booklet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact36982
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV988.44.212
- Description
- Smokehouse Monthly - Booklet -- [1929]. A monthly magazine/booklet published by Fawcett Publications Incorporated in Minneapolis Minnisota, called "Smokehouse Monthly". This edition is Volume 2, Number 12, from January 1929. The booklet contains Hobo Ballads and Blowsy Humor. The front cover has an illustration of an outhouse at night time. The back cover advertises "Modern Mechanics and Inventions" magazine. The booklet cost 25 cents per edition or $2.50 for the year. The booklet measures 13cm x 19cm.
- Maker
- Fawcett Publications
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- Minnesota
- Site/City Made
- Minneapolis
- Title
- Smokehouse Monthly
Images
calendar card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact36390
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV983.9.51
- Description
- Calendar card for July 1925. It features an image of a mountain and a lake with a small white steamer in the foreground. The calendar advertises the Commercial Drive Garage Limited, in Vancouver. The card is copyright 1923 by Louis F. Dow Company of St. Paul, USA. It does say finished in Canada. The card is printed on blue stock, very faded on front face. Markings: GOING -TO-THE-SUN MOUNTAIN Regardless of when or where a car was bought or how much it cost it deserves understanding care at regular intervals. Consult us regularly and prolong the life of your car Commercial Drive Garage Ltd. VENABLES AND COMMERCIAL DRIVE Phone High 2179 Vancouver, B.C. 1925 JULY 1925
- Object History
- Object inherited by donor from the estate of his parents, Albert Vincent Scott and Myrtle Edna (Broderick) Scott.
- Measurements
- The measurements are: 10.2 cm by 23.6 cm.
- Maker
- Louis F. Dow Company
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- Minnesota
- Site/City Made
- St. Paul
- Patent Date
- Copyright 1923
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Advertising Medium
Images
calendar card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact36393
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV983.9.54
- Description
- Calendar card for October 1925. It features an image of a wide valley with a stream meandering through it. The calendar advertises the Commercial Drive Garage Limited, in Vancouver. The card is copyright 1923 by Louis F. Dow Company of St. Paul, USA. It does say finished in Canada. The card is printed on blue stock, very faded on front face. Markings: CONNECTICUT VALLEY Our storage space is large and is well heated during the winter months. Storage cost is small - rates by the day, week or month. Call us for further information Commercial Drive Garage Ltd. VENABLES AND COMMERCIAL DRIVE Phone High 2179 Vancouver, B.C. 1925 OCTOBER 1925
- Object History
- Object inherited by donor from the estate of his parents, Albert Vincent Scott and Myrtle Edna (Broderick) Scott.
- Measurements
- The measurements are: 10.2 cm by 23.6 cm.
- Maker
- Louis F. Dow Company
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- Minnesota
- Site/City Made
- St. Paul
- Patent Date
- Copyright 1923
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Advertising Medium
Images
![Football player Marek Seta, [2005] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1869-2.jpg?width=280)
Football player Marek Seta
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96172
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2005]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Marek Seta. Seta is posing with a football on STM's football field and wearing a University of Minnesota at Duluth T-shirt.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2005]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-1869
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Marek Seta. Seta is posing with a football on STM's football field and wearing a University of Minnesota at Duluth T-shirt.
- Subjects
- Sports - Football
- Persons - Students
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a January 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "St. Thomas More running back Marek Seta has decided he'll be playing his college football at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, beginning next Fall."
- Geographic Access
- 12th Avenue
- Street Address
- 7450 12th Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Edmonds Area
Images
![Football player Marek Seta, [2005] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-1869-2.jpg)
Gillis family fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66689
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914-1940 (date of originals), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- Gillis family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of scanned photographs of the members of the Gillis family.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914-1940 (date of originals), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- Gillis family fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (jpeg)
- Material Details
- Records exist only in electronic format
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2011-10
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of scanned photographs of the members of the Gillis family.
- History
- Duncan Gillis was born on March 25, 1892, in Vancouver, B.C., to James Gillis and Isabelle (Adams) Gillis. He had four older siblings: Isabel, Allan, James, and Marion. Duncan died on April 2, 1985, in Kamloops, B.C. James and Isabelle were from New Brunswick and lived in Minnesota for a time, which is where the three oldest children were born, and then came to British Columbia and pioneered in Yennadon (Maple Ridge) in 1890. Florence Ethel Denton was born on December 9, 1894, in Vancouver, B.C. to Edwin Denton and Elizabeth Anne (Zinn) Denton. She had three siblings: John, Edwin, and Beatrice. Florence died on February 28, 1962, in Kamloops, B.C. Edwin Denton was born in England and met Elizabeth in Ohio were she was born. They were married in 1890 in Vancouver. Florence’s older brother, John Montague Denton, was born on August 7, 1892. He enlisted on October 6, 1915, as part of the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment) 72nd Batalion and was killed in France on November 1, 1916, at the age of 24. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Duncan married Florence on June 27, 1914, in Eburne, B.C. Florence was the first schoolteacher at the newly built school in Yennadon (Maple Ridge), which was built by Duncan’s father James in 1913. This is how they met. Duncan was working as a carpenter and saw filer before enlisting on January 8, 1916, at the age of 23. He served overseas and was captured as a prisoner of war (POW) for a time. When Duncan returned to Canada, he and Florence had three sons: Boyd Leslie “Bud” born on January 7, 1920; Norman Montague born on August 20, 1921; and Donald Allan Gillis born on February 23, 1923. They raised their family in Burnaby, B.C., and lived there until 1960, then moving to Kamloops, B.C. Bud served overseas as a Flying Officer (Wireless Gunner) during World War II for the 428 (RCAF) Squadron. He was on his fifteenth operation and took part in the raid on Aachem on the night of July 13 (14), 1943, when the plane was shot down over Holland. It was later determined that he had been captured as a POW at Stalag 6 and wasn’t released until May 14, 1945, returning home in August of 1945. He married Mary Irene Thoen and had five children: James, Steven, Donna, Gregory, and Pamela. Boyd was also a carpenter and saw filer and had a saw shop in Kamloops where he raised his family. He also enjoyed woodworking in his spare time and built three airplanes. Boyd died in 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta. Norman Montague served overseas as a Flight Engineer Sergeant during World War II for the 138 RCAF Squadron. His plane crashed in the woods while attempting to land at RAF Woodridge, England, returning from an operational flight. He was pronounced dead on admission to hospital, December 17, 1943, at the age of 22. He is buried in Rushden Cemetery, Northamptonshire, England. Donald served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve during World War II. He enlisted on May 9, 1942, and was a Signalman on a Corvette in the Atlantic. In 1944, after hearing of the loss of his two older brothers, the RCNR moved him to the Pacific, where he was until November 9, 1945. He married May Yule Ferrier and had two children, Robert and Barbara. Donald graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1951 with a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering. He worked for the City of Burnaby for five years and for the Greater Vancouver Regional District for 32 years, while living in Burnaby, B.C. and raising his family. He retired to the Sunshine Coast, Halfmoon Bay, B.C. in 1988, where he still lives today.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- Gillis family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Photo catalogue 524
Knight family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64497
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- History
- Milton "Milt" Waller Knight was born in Canada circa 1904. His wife Virginia Harrington was born in Duluth, Minnesota circa 1905 and lived most of her life in Canada. Virginia was the first person in British Columbia to breed budgies when she began in 1932 and by 1939 she and her husband created the first crested budgie in the world. By 1942, Virginia was also housing two-hundred and fifty birds at the home of her mother, Mrs. N.M. Herington, which was located at 1775 West 13th Avenue in Burnaby. Milton and Virginia Knight moved into their own home during the war years but, as they could not get their large aviary moved, they were forced to sell their crested birds. When they started up in their birds again, they obtained some of their crested back. By 1948 they had created two types of crested: those with a miniature cockatiel crest and those with a crest like a crested canary. By 1950 they had created the crested in over twelve colours of budgie, including cobalt and yellow-wing greens. The Knights lived together at 3718 Sperling Avenue (later renumbered 5255 Sperling Avenue) and opened Lakeview Aviaries on their one acre property at Deer Lake where Virginia specialized in budgies (Budgerigars) and bred the first albino in Canada and the first crested variety in the world. She kept Java rice birds, button quail, red factor canaries, cockatiels, finches, love birds and twelve varieties of budgerigar. She was a member of the British Columbia Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society. The facilities at Lakeview Aviaries included two heated aviary cages and three outdoor flight cages constructed by Milton. Lakeview housed the only "hospital" facilities in the city for cage birds, which featured an electrically heated, thermostatically controlled hospital cage. Virginia, known in the community as “the Bird Doctor” nursed many sick birds back to health free of charge for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or SPCA. The Knights often donated their trained birds to sick and injured children, for Virginia believed, “Budgies do wonders for the kiddies. They make them forget their troubles and of course a happy mental outlook is a definite aid to better physical health.” The couple’s personal pets included eight different types of parrot, three talking budgies, a dancing bare-eyes cockatoo, three talking cockatiel, and “Hoppy” her pet owl. By 1952, they had a toucan and a macaw as pets. In later years, they added two small dogs. By 1965, Milton had over 25 years of service as a truck driver at the Vancouver Service Department. He was also an avid collector of antique watches and clocks. He reconditioned the timepieces, systematically restoring them to their original condition. He was a member of the National Association of Clock and Watch Collectors. Milt also treasured old music boxes and restored their large metal discs and rolls to “as new” condition. Milton Knight died March 7, 1966 at 62 years of age. Virginia Knight lived alone at 5755 Sperling Avenue after her husband’s death and continued her work at the Lakeview Aviary where she “doctored 700-800 [birds] a year free of charge (except medicine) and gave SPCA donations up to $1000 a year.” Virginia Knight passed away November 10, 1987 at 82 years of age.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Knight, Milton
- Knight, Virginia
- Notes
- MSS117, PC510
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
Municipal Participation in URISA Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1982 August 22 - 25
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport18344
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 2691
- Meeting Date
- 21-Jun-1982
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 41
- Item No.
- 10
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 2691
- Meeting Date
- 21-Jun-1982
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 41
- Item No.
- 10
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
National Conference on Volunteerism - Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1980 October 12 to 15
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport19593
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 1414
- Meeting Date
- 29-Sep-1980
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 60
- Item No.
- 10
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Report ID
- 1414
- Meeting Date
- 29-Sep-1980
- Format
- Council - Manager's Report
- Manager's Report No.
- 60
- Item No.
- 10
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
Documents
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5860
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
Images
Digital Books
Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription18930
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1921]-1959
- Collection/Fonds
- Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs + 1p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, documents and architectural plans regarding the Oasis Tea Garden and Tourist Camp and a photograph of Burnaby Reeve Alexander K. McLean. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) Ray Raymer photograph collection series 2) Ray Raymer business records series
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Roy Bernard Raymer fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs + 1p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs, documents and architectural plans regarding the Oasis Tea Garden and Tourist Camp and a photograph of Burnaby Reeve Alexander K. McLean. Fonds is arranged in series: 1) Ray Raymer photograph collection series 2) Ray Raymer business records series
- History
- Roy Bernard Raymer (1915-1991) is the son of Harvey Connor Raymer (1885-1937) and Bernice Mildred McFarland. The family owned and operated the Oasis Tourist Cabins on Kingsway. The family moved to Minnesota temporarily and then finally settled in Burnaby in 1921. The family bought their property at 2675 Kingsway (later 6111 Kingsway) and started first a roadside stand called "Golden Rule Table Supply" that sold milk, eggs, etc that came from the family's cows, chicken, etc on the property. From the roadside stand the family progressed to a larger building, a restaurant and store complex. Added to this was a "free campground" where visitors could pitch tents and become customers for the store and resturant. The campground eventually became British Columbia's first motel when ten "tourist cabins" were built on the property. Roy and his brother Max Raymer (1917-1935) attended Edmonds East School in the 1920s. By the late 1920s, the restaurant had expanded to include a dance floor section and it became one of the Lower Mainland's favorite night spots. The new complex was renamed as "The Oasis". In the 1930s, a gasoline retailing outlet was added which became one of Greater Vancouver's largest volume outlets. After the death of his brother, Max at age 18 in 1935 and his father, Harvey in 1937, Roy and his mother Bernice ran the business. After the death of his mother, Bernice in 1951, Roy leased the property for revenue. In 1955, Roy married Ingeborg Haacke and lived on the Kingsway acre and raised a family of four children. For a time they operated the property as "the Oasis Donut Drive-In". In 1964, the property was sold and the family moved to Government Road. Roy Bernard Raymer died in 1991.
- Responsibility
- Raymer, Roy Bernard
- Accession Code
- HV977.121
- Date
- [1921]-1959
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Architectural Drawing
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
Watkins cookbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3899
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Allen, Elaine, 1889-1973
- Publication Date
- c1938
- Call Number
- 641.5973 WAT Ver. 2
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV006.19.1
- Call Number
- 641.5973 WAT Ver. 2
- Author
- Allen, Elaine, 1889-1973
- Place of Publication
- Winona, Minn.
- Publisher
- J. R. Watkins Company
- Publication Date
- c1938
- Physical Description
- 288 p. : [1] leaves of col. plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Watkins / Cook / Book / The J. R. WATKINS Co. / WINONA, MINN." printed in black on cover. "WATKINS / Cook Book / PRICE $1.50 / Copyright 1938, By The J. R. Watkins Company / THE J. R. WATKINS COMPANY / WINONA, MINNESOTA, U.S.A.", printed on face page inside cover.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cooking, American
- Cookbooks--1930-1939
- Object History
- From a Burnaby resident. Watkins products were sold in the area. A regional office was located in Vancouver.
- Notes
- "Price $1.50"-- title page