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Memorabilia
- Object Term
- Pin, Promotional
- Marks/Labels
- Burnaby 1984 / B.C. Summer Games
- Measurements
- L: 2.9 cm x W: 2.1 cm
- Record Type
- Artifact
Images
Sister Cities series
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivemultipleformat160
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1964-2015
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records created during the establishment and maintenance of Sister-City relationships between Burnaby and the cities of Kushiro (Japan), Loughborough (England), El Zapotal (El Salvador), Mesa (Arizona), Gatineau (Quebec), Hwaseong (Korea), Zhongshan City (P.R. China). Records in…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1964-2015
- Collection/Fonds
- Mayor's Office fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Series
- Sister Cities series
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records created during the establishment and maintenance of Sister-City relationships between Burnaby and the cities of Kushiro (Japan), Loughborough (England), El Zapotal (El Salvador), Mesa (Arizona), Gatineau (Quebec), Hwaseong (Korea), Zhongshan City (P.R. China). Records include: reports, correspondence, photographs and photograph albums, memoranda, newspaper clippings, speeches, certificates, itineraries, presentation material, invitations, agendas, and minutes. The sister city movement gained momentum in North America after the Second World War with a goal to encourage cooperation between international communities. Burnaby became a part of that movement in the hopes that sister city relationships would create meaningful industrial, economic, educational, and cultural ties between Burnaby citizens and those of other countries. Burnaby’s first sister city was Kushiro, Japan. The formal agreement for the establishment of a sister city relationship between the two communities was signed on September 9, 1965. Following this twinning, the two cities have enjoyed numerous exchanges and visits, the records of which are contained within this series. While the sister city status between Burnaby and Kushiro has endured for over three decades, Burnaby has also maintained shorter-lived relationships with Loughborough, England and El Zapotal, El Salvador. The 1986 twinning with Loughborough was undertaken to recognize the importance of that city to the history of Burnaby in that Loughborough was the ancestral home of Burnaby’s namesake, Robert Burnaby. The twinning between Burnaby and El Zapotal came after Mayor Copeland visited El Salvador in the early 1990s and returned with a desire to see the citizens of Burnaby assist in the rebuilding of that community after a 12-year civil war was brought to an end in 1992. In 1998, Burnaby entered into two North American Sister City relationships with Mesa, Arizona and Gatineau, Quebec, and in 2010, it formulated a sister city agreement with Hwaseong, Korea. In 2011, a further agreement was signed with Zhongshan, China which expanded a previous “friendship” agreement into a Sister City relationship. Series also consists of records related to Friendship Agreements with Taichung (Taiwan China), Dongcheng District (formerly Chongwen District) of Beijing (P.R. China), Dongli District of Tianjin, Changshu (P.R. China), and Kunming, Yunnan Province (P.R. China); as well as Memorandums of Understanding with a number of other cities. The records in this series reflect both the actions that led up to the creation of these relationships as well as the numerous cultural, economic and educational exchanges that have been undertaken between the communities over the years.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
North Burnaby Kiwanis Club subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivemultipleformat59096
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1949-1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of the administrative records of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club. Subseries also includes photographs of Club members and events, felt badges, and member name plates.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1949-1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Subseries
- North Burnaby Kiwanis Club subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of the administrative records of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club. Subseries also includes photographs of Club members and events, felt badges, and member name plates.
- History/Biography
- The North Burnaby Kiwanis Club was first organized on May 31, 1949. The club was officially incorporated in 1954 with W.G. Switzer as its first president. The territorial limits of the club were of Burnaby from north of the Grandview highway to the easterly limits of the municipality, using the Great Northern Railway (G.N.R.) right-of-way as their division line. Membership consisted of men in good character and community standing, residing, having interest in, or engaged in recognised lines of business, agricultural, institutional and professional life within the territorial limits of the club. The North Burnaby Kiwanis Club’s goals were: to give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life; to encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships; to promote the adoption and application of higher social, business and professional standards; to develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship; to provide, through this club, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build a better community; to cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will. The final meeting of the North Burnaby Kiwanis Club was held January 17, 1977.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North Burnaby Kiwanis Club
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- MSS092, PC501
Chapter Three: Capitol Hill School Neighbourhood, Capitol Hill District p. 59
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1994
remember
friendships, neighbors, hard times but
sharing times, a close extended family
of aunts, uncles and cousins, of
outdoor activities - gardening,
walking, fishing - using a row boat
around the present second narrows
bridge on the "inlet" waters,
volunteering in the library, knitting
and
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club subseries
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1955
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of meeting minutes, incorporation documents, correspondence and pamphlets from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club. Also included in the subseries is one large framed photograph of the Valleyview Community Centre.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1955
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual records
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1997-07
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of meeting minutes, incorporation documents, correspondence and pamphlets from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club. Also included in the subseries is one large framed photograph of the Valleyview Community Centre.
- History/Biography
- The Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club was incorporated on March 26, 1946. The aims of the club were to: cultivate a desire in our members to be of the greatest service to their community; elevate and reinforce the standards of good citizenship; foster friendship and broaden human sympathy and express them in terms of social helpfulness; and provide for wholesome recreation, education, civic and other leisure-time activities of the community. ccording to a membership drive handout produced in 1951, yearly membership was $1 and in order to be a member you had to: have been a former member; be present active member; be of the male species; or be t least mildly interested in the betterment of the social activities of your community and the promotion of good fellowship. Director of the Department of Education, Henry Hill, was the first president of the Club. Hill was also instrumental in the creation of the Valley View Community Council, which was originally made up of two appointed delegates from the Central Burnaby Ratepayers & Citizen’s Association, the Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club and the Women’s Community Club. The Valley View Community Council became a Society on February 10, 1948. In 1943 Burnaby City Council pledged to help fund at least one Community Centre in each Ward of the Municipality by 50% (up to $2,500 per building). The Club had a plan to provide a Community Centre for the Central Burnaby area as early as 1945 when they visited the site allotted to the cause by the Council of Burnaby on Douglas Road at Ledger Street (later renamed and numbered 4050 Grandview Highway and later called Canada Way). They organized Annual Country Fairs, with the first held in 1944, to raise funds from community members and by November 30, 1946, they had $3,750 “held for the purpose of building a Community Centre.” The building was erected and by December of 1949 it was used for the purpose of holding a Municipal Election.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC196, MSS084
The Maiden is Bashful and Coy (Letters 39-46) p. 172
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Land of promise : Robert Burnaby's letters from colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2002
friendship notwithstanding
the more exalted feeling was not mutual, as I had so fondly and hope-
fully, too hopefully believed.
My writing to you has been somewhat deferred in hopes that it might
have been my lot to write in a different strain, and the evil day was post-
poned with that hope, but as it
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- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby, Robert--Correspondence
- Name Access
- Burnaby, Robert
Digital Book
Tram Memories : in celebration of the restoration of Interurban 1223 p. 44
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
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- Book
- Tram Memories : in celebration of the restoration of Interurban 1223
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Notes
- Editor : Pixie McGeachie
Grade 12 this awareness had grown into a close platonic friendship.
This continued until June 1944, when Cice thought that our association was progressing
beyond the platonic stage and suggested we separate. So be it.
Late one evening during November I was returning home after visiting a boyhood
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Notes
- Editor : Pixie McGeachie
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Electric railroads--Cars
- Local transit--British Columbia--History
- Street-railroads--British Columbia--Vancouver Metropolitan Area--History
- Name Access
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Digital Book
Lucky Number: A Tribute to my Sisters
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 2016
- Collection/Fonds
- Elders Digital Storytelling project
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 mp4 video (9 min., 8 sec.) : digital, 25 fps, col., sd., stereo
- Scope and Content
- This film by Jadzia Prenosil follows the life of three sisters. They were born, educated and spent the first two decades of their lives in Communist (Czecho) - Slovakia. In August of 1968 the Warsaw Pact forces/Russian Army invaded the country in order to stop the spread of democracy lead by Presid…
1 Video
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 2016
- Other Title Information
- title supplied by film maker
- Collection/Fonds
- Elders Digital Storytelling project
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Code
- BV016.37.3
- Storage Location
- Digital Only
- Physical Description
- 1 mp4 video (9 min., 8 sec.) : digital, 25 fps, col., sd., stereo
- Formats
- mp4
- Media Type
- Moving Images
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Scope and Content
- This film by Jadzia Prenosil follows the life of three sisters. They were born, educated and spent the first two decades of their lives in Communist (Czecho) - Slovakia. In August of 1968 the Warsaw Pact forces/Russian Army invaded the country in order to stop the spread of democracy lead by President Dubcek. In fear of repercussions the family decided to leave their homeland. While they pondered over their fate in nearby Vienna, Austria they received an invitation from their aunt who lived in Vancouver. They were granted the status of refugee and were sponsored by the Canadian government. They arrived to Vancouver in October 1968. The film depicts their life in both countries ( Slovakia/Canada ) and tells a story of their strong relationship that spans for over half a century. It is this bond that helped them to overcome the many challenges and traumas they had to face throughout their lives.
- History/Biography
- Jadzia (pron. Ya-dja) Prenosil was born in Trnava, Czecho- Slovakia in 1951. She emigrated to Canada in 1968. After she acquired basic English skills at a night school she entered Grade 11 in Lord Byng High School in Vancouver. She completed her Bachelor degree in French and Spanish at UBC. In order to improve these two languages she spent some time in France to learn French and later travelled across Central and South America. This experience widened her view of the world. She remains an avid explorer, traveller to this day. After travelling and working at different jobs she obtained a teaching degree from SFU. In 1988 she began teaching French and ESL in Killarney Secondary School. For the next thirty years she had worked with refugees from all over the world and developed close friendships with many of them. Her own experience of being once an immigrant herself and learning English as a teenager allowed her to reach out to many students and helped them integrate into Canadian society. In 1991 she moved to an old (1931) character home in North Burnaby where she and her husband live happily to the present day.
- Notes
- Transcribed title
- Creator
- Jadzia Prenosil
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Gerry Hill p. 48
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Pioneer Tales of Burnaby, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1987
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part I: 1888-1900
Sprott, who was to become reeve of the municipality. Their
friendship resulted in both of them resettling on Deer Lake.
Annie Sara Kendrick had come to Vancouver for a reunion with her father, William Kendrick, the
commissioner of mines in British Guiana. She, too, met a friend who would influence her
1 Digital Chapter
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part I: 1888-1900
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Elfrieda Grelish p. 302
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Pioneer Tales of Burnaby, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1987
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part III: 1911-1920
found ways to enjoy themselves without always
depending on organized recreation.
Many are the "golden links of friendship" Margaret Parsons Corlett happily retains to this day,
links that had their beginnings - and were forged - in early Burnaby.
Elfrieda Grelish
Although Elfrieda Grelish was 86
1 Digital Chapter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part III: 1911-1920
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Margaret Parsons Corlett p. 302
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Pioneer Tales of Burnaby, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1987
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part III: 1911-1920
found ways to enjoy themselves without always
depending on organized recreation.
Many are the "golden links of friendship" Margaret Parsons Corlett happily retains to this day,
links that had their beginnings - and were forged - in early Burnaby.
Elfrieda Grelish
Although Elfrieda Grelish was 86
1 Digital Chapter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part III: 1911-1920
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Kitty Hill Peers p. 48
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Pioneer Tales of Burnaby, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1987
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part I: 1888-1900
Sprott, who was to become reeve of the municipality. Their
friendship resulted in both of them resettling on Deer Lake.
Annie Sara Kendrick had come to Vancouver for a reunion with her father, William Kendrick, the
commissioner of mines in British Guiana. She, too, met a friend who would influence her
1 Digital Chapter
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part I: 1888-1900
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
Digital Book
Section 1 p. 31
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- History of Burnaby and vicinity
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Notes
- This book is not divided into chapters. Sections have been created by Museum staff, based on the arrangement of topics in the book.
HISTORY OF BURNABY AND VICINITY 13
Moody might expect to work henceforth, and Burnaby, still retaining the
warm friendship of Douglas, returned in the following September to Vic-
toria to reside.
On May 18th, witk his wife and four children, (1) Colonel Moody
asd suite had been able to take
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Notes
- This book is not divided into chapters. Sections have been created by Museum staff, based on the arrangement of topics in the book.
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby - Burnaby Lake
- Burnaby - Brunette River
- Burnaby - North Road
- Burnaby - False Creek Trail
- Name Access
- Royal Engineers
- Burnaby, Robert
- Hudson's Bay Company
Digital Book
Chapter I: First Settlers at Deer Lake p. 12
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Bygones of Burnaby
- Book
- Bygones of Burnaby : an anecdotal history
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1977
- Notes
- Covers 1890s to 1920s
arriving in Vancouver she answered a call for
volunteers to take on nursing duty during an epidemic which had broken
out. It was while engaged in this act of mercy that she met Maude
Woodward with whom she formed a lasting friendship.
By 1891 Annie Kendrick and Qaude Hill had met, fallen in love and
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Bygones of Burnaby
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1977
- Notes
- Covers 1890s to 1920s
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Oakalla Area
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby - Deer Lake
- Name Access
- Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"
- Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick
- Woodward, Harriet
- Woodward, Maude
- Sprott, Charles
- Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"
- Peers, William John "Bob"
- Peers, Francis J.
Digital Book
Chapter VIII: Shops and Services in Edmonds District p. 53
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Bygones of Burnaby
- Book
- Bygones of Burnaby : an anecdotal history
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1977
12th Avenue and 6th Street. Jim Cooter, then aged about ten,
stmck up a friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Nutt’s young daughter, who, if
she had been older, would probably have wondered whether the young
man’s attentions were due to her charms or to the slices of bologna which
her father handed out.
On
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Bygones of Burnaby
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1977
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Subjects
- Transportation - Public Transit
- Wars - World War, 1914-1918
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Sussex-Nelson Area
- Edmonds Area
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby - 6th Street
- Name Access
- Nelson Avenue School
- Second Street School
- St. Alban's Anglican Church
- Bell, Flora
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Ceperley, Grace
- Cooter, Chris
- Cooter, Jim
- Cooter, Maude
- Cooter, Tom
- Bell's Dry Goods
Digital Book
A Voyage Unequalled (Letters 1-7) p. 50
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Book
- Land of promise : Robert Burnaby's letters from colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2002
we
shall reach to-morrow. Everything goes on well and I have the confidence
and friendship of Col. Moody, who is a real good sort.
I never was better, am hopeful and happy, although believe me, dear
Mother, I often think with longing of the happy home and dear faces
I am leaving. I hope and pray
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- Digital Reference Collection
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- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2002
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby, Robert--Correspondence
- Name Access
- Burnaby, Robert
Digital Book
Maurice Dodge p. 399
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- Book
- Pioneer Tales of Burnaby, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1987
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part IV: 1921-1930
downtown Vancouver to purchase a 35-cent coal oil
lamp at the Haskins & Elliott bicycle store on
Hastings Street.
As my friendships grew and my age increased, I
suppose I became bolder in about the same
proportion.
Despite the fact we aU had cherry trees in our
yards, there was a certain excitement
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- Publication Date
- 1987
- Notes
- Part IV: 1921-1930
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Digital Book
Chapter 5: Growth as a Municipality (1957–1975) p. 238
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- Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools
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- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2020
,
innovative, ideas. They would help each other
make classroom units at many ‘work nights’
while they ate dinner and made friendships
that would last for years.
Laurel Gurnsey remembers when
classes would stop and listen to the beautiful
voice drifting down the hall of the kindergarten
teacher
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Digital Reference Collection
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Original Book
- Catalogue record for source book
- Subjects LoC
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History--Anecdotes
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Schools--B.C.--Burnaby--History
Digital Book
Chapter Five: Edmonds Street School Neighbourhood, Edmonds District p. 84
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- Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
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- 1994
.
There were many sad faces in the
farewell gathering, so many past good
times and friendships were bound up
in the building. Another old landmark
now missing, was the old Mayflower
Grocery, owned by the McDonald
family. It had stood for years and
years on the corner diagonally
61
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- Digital Reference Collection
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- Book Chapter
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- 1994
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Chapter Five: Edmonds Street School Neighbourhood, Edmonds District p. 85
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- Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
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- Book Chapter
- Publication Date
- 1994
from our church, Gordon
Presbyterian, and the Baptist church
near Kingsway, in forming a local
league, which provided a lot of fun
and some new friendships.
The best features of our amusements
were that they didn’t cost much, could
be done without bothering with
reservations and were largely
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- 1994
- Original Book
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Interview with Julie Lee by Denise Fong February 6, 2020
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1920-1992] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 6, 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 mp3 recording (00:53:46 min.)
- Scope and Content
- Recording consists of an interview with Julie Lee conducted by Burnaby Village Museum researcher Denise Fong. Julie Lee shares information about her mother, Suey Ying Jung's (Laura's) experiences growing up as a Chinese Canadian on a farm in Burnaby during the 1920s and 1930s. She also shares some …
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1 Image
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- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1920-1992] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 6, 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Series
- Oral history series
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Code
- BV020.6.2
- Storage Location
- Digital Only
- Physical Description
- 1 mp3 recording (00:53:46 min.)
- Material Details
- Interviewer: Denise Fong Interviewee: Julie Lee Location of Interview: Home of Julie and Cecil Lee Interview Date: February 6, 2020 Total Number of Tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: 00:53:46
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- Sound Recording
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
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- No known restrictions
- Scope and Content
- Recording consists of an interview with Julie Lee conducted by Burnaby Village Museum researcher Denise Fong. Julie Lee shares information about her mother, Suey Ying Jung's (Laura's) experiences growing up as a Chinese Canadian on a farm in Burnaby during the 1920s and 1930s. She also shares some information about her father Puy Yuen Chan. 0:00- 01:47 Julie Lee provides background information on her families’ connection to Burnaby and conveys how her maternal grandparents farmed a five acre lot at Still Creek and Douglas Road. Her grandparents grew vegetable produce and operated a piggery at this location. Her mother, Suey Ying Jung (Laura) was the middle child between two older sisters, Maida and Annie and her two younger brothers Gordon and Harry. They were all born at home and educated at Edmonds Elementary School. 01:48- 11:47 Julie provides some background information about her mother, the friendships she made growing up, when she got married and places that she lived. She tells of her mother marrying in 1942 at age 30 years, moving to Fraser Mills and then onto Maillardville in 1958. There was easy access to the Interurban tram so her mother was able to have a social life with others in Vancouver’s Chinatown. She says that many of the only existing photographs of the family living on the farm at Still Creek and Douglas Road can be attributed to her mother’s friend Lil Mau [sic] who owned a camera. The farm was sold around 1949 when her grandparents moved to East Vancouver. While operating the farm, her grandparents only hired Chinese workers who spoke the same language and ate the same foods as them. Despite this, her grandparents made friends with the Collin’s family who assisted them in adjusting to the Canadian way of life. Julie tells that her mother’s sister Maida and brother in law lived with them at Fraser Mills. Her mother’s sister Maida had nine children so Julie’s mother helped her in raising them. 11:48 – 16:53 - Julie talks about racial prejudice towards the Chinese in Burnaby during the 1920s and 1930s. She says that for the most part, her mother’s family had a very insular life on the farm and mainly socialized only within the Chinese community. Julie tells of how she recently became aware of a memoir “The Way it Was”, written by Burnaby resident, Fannie Waplington. The memoir is held as part of the Burnaby Village Museum collection. In the memoir, Fannie Waplington tells of how she was forbidden from visiting Julie’s mother on their farm due to her ethnic background. Julie conveys that it seems like it was a missed friendship for both her mother and Fannie. 16:54 – 22:30 Julie describes what school life was like for her mother and what she may have done outside of school. Her mother attended Edmonds School in the 1920s up to Grade 7 or Grade 8. Julie explains that Asian girls were never offered the opportunity to pursue higher education while her mother’s brothers continued with their education attending Vancouver Technical School. Her mother continued to work on the farm until she was married cooking for workers and helping her mother. Outside of school, she may have helped with looking after nieces and nephews, played cards and mahjong. She says that her mother continued to play cards with her own children and was a skilled knitter into her 80s. 22:31 – 30: 53 Julie tells of what she knows about the Chinese workers on the farm and Fraser Mills and what they did on the weekends. She figures that many may have played card games to pass the time and at Fraser Mills gambling occurred. Fishing was a highlight for her father and she recalls him fishing sturgeon. Single workers may have gone into Vancouver on the weekends. Julie says that her parents had a hobby farm while living at Fraser Mills and that they grew enough garlic to sell in Chinatown. She thinks that before living at Fraser Mills, her mother must have went to Chinatown quite a bit, assisting with banking and enjoying a social life. Julie shares that her father, Puy Yuen Chan came to Canada from China at twelve years of age but working as a shingle packer, he never learned to speak English. She figures that her parents must have met at Fraser Mills while her mother was visiting her sister Maida. 30:54 – 37:33 Julie describes her mother as the cook, caregiver and the “one man show”. She says that her mother enjoyed cooking traditional Chinese recipes. Julie talks of her own cooking and gardening skills which she may have inherited from her parents including her large patch of garlic. 37:34- 40:23- Julie is asked as to whether her mother attended Chinese school and says that she had some Chinese schooling. She could read and write a little but didn’t attend a formal school as far as she knows. Julie shares some background information on her own husband Cecil, who grew up in East Vancouver. She shares that Cecil’s family went back to China from 1931 until 1939 when they returned to Queensborough. Cecil attended Chinese school in New Westminster. 40:24 – 42:19 Julie speaks briefly about what type of medical care her mother and her family had. She relates that all births took place at home and they accessed a Chinese herbalist in Chinatown. Hospitals were accessed in 1950s—1960s. The family did use Western doctors that were insured under the medical system. She recalls growing up and having to drink a particular herbal brew at least once a month to stay well. 42:20- 46:47 Julie describes how her parents stayed connected with their families in China. She says that her mother’s family didn’t stay in touch with relatives in China and that her uncles rejected anything to do with the past. On her father’s side they maintained a connection with cousins. She recalls that her father, Puy Yuen Chan supported some of his relatives back home in China and stayed in touch with some. Her mother, Laura travelled to China in 1991 and 1992 and connected with some relations on Julie’s father’s side. 46:48- 53:46 In this segment, Julie speaks of her mother’s character being very self-assured, independent and goal oriented. She feels that her mother valued being surrounded by her family and friends and felt very comfortable growing up in Burnaby and with the relationships that she had. She feels that her mother adapted to her roles being the last of four children on the farm and that she was very self-sufficient and determined.
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- Interviewee biography: Julie Lee (nee Chan) is the daughter of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) and Puy Yuen Chan. Her mother's family owned and operated a vegetable and piggery farm on Douglas Road near Still Creek in the early 1900s. Their farm was located in front of the Douglas Road interurban tram station. Her mother had two older sisters named Maida and Annie and two younger brothers Harry and Gordon. Her mother was born in 1912 and left the farm for Fraser Mills when she was married in 1942. Julie grew up with her parents and siblings on the Fraser Mills site during the 1940s and 1950s. Interviewer biography: Denise Fong is a historical researcher at Burnaby Village Museum. She has degrees in Anthropology (BA) and Archaeology (MA), and is completing her doctoral degree at UBC in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her primary research interests are in Chinese Canadian history and critical heritage studies. She is the co-curator of BVM’s “Across the Pacific” exhibition, and the Museum of Vancouver’s “A Seat at the Table – Chinese Immigration and British Columbia”.
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- Burnaby Village Museum
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- Fong, Denise
- Lee, Julie Cho Chan
- Chan, Puy Yuen
- Jung, Suey Ying "Laura"
- Wong, Suey Fong "Maida" Jung
- Jung, Suey Cheung "Harry"
- Jung, Suey Yook "Gordon"
- Jung, Gee Shee
- Jung, Chung Chong
- Jong, Suey Kin "Annie" Jung
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- Burnaby - Douglas Road
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
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, chickens, rabbits and pet dogs, Towser and Buster.
Miss Eshelby looked forward to school classes. She formed a life-long friendship with Miss Nellie
Pearse, her Grade One teacher at Capitol Hill elementary school. Miss Pearse was an exchange
teacher from Bristol, England.
One of her high school
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) each year to welcome the new year
with food. The head family man goes to friend’s homes to have a drink and food. We visit
friends and relatives to wish a happy, healthy new year, and also thanks to the old year for
friendship and sharing. On New Year every family has food on the table which has a
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took place between us and other races. The
Chinese and Hindus, as they were called then, had a few fights, which took place
after hours in their quartets. Coming from Hong Kong and Singapore there was
little friendship between them.
Barnet Road
The new mill of 1910 brought many changes including a
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eventually this was accomplished and it truly be-
came our ‘home’. The neighbours in our row were Halls, Murrays, Davidsons, and
Lalondes (Laleunes). Our parents formed a close friendship with these and others in
the village, mainly through card parties and holiday celebrations. The children were
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