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Alexander Morrison

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [191-] date of original, copied [198-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 12 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of portrait of Alexander Morrison taken from Volume III of "British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present" by Howay and Schofield that was published in 1914. An enlarged photograph originating from this negative was printed and displayed inside a frame on the wall inside the R…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Royal Bank exhibit series

Subseries: Royal Bank exhibit photographs subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 12 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of portrait of Alexander Morrison taken from Volume III of "British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present" by Howay and Schofield that was published in 1914. An enlarged photograph originating from this negative was printed and displayed inside a frame on the wall inside the Royal Bank building inside Burnaby Village Museum. According to biographical information in this volume, Alexander Morrison was a founder and successful businessman with Armstrong, Morrison & Company Limited who first operated a machine shop and pipe manufacturing plant responsible in the production of pipes for water mains in Vancouver and New Westminsterf as well as railroad trestles of the Canadian Pacific Railway and mining machinery. In 1901, they sold the plant and started a street building and paving business in Vancouver and were later successful in bridge construction throughout the province including the Granville Street and Main Street bridges in Vancouver along with railway bridges across the Thompson and Fraser Rivers. Morrison was also a director in the Clayburn Company, the Vancouver Granite Company and the Keremeos Land Company and a member of the Vancouver Board of Trade.

Names: Morrison, Alexander

Accession Code: BV022.1.35

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [191-] date of original, copied [198-]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 1200

Scan Date: 2022-04-11

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Enlarged print of photograph is hanging inside frame accessioned BV985.121.2a

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