John Archy "Archie" MacLeod fonds
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1973
- Collection/Fonds
- John Archy "Archie" MacLeod fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs documenting a team of BC Hydro bus drivers who travelled from London, Ontario to pick up new deisel buses which they drove back to Vancouver to join the B.C. transit fleet.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- John Archy "Archie" MacLeod fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 18 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs documenting a team of BC Hydro bus drivers who travelled from London, Ontario to pick up new deisel buses which they drove back to Vancouver to join the B.C. transit fleet.
- History
- John Archy MacLeod was born in Scotland in 1910 and married Isabella "Bella" McMorran in 1936. The couple lived in Coquitlam from 1953. Archie was employed as a bus driver for BC Hydro (formerly BC Electric) for 33 years. John was part of a team of BC Hydro bus drivers who travelled to London, Ontario to pick up eight new diesel buses to bring back to Vancouver in 1973. Archie retired in 1975 and died in 1990.
- Creator
- MacLeod, John Archy "Archie"
- Accession Code
- BV011.60
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1973
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Photographs were arranged and described as per their content and original order by the donor.
- Photographer
- MacLeod, John Archy "Archie"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds