"Riverway West School" found 35 records

Riverway West School

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1922

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Associated Dates: 1922

Heritage Value: Riverway West School was built on a slope just north of Riverway Road (Marine Drive). From 1922 until 1952, the school operated as a one-teacher school. In 1962, the original building was replaced with a larger structure but declining school enrolments in Burnaby during the 1970s brought about Riverway's closure in the early 1980s.

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Street View URL: Google Maps Street View

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Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook.

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a Riverway West School PTA scrapbook and photographs.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association subseries

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook.

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-03

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a Riverway West School PTA scrapbook and photographs.

History: The original Riverway West School was a one room school house built in 1923 just west of the ravine at Sussex Avenue and Marine Drive. Miss Marion Swanson was the first teacher at the school ande Mr. Morrison its first custodian. Miss Carrie Kidd taught from 1924 to 1935, with the enrolment increasing from 18 in 1924 to 42 pupils in 1929, and including grades one to seven. In 1930 grades one to four were at Riverway while the older students went to Nelson. It continued on as a one-room school of four grades until 1952. As the school was seen by parents to be “greatly lacking” for students and teachers “in comfortable accommodations and vital equipment necessary for their extra curricular and recreational needs, such as were enjoyed by children in the larger schools” they formed a parent-teacher association in September 1951 to remedy the situation. From the beginning the PTA was very active in making its desires known to the School Board and “the school was very fortunate to have an organisation which put forth such a united effort on behalf of the children”. Their first bazaar fundraiser allowed the PTA to purchase a hot plate and the necessary utensils to provide the students with soup and cocoa during the cold weather. At their request, the School Board improved the electrical wiring in the school and built a roof over the stairs to the basement and provided more sports equipment for the children. Art classes and piano classes were started through the efforts of the members and in 1953 a cub pack and a brownie pack with PTA members as Cub Leaders and Brownie Leaders was created. A ditto machine and school library were the direct results of successful bazaars held by the PTA. The PTA also made a survey of the school district in 1951 to analyse the future school population and presented the results to the School Board. Following this, a portable unit was erected beside the existing school house for use the following September. It was in use until 1958. In the late 1950s, the PTA approached the School Board and the Burnaby Parks and Recreation Commission and proposed a park on the grounds adjacent to their school to relieve a playfield deficiency. The creation of Riverway West Park was the direct result of this proposal. As Parks Planner Paul Stocksted pointed out in 1961, “All of this would not have been possible had not the people associated with the PTA insisted on the solution to the problem of inadequate play areas.” In 1957 the first unit of the new Riverway West School underwent construction. Designed by Carlberg and Jackson with Remigio Maniaga as the contractor, it was completed in September of 1957 and consisted of four classrooms, an activity room and administration facilities. A two classroom addition, also designed by Carlberg and Jackson. was completed on the last day of 1959, three months after its construction began.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association

Notes: PC273, MSS068; Title based on creator and contents of subseries

Boys and girls at Riverway West School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a class of boys and girls at Riverway West School, standing and sitting outside in three rows. A border collie puppy is sitting on a boy's lap, in the first row, on the far right.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Edmonds School subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 207-037

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-07

Scope and Content: Photograph of a class of boys and girls at Riverway West School, standing and sitting outside in three rows. A border collie puppy is sitting on a boy's lap, in the first row, on the far right.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Boys and girls at Riverway West School, 1921 thumbnail

Request for "School" Signs on McKay Avenue Near Riverway West School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37823

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1959

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 37823

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1959

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 37823

5-Oct-1959 Meeting Minutes

Riverway West School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Riverway West School building, in the 4300 block of Marine Drive, just before demolition.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

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

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 396-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Riverway West School building, in the 4300 block of Marine Drive, just before demolition.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Riverway West School Class

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1929 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Scope and Content: Photograph of Riverway West School, mixed class. Identified: (2nd row, far left) Bill Rorison; (4th row 6th from left) Kay Rorison; (2nd row, 6th from left) John Rorison; (4th row, 9th from left) Evelyn Rorison, and teacher (back), Mrs. Mary Kidd. The Rorisons were the children of William Rorison…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1929 (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.: 204-272

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Riverway West School, mixed class. Identified: (2nd row, far left) Bill Rorison; (4th row 6th from left) Kay Rorison; (2nd row, 6th from left) John Rorison; (4th row, 9th from left) Evelyn Rorison, and teacher (back), Mrs. Mary Kidd. The Rorisons were the children of William Rorison and Alma Rorison (nee Cropley) of 3907 River Road (later Marine Drive).

Subjects: Occupations - Teachers

Names: Kidd, Mary; North, Kay Rorison; Riverway West School; Rorison, Bill; Rorison, Evelyn; Rorison, John

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Riverway West School Class, 1929 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Riverway West School Photo

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Kantonen Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph is a class picture at Riverway West school taken about 1930. Only one student has been identified - fourth from the left in the second row is Terttu Ulriki Kantonen (Bertha).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930

Collection/Fonds: Kantonen Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 531-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-06

Scope and Content: Photograph is a class picture at Riverway West school taken about 1930. Only one student has been identified - fourth from the left in the second row is Terttu Ulriki Kantonen (Bertha).

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Kantonen, Terttu Ullriki "Bertha"; Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Riverway West School Photo, 1930 thumbnail

Riverway West School PTA scrapbook

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Scope and Content: Item is a scrapbook created by the Riverway West School Parent-Teachers' Association. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, correspondence, reports and newspaper clippings. Documents and photos within are related to Burnaby's first May Days including the first programme and May Queen photograp…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association subseries

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Material Details: Scrapbook is a binder made of wood with construction paper pages housed inside plastic sheets

Description Level: Item

Record No.: MSS068-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-03

Scope and Content: Item is a scrapbook created by the Riverway West School Parent-Teachers' Association. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, correspondence, reports and newspaper clippings. Documents and photos within are related to Burnaby's first May Days including the first programme and May Queen photograph, the formation of the Riverway Park, PTA functions, members, Riverway West student photographs. The scrapbook was created by the 1960-1961 PTA members, notably: Mrs. Emily Eichler, Historian; Mrs. C.L. James, Assistant Historian; Mrs. Gordon Dowding, Photographer; and Mr. Rod Beaton, who designed the cover. The design on the wooden cover of the scrapbook was burned into the wood by Mrs. Eichler's son using a magnifying glass. The last page was added in 1967 or later.

Names: Eichler, Emily; Riverway West School

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Riverway West School Site

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 38624

Meeting Date: 3-Nov-1958

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 33

Item No.: 12

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 38624

Meeting Date: 3-Nov-1958

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 33

Item No.: 12

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

Documents

Report 38624

3-Nov-1958 Meeting Minutes

School files - Riverway West School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1990

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of newspaper clippings pertaining to Riverway West School.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1990

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: School files subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: 43101

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: File consists of newspaper clippings pertaining to Riverway West School.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Riverway West Elementary School

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: October 13, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Scope and Content: Photograph shows Riverway West Elementary School at 4340 Carson Street beside Riverway Park at Marine Drive and Sussex Avenue.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: October 13, 1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Public Library Contemporary Visual Archive Project

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 556-359

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2013-13

Scope and Content: Photograph shows Riverway West Elementary School at 4340 Carson Street beside Riverway Park at Marine Drive and Sussex Avenue.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Ross, Martha

Notes: Scope note taken directly from BPL photograph description.; 1 b&w copy negative : 10 x 12.5 cm accompanying

Geographic Access: Carson Street

Street Address: 4340 Carson Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Riverway West Elementary School, October 13, 1976 thumbnail

Riverway West high school class

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1950

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of an older class from Riverway West School lined up in three rows; the first row of girls are seated in chairs.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1950

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Edmonds School subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 12 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 207-038

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: BHS1988-07

Scope and Content: Photograph of an older class from Riverway West School lined up in three rows; the first row of girls are seated in chairs.

Names: Riverway West School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4340 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Riverway West high school class, 1950 thumbnail

Burnaby centennial anthology : stories of early Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Edition: Rev. ed.

Publication Date: 1994

Call Number: 971.133 BUR COPY 3

20 Chapter 21 Index Riverway West School Neighbourhood Rutherford (Summers), Jo ............... 390 Schou Street School Neighbourhood Allen (Strang), Wilma..............cese 398 Baker (Urquhart), Olivia.................. 399 PPPBSGT, AQIS .uidiaiiocescrecossressossecddscarvecn 403 Flatherly (Wise

1 digital book

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0969282826

Call Number: 971.133 BUR COPY 3

Edition: Rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: City of Burnaby

Publication Date: 1994

Physical Description: 531 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--History; Burnaby (B.C.); Biography

Notes: Includes index.; 3 copies held: copy 3.

Digital Books

Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Carter, David; Cooke, Rosemary; Pride, Harry, 1925-; White, Janet; Yip, Gail

Publication Date: 2020

Call Number: 371 CAR

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection; Digital Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 978-0-9781979-2-6

Call Number: 371 CAR

Author: Carter, David; Cooke, Rosemary; Pride, Harry, 1925-; White, Janet; Yip, Gail

Place of Publication: Burnaby

Publisher: City of Burnaby

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: vii, 35 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Burnaby (B.C.)--History; Schools--British Columbia--Burnaby

Subjects: Education

Notes: "Includes index"; A history of the Burnaby school district and individual school buildings in Burnaby, BC, between 1893 and 2013.; The “First Nations cemetery” described on page 109 in Mary Johnson’s recollections was originally written as “Indian” and may refer to the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Sikh cremations at the Vancouver Cemetery.

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Pioneer tales of Burnaby

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: c1987

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Digital Reference Collection; Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 096928280x

Call Number: 971.133 SON COPY 4

Contributor: Sone, Michael

Place of Publication: Burnaby, B.C.

Publisher: Corporation of the District of Burnaby

Publication Date: c1987

Physical Description: 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Inscription: "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page

Library Subject (LOC): Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby; Frontier and pioneer life; Biography

Object History: Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.

Notes: "Editor Michael Sone".; Includes index.; 4 copies held: copy 4

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Riverway East and Riverway West Schools

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926-1967 (date of originals), copied [1990]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 24 photographs : b&w copy prints + 25 photographs : b&w negatives ; 35 mm

Scope and Content: Photographs of Dundonald, Riverway East, Glenwood and Riverway West schools and negatives.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926-1967 (date of originals), copied [1990]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Physical Description: 24 photographs : b&w copy prints + 25 photographs : b&w negatives ; 35 mm

Description Level: File

Record No.: 572-002

Access Restriction: In Archives only

Reproduction Restriction: No reproduction permitted

Accession Number: 2014-27

Scope and Content: Photographs of Dundonald, Riverway East, Glenwood and Riverway West schools and negatives.

Subjects: Buildings - Schools

Names: Riverway East School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Most of the photographs are copy prints taken from the Riverway West PTA scrapbook MSS068-001 (Bay 64 - Shelf 6); Many of the photographs contain annotations on verso; Note in pencil on verso of photograph 572-002-1 reads: "Riverway East"; Note in pencil on verso of photograph 572-002-2 reads: "school site for/ 1) Dundonald with shed/ 2) Riverway East 1905/ 3) Glenwood"; Note in blue pen on verso of photograph 572-002-38 reads:"back row/ Miss Kidd, Donald Kin, William Waldner, Sammy Gilbert, Lucy Checkowsky, Geraldine McIntyre, Beatrice MacGowen, Jean Banon, Dorren McClure, Sady Mann, Sonny McClure, 2 Normal Students/2nd row/Eva Eng, Florence MacGowen, Evelyn Rorison, Kay Rorison, Nelie Wilson, Jessie Gilbert, Margaret Corothers, Audrey Banon, Betty Mann, Jean MacMullin/3rd row/ Hughie Rorison, Engine Banoff, David Downs, Donald McIntyre, Fred Chambers, George Eng, Anthony Checkowsky, Jimmy Wintson, Art McClure, Leonard Geall, Jack Rorison, Peter Smith, Gum Eng."