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12 inch Water Main Supplying the Dominion Bridge Plant - at Dawson and Gilmore

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 77827

Meeting Date: 11-Apr-1934

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: 77827

Meeting Date: 11-Apr-1934

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 77827

11-Apr-1934 Meeting Minutes

50-Foot High Stump

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1936 (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a stump in Central Park. Typed note at the bottom of the photograph reads, "Hollow stump in Central Park (about centre of park). Fifty feet high. At five feet from ground, fifty feet in circumference as measured by Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Wilson. Central Park, November 1936. / City Archiv…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1936 (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.5 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-023

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of a stump in Central Park. Typed note at the bottom of the photograph reads, "Hollow stump in Central Park (about centre of park). Fifty feet high. At five feet from ground, fifty feet in circumference as measured by Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Wilson. Central Park, November 1936. / City Archives."

Subjects: Plants - Trees; Geographic Features - Parks

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Central Park; Imperial Street

Street Address: 3883 Imperial Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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1982 - Moving the Roberts House

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1982

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. copy print ; 10 cm x 15 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the land being cleared at 5496 Dominion Street in order to create a path to move the Roberts' house onto the property. Included in the clearing are the stumps of two apples trees, a poplar tree, and a maple tree. The debris from the site was burned and smoke can seen rising from a s…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1982

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. copy print ; 10 cm x 15 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 620-061

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2017-01

Scope and Content: Photograph of the land being cleared at 5496 Dominion Street in order to create a path to move the Roberts' house onto the property. Included in the clearing are the stumps of two apples trees, a poplar tree, and a maple tree. The debris from the site was burned and smoke can seen rising from a small pile of brush on the right.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title; Title transcribed from donor's notes; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "p.3"; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "2"

Street Address: 5496 Dominion Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Ardingley-Sprott Area

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1982 - Moving the Roberts House 5538 Dominion Street to its new location at 5496 Dominion Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1982

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 cm x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the site at 5496 Dominion Street where the Roberts' house was to be moved. To the left is the old garage that was originally part of the small dwelling the Roberts lived in during the construction of their house in the early 1920s. In the background is 3093 Douglas Road and in the f…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1982

Collection/Fonds: Small family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 cm x 13 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 620-060

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2017-01

Scope and Content: Photograph of the site at 5496 Dominion Street where the Roberts' house was to be moved. To the left is the old garage that was originally part of the small dwelling the Roberts lived in during the construction of their house in the early 1920s. In the background is 3093 Douglas Road and in the foreground are two apple trees planted by John W. Roberts.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title; Title transcribed from donor's notes; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "p.2"; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Garage, Poplar Tree and Apple Trees before they had to go to make room to move house here / Spring 1982"; 5118 Douglas Road renumbered to 3131 Douglas Road in 1958 and to 5538 Dominion Street in 1970 or 1971

Street Address: 5496 Dominion Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Ardingley-Sprott Area

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6742 Walker Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue, with only the trees in the yard visible from the road. A van is parked in front.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-432

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue, with only the trees in the yard visible from the road. A van is parked in front.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast; Copied from col. photograph

Geographic Access: Walker Avenue

Street Address: 6742 Walker Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area

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6742 Walker Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.0 x 4.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue with some of the trees in the yard cut down.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.0 x 4.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-433

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue with some of the trees in the yard cut down.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast; Copied from col. photograph

Geographic Access: Walker Avenue

Street Address: 6742 Walker Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area

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6742 Walker Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.0 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue, showing the stumps of the recently cut down trees in the yard of the house.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1987 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.0 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-434

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of 6742 Walker Avenue, showing the stumps of the recently cut down trees in the yard of the house.

Subjects: Buildings - Residential - Houses; Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast; Copied from col. photograph

Geographic Access: Walker Avenue

Street Address: 6742 Walker Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area

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Alfred Bingham's writings - Track 9

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1919-1939

Length: 0:07:31

Summary: This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's continuation of reading his series of short stories. He reads; "The ICE AGE and other observations before Burnaby", "The Coming of the Great Trees in Burnaby", "AND THEN MODERN CIVILIZATION STRUCK BURNABY" each written in March of 1962.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's continuation of reading his series of short stories. He reads; "The ICE AGE and other observations before Burnaby", "The Coming of the Great Trees in Burnaby", "AND THEN MODERN CIVILIZATION STRUCK BURNABY" each written in March of 1962.

Date Range: 1919-1939

Photo Info: Alfred Bingham, April 20, 1947. Item no. 010-066

Length: 0:07:31

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Scope and Content: Recording is of Alfred Bingham's writings, as read by Alfred Bingham. Major themes discussed are: Pioneers, early days in Burnaby and the Co-op Movement. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: Alfred "Alf" Bingham was born in England in 1892 and moved to Canada in 1912. His first job in Canada was laying track for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) from Edmonton to McBride in 1912. His second was in Vancouver at the Rat Portage Mill on False Creek, working on the Resaw machine. He quit after one week due to poor working conditions. After taking part in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike as a delegate of the Retail and Mailorder Union (A.F.L.) on the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, Alfred moved to Burnaby where he and fellow Burnaby residents Aungus McLean and Percy Little worked ten hour days to build a Shingle Mill on the edge of Burnaby Lake for Simpson & Giberson. George Green, carpenter and millwright (author of “The History of Burnaby”) also helped in the construction of the mill. Alfred built his own home from lumber cut from the mill in the Lochdale area on Sherlock Street between Curtis Street and Kitchener Street. On April 10, 1920 Alfred married Mary Jane “Ada” Reynolds. Alfred and Ada often took in foster children during their marriage. Due to her nursing experience, Ada was often called upon to deliver babies in the Burnaby area. Alfred and Ada Bingham were instrumental members of the Army of the Common Good, collecting vegetables and grains from growers in the area and even producing over 125 tons of vegetables from its own gardens to feed children and youth suffering from the lack of resources during the Depression years. The army was in operation for ten years and during that time the members organised the Credit Union movement of British Columbia and drew up the Credit Union act thorough the Vancouver Co-operative Council. They also started Co-Op stores and the Co-Op Wholesale Society. Alfred was also Secretary of the Burnaby Housing committee and in 1946 he became the Secretary of the North Burnaby Labour Progressive Party (LPP). Mary Jane “Ada” (Reynolds) Bingham died on August 9, 1969. Her husband Alfred died on April 29, 1979.

Total Tracks: 12

Total Length: 1:38:06

Interviewee Name: Bingham, Alfred "Alf"

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Transcript Available: MSS142-001 contains transcripts for each of the short stories

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

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Audio Tracks

Track nine of recording of Alfred Bingham's writings

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Application from A.B. Lomas to Build a Pastuerization Plant on Lot 8, Block 22, DL 32

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55053

Meeting Date: 27-Apr-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: 55053

Meeting Date: 27-Apr-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 55053

27-Apr-1931 Meeting Minutes

Authorization to Plant 30 Chestnut Trees in Confederation Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54850

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-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: 54850

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 54850

7-Apr-1931 Meeting Minutes

A Woman blowing a dandelion

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: ca.1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 17.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified woman blowing dandelion seeds from her outstretched hand.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: ca.1983

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 17.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-1378

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: 2009-01

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified woman blowing dandelion seeds from her outstretched hand.

Subjects: Plants

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Battistoni, Peter

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer's stamp on verso; Note on verso reads: "PMT 100% / page A-2 / Burnaby / Today"

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Battleship Lake

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1938

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8 x 13 cm, mounted on heavy-weight paper 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of five of the six members of the small party of City of Courtenay officials and their guides walking along the edge of Battleship Lake. The sixth member is the photographer who took this photograph. This was part of a trip to the Forbidden Plateau on Vancouver Island. In this…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1938

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Grant subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8 x 13 cm, mounted on heavy-weight paper 17.5 x 26.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 243-055

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-06

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of five of the six members of the small party of City of Courtenay officials and their guides walking along the edge of Battleship Lake. The sixth member is the photographer who took this photograph. This was part of a trip to the Forbidden Plateau on Vancouver Island. In this photograph George A. Grant is leading the group.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds; Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Tait, Preston L.

Notes: Title taken from handwritten title on paper mount; Handwritten note on facing page reads: "On our way to Paradise Meadows. The "battleship" is an island in the Lake."; Photographer identifies photograph as no. 923

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B.C. Hydro - Burrard Thermal Generating Plant, Ioco, B.C. Air Emissions Permit VA - 330 Renewal

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 9112

Meeting Date: 12-Dec-1988

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 77

Item No.: 4

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 9112

Meeting Date: 12-Dec-1988

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 77

Item No.: 4

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

Documents

Report 9112

12-Dec-1988 Meeting Minutes

Beautifying the home grounds of Canada

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Howitt, M. H.

Publication Date: 1930

Call Number: 710 HOW

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV993.11.2

Call Number: 710 HOW

Author: Howitt, M. H.

Place of Publication: Ottawa

Publisher: Runge Press

Publication Date: 1930

Physical Description: 87 p. : ill. : 24 cm.

Inscription: "Jannelle Slade" [Handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf]

Library Subject (LOC): Landscape gardening; Gardens; Plants, Cultivated

Notes: "Published jointly by the Experimental farm branch of the Federal department of agriculture and the Canadian horticultural council, with the authority of the Hon. Robert Weis, minister of agriculture, Ottawa, 1930."; "Free publications available.": p. 87.; "List of trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials suitable for planting", by various authors: p. 71-85.; Author's full name: Maurice Hamilton Howitt

Boulevarding and Tree Planting

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55273

Meeting Date: 1-Jun-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: 55273

Meeting Date: 1-Jun-1931

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 55273

1-Jun-1931 Meeting Minutes

Boundary Road Improvements - Relocation of BC Tel Overhead Plant

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1530

Meeting Date: 17-Nov-1980

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 70

Item No.: 7

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1530

Meeting Date: 17-Nov-1980

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 70

Item No.: 7

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

Documents

Report 1530

17-Nov-1980 Meeting Minutes

Brainerd family fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926-1958; 2013

Collection/Fonds: Brainerd family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 1 cm. of textual records + 4 photographs (copy-print)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of receipts, agreements, and registry letter for family home on Harwood Street, along with an election slip, a labour publication, and a propaganda leaflet related to Lawrence Brainerd, as well as a newspaper clipping from 2013 and photocopied and copy-printed early photographs of th…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926-1958; 2013

Collection/Fonds: Brainerd family fonds

Physical Description: 1 cm. of textual records + 4 photographs (copy-print)

Description Level: Fonds

Accession Number: 2013-05; 2013-06

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of receipts, agreements, and registry letter for family home on Harwood Street, along with an election slip, a labour publication, and a propaganda leaflet related to Lawrence Brainerd, as well as a newspaper clipping from 2013 and photocopied and copy-printed early photographs of the family.

History: Lawrence and Violet Brainerd came to Vancouver in 1925 or 1926. Lawrence purchased a small house on Harwood Street in North Burnaby for his wife and two children from her previous marriage. Roy Brainerd was born in 1928 at Royal Columbian Hospital. His sister Patricia Brainerd (later White) was born in 1931, also at Royal Columbian Hospital. Lawrence rebuilt and renovated the house to fit his growing family, planting abundant vegetable gardens and building a chicken coop, and paid off his taxes by doing roadwork for the municipality. Violet Brainerd supplemented her family's income by doing in-home nursing, as she'd been a nurse in France during the war. Roy Brainerd started at Douglas Road School in 1934 and then attended Hugh M. Fraser High School. Roy left his high school at 15 to work for Snap-On Tools, working his way up from pushing a broom to becoming a branch manager. He retired in 1983 after 41 years of service. Together with his wife, Carol, Roy raised three daughters.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Brainerd family

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds; MSS172, photo catalogue 551

Brentwood Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

Heritage Value: Between 1955 and 2001, the Brentwood Neighbourhood developed into one of Burnaby's four official Town Centres. The Brentwood Town Centre serves the north-west sector of the Municipality, providing facilities such as commercial developments - of which the Brentwood Mall is the most significant. Under Burnaby's Residential Development Framework adopted by Council in 1981, the Town Centre also incorporated a full range of multi-housing types and forms in close relationship with their commercial facilities. In 1996, the City adopted the Brentwood Town Centre Development Plant to solidify the area as a focus of higher-density and higher-intensity residential and commercial opportunities, public transit and supporting leisure facilities.

Planning Study Area: Brentwood Area

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Broadview Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

Heritage Value: Development in the Broadview area slowed during World War Two, but after the war, the area became home to a number of industrial sites. The first major plant to be built here was the Dominion Bridge Company which opened in 1930.