"Nelson Avenue School" found 10 records

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Grade 1 class at Nelson Avenue School. Identified: (front row, 4th from left) Doris Armitage. Teacher: Miss Anderson. Doris Armitage (later Doris Chadsey) was the daughter of Alfred E. Armitage and Emma Jane Armitage.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

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

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-330

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Grade 1 class at Nelson Avenue School. Identified: (front row, 4th from left) Doris Armitage. Teacher: Miss Anderson. Doris Armitage (later Doris Chadsey) was the daughter of Alfred E. Armitage and Emma Jane Armitage.

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Chadsey, Doris Armitage; Nelson Avenue School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Irmin Street

Street Address: 4850 Irmin Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Nelson Avenue School Class, 1914 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Nelson Avenue School site

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription11135

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: April 12, 1915

Collection/Fonds: Ronald G. Scobbie collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 survey plan : blueprint on paper ; 56 x 54 cm

Scope and Content: Survey plan of "Nelson Avenue School Site / Burnaby Municipality" "Being the south half of Block 19, except therefrom the north 33 feet, of Lot 99, Gp. 1. New Westminster District".

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Ronald G. Scobbie collection

Series: School and church plans series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 survey plan : blueprint on paper ; 56 x 54 cm

Material Details: Scale 40 feet = 1 inch

Scope and Content: Survey plan of "Nelson Avenue School Site / Burnaby Municipality" "Being the south half of Block 19, except therefrom the north 33 feet, of Lot 99, Gp. 1. New Westminster District".

Creator: McGugan, Donald Johnston

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Nelson Avenue School

Responsibility: Burnett & McGugan, Engineers and Surveyors

Geographic Access: Irmin Street

Street Address: 4850 Irmin Street

Accession Code: BV003.83.14

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: April 12, 1915

Media Type: Cartographic Material

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Scan Resolution: 440

Scan Date: 22-Dec-2020

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of plan; Note in black ink on verso of plan reads: "1745"; Oath on plan reads: "I, D.G. McGugan..." "...and did person- ally superintend the survey..." "...completed on the 5th day of March 1915"; signed by D.J. McGugan, notarized by "R.E. Chapman", sworn "...12th day of April 1915" "Burnett and McGugan" "B.C. Land Surveyors Etc. New Westminster, B.C.."

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Nelson Avenue School site, April 12, 1915 thumbnail

Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1913-1914

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 postcard : sepia ; copy print ; 9 cm x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 postcard : sepia ; copy print ; 9 cm x 14 cm

Material Details: Names of the students written in pencil in the back: "Standing: Elsie Impett, Donald Gough, Hector ___, ____ McLean, Johnny Robertson, ____, ____ Sigurdson, Mr. Whitten, Chrstina Goodwin, Sitting: Vera Dibb, Bessie Wrigley, Dorothy Willaims, ____, Hilda Wright, Alice Young, ___, Vera Lund, Katy Robertson" / 1913 - 1914 / Nelson Ave School / Grade VIII;

Scope and Content: Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School.

Other Title Information: Title based on contents.

Names: Nelson Avenue School

Accession Code: BV018.20.5

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: 1913-1914

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 17-Jul-18

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Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School., 1913-1914 thumbnail

Interview with Catherine Rees March 14, 1990 - Track 1

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory184

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1903-1928

Length: 0:08:29

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Catherine Bertha "Cathy" Rees's schooling as well as memories of her first years of teaching.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Catherine Bertha "Cathy" Rees's schooling as well as memories of her first years of teaching.

Date Range: 1903-1928

Photo Info: Burnaby South High School, [1930]. Item no. 280-008

Length: 0:08:29

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Interviewer: Evans, Alf

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Catherine Bertha "Cathy" Rees by fellow Burnaby Retired Teacher's Association member Alf Evans, March 14, 1990. This interview was prepared for the Burnaby School History Committee of the Burnaby Retired Teacher's Association. Major themes discussed are: the Depression.

Biographical Notes: Catherine Bertha “Cathy” Rees was born in Greenwood, British Columbia on March 30, 1903. Her mother died when she was four years old and her younger brother Lloyd was only a few months old. Catherine’s family moved regularly because her dad was continually transferred. She attended a two room school in Greenwood until grade four, then to school in Kamloops until grade 8, graduating from Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster in 1919. One of her brothers won a lacrosse championship while at Nelson Avenue School. Catherine started at the University of British Columbia in 1919 and went to Normal School in 1923 (she belonged to the first teacher-training class). Upon graduating, Catherine was offered a position at Revelstoke High School for Physics, French and Latin which she took for a brief period of time. She then taught for one year in Victoria, traveling from one school to the other in a one ton truck to teach languages. For the next two years, she worked at Cloverdale High School. By 1929 Catherine began working in Burnaby where her father and two brothers were living. She taught at Burnaby South for her entire career in Burnaby, from 1929 to 1964. Catherine taught French and Latin as well as physical education to the girls (in the basement with two other teachers) and lived at the corner of Nelson and Victory (she still lives there at the time of this interview).

Total Tracks: 4

Total Length: 0:37:02

Interviewee Name: Rees, Catherine "Cathy"

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Retired Teachers subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Images

Burnaby South High School, [1930]. Item no. 280-008 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Catherine Rees

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS103-026/MSS103-026_Track_1.mp3

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

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

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1893-1944

Length: 00:05:35

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

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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

Names: Lewarne, Ethel Leer

Subjects: 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

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

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

Audio Tracks

Track two of interview with Bill Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-019/MSS187-019_Track_2.mp3

Pollard family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914-1920 (date of originals), copied 1998

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of Pollard family photographs.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1914-1920 (date of originals), copied 1998

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pollard family subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1998-09

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of Pollard family photographs.

History: Joseph Pollard was born in Boston, Lancashire and moved to Preston, Lancashire where he apprenticed as a butcher and worked as an attendant at Rainhill Mental Hospital. In 1909 he immigrated to Canada; first to London Ontario, then to Brandon, Manitoba where he met his future wife, Agnes Colvin. Agnes Jane Colvin grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland near Bushmills, county Antrim. She, her sister Mary and brother James emigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1910. Agnes was hospitalized wtih scarlet fever. As soon as she was well enough, she moved to her cousin’s farm in Moosomin, Saskatchewan and began nursing at a mental hospital in Brandon. Joseph and Agnes were married on September 13, 1912. After traveling to England for their honeymoon, they settled in Port Coquitlam, BC in 1913 where their first child, May Elizabeth was born. Shortly after, they bought their first home in East Burnaby at 332 17th Avenue where their second and third children, Joe and Sidney, were born. The Pollards second home was at 1095 16th Avenue in the Edmonds district of Burnaby. Twins Peggy and Claire were born in this house. In 1916, Joseph enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and was sent overseas to England where he remained for the duration of the WWI. In May of 1919, he returned home and opened J. Pollard Meat Market in South Burnaby. He operated this business until 1936 when he and Agnes bought Lily Auto Court on Kingsway in Burnaby. They managed this business for about seven years, then sold the hotel and retired to Vancouver. Joseph and Agnes's eldest child May graduated from Burnaby South High School in 1930 and the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver in 1931. She worked as a substitute teacher for four years before getting her first teaching assignment at Armstrong Avenue School in 1935 where she taught grades one to five. After two years, she was promoted to Nelson Avenue School where she taught grade one for two years. She married in April of 1939 and her two daughters, Diane and Marilyn, were born in 1948 and 1952 respectively.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: Pollard, Joseph; Pollard, Agnes Colvin

Notes: PC359; Title based on contents of subseries

Thrussell family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1893-1986 (dates of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and graphic material

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Thrussell family pertaining to their home and farm in the Marine Drive and Nelson area of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1893-1986 (dates of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Thrussell family subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and graphic material

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-05

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Thrussell family pertaining to their home and farm in the Marine Drive and Nelson area of Burnaby.

History: Harriett Fenwick came out west from North Dakota in 1892. She married Frederick "Fred" Thrussell and the couple opened the North Arm Dairy, the Thrussell farm and family business on Marine Drive at Nelson Avenue in Burnaby. After Fred Thrussell passed away, she sold of the dairy equipment and stock at an auction on January 18, 1910. Their eldest daughter Mary Anne “Annie” Thrussell (later Phillips, and later again Welsh) was born in Burnaby in December 1895. After marrying her first husband, she moved to Ferndale, Washington and had their son Lawerne Phillips. In 1930, she moved to Surrey with her second husband, Jim Welsh and her second child, Hazel. Fred and Harriet's son Frederick T. Thrussell was born in Burnaby in 1901. He attended Dundonald Public School in Burnaby, with Florence M. Bowell as his teacher in 1911. As a youth, he worked in a shingle mill and spent the rest of his working years in shingle and sawmills. Frederick T. and Ruth McMillan were married March 9, 1929 and the couple moved to Surrey. Fred and Harriet's second daughter, Ethel Thrussell (later Cleghorn), attended Alta Vista Public School as a senior in 1913 where J.G. Whiten was her teacher. Their third daughter, Eva H. Thrussell, went to Riverway East School with Helena F. Crake as her teacher. In 1914, Eva attended Nelson Avenue School with F. Anderson as her teacher. Their youngest daughter Edith Thrussell (now Cleghorn) also attended Riverway East in the same class as her sister Eva. When eldest daughter Annie celebrated her 90th birthday in December of 1985, Edith was her only living sibling.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Thrussell, Frederick (1869-1909)

Notes: PC275 and MSS070; Title based on contents of subseries

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Application for Polling Station at Nelson Avenue School

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Engineer Recommendation re Boulevards at Gilmore Avenue and Nelson Avenue School

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Nelson Avenue School

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Nelson Avenue School Class

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Nelson Avenue School site

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Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4935

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Interview with Catherine Rees March 14, 1990 - Track 1

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory184

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

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

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Pollard family subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription103

Thrussell family subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription122

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Application for Polling Station at Nelson Avenue School

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Engineer Recommendation re Boulevards at Gilmore Avenue and Nelson Avenue School

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Postcard of a class photo of the 1913-1914 Grade 8 class at Nelson Ave. School.

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Interview with Catherine Rees March 14, 1990 - Track 1

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

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Pollard family subseries

Thrussell family subseries