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Scope and Content: File contains photographs of the aftermath of a fire at a four-plex on Rosewood Street. Photographs depict a fire investigator logging damaged furniture and resident Barat Safdary outside of the home, as investigators work in the background.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2000]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 535-2541

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of the aftermath of a fire at a four-plex on Rosewood Street. Photographs depict a fire investigator logging damaged furniture and resident Barat Safdary outside of the home, as investigators work in the background.

Subjects: Natural Phenomena - Fires; Occupations - Fire Fighters; Buildings - Residential - Condominiums

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a July 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata for 535-2541-1: "Burnaby fire investigator logs damaged furniture outside a Rosewood Ave. four-plex that was heavily damaged by fire, and where a woman was critically injured."; Caption from metadata for 535-2541-2: "Barat Safdary describes how he awoke his five children after discovering his four-plex was on fire early Wednesday morning. A woman in the lower suite below his was critically injured."

Geographic Access: Rosewood Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Lakeview-Mayfield Area

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Sixth Street Rosewood Street Traffic Issues

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63720

Meeting Date: 22-Oct-2001

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63720

Meeting Date: 22-Oct-2001

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 63720

22-Oct-2001 Meeting Minutes

Subdivision Reference #99-20 7938 Rosewood Street Response to Delegation Points

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63652

Meeting Date: 17-Sep-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 23

Item No.: 4

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63652

Meeting Date: 17-Sep-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 23

Item No.: 4

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

Documents

Report 63652

17-Sep-2001 Meeting Minutes

Subdivision Reference #99-20 7938 Rosewood Street Response to Points Raised in Correspondence

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63638

Meeting Date: 10-Sep-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 22

Item No.: 2

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 63638

Meeting Date: 10-Sep-2001

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 22

Item No.: 2

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

Documents

Report 63638

10-Sep-2001 Meeting Minutes

Interview with Jack McGeachie June 18, 1975 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1914-1922

Length: 0:09:27

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's early childhood including the reasons why his family moved to Burnaby, the small pox house at the border of New Westminster and stories of the unfinished family home at Formby Street.

Date Range: 1914-1922

Photo Info: McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464

Length: 0:09:27

Subjects: Buildings - Residences - Houses

Geographic Access: Formby Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood); East Burnaby (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area; Second Street Area

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: June 18, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie. Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School. John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company. Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.

Total Tracks: 8

Total Length: 0:51:13

Interviewee Name: McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"

Interview Location: Rosewood

Interviewer Bio: Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Transcript Available: None

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.