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A vagabond journey around the world : a narrative of personal experience
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary534
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV986.53.42
- Call Number
- 910.4 FRA
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Garden City Pub.
- Publication Date
- 1910
- Series
- Star books
- Physical Description
- xv, 502 p. : ports. ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Burnaby South High School C.G. Brown, Principal" [stamped in dark ink on front pastedown, front endpaper and back pastedown] "J.B. Trodden" [handwritten in pencil at top of front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Voyages around the world
- Notes
- "A star book"--title page.
Beautifying the home grounds of Canada
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3391
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV993.11.2
- Call Number
- 710 HOW
- Author
- Howitt, M. H.
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Publisher
- Runge Press
- Publication Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- 87 p. : ill. : 24 cm.
- Inscription
- "Jannelle Slade" [Handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Landscape gardening
- Gardens
- Plants, Cultivated
- Notes
- "Published jointly by the Experimental farm branch of the Federal department of agriculture and the Canadian horticultural council, with the authority of the Hon. Robert Weis, minister of agriculture, Ottawa, 1930."
- "Free publications available.": p. 87.
- "List of trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials suitable for planting", by various authors: p. 71-85.
- Author's full name: Maurice Hamilton Howitt
Better homes and gardens cook book
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5420
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Rev. ed., de luxe ed.
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Call Number
- 641.5 MER
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV012.14.168
- Call Number
- 641.5 MER
- Edition
- Rev. ed., de luxe ed.
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Publisher
- Meredith Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cooking
- Cookbooks--United States
- Cookbooks--1940-1949
- Notes
- "Every recipe tested in Better Homes & Gardens' tasting-test kitchen" -- cover.
Book of gardening : a simple and comprehensive book of instruction on gardening in all its branches
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3430
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV994.3.4
- Call Number
- 635 BOO
- Place of Publication
- London
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1916
- Physical Description
- 256 p. : ill. : 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Gardening--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Gardening
- Notes
- Includes index.
- "Fully illustrated" -- Title page
Book of home building and decoration : prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2012
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.29
- Call Number
- 747
- Contributor
- Lyman, Clara Brown
- Bittner, Franklin Edward
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Publication Date
- c1912
- Series
- Furniture Library Collection
- Printer
- Country Life Press
- Physical Description
- 200 p. : ill. : 32 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Architecture
- Furniture
- Interior decoration
- Notes
- "Edited by Clara Brown Lyman"
- "Decorative Designs by Franklin Edward Bittner"
Bright blossoms : from "The poet's garden"
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3418
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV993.49.4
- Call Number
- 821.8 MAC
- Contributor
- Mack, Robert Ellice
- Place of Publication
- New York
- London
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Ernest Nister
- Publication Date
- 1898
- Printer
- Ernest Nister
- Physical Description
- [20] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- Epigraph page: "Phyllis Davey. July 20th 1921." [written in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English poetry
- Notes
- "selected and arranged by Robert Ellice Mack"
Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5472
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282826
- Call Number
- 971.133 BUR COPY 3
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
Burnaby's heritage : an inventory of buildings and structures
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5437
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Luxton, Donald, 1954-
- Wolf, Jim
- Edition
- Rev.
- Publication Date
- 2011
- c2007
- Call Number
- 971.133 LUX COPY 1
, the area was soon developed
with small market gardens of fruits and vegetables
after logging and sawmill operations transformed the
primeval landscape. This early growth set the stage
for a dynamic economic boom that would radically
change the sleepy rural district.
The suburban real-estate boom of 1905
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282893
- Call Number
- 971.133 LUX COPY 1
- Edition
- Rev.
- Author
- Luxton, Donald, 1954-
- Wolf, Jim
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2011
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 157 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Architecture
- Historic buildings
- Buildings
- Historic sites
- Subjects
- Buildings
- Buildings - Heritage
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 2 copies held: copy 1.
Digital Books
Bygones of Burnaby : an anecdotal history
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5462
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Publication Date
- 1976
- c1975
- Call Number
- 971.133 MCG COPY 4
at the east end
where it drained into the Brunette River. The result was that lakeside
homeowners would wake up some mornings to find their houses
surrounded by water and their gardens inundated. Many a time Mr. Hill
and his sons climbed into their rowboat and rowed to the beaver dam
which they destroyed
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 971.133 MCG COPY 4
- Author
- McGeachie, Pixie, 1921-
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Century Park Museum Association
- Publication Date
- 1976
- c1975
- Physical Description
- 108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Notes
- 4 copies held: copy 4.
Digital Books
Chinese Canadian history in Burnaby resource guide
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7608
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- [2022]
- Call Number
- 971.1 CHI
to grow
crops to feed newcomer communities. Big Bend is one
place where Chinese farmers leased small plots of land
to grow food for sale. By 1974, there were approximately
27 Chinese market gardens concentrated in the Big Bend
area, and many of them were family farms.
“As a produce buyer for Kelly Douglas
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Digital Resource
- Accession Code
- BV022.8.1
- Call Number
- 971.1 CHI
- Contributor
- City of Burnaby
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, BC
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- [2022]
- Physical Description
- 36 p. ; ill. (some col.), maps, ports
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Social Life and Customs
- Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Burnaby--History
- Chinese--British Columbia--History
- Pharmacy--Canada
- Pharmacy--United States
- Pharmaceutical museums
- Directories
- Object History
- Chinese Canadians have contributed to Burnaby’s growth for over a century. The long and intertwining histories between Chinese Canadians, Indigenous people and other communities have shaped the founding of Burnaby and British Columbia. This resource guide was created because their life experiences and important contributions to Burnaby’s development are not widely known.
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The complete gardener
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3732
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV001.16.3
- Call Number
- 635 THO
- Edition
- Fifth ed.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1918
- Printer
- Cassell & Co., Ltd.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 579 p., [130] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Inscription
- "J. Henning" [handwritten on cover] Various notes (latin names of plants, etc.) handwritten in pencil and black ink on front paste down and opposing page. "Josephine Henning Nov 22/1919" [handwritten on endpapers in black ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Gardening
- Notes
- Includes index.
- "With coloured frontspiece, 128 full-page illustrations from photographs and numerous drawings in the text"--t.p.
Deer Lake Park : heritage resource inventory
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5468
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Wolf, Jim
- Publication Date
- c1998
- Call Number
- 971.133 WOL COPY 2
" soils this prop-
erty captured the imagination of a
number of new English immigrants to
British Columbia who were intent on
building country homes and earning a
living through the cultivation of small
market gardens.
The first to purchase was Louis Claude Hill
who had come to B.C. horn England in 1889
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282834
- 9780969282839
- Call Number
- 971.133 WOL COPY 2
- Author
- Wolf, Jim
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby, Community Heritage Commission
- Publication Date
- c1998
- Physical Description
- 47 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Deer Lake Park (Burnaby, B.C.)--History
- Historic buildings--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Burnaby (B.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Notes
- 2 copies held : copy 2.
Digital Books
Eagles Estate heritage garden assessment : for the City of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7600
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Rink & McGinn Associates
- Publication Date
- 1995
- Call Number
- 971.133 RIN
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 971.133 RIN
- Author
- Rink & McGinn Associates
- Publication Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 54 p.,[9] p., 15p., [2] p.,[7] p., : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Gardens
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Subjects
- Gardens
- Geographic Features - Gardens
- Notes
- "Prepared by Rink & McGinn Associates".
The essential gardener : the best plants for design and cultivation : annuals, perennials, bulbs, roses, trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1283
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0517693399
- 9780517693391
- Call Number
- 635.9 FEL
- Author
- Fell, Derek
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Arch Cape Press
- Publication Date
- c1990
- Physical Description
- 704 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Gardening
- Notes
- "A Friedman Group book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
Fantasy postcards
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1016
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Ouellette, William
- Jones, Barbara
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.A
- Publication Date
- 1975
- Call Number
- 741.68 OUE
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0385112300
- 0385111754
- Call Number
- 741.68 OUE
- Edition
- 1st ed. in the U.S.A
- Author
- Ouellette, William
- Jones, Barbara
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Publication Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- 87, [9] p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 30 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Postcards
- Fantasy in art
- Notes
- Includes index.
Farm economy : a cyclopedia of agriculture for the practical farmer and his family, including seed selection, soils and soil fertility, the garden and the orchard, concrete on the farm, drainage, dry farming, irrigation, farm building plans, weeds, insects, pests and diseases, farm mechanics, business methods and co-operation with a special department on labor saving methods for the housewife
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary4875
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Moore, R. A.
- Publication Date
- 1917
- c1915
- Call Number
- 631 MOO
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.23.6
- Call Number
- 631 MOO
- Author
- Moore, R. A.
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, Minn.
- Publisher
- H. L. Baldwin
- Publication Date
- 1917
- c1915
- Physical Description
- 1247 p., 33 leaves of plates : ill. : 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Farm life
- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Agriculture
- Subjects
- Agriculture
- Notes
- Author's full name and dates: Moore, R. A. (Ransom Asa), 1861-1941.
- Includes index.
Five centuries of women & gardens
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1405
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Bennett, Sue
- Publication Date
- c2000
- Call Number
- 635.082 BEN
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1855142880
- 9781855142886
- Call Number
- 635.082 BEN
- Author
- Bennett, Sue
- Place of Publication
- London [England]
- Publisher
- National Portrait Gallery
- Publication Date
- c2000
- Physical Description
- 171 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Women gardeners--Great Britain--History
- Gardening--Great Britain--History
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
Gardening illustrated
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3474
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV994.31.2
- Call Number
- 635.05 GAR
- Contributor
- Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- John Nayler
- Publication Date
- 1919
- Series
- Gardening illustrated
- Printer
- G.A. Roedde
- Physical Description
- 750 p. in various paginations : ill.
- Inscription
- "2433 / Mr. Johnson" -handwritten in pencil on title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Gardening
- Horticulture
- Periodicals
- Notes
- "A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners." Founded by W. Robinson.
- Merged with: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874); to form: Gardeners chronicle & gardening illustrated.
- Contributor's given name, dates, and contribution: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. (Founder/Editor)
The garden of lies
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary217
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.136.107
- Call Number
- 813.5 FOR
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Publication Date
- c1902
- Physical Description
- 315, [4] p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "W25", in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil "C.R. Thornburrow", handwritten in brown ink on front endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--20th century
- Notes
- frontispiece only
History of Burnaby and vicinity
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6890
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV017.17.1
- Call Number
- 971.133 GRE Copy 2 Ver. 1
- Author
- Green, George, 1872-1955
- Place of Publication
- [S.l.]
- Publisher
- [s.n.]
- Publication Date
- 1947
- Printer
- Shoemaker , McLean & Veitch
- Physical Description
- 233 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- "Presented To my valued fried Rev. D. W. Scott. a former neighbor at Capitol Hill with best wishes of the author George Green Victoria March 1 1947" [handwritten in black ink on page opposing front pastedown] "BMMM-WU SIGNED 1st ED 50.00" [handwritten in pencil on page opposing front pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Name Access
- Green, George
- Notes
- Autographed by author
- "By George Green, pioneer resident of Burnaby, and an ex-Councillor. Charter Member of the British Columbia Historical Association, Vancouver Branch, and an Executive Member."
- Copy 2 of 2
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