Pipe family fonds
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Pipe family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 cm. of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is comprised of one item, a soft cover book titled "Pipe Parbury Deane / Extended Family History," written by Olive Muriel Pipe Balabanov.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1997
- Collection/Fonds
- Pipe family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 cm. of textual records.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2014-07
- Scope and Content
- Fonds is comprised of one item, a soft cover book titled "Pipe Parbury Deane / Extended Family History," written by Olive Muriel Pipe Balabanov.
- History
- John (Jack) Pipe was born in Ontario in 1875 and moved to Burnaby with his wife Blanche in 1916. Prior to moving to Burnaby, Jack worked as a superintendent in the Phoenix and Granby Bay mines. While working in Phonenix, he met and married Blanche Perry in 1909. Jack and Blanche had eight children: Frederick Stewart; Dorothy Mary; George Russell; John Douglas; Kathleen Margaret; Harold Calvin; Olive Muriel; and David Melvin. Due to poor health, Jack retired from mining work in 1916 and moved his family to Burnaby. The family purchased property at 5250 Government Road where they built their home and raised their family. In 1938, John and Blanche sold this property and purchased another piece of property located within DL 44. Jack died of silicosis in 1953.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Pipe family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- MSS179
Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription18930
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1921]-1959
- Collection/Fonds
- Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs + 1p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, documents and architectural plans regarding the Oasis Tea Garden and Tourist Camp and a photograph of Burnaby Reeve Alexander K. McLean. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) Ray Raymer photograph collection series 2) Ray Raymer business records series
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs + 1p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, documents and architectural plans regarding the Oasis Tea Garden and Tourist Camp and a photograph of Burnaby Reeve Alexander K. McLean. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) Ray Raymer photograph collection series 2) Ray Raymer business records series
- History
- Roy Bernard Raymer (1915-1991) is the son of Harvey Connor Raymer (1885-1937) and Bernice Mildred McFarland. The family owned and operated the Oasis Tourist Cabins on Kingsway. The family moved to Minnesota temporarily and then finally settled in Burnaby in 1921. The family bought their property at 2675 Kingsway (later 6111 Kingsway) and started first a roadside stand called "Golden Rule Table Supply" that sold milk, eggs, etc that came from the family's cows, chicken, etc on the property. From the roadside stand the family progressed to a larger building, a restaurant and store complex. Added to this was a "free campground" where visitors could pitch tents and become customers for the store and resturant. The campground eventually became British Columbia's first motel when ten "tourist cabins" were built on the property. Roy and his brother Max Raymer (1917-1935) attended Edmonds East School in the 1920s. By the late 1920s, the restaurant had expanded to include a dance floor section and it became one of the Lower Mainland's favorite night spots. The new complex was renamed as "The Oasis". In the 1930s, a gasoline retailing outlet was added which became one of Greater Vancouver's largest volume outlets. After the death of his brother, Max at age 18 in 1935 and his father, Harvey in 1937, Roy and his mother Bernice ran the business. After the death of his mother, Bernice in 1951, Roy leased the property for revenue. In 1955, Roy married Ingeborg Haacke and lived on the Kingsway acre and raised a family of four children. For a time they operated the property as "the Oasis Donut Drive-In". In 1964, the property was sold and the family moved to Government Road. Roy Bernard Raymer died in 1991.
- Responsibility
- Raymer, Roy Bernard
- Accession Code
- HV977.121
- Date
- [1921]-1959
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Architectural Drawing
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds