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The 65th May Day celebration in New Westminster

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 11, 1934

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the parade of May Queen Suite at the May Day celebration in New Westminster in 1934. Leading the parade are flower girls, and following them are the girls in the suite, each escorted by a man in a suit. In the background, there are crowds of people gathered to watch the parade. Ins…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the parade of May Queen Suite at the May Day celebration in New Westminster in 1934. Leading the parade are flower girls, and following them are the girls in the suite, each escorted by a man in a suit. In the background, there are crowds of people gathered to watch the parade. Inscribed in the negative and printed on the photograph, bottom front "The 65th May Day Celebration / New Westminster, B.C., May 11th, 1934 / Stride Studio Photos / 6."

Subjects: Events - May Day

Accession Code: HV976.143.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: May 11, 1934

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-27

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: The photographs in the accession HV976.143 are thought to be by the Stride studio, as the donor indicated in her letter that the Stride family were personal friends of her great-aunt and her husband, who resided in Edmonds. She wrote that she received a picture of the New Westminster or Burnaby May Day celebrations each year.

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The 66th May Day celebration in New Westminster

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 1, 1936

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.2 x 17.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen Suite on stage at the May Day Celebrations in New Westminster. The May Queen with a crown of flowers is at the microphone set up on the stage with her first maid standing beside her. The other girls in the Suite are seated on their chairs on the stage. Men in suits with …

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.2 x 17.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen Suite on stage at the May Day Celebrations in New Westminster. The May Queen with a crown of flowers is at the microphone set up on the stage with her first maid standing beside her. The other girls in the Suite are seated on their chairs on the stage. Men in suits with a flower and ribbon on their lapel are seated in front of the stage. There is a Union Jack hung in the centre of the wall behind the stage. Inscribed in the negative and printed on the photograph, bottom front: "The 66th May Day Celebration / New Westminster, B.C., May 1st, 1936 / Photos by the Stride Studios / 6."

Subjects: Symbols - Flags; Events - May Day

Accession Code: HV976.143.3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: May 1, 1936

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-27

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: The photographs in the accession HV976.143 are thought to be by the Stride studio, as the donor indicated in her letter that the Stride family were personal friends of her great-aunt and her husband, who resided in Edmonds. She wrote that she received a picture of the New Westminster or Burnaby May Day celebrations each year.

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Aftermath of Great Fire of New Westminster, 1898

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1898

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm ; copy print

Scope and Content: Brick ruins of buildings on either side of a street with people, wagons and horses. Street runs top to bottom on left hand side of photograph.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm ; copy print

Material Details: "Columbian files 1971" written on verso in black pen. ""FIRE" NEW WESTMINSTER SEPT. 1898." written on verso in pencil.

Scope and Content: Brick ruins of buildings on either side of a street with people, wagons and horses. Street runs top to bottom on left hand side of photograph.

History: Part of a set of photographs from the Columbian Newspaper, which operated out of New Westminster under this name starting in 1900 until its dissolution in 1988. Photographs found in the collection of the Burnaby Village are dated 1971.

Other Title Information: title based on content and note on verso of photograph

Accession Code: BV018.19.7

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1898

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 24-04-2018

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Aftermath of Great Fire of New Westminster, 1898, 1898 thumbnail

Application of New Westminster Board of Trade

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54775

Meeting Date: 21-Sep-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54775

Meeting Date: 21-Sep-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 54775

21-Sep-1931 Meeting Minutes

Clerks and the Council of New Westminster and South Vancouver to Join in Expense of Erecting Delimiting Posts on through Roads at the Boundary Lines

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82531

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82531

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1894

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 82531

7-Apr-1894 Meeting Minutes

Drainage Sewer on 10th Avenue - Joint Agreement with New Westminster

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71073

Meeting Date: 23-Nov-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71073

Meeting Date: 23-Nov-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 71073

23-Nov-1938 Meeting Minutes

Grant to Benevolvent Fund of the New Westminster Fire Department

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56368

Meeting Date: 14-Nov-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56368

Meeting Date: 14-Nov-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 56368

14-Nov-1932 Meeting Minutes

Grant to St.Mary's Hospital in New Westminster City

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83373

Meeting Date: 1-Aug-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 83373

Meeting Date: 1-Aug-1896

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 83373

1-Aug-1896 Meeting Minutes

Grant to the Benevolent Fund of the New Westminster Fire Department

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71991

Meeting Date: 1-Oct-1935

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71991

Meeting Date: 1-Oct-1935

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 71991

1-Oct-1935 Meeting Minutes

Holding Council Meetings in New Westminster

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82930

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-1895

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 82930

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-1895

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 82930

21-Jan-1895 Meeting Minutes

May Day celebration in New Westminster

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 12, 1933

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her suite lined up on the front steps of a building with men in suits and uniforms standing behind them. The girls in the suite are wearing fur lined hoods over their dresses, and holding flower baskets in one hand. The men (except the ones in uniforms) are wearing r…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the May Queen and her suite lined up on the front steps of a building with men in suits and uniforms standing behind them. The girls in the suite are wearing fur lined hoods over their dresses, and holding flower baskets in one hand. The men (except the ones in uniforms) are wearing ribbons on their lapels. This photograph was taken on the occasion of New Westminster's celebration of May Day 1933. Inscribed in the negative and printed on the photograph, bottom front: "May Day Celebration / New Westminster, B.C./ May 12th 1933 / #2."

Subjects: Events - May Day; Clothing - Uniforms

Accession Code: HV976.143.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: May 12, 1933

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-27

Photographer: Stride, Charles Edgar

Notes: The photographs in the accession HV976.143 are thought to be by the Stride studio, as the donor indicated in her letter that the Stride family were personal friends of her great-aunt and her husband, who resided in Edmonds. She wrote that she received a picture of the New Westminster or Burnaby May Day celebrations each year.

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Motion to Call for a Meeting to Discuss the Advantages of Amalgamation of City of New Westminster, City of Port Moody and Corporation of Burnaby into One City

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56264

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56264

Meeting Date: 22-Sep-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 56264

22-Sep-1930 Meeting Minutes

New Westminster Public Library subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1892]-[1982] (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs collected by the New Westminster Public Library depicting early Burnaby reeves and prominent Burnaby pioneers.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1892]-[1982] (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: New Westminster Public Library subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2002-08; BHS2003-19

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs collected by the New Westminster Public Library depicting early Burnaby reeves and prominent Burnaby pioneers.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: New Westminster Public Library

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; Burnaby mayors were formally called "Reeve" until 1968

Offer re Use of New Westminster City Hall for Council of Burnaby Meetings

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76667

Meeting Date: 17-Dec-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 76667

Meeting Date: 17-Dec-1898

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 76667

17-Dec-1898 Meeting Minutes

Part of the New Westminster District shewing the Proposed New Municipality of Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1891 (date of original)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Map collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 map : blueline print with col. ; 59 x 96 cm

Scope and Content: Item consists of a map titled "Part of the New Westminster District shewing the Proposed New Municipality of Burnaby". The map shows boundaries of a proposed new municipality of Burnaby including all land outside of the "old" City of Vancouver between Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River and west of …

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Map collection

Series: Maps of Burnaby and Greater Vancouver series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 map : blueline print with col. ; 59 x 96 cm

Material Details: Scale approx. [1:31,680]

Scope and Content: Item consists of a map titled "Part of the New Westminster District shewing the Proposed New Municipality of Burnaby". The map shows boundaries of a proposed new municipality of Burnaby including all land outside of the "old" City of Vancouver between Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River and west of North Road. Map also shows the boundaries of the District Lots. Signed by Garden, Hermon and Burwell Provincial Land Surveyors, Vancouver, June 5, 1891. Blueline print is hand-coloured highlighting Burnaby.