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Lillian and her mother Jenny
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77821
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing outside.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-054
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing outside.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "1946"
Images
Mother and Tommy at 2748 Elgin Avenue
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36978
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1941 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.3 x 12.2 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Martha Brawn and her oldest son, Tommy, at the family home at 2748 Elgin Avenue (old street number).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1941 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.3 x 12.2 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 315-436
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1994-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Martha Brawn and her oldest son, Tommy, at the family home at 2748 Elgin Avenue (old street number).
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption on photograph
- Geographic Access
- Elgin Avenue
- Street Address
- 6449 Elgin Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Windsor Area
Images
Napier Street and Willingdon Avenue
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34223
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- July 10, 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 6.8 x 11.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Napier Street and Willingdon Avenue with lumber scattered on a cleared area and houses in the background. There are vehicles on the road, including a truck whose side reads "Mother Hubbard Bread" and machinery reading "G.W. Ledingham, Contractors." This is part of the Willingdon Hei…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- July 10, 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Alfred Bingham subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 6.8 x 11.4 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 010-138
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Napier Street and Willingdon Avenue with lumber scattered on a cleared area and houses in the background. There are vehicles on the road, including a truck whose side reads "Mother Hubbard Bread" and machinery reading "G.W. Ledingham, Contractors." This is part of the Willingdon Heights subdivision site.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bingham, Alfred "Alf"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Napier Street
- Willingdon Avenue
Images
Allen family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription36794
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1940 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.4 x 12.3 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Allen family mother and daughters in front of a blossoming tree. Left to right: Pat, Marjorie (mother) and Stephanie. This photograph was taken at their home at 3976 McGill Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1940 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.4 x 12.3 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 315-251
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1994-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Allen family mother and daughters in front of a blossoming tree. Left to right: Pat, Marjorie (mother) and Stephanie. This photograph was taken at their home at 3976 McGill Street.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- McGill Street
- Street Address
- 3976 McGill Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
Images
Gordon Presbyterian Church fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97220
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1950 (date of originals); 2012
- Collection/Fonds
- Gordon Presbyterian Church fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 9 photograph : col ; 10 x 15 cm.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs created by members of the Gordon Presbyterian Church that depict the Church and district as well as events and activities undertaken by or for church groups. Included in the fonds are photographs taken at the Church's one hundredth anniversary event.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912-1950 (date of originals); 2012
- Collection/Fonds
- Gordon Presbyterian Church fonds
- Physical Description
- 9 photograph : col ; 10 x 15 cm.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2013-12
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs created by members of the Gordon Presbyterian Church that depict the Church and district as well as events and activities undertaken by or for church groups. Included in the fonds are photographs taken at the Church's one hundredth anniversary event.
- History
- In November 1911, a small group of people met at Morton Hall on Edmonds Street, Burnaby, to organize a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. David J. Gordon, a student from Westminster Hall Theological College, was in charge. By 1912, a building was erected on two lots and named the Gordon Presbyterian Church. A new sanctuary was built in 1956 and, due to the increase in the congregation, a Christan Education Centre was added in 1974. The longest minister to serve the congregation was Reverend George Philps and his wife Margaret. After 21 years, he retired in 1987. In April of 1988, Reverend Charles Scott began serving. Six months later, a fire broke out in the centre portion of the complex. For many months, while reconstruction continued, worship services were held at the Edmonds Community Centre for the Retired. In 2001, Reverend Cal MacLeod and his wife Robin joined the congregation. Mrs. Marie Douglas, wife of retired minister Reverend R. J. Douglas and mother of missionary to India, Ellen Douglas, started the first Women’s Missionary Auxiliary in 1932. The Ladies Aid Societies were an active force in the Gordon Presbyterian Church. In 1957, the original Ladies Aid became known as the Margaret Hall Circle, named after Margaret Philps’ mother, who had been an active member. For many years, the COC, Explorers and CGIT were very active and Sunday School classes have been in operation since the beginning.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- Gordon Presbyterian Church
- Notes
- Title based on content of fonds
- PC 555
Montgomery family fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77525
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927-1962
- Collection/Fonds
- Montgomery family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 21 photographs : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists mainly of photographs taken outside the Cunningham house which depict members of both the Montgomery and Cunningham families.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927-1962
- Collection/Fonds
- Montgomery family fonds
- Physical Description
- 21 photographs : b&w
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2013-09
- 2013-04
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists mainly of photographs taken outside the Cunningham house which depict members of both the Montgomery and Cunningham families.
- History
- Samuel Clifford “Monty” Montgomery was born on July 24, 1894, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied Mechanical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal before serving in World War I. After the war, Monty came out west to Vancouver. Marjorie Elizabeth Carpenter was born on May 5, 1900, in Montreal, Quebec. She studied to be a teacher before moving out west with her sister Mildred Carpenter, brother Harold Carpenter, and widowed mother Claire Carpenter in 1920. Marjorie trained to be a nurse from 1920 to 1923 when she moved to Hawaii with her sister and mother. While living in separate countries, Monty and Marjorie courted through correspondence. On July 16, 1927, Monty and Marjorie were married in Hawaii. The couple had two daughters, Margery Kathleen “Kathleen” Montgomery (later Green) born in 1928 and Janet Montgomery (later Fernau) born in 1934. Monty met Fred Cunningham when they were young men. Monty is believed to have helped in the design of the Fred and Edna Cunningham house built in 1923 at 3555 Douglas Road in Burnaby. From 1926 to 1930, both Fred and Monty were working in Ocean Falls, British Columbia. Monty was working at a mill and Fred was an insurance agent. Marjorie (Carpenter) Montgomery was ill with tuberculosis during this time, so their only daughter at the time, Kathleen, was sent to live with Edna Cunningham in Burnaby from the spring of 1929 to the fall of 1930. Though the Montgomery family had settled in Rossland, British Columbia, they would make frequent trips to Vancouver to visit the Cunninghams. Kathleen met Lewis Green in Vancouver and on September 16, 1950, they were married. Their wedding reception was held at the Cunningham’s house. They lived most of their married lives in Vancouver, and each month Kathleen would visit her ‘Aunty’ Edna Cunningham. Janet would visit her ‘Aunty' Edna each week; later she moved permanently to the United Kingdom. The Cunningham and Montgomery families have remained close friends over generations.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- Montgomery family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Photo catalogue 554
Bancroft family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription63795
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Bancroft family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-44
- BHS2004-06
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the Bancroft family and friends and ephemera pertaining to agricultural farming and the air force.
- History
- Rose Croucher was born to Ann Eliza "Annie" (b. August 1861, d. 1962) and R. Coucher in January 1895. In 1907, the Croucher family moved to British Columbia. As a student, Rose studied geometrical drawing using Blair’s Canadian Drawing Series workbooks. On on February 21, 1914, Rose married James Oakes Bancroft in Vancouver, BC. Together they had three children: James A. (b. 1916 or 1917), Rosie (date unknown), and George E. (b. August 1927). The Bancroft family were poultry farmers throughout the early 1900s, transporting their farmed eggs from Burnaby to the Hudson’s Bay Company Vancouver using the British Columbia Electric Railway system. Rose Bancroft also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Park Poultry Co-op Association in the 1920s until her husband's death in 1930 at the age of 42. In the late thirties and early forties, while James A. Bancroft was stationed in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force, his younger siblings lived together with their mother and grandmother at 1963 21st Avenue in Burnaby. Rosie Bancroft studied French and English history in Social Studies in 1937; her brother George studied the seasons in General Science II in 1942. Rose died in 1965 at the age of 76.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Cartographic Material
- Creator
- Bancroft, Rose
- Notes
- MSS030, PC490, PC507, and MSS110
- Title based on creator and contents of subseries
Cram family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35711
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1944 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Cram family. From left: Mrs. Alice Tidball Cram (mother, carrying neighbour's baby), Tom Cram (brother), Mary Cram (sister), Lloyd Berkey (brother-in-law), Ruth Cram Berkey (sister, married to Lloyd Berkey), and William Cram (father).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1944 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-569
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Cram family. From left: Mrs. Alice Tidball Cram (mother, carrying neighbour's baby), Tom Cram (brother), Mary Cram (sister), Lloyd Berkey (brother-in-law), Ruth Cram Berkey (sister, married to Lloyd Berkey), and William Cram (father).
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Elaine A. Myers fonds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88370
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1948-1961 (date of originals)
- Collection/Fonds
- Elaine A. Myers fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (jpeg) : sepia ; 96 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four digital copies of photographs; two are Elaine Myers' class portraits while attending Kingsway West and two are of Elaine's father, William Myers, next to the pulpit and the altar of St. Andrews Church.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1948-1961 (date of originals)
- Collection/Fonds
- Elaine A. Myers fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (jpeg) : sepia ; 96 dpi
- Material Details
- Jpegs are copies created by the donor of sepia originals.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2013-26
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four digital copies of photographs; two are Elaine Myers' class portraits while attending Kingsway West and two are of Elaine's father, William Myers, next to the pulpit and the altar of St. Andrews Church.
- History
- Elaine Anne Myers was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, in 1939 and immigrated to British Columbia with her family in 1947. She was the eldest daughter of William Sefton and Edna (nee Howarth) Myers and sister to Hermione Christine, born in 1943. Her father, William Sefton Myers was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, in 1905 and was one of six children. He married Edna Howarth on July 29, 1933. Before immigrating to Canada, William worked as a purchasing agent at Walkers Tannery in Bolton and later became a cabinet maker in the 1930s, building and designing most of the family’s furniture. In September 1947, he and his family immigrated to Canada along with his younger brother, Hermann, and his wife and daughter. The family were granted landed immigrant status upon their arrival at Dorval airport in Montreal on September 25, 1947, and travelled to Vancouver by train, arriving in early October. They shared their first home on Imperial Street in Burnaby with William’s brother Hermann and family, but after several months were able to purchase their own new home on MacKay Avenue just below Victory in South Burnaby. William’s first job was working as a night janitor at the Woodwards Department store in Vancouver. He was later hired as a purchasing agent for the Seagrams Distillery in New Westminster, where he stayed until his retirement in 1970. Elaine’s mother, Edna (nee Howarth) Myers worked in the offices of Pacific Veneer Canadian Forest Products in New Westminster, retiring from there in 1967. The family moved again in the 1950s to a house on the corner of Sussex and Victory and Elaine and Christine attended a variety of Burnaby schools including; Kingsway West, Nelson Avenue and McPherson Park Junior High. The family were parishioners of All Saints Anglican Church in Burnaby where Elaine also attended Girl Guides. Elaine’s father fulfilled his dream of designing and building the family home when he purchased property on London Street in New Westminster. The family moved to New Westminster and lived in a small house on the property while William spent three years completing their new home. Elaine commuted to Burnaby by the Interurban train in order to complete her studies at McPherson Park Junior High before enrolling at Duke of Connaught and graduating from Lester Pearson in New Westminster in 1957. In 1961, William Myers built the sanctuary lectern, pulpit, and altar for St. Andrew’s Church on Smith Avenue in Burnaby his brother Hermann’s parish. By the mid-1960s, William and Edna Myers moved from their home in New Westminster to White Rock. Edna Myers died on April 23, 1969. William built the ambry for the church of St. Mark as a memorial. William remarried Ruth, a widow, in 1971, and they resided in White Rock until Ruth’s death in 1983. William died in White Rock March 26, 1991. Elaine Myers married Gordon Wilfred Atkinson in 1961; they had four children and lived in the Dunbar area of Vancouver before they separated ways in 1988. Elaine completed her Bachelor of Arts degree as a mature student at University of British Columbia in 1984 followed by the completion of her Master’s degree at University of Toronto in April 1996, and PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy) in 2007. She has lived abroad in Jerusalem and the United Kingdom, working on a variety of research projects. Elaine Anne Myers passed away on February 19, 2015.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- Myers, Elaine A.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Photo catalogue 580
Gardner Family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35616
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1944 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gardner family and other relatives. Identified: (front) Urban Gardner (brother) with pet dog, Toby; (2nd row, left to right) Will Swain (uncle visiting from Winnipeg), Hazel Gardner Willis (sister), Fred Willis (husband of Hazel); (back row, left to right) Nell Pentland (aunt vis…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1944 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-474
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gardner family and other relatives. Identified: (front) Urban Gardner (brother) with pet dog, Toby; (2nd row, left to right) Will Swain (uncle visiting from Winnipeg), Hazel Gardner Willis (sister), Fred Willis (husband of Hazel); (back row, left to right) Nell Pentland (aunt visiting from Winnipeg), Sarah Gardner (mother), Harry Gardner (father), and an unidentified woman. This later became the site of Bonsor Park at 6550 Bonsor Avenue.
- Subjects
- Animals - Dogs
- Names
- Gardner, Harry Norman
- Gardner, Sarah Ann Swain
- Gardner, Urban
- Pentland, Nell
- Swain, Will
- Willis, Fred
- Willis, Hazel Gardner
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Bonsor Avenue
- Street Address
- 6550 Bonsor Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
Images
John and Lillian at the train station
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription79275
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 18, 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of newlyweds John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko with Lillian's mother Eugenia "Jenny" (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy and unidentified woman at the train station at Nelson, British Columbia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 18, 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-141
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of newlyweds John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko with Lillian's mother Eugenia "Jenny" (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy and unidentified woman at the train station at Nelson, British Columbia.
- Names
- Yanko, Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman
- Yanko, John Ivan
- Nagy, Eugenia "Jenny" Haresomovych Carman
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note written on album page reads: "18 October 1948 / Nelson BC" and "Blue gabardine suit, blue tie, white shirt, black shoes / Greyish blue suit, white blouse, blue shoes"
Images
John Burton subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97454
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1923]-[194?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the John Burton family home at 420 12th Avenue in Burnaby, BC.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1923]-[194?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- John Burton subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-05
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the John Burton family home at 420 12th Avenue in Burnaby, BC.
- History
- John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, Edmonds, Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930. While at high school, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school. John Burton's grandfather, John Foley, was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper: Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter. When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. He was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- Burton, John
- Notes
- Title based on creator of subseries
- PC216
Kay North subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription76
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Kay North subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-04
- BHS1991-38
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- History
- Kay Rorison North was one of the twin daughters of Burnaby carpenter William Rorison and Alma Cropley Rorison. Kay and her twin Evelyn were nine month old when her parents moved them and her two older brothers, Bill and Hugh, to Burnaby in 1922. Her younger brother, John, was not yet born. Kay's grandmother, Matilda Louise Cropley, bought three acres of land on Marine Drive (then called River Road) in South Burnaby and William built two houses on the property: one for his family and, six years later, one for his wife's widowed mother. They built a barn and kept cows, goats and the occasional pig. Her father built wooden toys and board games for the children. Kay went to Riverway West School with thirty-one other children, with grades one to four taught together in the one-room school house. She also attended Sunday school at Riverway mission for eight years and taught it there for another fifteen. Kay and her husband Doug have two daughters.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North, Kay Rorison
- Notes
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
- PC269, MSS051
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
Leila Orman subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription62945
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1918-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1918-1976
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Leila Orman subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.
- History
- A. Leila Orman was born June 2, 1901 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. She is the youngest daughter of Daisy Marie Orman, her sister Daisy Hilda Orman (later Targett) being three and a half years her senior. At five years old Leila began a long fight with a crippling type of rheumatoid arthritis. By the time she was thirteen, she experienced completely ankylosed joints. Her family travelled all over hoping to find a cure, but to no avail. In 1913 her father joined his two brothers in Calgary, and by 1915 the family had joined him. Leila developed an interest in painting and knitting, and composed her own poems. She began writing news articles for the Calgary Daily Herald in the 1930s, and her first sonnet was published in that paper on August 28, 1934. She had a strong interest in the arts, often writing about music and the visual arts. While living in Calgary, she became a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club as well as a member of the Canadian Author’s Association. When her father retired in 1938, the family moved to Rosewood Avenue in Burnaby. Leila wrote on a typewriter with two sticks to type out the letters. She was an avid reader and was able to turn the pages with a special stick with elastic bands wound around the ends. Canadian novelist Maida Parlow French became her lifelong friend and encouraged her to write her own autobiography, but she was not able to finish it. Leila wrote “The Giving Heart” in October of 1948. By 1952, she was writing the "Across the Board" column for the British Columbia Saturday Magazine with the intention of inspiring other “incapacitated folk” to live up to their full potential: “If [she] could reach a few people, and encourage them to reach up and out, [she] should feel the effort well worthwhile.” A member of the St. Alban’s Prayer Healing Fellowship group, Leila wrote the “Christian Manifesto for World Peace” in 1963. The Prayer Group met twice monthly at one of the members’ homes and undertook to pray daily for the sick and for world peace. After Leila’s mother died in 1955, Leila’s friend Jeanie Brown kept house for her and was her constant companion. Jeanie Brown and Leila lived together for over thirteen years until an accident sent Leila to hospital and later to nursing home where she died on February 16, 1976.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Orman, A. Leila
- Notes
- MSS104 and PC506
- Title based on content of subseries
Lillian and her parents
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77901
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lelia Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko), her step-father Joseph Nagy and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing arm in arm, along a planked sidewalk in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-089
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Lelia Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko), her step-father Joseph Nagy and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing arm in arm, along a planked sidewalk in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Names
- Yanko, Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman
- Nagy, Joseph
- Nagy, Eugenia "Jenny" Haresomovych Carman
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note written on album page reads: "1948 Nelson, BC"
Images
Lillian and Jenny
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77832
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing in front of an unidentified building in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x6 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-058
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing in front of an unidentified building in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "1946"
Images
Lillian and Jenny
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77834
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing in front of an unidentified building in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1946
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-059
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy standing in front of an unidentified building in Nelson, British Columbia.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "1946"
Images
![Lillian and Jenny, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/545-091.jpg?width=280)
Lillian and Jenny
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77906
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy, taken in the summer.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-091
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman (later Yanko) and her mother Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy, taken in the summer.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note written on album page reads: "Lil Mom"
Images
![Lillian and Jenny, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/545-091.jpg)
Lillian and Jenny at Stanley Park
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription79394
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 23, 1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko and her mother Eugenia "Jenny" (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 23, 1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 5.5 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-173
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko and her mother Eugenia "Jenny" (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "Mum + I Vanc. BC Oct. 23/49 / Stanley Park"
- Note written on album page reads: "Stanley Park / 23 October 1949"
- 1 duplicate photograph accompanying
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