"Plants" found 25 records | Heritage Burnaby

Scope and Content: Photograph of Vernon Tryson, president of Tryson & Son Iron Works Ltd. when the firm's Burnaby plant was opened. The firm was founded in 1930 by Vernon's father Fred Tryson in the basement of their family home. By 1965 it had become "a medium-size industry".

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1965, published November 24, 1965

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 12 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-202

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Vernon Tryson, president of Tryson & Son Iron Works Ltd. when the firm's Burnaby plant was opened. The firm was founded in 1930 by Vernon's father Fred Tryson in the basement of their family home. By 1965 it had become "a medium-size industry".

Names: Tryson, Vernon; Tryson & Son Iron Works Limited

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Vernon Tryson, 1965, published November 24, 1965 thumbnail

William Hawley admires an azalea

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45199

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1961, published November 25, 1961

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley admiring an azalea which was early to flower. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and his wife Doree…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1961, published November 25, 1961

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 9.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-095

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley admiring an azalea which was early to flower. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and his wife Doreen were married for 52 years.

Subjects: Occupations - Journalists; Plants - Flowers

Names: Hawley, William "Bill"; The Columbian

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: King, Basil

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

William Hawley admires an azalea, 1961, published November 25, 1961 thumbnail

William Hawley surveys tree destruction

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45198

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962, published September 8, 1962

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley surveying tree destruction caused by tent caterpillars. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and his …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1962, published September 8, 1962

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-094

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley surveying tree destruction caused by tent caterpillars. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and his wife Doreen were married for 52 years.

Subjects: Occupations - Journalists; Plants - Trees

Names: Hawley, William "Bill"; The Columbian

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

William Hawley surveys tree destruction, 1962, published September 8, 1962 thumbnail

Working at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45613

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1966, published April 18, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of workmen at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant. They are feeding a flat steel plate, more than three inches think inot a pyramind roll for fabrication in the making of a sulfinol vessel for the petroleum industry in Alberta. The workmen are wearing asbestos aluminum suits to withs…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: April 1966, published April 18, 1966

Collection/Fonds: Columbian Newspaper collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 18.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 480-507

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2003-02

Scope and Content: Photograph of workmen at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant. They are feeding a flat steel plate, more than three inches think inot a pyramind roll for fabrication in the making of a sulfinol vessel for the petroleum industry in Alberta. The workmen are wearing asbestos aluminum suits to withstand the intense heat reflected from the heated plate (the plate was heated in a furnace before being fed into the pyramid roll).