"Great Northern Railway" found 34 records

Scope and Content: File contains agreement for the construction of a sidewalk by the Railway Company, and correspondence related to these transactions. File also includes blueprint plan of sidewalk over [GNR] tracks and right of way for the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1931; blueprint "Sketch Showing Sigh…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1913-1951

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record and cartographic material

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2558

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains agreement for the construction of a sidewalk by the Railway Company, and correspondence related to these transactions. File also includes blueprint plan of sidewalk over [GNR] tracks and right of way for the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, 1931; blueprint "Sketch Showing Sight Clearance and Distances and Sperling Avenue Grade Crossing" [c1945]; and blueprint "Plan of Proposed Road Crossing of Phillips Avenue."

Media Type: Textual Record; Cartographic Material

Notes: Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.

Estimate for Construction of Concrete Sidewalks upon the West Side of Gilmore Avenue from Clydesdale Street to Great Northern Railway Right of Way

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56634

Meeting Date: 29-Dec-1930

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: 56634

Meeting Date: 29-Dec-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 56634

29-Dec-1930 Meeting Minutes

Great Northern Railway crossing

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1914]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 20.2 x 15.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Great Northern Railway crossing meeting a road that appears to have run parellel to the railway on a bluff. On the left side of the photograph is a small hut beside a sign that reads, "Railway Crossing." Two unidentified men are standing outside of the hut. An earlier catalogue re…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 20.2 x 15.8 cm

Material Details: Inscribed on negative, and printed backwards on contact print, l.r. "G.N.RAILWAY......../SHEWI [rest of the word illegible] INTERSECTION). CROSSING.../ [illegible word] ROAD. LOOKING NORTH"

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Great Northern Railway crossing meeting a road that appears to have run parellel to the railway on a bluff. On the left side of the photograph is a small hut beside a sign that reads, "Railway Crossing." Two unidentified men are standing outside of the hut. An earlier catalogue record from 1988 notes that the crossing street is North Road, and the photograph was taken looking northwest into Burnaby. Inscribed on negative, lower right: "G.N. Railway /Shewi [rest of the word illegible] Intersection) Crossing / [illegible word] Road. Looking North."

Subjects: Transportation - Rail; Geographic Features - Roads

Names: Great Northern Railway

Geographic Access: North Road

Accession Code: HV972.11.9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1914]

Media Type: Photograph

Planning Study Area: Cariboo-Armstrong Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 14/8/2006

Scale: 100

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

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Great Northern Railway crossing, [1914] thumbnail

Great Northern Railway re Request for Culvert being Placed

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81183

Meeting Date: 5-Feb-1910

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: 81183

Meeting Date: 5-Feb-1910

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 81183

5-Feb-1910 Meeting Minutes

Great Northern Railway - Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912

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

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and a notice of sittings of the Board of Railway Commissioners regarding the installation of double tracking by the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co., from Sapperton to Still Creek. File also includes correspondence pertaining to …

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1912

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2542

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence, Council minutes, and a notice of sittings of the Board of Railway Commissioners regarding the installation of double tracking by the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co., from Sapperton to Still Creek. File also includes correspondence pertaining to the Great Northern Railway siding (spur line) at Douglas Road and Pole Line Road (Sperling Avenue).

Media Type: Textual Record

Notice of Sitting re Application to Remove Burnaby Lake Great Northern Railway Station to Piper Siding

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 74864

Meeting Date: 10-Jul-1911

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: 74864

Meeting Date: 10-Jul-1911

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 74864

10-Jul-1911 Meeting Minutes

Petitions re Great Northern Railway Station

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 74590

Meeting Date: 3-Apr-1911

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: 74590

Meeting Date: 3-Apr-1911

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 74590

3-Apr-1911 Meeting Minutes

Removal of Brush North and South of Great Northern Railway at Sperling Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55619

Meeting Date: 10-Mar-1930

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55619

Meeting Date: 10-Mar-1930

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 55619

10-Mar-1930 Meeting Minutes

Request for Payment re Paving Boundary Road from Great Northern Railway to Douglas Road

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56622

Meeting Date: 29-Dec-1930

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: 56622

Meeting Date: 29-Dec-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 56622

29-Dec-1930 Meeting Minutes

Request to the Great Northern Railway Company to Make a Connection Across Their Tracks on Boundary Road for Pedestrian Crossing

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56263

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1930

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: 56263

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 56263

22-Sep-1930 Meeting Minutes

Tenders for Paving Boundary Road from Union Street to Great Northern Railway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56012

Meeting Date: 16-Jun-1930

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: 56012

Meeting Date: 16-Jun-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 56012

16-Jun-1930 Meeting Minutes

View to a Joint Meeting on the Ground with Great Northern Railway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 81370

Meeting Date: 5-Mar-1910

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: 81370

Meeting Date: 5-Mar-1910

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 81370

5-Mar-1910 Meeting Minutes

GN 1350

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Great Northern Railway locomotive no. 1350 traveling past an unidentified location.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Great Northern Railway locomotive no. 1350 traveling past an unidentified location.

Subjects: Transportation - Locomotives; Transportation - Rail

Names: Great Northern Railway

Accession Code: BV985.6114.23

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1930 and 1949]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-03-12

Notes: Title based on note written on verso of photograph; Handwritten note in black ball-point pen on verso of photograph reads: "GN 1350"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "695"; Handwritten note in pencil on verso of photograph crosses out the stamp: "5" and reads: "94"

Images

GN 1350, [between 1930 and 1949] thumbnail

GN 1371 in Vancouver

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1930 and 1949]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Great Northern Railway locomotive no. 1371 in Vancouver.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Great Northern Railway locomotive no. 1371 in Vancouver.

Subjects: Transportation - Locomotives; Transportation - Rail

Names: Great Northern Railway

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV985.6114.39

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1930 and 1949]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-03-19

Notes: Title based on note written on verso of photograph; Handwritten note in black ball-point pen on verso of photograph reads: "G.N. 1371/ Van"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "694"

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Account of Expenditure re Great Northern Railway Accident

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Account of Proceedings Before the Board of Railway Commisioners re Great Northern Railway Crossing at Douglas Road

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Agreement re Sidewalk Crossing over Great Northern Railway at Gilmore Avenue

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Authorization of Sidewalk Construction Over Great Northern Railway Tracks at Gilmore Avneue and Boundary Road

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Constitution of District Improvement Area for the Purpose of Constructing Concrete Sidewalks upon the West Side of Gilmore Avenue from Clydesdale Street to Great Northern Railway Right of Way

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Construction of Sewer on Boundary Road from Great Northern Railway to Grandview Highway

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Crossings - Great Northern Railway

Estimate for Construction of Concrete Sidewalks upon the West Side of Gilmore Avenue from Clydesdale Street to Great Northern Railway Right of Way

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Great Northern Railway crossing

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Great Northern Railway re Request for Culvert being Placed

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Great Northern Railway - Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway & Navigation Co.

Notice of Sitting re Application to Remove Burnaby Lake Great Northern Railway Station to Piper Siding

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Petitions re Great Northern Railway Station

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Removal of Brush North and South of Great Northern Railway at Sperling Avenue

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Request for Payment re Paving Boundary Road from Great Northern Railway to Douglas Road

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Request to the Great Northern Railway Company to Make a Connection Across Their Tracks on Boundary Road for Pedestrian Crossing

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Tenders for Paving Boundary Road from Union Street to Great Northern Railway

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View to a Joint Meeting on the Ground with Great Northern Railway

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GN 1350

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GN 1371 in Vancouver

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