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- Industries - Forestry 14
- Industries - Logging/lumber 4
- Land Clearing 1
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- Personal Symbols 1
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Barnet Lumber mill
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15232
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Barnet Lumber Company mill in operation. C.P.R. railroad tracks are visible in the foreground and trees on the north shore of Burrard Inlet are visible in the distance. Plumes of smoke are rising from the mill chimneys.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Barnet Lumber Company mill in operation. C.P.R. railroad tracks are visible in the foreground and trees on the north shore of Burrard Inlet are visible in the distance. Plumes of smoke are rising from the mill chimneys.
- History
- The Barnet Lumber Company also known as the Barnet mill was in operation between 1925 and 1932. The mill was located on Burrard Inlet in the neighbourhood of Barnet and was one of the most successful local employers in Burnaby until the 1930s when the Great Depression resulted in a strike at the mill. The City of Burnaby eventually assumed control of the site including all of the homes when the company failed to pay it's taxes. The city then dismantled the mill and sold the property in two parts - the eastern section would become the Kapoor Sawmills Limited and the western portion, the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company.
- Names
- Barnet Lumber Company
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.51
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [192-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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delegate's ribbon
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact78608
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV972.161.27
- Description
- The delegate's ribbon is for the Pacific Logging Congress held in Vancouver, BC, October 6 to 9, 1920. The ribbon is blue-grey with orange text on top half, a circular logo in the middle and text on the bottom half
- Marks/Labels
- "Eleventh Session / PACIFIC LOGGING CONGRESS", orange printing on top half "OREGON WASH IDAHO MONT CAL BC 1909", orange printing around circle on bottom half "P L C", large orange printing in centre of circle located on bottom half "VANCOUVER, B.C. / OCT 6-7-8-9 / 1920", orange printing along bottom
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Industries
- Industries - Forestry
- Personal Symbols
- Personal Symbols - Ribbons
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
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double bit axe head
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact45469
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV003.28.3
- Description
- This split, double bitted, utility axe head was found on Burnaby Mountain by Alfred Bingham in 1920. Mr Bingham bought property on the West side of the mountain in 1920. The axe head is double bladed. The head is very rusty and has been cracked across one side. The remains of the handle are still in the axe eye.
- Object History
- The axe head was found on the site of Simon Fraser University (SFU), an area logged in the early years of the 20th Century by Gilley Logging. The axe may have been broken by one of their loggers.
- Reference
- Note from Alfred Bingham, original in accession file. "THIS AXE HEAD WAS FOUND IN 1920 / BY ALFRED BINGHAM ON THE PRESENT SITE / OF THE SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. IT PROBABLY / WAS USED BY AN EARLY LOGGER. WHO CUT DOWN / SOME OF THE GREAT TREES THAT GREW ON / BURNABY MOUNTAIN. HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. MANY OF THESE TREES WERE OVER 800 YEARS OLD / Alfred Bingham " hand written in ink on one face of note. "I bought 5 acres of stump land on the / corner of Sherlock, Duthie, & Kitchener Streets in / 1920. & cleared 2 acres & bilt small home, (store?) / my wife and I have lived in Burnaby continually since then / AB" hand written in ink on the reverse face of the note.
- Marks/Labels
- "1920 FOUND ON BURNABY MTN SITE S.F.U.", written in yellow chalk on one face of the axe head
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
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Logging camp
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription637
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1900]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 24 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of lumberjacks gathered together at the 'Second Camp East of Sperling' with residences visible in the background.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 24 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm
- Material Details
- Brush strokes (from application of emulsion) are visible
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of lumberjacks gathered together at the 'Second Camp East of Sperling' with residences visible in the background.
- Geographic Access
- Sperling Avenue
- Accession Code
- HV977.140.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1900]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/7/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in pencil on verso of card mount reads: "Second Camp East of Sperling" Index card found at BVM describes this image as "Logging camp, Gilley operations, east of Sperling" and dates it as 1904.
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Logging chute
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3522
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a logging chute and mill at an unidentified location.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a logging chute and mill at an unidentified location.
- Accession Code
- HV975.33.3aj
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1919]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2/2/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Image from personal photograph album of Tom "Tommy" Irvine (HV975.33.3)
Images
Logging truss
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3510
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a logging truss. Bark is visible on the piles used to construct the truss.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a logging truss. Bark is visible on the piles used to construct the truss.
- History
- Possibly Bloedel Stewart and Welch built a trestle over the Campbell River in Spring 1925. BS&W acquired a timber lease on the south side of the Campbell River in order to access operations at Sayward. This is now the site of the John Hart Hydro Dam.
- Subjects
- Industries - Forestry
- Accession Code
- HV975.33.3y
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1919]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2/2/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Image from personal photograph album of Tom "Tommy" Irvine (HV975.33.3)
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Looking down north Poleline Hill
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription796
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1908]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.32 x 25.4 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph looking north along the Pole Line Road (later Sperling Avenue). To the far left is Deer Lake and at the top right is Burnaby Lake. The smoke and debris from land clearing is a result of logging operations being carried out by the Doran Brothers logging company, the Deer Lake Mill Company…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.32 x 25.4 cm print
- Material Details
- inscribed in pencil, verso, l.l. "Looking down north Poleline Hill (now Sperling) Deer Lake at left. "
- Scope and Content
- Photograph looking north along the Pole Line Road (later Sperling Avenue). To the far left is Deer Lake and at the top right is Burnaby Lake. The smoke and debris from land clearing is a result of logging operations being carried out by the Doran Brothers logging company, the Deer Lake Mill Company. Above Deer Lake, Douglas Road is visible with Claude Hill's Brookfield property (later 6501 Deer Lake Avenue) on the south side of the road and Bernard Hill's home on the north side (later 4990 Canada Way). Just northeast of Brookfield is the George Every-Clayton farm (amongst the trees) on what would later become the Henry and Grace Ceperley estate grounds known as Fairacres. The house in the centre of the picture is the Walker house (later 5255 Sperling Avenue). Mountains can be seen to the north.
- Subjects
- Land Clearing
- Geographic Features - Roads
- Industries - Forestry
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Geographic Access
- Sperling Avenue
- Deer Lake
- Douglas Road
- Canada Way
- Accession Code
- HV976.139.47
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1908]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-27
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Maps of Canada Series - Forest Areas
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7532
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c1952
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Photograph
- Accession Code
- BV016.7.6
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Publisher
- National Film Board of Canada
- Publication Date
- c1952
- Physical Description
- 21 photographs : filmstrip ; cellulose aacetate, b&w pos.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Documentary Films
- Filmstrips
- Forests and forestry--Canada
- Object History
- Came in with Oakalla Prison records and artifacts in 1991. Filmstrip was utilized by staff and inmates of Oakalla. Digitized by BVM into preservation and accessible formats in 2020.
- Notes
- Filmstrip (illustrations and text) provides a brief synopsis identifying Canada's forest regions and species in the Maritime Provinces; Quebec; Ontario; Prarie Provinces; British Columbia and Northern Areas along with the "Value of Forest Products by Province - 1948".
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Mill
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3523
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph looks to be of a mill at an unidentified location.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph looks to be of a mill at an unidentified location.
- Accession Code
- HV975.33.3al
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1919]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2/2/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Image from personal photograph album of Tom "Tommy" Irvine (HV975.33.3)
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Old Curly at South Surrey
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4041
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1905] (date of original), copied 2016
- Collection/Fonds
- Robinson-Surgenor collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the steam locomotive known as "Old Curly" at rest in front of a treed lot in South Surrey. There are four men in the picture. William Surgenor is the man holding an oil can, standing second to the left. The other three men are unidentified. Smoke is pouring out of the locomotive's chi…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Robinson-Surgenor collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the steam locomotive known as "Old Curly" at rest in front of a treed lot in South Surrey. There are four men in the picture. William Surgenor is the man holding an oil can, standing second to the left. The other three men are unidentified. Smoke is pouring out of the locomotive's chimney.
- Other Title Information
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Subjects
- Transportation - Rail
- Transportation - Locomotives
- Geographic Features - Forests
- Industries - Forestry
- Accession Code
- BV016.52.4
- Access Restriction
- Restricted access
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1905] (date of original), copied 2016
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 10-Mar-15
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Scan of photograph negative
Images
Pile driver at work
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3497
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a pile driver building a structure in the middle of a recently logged area at an unidentified location.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a pile driver building a structure in the middle of a recently logged area at an unidentified location.
- History
- Liklely the Bloedel Stewart and Welch built a trestle over the Campbell River in Spring 1925. BS&W acquired a timber lease on the south side of the Campbell River in order to access operations at Sayward. This is now the site of the John Hart Hydro Dam.
- Accession Code
- HV975.33.3m
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1919]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2/2/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Image from personal photograph album of Tom "Tommy" Irvine (HV975.33.3)
Images
Recently logged area
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3509
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1919]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a recently logged area at an unidentified location.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a recently logged area at an unidentified location.
- Subjects
- Industries - Forestry
- Accession Code
- HV975.33.3x
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1919]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2/2/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Image from personal photograph album of Tom "Tommy" Irvine (HV975.33.3)
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Team of horses at logging site
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription636
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1890]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 27 x 36 cm, mounted on card 27 x 36 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a team of ten equine animals reined together in pairs at a logging site at Gilley Avenue. The pair in front looks to be a mule and a draft horse while all other pairs appear to be draft horses.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 27 x 36 cm, mounted on card 27 x 36 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a team of ten equine animals reined together in pairs at a logging site at Gilley Avenue. The pair in front looks to be a mule and a draft horse while all other pairs appear to be draft horses.
- Geographic Access
- Gilley Avenue
- Accession Code
- HV977.140.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1890]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/8/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Team of oxen
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription638
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1888]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 23cm, mounted on card 30 x 35 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a team of four oxen and their handler working near Kingsway on Gilley Avenue. A second lumberjack is resting on a log as the team moves past.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 19 x 23cm, mounted on card 30 x 35 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a team of four oxen and their handler working near Kingsway on Gilley Avenue. A second lumberjack is resting on a log as the team moves past.
- Geographic Access
- Gilley Avenue
- Accession Code
- HV977.140.3
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [1888]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/15/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Near Kingsway on Gilley Ave. about 1888"