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Bill Lewarne

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1929 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Mayor's Office fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Item No.: 204-054

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of young Bill (William) Lewarne in front of his grandparents' home, at Portland Street and McGregor Avenue. Bill Lewarne went on to become the Mayor of Burnaby, serving from 1981 to 1987. He also served as a member of Council from 1973 to 1975 and 1977 to 1981.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1929 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Mayor's Office fonds

Series: Pioneer Tales files

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 204-054

Accession Number: BHS988-3

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of young Bill (William) Lewarne in front of his grandparents' home, at Portland Street and McGregor Avenue. Bill Lewarne went on to become the Mayor of Burnaby, serving from 1981 to 1987. He also served as a member of Council from 1973 to 1975 and 1977 to 1981.

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Geographic Features - Roads

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Burnaby

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Bill Lewarne

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1973]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm

Item No.: 231-012

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill (William) Lewarne, taken in a studio and used as an official council photograph. He served as alderman on council from 1973 to 1975, and 1977 to 1987 and as Mayor from 1981 to 1987.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1973]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library collection

Series: Burnaby Public Library photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 231-012

Accession Number: BHS989-22

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill (William) Lewarne, taken in a studio and used as an official council photograph. He served as alderman on council from 1973 to 1975, and 1977 to 1987 and as Mayor from 1981 to 1987.

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Officials - Alderman and Councillors

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Burnaby

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presentation of the book “Pioneer Tales” at the Edmonds Community Centre

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [June 2, 1987]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : colour ; 13.5 cm x 10.0 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph taken at the presentation of the book “Pioneer Tales” at the Edmonds Community Centre June 2,1987. Caption on original matte read: "Edmonds Community Centre for the Retired. Presentation of "Pioneer Tales of Burnaby", to Grace Pletcher, (nee Smith) by Mayor Bill Lewarne.".

Administrative History: Donated by the Burnaby Historical Society.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : colour ; 13.5 cm x 10.0 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph taken at the presentation of the book “Pioneer Tales” at the Edmonds Community Centre June 2,1987. Caption on original matte read: "Edmonds Community Centre for the Retired. Presentation of "Pioneer Tales of Burnaby", to Grace Pletcher, (nee Smith) by Mayor Bill Lewarne.".

Administrative History: Donated by the Burnaby Historical Society.

Creator: [unknown]

Other Title Information: Title based on content of photograph.

Names: Burnaby Historical Society; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Geographic Access: Burnaby - 7433 Edmonds St

Accession Code: BV017.32.11

Date: [June 2, 1987]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Edmonds Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 06-Mar-2018

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Delegation from Burnaby's sister city Kushiro

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: June 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24.5 cm

Item No.: 480-323

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mayor Bill Lewarne standing with the delegation from Burnaby's sister city Kushiro to present a sports award trophy.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: June 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-323

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mayor Bill Lewarne standing with the delegation from Burnaby's sister city Kushiro to present a sports award trophy.

Photographer: Hodge, Craig

Subjects: Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "Pacific Bridge / Delegation from Bby Sister City Kushiro present trophy for sports award/ June 1982"

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

Date Range: 1926-1989

Length: 00:10:22

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

Date Range: 1926-1989

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:10:22

Subject: Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Business

Geographic Access: Burnaby - Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

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Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_1

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 3

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about the interurban tram service in Burnaby, how it was used, the interurban routes, reasons for closing the interurban and later building Skytrain, and attempts to purchase an old tram car for Heritage Village

Date Range: 1930-1990

Length: 00:07:58

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about the interurban tram service in Burnaby, how it was used, the interurban routes, reasons for closing the interurban and later building Skytrain, and attempts to purchase an old tram car for Heritage Village

Date Range: 1930-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:07:58

Subject: Transportation - Electric Railroads; Transportation - Skytrain

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

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Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_3

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track three of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s memory of burning sawdust to heat the family home and the “fog” [smog] created by burning wood and wood waste in homes and in sawmill bee hive burners

Date Range: 1930-1945

Length: 00:02:27

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s memory of burning sawdust to heat the family home and the “fog” [smog] created by burning wood and wood waste in homes and in sawmill bee hive burners

Date Range: 1930-1945

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:02:27

Subject: Buildings - Residences - Houses; Saw Milling

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_4

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track four of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 5

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about acquiring and maintaining streetcars for Burnaby Heritage Village

Date Range: 1970-1990

Length: 00:01:29

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about acquiring and maintaining streetcars for Burnaby Heritage Village

Date Range: 1970-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:01:29

Subject: Transportation - Electric Railroads; Artifacts

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_5

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track five of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 6

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory446

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s war service, education, joining father’s business, and expansion of ice cream business into refrigerated warehouses

Date Range: 1944-1990

Length: 00:03:58

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s war service, education, joining father’s business, and expansion of ice cream business into refrigerated warehouses

Date Range: 1944-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:03:58

Subject: Education; Occupations - Entrepreneurs

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_6

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track six of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 7

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory447

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s discussion of the attitudes, energy and time commitment required for operating a seasonal business and needed for politics. He mentions the Nelson Avenue family home, still lived in by his mother

Date Range: 1937-1990

Length: 00:05:53

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s discussion of the attitudes, energy and time commitment required for operating a seasonal business and needed for politics. He mentions the Nelson Avenue family home, still lived in by his mother

Date Range: 1937-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:05:53

Subject: Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Officials - Elected Officials

Geographic Access: Burnaby - Nelson Avenue

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

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Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_7

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track seven of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 9

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory449

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about how Bill Lewarne got involved in politics and some of the people he worked with: Charles Walburn, Nora Code, Ray Weir, Richie Smith and Dugald Patterson

Date Range: 1965-1990

Length: 00:09:43

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about how Bill Lewarne got involved in politics and some of the people he worked with: Charles Walburn, Nora Code, Ray Weir, Richie Smith and Dugald Patterson

Date Range: 1965-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:09:43

Subject: Elections

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

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Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_9

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track nine of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 10

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory450

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Burnaby and New Westminster May Days and how geography and poor transportation affects municipal east-west and north-south connections

Date Range: 1930-1990

Length: 00:05:53

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Burnaby and New Westminster May Days and how geography and poor transportation affects municipal east-west and north-south connections

Date Range: 1930-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:05:53

Subject: Events - May Day; Transportation

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

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Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_10

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track ten of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 11

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory451

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s early political career with Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and starting new political organization (BCA - Burnaby Citizens Association). He muses about how democracy works and the pros and cons of political life.

Date Range: 1965-1990

Length: 00:08:20

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s early political career with Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and starting new political organization (BCA - Burnaby Citizens Association). He muses about how democracy works and the pros and cons of political life.

Date Range: 1965-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:08:20

Subject: Elections

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_11

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track eleven of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 12

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory452

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s problems raising funds for his first political campaign without incurring favours, and the challenge of remaining nonpartisan in office

Date Range: 1965-1987

Length: 00:10:39

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s problems raising funds for his first political campaign without incurring favours, and the challenge of remaining nonpartisan in office

Date Range: 1965-1987

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:10:39

Subject: Elections; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_12

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track twelve of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 13

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory453

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s continued involvement with BTA on its Board, and his run for provincial office for Socreds in 1979 against Rosemary Brown

Date Range: 1979-1990

Length: 00:06:22

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s continued involvement with BTA on its Board, and his run for provincial office for Socreds in 1979 against Rosemary Brown

Date Range: 1979-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:06:22

Subject: Elections

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_13

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track thirteen of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 14

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory454

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s involvement in Burnaby organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation

Date Range: 1970-1990

Length: 00:09:06

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s involvement in Burnaby organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation

Date Range: 1970-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:09:06

Subject: Organizations; Persons - Volunteers

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_14

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track fourteen of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Burnaby at 100: Images and Voices

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivevideo64772

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1992

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (21 min., 59 sec.) : b&w, col., sd.

Item No.: 578-001

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Item is a VHS tape entitled “Burnaby at 100 / Images and Voices" produced by SFU. The video includes material drawn from the Burnaby Image Bank and participants in the Oral History project. An introduction is provided by SFU Archivist, Jim Ross with voice narration by Bill Lewarane, Merril Gordon a…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1992

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Video Project series

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 578-001

Accession Number: BHS2004-13

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (21 min., 59 sec.) : b&w, col., sd.

Material Details: Video Home System (VHS) tape

Media Type: Moving Images

Access Restriction: Open Access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Item is a VHS tape entitled “Burnaby at 100 / Images and Voices" produced by SFU. The video includes material drawn from the Burnaby Image Bank and participants in the Oral History project. An introduction is provided by SFU Archivist, Jim Ross with voice narration by Bill Lewarane, Merril Gordon and Ed Apps. Background music by "Solid Comfort" was recorded by Kurtis Vanel with additional footage by Chris Hildred.

Notes: Transcribed title

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Apps, Ed; Gordon, Merrill

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 2

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory442

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s parents’ history (Ethel Leer and Alfred Lewarne) and growing up in South Burnaby.

Date Range: 1893-1944

Length: 00:05:35

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Bill Lewarne’s parents’ history (Ethel Leer and Alfred Lewarne) and growing up in South Burnaby.

Date Range: 1893-1944

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:05:35

Name: Lewarne, Ethel Leer

Subject: Recreational Activities; Persons - Children

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_2

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track two of interview with Bill Lewarne

Images

Bill Lewarne with Ray Loewen

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45945

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 2, 1979

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22 cm

Item No.: 480-839

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Lewarne with Ray Loewen at a microphone. Bill Lewarne was a Burnaby council member from 1973 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1987, serving as Mayor from 1981 to 1987. Ray Loewen represented the provincial constituency of Burnaby-Edmonds from 1975 to 1979, and was at one time listed as t…

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 2, 1979

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-839

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 22 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Bill Lewarne with Ray Loewen at a microphone. Bill Lewarne was a Burnaby council member from 1973 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1987, serving as Mayor from 1981 to 1987. Ray Loewen represented the provincial constituency of Burnaby-Edmonds from 1975 to 1979, and was at one time listed as the seventeenth wealthiest person in Canada.

Photographer: Battistoni, Peter

Subjects: Officials - Elected Officials; Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Loewen, Raymond "Ray"; Social Credit Party of Canada; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on recto of photograph reads: "Ray Loewen was going to pin rose on Lewarne's lapel - stopped to check where pin was."

Images

Mayor Bill Lewarne, Jim Tonn and Michael Audain

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45386

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 20.5 cm

Item No.: 480-281

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne, Jim Tonn from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver), and the President of Polygon Michael Audain each with a shovel full of dirt at the ground breaking ceremony for Metrotown Place, the new headquaters for the Greater Vancouver Regio…

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-281

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 20.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne, Jim Tonn from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver), and the President of Polygon Michael Audain each with a shovel full of dirt at the ground breaking ceremony for Metrotown Place, the new headquaters for the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver).

Photographer: Battistoni, Peter

Subjects: Construction Tools and Equipment; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Tonn, Jim; Audain, Michael; Metro Vancouver

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Burnaby - 4330 Kingsway; Burnaby - Kingsway

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Mollie Horning, Jean Sharlow, Sally Hemming, Louisa Nicks and Mayor Bill Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45997

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1981 and 1987]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 23 cm

Item No.: 480-892

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne (right) after presenting awards at the annual meeting of the Burnaby Red Cross. On the far left, Mollie Horning, (looking towards the camera) received a distinguished service award; beside her is Jean Sharlow, the Burnaby Red Cross branch president and Dr. S…

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1981 and 1987]

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-892

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 23 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne (right) after presenting awards at the annual meeting of the Burnaby Red Cross. On the far left, Mollie Horning, (looking towards the camera) received a distinguished service award; beside her is Jean Sharlow, the Burnaby Red Cross branch president and Dr. Sally Hemming, Burnaby medical health officer; and standing next to the mayor is Louisa Nicks, who also received a distinguished serivce award.

Subjects: Ceremonies - Award Ceremonies; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Horning, Mollie; Sharlow, Jean; Hemming, Sally; Nicks, Louisa; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "RED CROSS AWARDS...Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne (right) presents awards at the annual meeting of the Burnaby Red Cross. From left to right: Mollie Horning, distinguished service award; Jea Sharlow, branch president; Dr. Sally Hemming, Burnaby medical health officer; and Louisa Nicks, distinguished serivce award."; Note on recto of photograph reads: "Mollie Horning - received distinguished service award / Jea Sharlow - branch pres. / Dr. Sally Hemming - medical health officer, Bby / Louisa Nicks - received DS award / Mayor Bill Lewarne."

Images

Vic Stusiak, Bill Lewarne and Rod Stewart

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45909

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 1976

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24 cm

Item No.: 480-803

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Voters Association alderman Vic Stusiak, Bill Lewarne and Rod Stewart standing beside a chalk board with election result updates written on it. All three men were elected alderman for the 1977 year.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 1976

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-803

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 14 x 24 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Voters Association alderman Vic Stusiak, Bill Lewarne and Rod Stewart standing beside a chalk board with election result updates written on it. All three men were elected alderman for the 1977 year.

Photographer: Hodge, Craig

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors

Names: Stusiak, Victor V. "Vic"; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Stewart, Roderick D "Rod"; Burnaby Voters Association

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "BVA candidates (from left) Vic Stusiak, Bill Lewarne and Rod Stewart led Burnaby's aldermanic race"

Geographic Access: Burnaby

Images

Elwood Veitch and Mayor William Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45303

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm

Item No.: 480-199

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elwood Veitch, then Minister of Tourism and Small Business Development being congratulated by Mayor William A. Lewarne. Elwood Veitch was the Social Credit Party of Canada's Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Burnaby-Willingdon from 1975 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1991. …

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-199

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 19 x 24 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Elwood Veitch, then Minister of Tourism and Small Business Development being congratulated by Mayor William A. Lewarne. Elwood Veitch was the Social Credit Party of Canada's Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Burnaby-Willingdon from 1975 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1991. Mayor William Lewarne served on Burnaby Council from 1973 to 1975, 1977 to 1987, and served as Mayor from 1981 to 1987.

Photographer: Hodge, Craig

Subjects: Government - Provincial Government

Names: Veitch, Elwood N. "Slim"; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Social Credit Party of Canada

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45750

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-644

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking. An unidentified man is standing in the background, listening to them.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-644

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking. An unidentified man is standing in the background, listening to them.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45751

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-645

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-645

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45752

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-646

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking. An unidentified man is standing in the background, listening to them and smiling.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-646

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, talking. An unidentified man is standing in the background, listening to them and smiling.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Mayor Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45754

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-648

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing together, talking. Two unidentified men are standing with them, smiling. Two photographers are also partially visible behind Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, and are taking photographs.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-648

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing together, talking. Two unidentified men are standing with them, smiling. Two photographers are also partially visible behind Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, and are taking photographs.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45757

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-651

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV speaking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. A photographer is visible in the background, waiting for his flash to recharge.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-651

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV speaking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. A photographer is visible in the background, waiting for his flash to recharge.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45758

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-652

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, smiling. Two unidentified men are standing with them, wearing sunglasses.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-652

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, smiling. Two unidentified men are standing with them, wearing sunglasses.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45759

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-653

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV speaking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-653

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV speaking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45760

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-654

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-654

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45761

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-655

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. Both men are looking at something that is out of view.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-655

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. Both men are looking at something that is out of view.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Mayor Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45762

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-656

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing together, talking. A man with a television camera is visible in the backround, filming them.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-656

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV standing together, talking. A man with a television camera is visible in the backround, filming them.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV visits BC

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45765

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-659

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified people shaking hands, with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-659

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified people shaking hands, with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45766

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-660

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer is partially visible standing behind the mayor.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-660

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV shaking hands with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer is partially visible standing behind the mayor.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV visits BC

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45768

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-662

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne shaking hands with an unidentified man. Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV is standing nearby.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-662

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne shaking hands with an unidentified man. Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV is standing nearby.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45772

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-666

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV walking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne down carpeted stairs outdoors.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-666

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV walking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne down carpeted stairs outdoors.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Mayor Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45779

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-673

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV walking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne down carpeted stairs outdoors.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-673

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV walking with Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne down carpeted stairs outdoors.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 8

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Burnaby going into receivership and as a stronghold for socialists. Bill Lewarne describes the contributions of Ernie and Harold Winch

Date Range: 1930-1990

Length: 00:06:53

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Burnaby going into receivership and as a stronghold for socialists. Bill Lewarne describes the contributions of Ernie and Harold Winch

Date Range: 1930-1990

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:06:53

Name: Pritchard, William A.; Winch, Ernest "Ernie"; Winch, Harold

Subject: Government

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-019_Track_8

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track eight of interview with Bill Lewarne

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Interview with Don Brown by Rod Fowler February 26, 1990 - Track 11

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s service as Alderman (1979-1985), his support for Bill Copeland in 1987 and conflicts with Mayor Bill Lewarne, and some of the issues he dealt with such as illegal suites, density planning and highrises for Hastings

Date Range: 1979-1990

Length: 00:09:05

1 Audio 1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s service as Alderman (1979-1985), his support for Bill Copeland in 1987 and conflicts with Mayor Bill Lewarne, and some of the issues he dealt with such as illegal suites, density planning and highrises for Hastings

Date Range: 1979-1990

Photo Info: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Don Brown, November 2, 1997. Item no. 535-0979

Length: 00:09:05

Name: Copeland, William J; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Subject: Officials - Aldermen and Councillors; Planning; Elections

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 26, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Don Brown, conducted by Rod Fowler. Don Brown was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Don Brown’s description of the changes in Burnaby’s built and natural landscapes and socioeconomic conditions, especially between 1947 and 1975, the strong impression made on him by those changes evident in the interview. He talks about his work and career as a police officer with the Burnaby Provincial Police and RCMP. The interview also details his involvement in Burnaby politics and volunteer community groups. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Donald Neil “Don” Brown was born in Birmingham, England May 4, 1919, and immigrated with his parents and siblings to Winnipeg in 1922. At the outbreak of WWII Don Brown left high school and enlisted in the 12th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, serving six years in the army. Before going overseas he married Helen Birch in 1939. In 1947 Don Brown joined the B.C. Provincial Police which was absorbed by the RCMP in 1950. He worked as a police officer in Burnaby from 1947 to 1954, and then was transferred to Ottawa (with a stop in Regina) for nine and a half years where he attended Carleton University to study forensics. In 1963 Don Brown was transferred back to Vancouver and bought and moved into a house on Watling Street in Burnaby where he still lived in 1990. Another transfer took him to Edmonton for five years, returning to Burnaby in 1975. Following retirement in 1980 with the rank of Supervisor and after 22 years in forensic laboratories, Don Brown started his own business as a private document examiner. Don Brown was active in Burnaby politics, serving as Alderman from 1979-1985. He was also involved in many community groups including the South Burnaby Men’s Club, which he helped found in 1952, as well as active in the Burnaby Historical Society, and served on the Burnaby School Board, Burnaby Centennial Committee, and the Community College for the Retired. Don and Helen Brown had six children: Donna, Don, Gina, Patricia, Christopher and Susan. Don Brown died May 16, 2009.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 01:35:07

Other Tracks: View All Tracks

Interviewee Name: Brown, Don

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-016_Track_11

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track eleven of interview with Don Brown

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV visits BC

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45769

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-663

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah, her husband, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, smiling. The Aides-de-camp to the Lieutenant-Governor (an appointed from officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wearing dress uniform with a g…

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-663

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah, her husband, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing together, smiling. The Aides-de-camp to the Lieutenant-Governor (an appointed from officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police wearing dress uniform with a gold aiguillette) is partially visible standing behind them.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Her Highness Begum Salimah; Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

June Lewarne with her husband and the Aga Khan IV

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45774

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-668

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people walking down carpeted stairs, outdoors. June (Lawrence) Lewarne is visible in front with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV (left) and June's husband, Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne directly behind her. The other individuals are unidentified.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-668

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people walking down carpeted stairs, outdoors. June (Lawrence) Lewarne is visible in front with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV (left) and June's husband, Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne directly behind her. The other individuals are unidentified.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Lewarne, June Lawrence

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Her Highness Begum Salimah

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-670

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah shaking hands with an unidentified woman. Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne are standing next to them.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-670

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah shaking hands with an unidentified woman. Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne are standing next to them.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Her Highness Begum Salimah; Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

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Pacific Vocational Institute 5th Anniversary Celebration

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 24.5 cm

Item No.: 480-325

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Pacific Vocational Institute's 5th Anniversary Celebration held at the campus in Burnaby. Grant Wardlaw, Les Bedford, Pacific Vocational Institute head chef Bert Phillips, Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne, Dewdney Member of Legislative Assembly George Mussallem and Pacific Vocational In…

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-325

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 24.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Pacific Vocational Institute's 5th Anniversary Celebration held at the campus in Burnaby. Grant Wardlaw, Les Bedford, Pacific Vocational Institute head chef Bert Phillips, Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne, Dewdney Member of Legislative Assembly George Mussallem and Pacific Vocational Institute board chairman T. Wyman Trineer each have a hand on the cake knife, and are about to cut into the large anniversary cake together, as two other men look on. In 1986, the Pacific Vocational Institute merged with the British Columbia Institute of Technology and remains a part of that institution to the present.

Photographer: King, Basil

Subjects: Celebrations

Names: British Columbia Institute of Technology; Wardlaw, Grant; Bedford, Les; Phillips, Bert; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Mussallem, George; Trineer, T. Wyman

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "...CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY ... Sharing the cake-... ...ting honours at Pacific Vocational Institute's fifth anniver... ... celebration held at the Burnaby campus April 7 are, from left, Grant Wardlaw, Les Bedford, PVI head chef Bert Phillips, Burnaby Mayor Bill Lewarne, Dewdney MLA George Mussallem and PVI board chairman Wyman Tryneer."

Geographic Access: Burnaby - 3700 Willingdon Avenue; Burnaby - Willingdon Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

Images

Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-657

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving smiling at someone off camera, with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and his wife Her Highness Begum Salimah, and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby. A man with a television camera is visible in the background, filming.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-657

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving smiling at someone off camera, with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and his wife Her Highness Begum Salimah, and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby. A man with a television camera is visible in the background, filming.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Officials - Lieutenant Governors

Names: Bell-Irving, Henry P "Budge"; Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Her Highness Begum Salimah; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving and Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45764

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-658

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving speaking with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, with Her Highness Begum Salimah, and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-658

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving speaking with Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, with Her Highness Begum Salimah, and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne standing nearby.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Officials - Lieutenant Governors

Names: Bell-Irving, Henry P "Budge"; Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Her Highness Begum Salimah; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Her Highness Begum Salimah with June Lewrane

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45773

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Item No.: 480-667

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah walking next to June (Lawrence) Lewarne (right). Their husbands, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne (right) are visible directly behind them. The four are walking down carpeted stairs, outdoors.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-667

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Her Highness Begum Salimah walking next to June (Lawrence) Lewarne (right). Their husbands, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV and Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne (right) are visible directly behind them. The four are walking down carpeted stairs, outdoors.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Lewarne, June Lawrence; Her Highness Begum Salimah

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Images

Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV visits BC

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto45778

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Item No.: 480-672

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people standing on stage. Included in the group are; Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne, unidentified, Nancy Bell-Irving, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving, Her Highness Begum Salimah, unidentified, unidentified.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: July 1982

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-672

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16.5 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people standing on stage. Included in the group are; Burnaby Mayor William A. Lewarne, unidentified, Nancy Bell-Irving, Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, Lieutenant-Governor Henry Bell-Irving, Her Highness Begum Salimah, unidentified, unidentified.

Photographer: Braid, Tom

Subjects: Events - Royal Visits; Officials - Lieutenant Governors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Bell-Irving, Nancy; Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV; Bell-Irving, Henry P "Budge"; Her Highness Begum Salimah

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: British Columbia

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Burnaby Voters Association elected candidates

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivephoto46285

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 20, 1979

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.5 x 24 cm

Item No.: 480-1173

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Voters Association elected candidates; Don Brown, Doreen Lawson, Dave Mercier, Charles Archibald, Vic Stusiak, Gary Begin and Bill Lewarne standing together in front of Burnaby's election results, most of whom have their hands raised in the sign for victory.

1 Image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: November 20, 1979

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Item No.: 480-1173

Accession Number: 2003-02

Storage Location: A/V Storage

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.5 x 24 cm

Media Type: Photograph

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content: Photograph of Burnaby Voters Association elected candidates; Don Brown, Doreen Lawson, Dave Mercier, Charles Archibald, Vic Stusiak, Gary Begin and Bill Lewarne standing together in front of Burnaby's election results, most of whom have their hands raised in the sign for victory.

Photographer: Hodge, Craig

Subjects: Officials - Alderman and Councillors; Officials - Mayors and Reeves; Officials - Elected Officials

Names: Brown, Donald N. "Don"; Lawson, Doreen A.; Mercier, David M "Dave"; Archibald, Charles; Stusiak, Victor V. "Vic"; Begin, Gary; Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Burnaby Voters Association

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on recto of photograph reads: "BVA Slate elected"; Note on verso of photograph identifies each individual

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Interview with Kay Zimmerman by Rod Fowler [February] 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Kay Zimmerman’s description of the two established political parties in Burnaby in the 1960’s (NPA and BCA) and the founding of a new nonpartisan political group, the Burnaby Voters Association (BVA). She talks about the issues of interest at that time, includ…

Date Range: 1960-1970

Length: 00:05:10

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Kay Zimmerman’s description of the two established political parties in Burnaby in the 1960’s (NPA and BCA) and the founding of a new nonpartisan political group, the Burnaby Voters Association (BVA). She talks about the issues of interest at that time, including development pressures, need to represent local community interests, the environment, and plans for a new university on Burnaby Mountain

Date Range: 1960-1970

Photo Info: Kay Zimmerman, [1973]. Item no. 231-021

Length: 00:05:10

Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"; Stusiak, Victor V. "Vic"; Burnaby Citizen's Association; Burnaby Voters Association; Simon Fraser University

Subject: Elections; Organizations; Government - Local Government

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: [February] 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Kay Zimmerman, conducted by Rod Fowler. Kay Zimmerman was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Kay Zimmerman’s political activities in Burnaby and her description of her Lochdale neighbourhood in the 1960s. She provides an excellent overview of the municipal political groups and important political issues in Burnaby from 1960 to 1980. She tells the story about an early and successful political action that convinced her that an individual can make a difference. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Kathleen “Kay” Zimmerman, her husband Gordon and their young son Rick moved to Burnaby from Vancouver in 1960 to a house on Curtis Avenue near Duthie Street (a second son Bruce was born in Burnaby). Kay Zimmerman worked 12 years at Royal Columbian Hospital in the admitting office, then 4 years (1974-1979) as special assistant to Senator Ray Perrault, followed by work as a judge on the Citizenship Court before retiring. Gordon Zimmerman worked at the Shell Refinery. A member of the Liberal Party and political activist before arriving in Burnaby, Kay Zimmerman continued her involvement in national and local politics. She campaigned for Ray Perrault during the Trudeau years, and was a founder and active member of the Burnaby Voters Association (BVA). Her political activities encompassed 30 years that saw major changes in Burnaby, including the building of SFU, creation of Heritage Village, an awakening environmental sensibility, and a dramatic increase in population and development in Burnaby.

Total Tracks: 10

Total Length: 01:04:36

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Interviewee Name: Zimmerman, Kay

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Item No.: MSS187-018_Track_1

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

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Track one of interview with Kay Zimmerman

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 1

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 3

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 4

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 5

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 6

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 7

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 9

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 10

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 11

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 12

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 13

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 14

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Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 2

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