Suburb of Happy Homes: Burnaby Centennial Themes
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1995
- Collection/Fonds
- SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a published copy of the book, "Suburb of Happy Homes: Burnaby Centennial Themes", edited by L.J.Evenden. The book consists of a compilation of ten essays written especially for the Centennial Project and the Burnaby public. Essay titles and authors include; "A Tale Between Two Citi…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1995
- Collection/Fonds
- SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS187-012
- Access Restriction
- Open Access
- Accession Number
- 2014-28
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a published copy of the book, "Suburb of Happy Homes: Burnaby Centennial Themes", edited by L.J.Evenden. The book consists of a compilation of ten essays written especially for the Centennial Project and the Burnaby public. Essay titles and authors include; "A Tale Between Two Cities: The Incorporation of Burnaby" by Jim Wolf, "Burnaby: The First Fifty Years" by Allen Seager and Rodney Fowler, "Welfare and Survival in the Great Depression" by Bettina Bradbury, "For the Public Good: The Origin of Burnaby's Zoning Bylaw, 1924-1946" by Jim Wolf, "Municipal Mapping in Burnaby: A Case Study of Technological Change" by Thomas K. Poiker, "Hastings Street: Shifting Land Values Along a Commercial Arterial Way" by Lyall Armstrong, "Metrotown: A Time and a Place" by Kenji Ito, "Textures of Living: How Retired Men Use Space and Time" by J. Bruce Prior, "Burnaby-Simon Fraser Mountain Landscapes" by Colin Crampton. Reference is made in several of the essays to municipal records that were held at Simon Fraser University Archives for nearly two decades until the City of Burnaby Archives was opened in 2001 and records were transferred back to the City.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Responsibility
- Edited by L.J. Evenden
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file