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School Board Extra-Ordinary Estimates re New School Sites, Buildings, Alterations, Furniture and Equipment

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 57002

Meeting Date: 12-Dec-1927

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: 57002

Meeting Date: 12-Dec-1927

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 57002

12-Dec-1927 Meeting Minutes

Bea and Don Carpenter

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37549

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1926] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.9 x 2.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Bea and Don Carpenter seated in a chair at the front of their home on the 4000 block of Cambridge Street. The photograph was taken facing the street. Note the carpet in front of the chair.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1926] (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 ; 4.9 x 2.7 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-137

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of siblings Bea and Don Carpenter seated in a chair at the front of their home on the 4000 block of Cambridge Street. The photograph was taken facing the street. Note the carpet in front of the chair.

Subjects: Furniture

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: Cambridge Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Heights Area

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Bea and Don Carpenter, [1926] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Bobby and Brian Collins

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38964

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 9 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair. Brian Collins is standing next to the cart. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 9 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-283

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair. Brian Collins is standing next to the cart. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Transportation - Carts; Furniture

Names: Peers, Robert C.K.; Collins, Brian

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6588 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

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Bobby and Brian Collins

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38965

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair being pulled by a child identified only as Brian. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-284

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair being pulled by a child identified only as Brian. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Transportation - Carts; Furniture

Names: Peers, Robert C.K.; Collins, Brian

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6588 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

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Claude and Annie Hill

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Claude and Annie Hill, seated on a wooden bench next to small table. A fence can be seen in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-528

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Claude and Annie Hill, seated on a wooden bench next to small table. A fence can be seen in the background.

Subjects: Furniture

Names: Hill, Annie Sara Kenrick; Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Grant family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36861

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue, including a grandfather clock, desk and fireplace. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12.5 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-319

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue, including a grandfather clock, desk and fireplace. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

Subjects: Furniture

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Sussex Avenue; Kingsway

Street Address: 4700 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Grant family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36862

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including a couch and chairs, grandfather clock, and pictures and photographs. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-320

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including a couch and chairs, grandfather clock, and pictures and photographs. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

Subjects: Furniture

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Sussex Avenue; Kingsway

Street Address: 4700 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Grant family home

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36863

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including a fireplace, couch, pictures, and radio. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-321

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the living room of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including a fireplace, couch, pictures, and radio. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

Subjects: Furniture

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Sussex Avenue; Kingsway

Street Address: 4700 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Grant family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the playroom of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including chairs, books and a piano. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-322

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the playroom of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering), including chairs, books and a piano. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

Subjects: Furniture

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Sussex Avenue; Kingsway

Street Address: 4700 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Grant family home

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the playroom of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering). In the room is a sign for the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) with which Mrs. Grant was involved. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.7 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-323

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the playroom of the Grant family home at 2772 Sussex Avenue (old street numbering). In the room is a sign for the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) with which Mrs. Grant was involved. Alice and George A. Grant moved here with their family in 1925.

Subjects: Furniture; Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards

Names: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Sussex Avenue; Kingsway

Street Address: 4700 Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Lorraine Patience

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923 (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 Lorraine Patience during her Saturday night bath in the Patience household at 240 15th Avenue (later renumbered 8078 15th Avenue). The youngest, Lorraine, was the first to use the tub, and John Patience, the father, took his bath last.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923 (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.: 204-438

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lorraine Patience during her Saturday night bath in the Patience household at 240 15th Avenue (later renumbered 8078 15th Avenue). The youngest, Lorraine, was the first to use the tub, and John Patience, the father, took his bath last.

Subjects: Furniture

Names: Patience, Lorraine

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: 15th Avenue

Street Address: 8078 15th Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Second Street Area

Images

Lorraine Patience, 1923 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Mrs. King and baby Annie

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37773

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1920 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.2 x 2.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mrs. King holding her daughter, Annie, inside the Clarke house on Inman Avenue.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1920 (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 ; 4.2 x 2.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-361

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mrs. King holding her daughter, Annie, inside the Clarke house on Inman Avenue.

Subjects: Furniture

Names: Ellis, Annie King

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Inman Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Garden Village Area

Images

Mrs. King and baby Annie, 1920 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Robert Peers and Brian Collins

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38962

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 8.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months (to the left) standing with Brian Collins, next to a wheeled wicker chair. The photograph may have been taken at the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 8.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-281

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months (to the left) standing with Brian Collins, next to a wheeled wicker chair. The photograph may have been taken at the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Transportation - Carts; Furniture

Names: Peers, Robert C.K.; Collins, Brian

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6588 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Robert Peers and Brian Collins

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38963

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 8.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair. Brian Collins is standing next to the cart. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1928

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 8.5 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-282

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Robert Peers, aged thirteen months seated in a wheeled wicker chair. Brian Collins is standing next to the cart. The location of the photograph may be the home of Bob and Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.

Subjects: Transportation - Carts; Furniture

Names: Peers, Robert C.K.; Collins, Brian

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6588 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Rolie Moore, Grandmother Moore and Hazel Moore

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37997

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.0 x 3.0 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Rolie Moore, Grandmother Moore and Hazel Moore outside of Hart House. Grandmother Moore is seated in an ornate chair.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (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 ; 4.0 x 3.0 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-584

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) Rolie Moore, Grandmother Moore and Hazel Moore outside of Hart House. Grandmother Moore is seated in an ornate chair.

Subjects: Furniture

Names: Gordon, Hazel May Moore; Pierce, Rosalie "Rolie" Moore Barrett

Media Type: Photograph

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

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6664 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Images

Rolie Moore, Grandmother Moore and Hazel Moore, 1927 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Woman and child

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39345

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1922]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.7 x 6 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a woman, seated, holding a baby. Both are unidentified.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1922]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.7 x 6 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-664

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a woman, seated, holding a baby. Both are unidentified.

Subjects: Furniture

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Ed Brown family fonds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97218

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-1920

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912-1920

Collection/Fonds: Ed Brown Family fonds

Physical Description: 12 photographs: 7 b&w jpgs.; 4 sepia jpgs., 1 med. b&w print.

Description Level: Fonds

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2008-03

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs that belonged to the Brown family. Photographs depict Ed Brown, his wife Jennie, and their children at their homes on Royal Oak Avenue and McKay Avenue; Brown's trucking company; and other Burnaby locations and events.

History: The following is copied from an article written by Brown's grandson, Jim Ervin, for "Old Autos" in 2003, in an article entitled "Grandfather was a trucker...": The roots of my family run deep in Burnaby, especially on my mother’s side. It was her father, my grandfather, who started one of Burnaby’s first trucking businesses, E.S. Brown’s Transfer. I could find no record of when he actually began operations but I have pictures to show that he was using horses before he had trucks. One of my enclosed pictures dates from about 1910 since I know the birth dates of his two oldest daughters and they are in the picture as very small children. He met and married my grandmother, whose maiden name was Jennie Birtch, from Ontario, and I still have relatives back east from both branches of the family. They were married on Sept. 27, 1905. But where, I can’t say. They had their first child, Hazel, born April 2, 1908. Then came seven more daughters but no sons to help with the family business. The business was located at the family home at 3131 Royal Oak Ave. in South Burnaby. That was close to the top of one of the steepest hills in Burnaby and must have made for a real test of man and machine to drive it, especially in winter. The children loved it for sleigh riding but probably not father. My mother, Inez, was the second oldest daughter, born Oct. 9, 1909. She would have been born, along with her sister Hazel, in the big house shown in the picture and built by my grandfather. But this house was to later burn down. That’s when Edward Sadler Brown decided to move his family from the side of the hill to the top and much closer to the main road, Kingsway. Most of the area was forest at that time and one of Ed’s first jobs was to haul shingle bolts out of the forest, with a team of horses. Please don’t ask me what a shingle bolt is but my mother knew and used to have to grease the skids placed on the logging trails for the loaded sleds to be pulled out on. One time, as she told me, there was a huge forest fire and my grandfather barely escaped with his life and one last load. Later, when the area had been cleared, he helped to build the Oakalla Prison Farm, now replaced by town-houses on Royal Oak Ave. This job led to him becoming the first contractor to haul the license plates made by the prisoners. Some of these plates would be worn by Ed’s own trucks. The trucks, which he eventually acquired, included some pretty obscure makes such as Hufman, Garford, Stewart (which my mother often said was no good), Gotfredson and the more common names of Chevrolet and GMC. A Ford Model T would probably have been too light for the kind of hauling Ed was doing in the 1920s. I always thought that his main cargo was coal and coke, but I received quite a surprise with some recently discovered information. It started when I was removing boxes of general junk from the house to the garage to make more space. One of those boxes broke open and one item which came out wasn’t junk by any means. It was a copy of a business card for Brown’s Transfer, a company which hauled coal, coke, wood and did furniture moving as well. My mother often described my grandfather as a “go-getter” for business. I believe I see what she meant. Never was I so glad to have a cardboard box break open and to retrieve such an important item. My mother was a saver like you wouldn’t believe, a habit which the Great Depression drilled into her. In another box containing old receipts, I found a copy of one from Brown’s Transfer which offered even more insight into the company. The receipt isn’t dated but only the last number of the year required filling in on the form. And this dates it as issued sometime during the 1920s. The surprising thing is the amount of items sold by my grandfather. Not just coal, wood and coke anymore. Now he was into sand, gravel, cement, brick lime, tile and sewer pipe. Furniture moving seemed to be sort of a sideline, mentioned in smaller letters at the bottom. But notice some of the other items on the hand written receipt. There’s lumber, grass seed, paint, glass, a loan (spelled lone) on painting a house. I’m not sure that I understand that one or the payment on house or the one about the toilet. But it’s obvious that this was a man who knew how to make a buck in many ways. He was almost his own building supply store, it would seem. Also mentioned on the form is an office location at 4009 Kingsway. The building is no longer there but it did survive into my life time. Often, my mother would point out to me where the office once was on the north side of Kingsway, near McKay Ave. Still standing, though, ist he old family home at the former address (now changed) of 3131 Royal Oak Ave. That’s where my mother and all seven of her sisters were born. These were the “swampers” on dad’s trucks, a job hard enough for a man. Ed did hire men as well to work as drivers and even employed his own mechanic. But for the girls, it wasn’t really a paying kind of job. “Some times he would buy us an ice-cream cone,” my mother would say. In those days, parents wanted large families to help with all the work which needed doing. Payment in dollars and cents just wasn’t usually part of the deal. I never knew my grandmother, Jennie, who died in 1946 at age 61, an early age to go but likely reflective of a lifetime of hard work and too many children. However, I did know my grandfather who lived into his 70s.His company came to a rather sad end, as related by my mother, in the dirty 30s. Apparently a certain sister of my grandmother, great aunt to myself, reported to the local school board that grandfather was supplying them with an inferior grade of coal for the schools. Then the school board cancelled his contract and that put him into bankruptcy. Whether the story is true or not doesn’t seem to matter much any more since no one who could have known is still among the living. Ed Brown, the industrious, rugged individualist did make a small come-back in the early 1950s with his own plumbing business. The details of that enterprise, I don’t know. But I do remember his old International panel truck he used. People such as my grandfather made a great contribution to Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds; BHS298

Grieve family fonds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66379

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1966

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 14 cm. of textual records and 15 b&w prints.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of publications, correspondence and photographs pertaining to the Grieve family of North Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1966

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Physical Description: 14 cm. of textual records and 15 b&w prints.

Description Level: Fonds

Accession Number: 2011-04

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of publications, correspondence and photographs pertaining to the Grieve family of North Burnaby.

History: William Ewart “Bill” Grieve was born at Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan (then the North-West Territories), on August 15, 1885. He was the eldest child of John and Flora Grieve. Bill attended school at Qu’Appelle until he was 12 years old and went to work at a furniture store. In October of 1902, at the age of 17, he moved to the Okanagan and worked on a Kettle Valley Railroad construction camp for four years. Bill enlisted at Kamloops in 1915 and served overseas as a member of the 72nd Seaforth Battalion. He was wounded at the Battle of Lens in August of 1917 and was invalided home in November of 1917. On April 14, 1920, William Ewart “Bill” Grieve married Christine. Bill’s ill health sent them to California for a year but by April of 1923, they had returned to Canada and bought a house at 3925 Triumph Street in North Burnaby. Bill worked as manager of the Used Car Department of Johnston Motors Ltd in Vancouver for the next twenty years. He retired in 1946 and opened his own used car business at 4507 East Hastings Street, Burnaby. Christine Grieve was a life-long member of the Women’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada. Christine and Bill had two sons, Kenneth Ewart “Ken” and William Ronald “Ronald.” Ken was born about 1922. By 1928, he was in grade three at Gilmore Avenue School and by 1948, he was at the University of British Columbia. Ken died prior to March of 2006. Ronald was born about 1929 and was 13 years old during World War II. Like his older brother before him, he attended the University of British Columbia. He later married and had children, one of whom was Catherine E. “Cathy” Grieve (later Linowski). Ronald died April 7, 1970, at the age of 41. Bill served as president of the North Burnaby Liberal Association for four years and was liberal candidate for the Burnaby Provincial riding at the General Election in 1937. He also served on the Burnaby School Board from 1943 to 1957 consecutively. Bill died April 1, 1969 at the age of 83.