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Municipality of Burnaby - Volume XVIII
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription8687
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- May 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 plans on 2 sheets : col. lithographic prints; 63.5 x 53.5 cm folded to 53 x 31.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two pages of plans removed from a bound book containing a series of fire insurance plans of the Municipality of Burnaby. Plan "1819" and Plan "1820 are part of "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XVIII / Municipality of Burnaby / May 1927. Plan "1819" covers District Lot 95 and plan …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 plans on 2 sheets : col. lithographic prints; 63.5 x 53.5 cm folded to 53 x 31.5 cm
- Material Details
- Scales [1:600]
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two pages of plans removed from a bound book containing a series of fire insurance plans of the Municipality of Burnaby. Plan "1819" and Plan "1820 are part of "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XVIII / Municipality of Burnaby / May 1927. Plan "1819" covers District Lot 95 and plan "1820" covers District Lots 30 and 95.
- Responsibility
- British Columbia Underwriters' Association
- Accession Code
- HV972.111.38
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- May 1927
- Media Type
- Cartographic Material
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Highland Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Stride Hill Area
- Kingsway-Beresford Area
- Scan Resolution
- 400
- Scan Date
- 2021-11-18
- Notes
- Title based on content of plans
- Scales are measured 1 inch = 50 feet
- See also BV987.1.70d for revised versions of plans
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sales brochure
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact80118
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV008.19.18
- Description
- Land sales brochure, cream paper, black and red print; "WHY TO BUY IN HIGHLANDS" "CHOICE RESIDENTIAL SITES CLEARED" "SUBDIVISION AND PRICE LIST OF" "BLOCKS 31 and 32. DISTRICT LOT 97, situated at the JUNCTION OF THE NEW CUT=OFF ON THE B.C. ELECTRIC TRAM LINE TO NEW WESTMINSTER"; "KEY MAP" of DL97 showing subdivisions of L.25, 26, 31, 32, 33, Vancouver and New Westminster Rd., Buller Rd., B.C.E.R. line, with Royal Oak, Highland Park, and Gillie [sic] Stations, cut-off, Roberts Rd., White Rd.; Group I New Westminster Dist.; terms; "TRUSTEE CO., Limited" "318 HOMER ST. VANCOUVER" "Phone Seymour 883"; description "... magnificent view..."; price list for subdivisions of Bl.31 (cleared) and 32 (uncleared); and "Plan Shewing..." with enlarged view, focusing on lots at White Rd., Buller Rd., roads and allowances; names and resubdivisions drawn on this plan with red ink, pencilled directions and additions; this area was known as the Highlands or Highland Park; 17" x 14"; folded in half to 8.5" X 14"; with an 8.5" x 5.25" piece of note paper pinned to brochure, typed listing of properties and buyers for block 31; notes as to payment and deeds given are handwritten in pencil and match names handwritten on plan itself: George Irving, C. Christianson, T.H. Venning, J.B. Shanks, M.A. Henning, M. Sveinson; soiled; small tears at edges
- Object History
- The Highland Park sub-division in District Lot 97, was in part a real estate development by the company owned by the Thomson family. James and Melville P. Thomson, owned and operated "Thomson Bros." They had extensive property interests in Vancouver and Burnaby and owned and operated a book selling and stationery business in Vancouver.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Advertising Media
- Object Term
- Brochure
- Marks/Labels
- "HIGHLANDS / Subdividion of Blocks 31 and 32, District Lot 97 / BURNABY / PRICE LIST / . . . . / TRUSTEE CO., Limited / 318 HOMER ST. Phone Sey. 883 VANCOUVER, B.C.
- Colour
- Cream
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Vancouver
- Title
- Subdivision and Price List of Blocks 31 and 32 District Lot 97 New Westminster District
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Highland Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
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