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Scope and Content: Photograph of The Oasis gas station, leased by the Raymer family for the first 5 years, then taken over by the Raymers. Roy Raymer is shown pumping gas. The Oasis was located at 2675 Kingsway (Pacific Highway). It was later renumbered 6105 Kingsway.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1935 (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.: 204-486

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of The Oasis gas station, leased by the Raymer family for the first 5 years, then taken over by the Raymers. Roy Raymer is shown pumping gas. The Oasis was located at 2675 Kingsway (Pacific Highway). It was later renumbered 6105 Kingsway.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial - Service Stations; Transportation - Automobiles

Names: Oasis; Raymer, Roy

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Kingsway

Street Address: 6105 Kingsway

Planning Study Area: Windsor Area

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Oasis Gas Station, 1935 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Roy Bernard Raymer fonds

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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

Ray Raymer business records series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1929 and [1959]

Collection/Fonds: Roy Bernard Raymer fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 1 p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings

Scope and Content: Series consists of a business records of Ray Raymer including a permit and two architectural drawings relating to the Oasis Tourist Camp on Kingsway in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Roy Bernard Raymer fonds

Series: Ray Raymer business records series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 1 p. of textual records + 2 architectural drawings

Scope and Content: Series consists of a business records of Ray Raymer including a permit and two architectural drawings relating to the Oasis Tourist Camp on Kingsway in Burnaby.

Accession Code: HV977.121

Date: 1929 and [1959]

Media Type: Textual Record; Architectural Drawing

Notes: Title based on contents of series

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