Research

Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm print

Scope and Content

Photograph of Edgar Sprott dressed in a suit with a vest and bow tie taken in a photographic studio.

Subjects

Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Names

Sprott, Edgar

Accession Code

HV978.1.5

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

May be restricted by third party rights

Date

[188-?] (date of original), copied 1978

Media Type

Photograph

Scan Resolution

300

Scan Date

24-Aug-06

Scale

100

Photographer

unknown

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

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Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content

Photograph of a young couple sitting on a felled tree on land that is being cleared. There are upturned trees, stumps, etc. The woman is wearing a coat with leg-o-mutton sleeves and a flat brimmed hat, and the man is in three piece suit, and has a pocket watch. An earlier catalogue record identifies the couple as Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott, on the land that is being cleared for their home, "Mayfield." The lake in the background is identified as Burnaby Lake.

Subjects

Land Clearing

Plants - Trees

Names

Sprott, Edgar

Sprott, Mrs. Edgar

Geographic Access

Burnaby - Canada Way

Burnaby - Burnaby Lake

Accession Code

HV978.1.9

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

May be restricted by third party rights

Date

[190-?] (date of original), copied 1978

Media Type

Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood

Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area

Morley-Buckingham Area

Scan Resolution

300

Scan Date

25-Aug-06

Scale

100

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

Less detail

Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm print

Scope and Content

Photograph of people on the porch of a house. There are two men and three women standing on the top step of the porch and a man sitting on the bottom step. A catalogue record from 1978 identifes the people standing on the step as (l to r) Aunt Lucy, Mrs. E. Sprott, Mr. Edgar Sprott, and Great Aunt and Great Uncle (who stayed for a while with the Sprotts). The seated man is unidentified.

Names

Sprott, Edgar

Sprott, Mrs. Edgar

Geographic Access

Burnaby

Accession Code

HV978.1.13

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

May be restricted by third party rights

Date

[190-?] (date of original), copied 1978

Media Type

Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood

Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Scan Resolution

300

Scan Date

25-Aug-06

Scale

100

Photographer

unknown

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

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Repository

City of Burnaby Archives

Date

1894

Collection/Fonds

Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series

Kitty Hill Peers Family Photographs

Description Level

Item

Item No.

477-938

Accession Number

2007-12

Storage Location

AV Storage

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on cardboard 22 x 27.5 cm

Media Type

Photograph

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

No known restrictions

Scope and Content

Photograph of a group of farmers loading their crates onto a railway car. Identified (left to right), Bernard R. Hill, Louis Claude Hill, Charles Sprott, George E. Clayton, and Edgar Sprott, who are loading up their strawberries on a street car. The farmers are lined up in a row, each sitting in their own horse and cart as they bring their strawberries to the station.

Subjects

Agriculture - Fruit and Berries

Transportation - Electric Railroads

Transportation - Horses

Transportation - Carts

Occupations - Farmers

Transportation - Wagons

Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names

British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"

Hill, Bernard R

Sprott, Charles

Clayton, George Evert

Sprott, Edgar

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

Caption on recto of photograph reads: "Loading Strawberries, B.C.E.Ry., Douglas Rd., Burnaby, B.C."

Geographic Access

Burnaby - Douglas Road

Historic Neighbourhood

Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content

Photograph of a group of people on the porch of a house. There are six men, three women and three girls standing on the top step of the porch. A catalogue record from 1978 identifies some of the people standing on the porch, however, not very precisely. Standing to the left of the group is Charles Sprott. Beside him are Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott. Depicted to the right of the picture, there are Charles's wife Lucy Schou Sprott, Muriel Sprott, Kitty Hill [?], and Helen Sprott [?]. Charles Sprott was Reeve of Burnaby from 1904 to 1905. He was also a member of Council from 1895 to 1904 and in 1907.

Subjects

Officials - Alderman and Councillors

Officials - Mayors and Reeves

Names

Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"

Sprott, Charles

Sprott, Edgar

Sprott, Helen

Sprott, Mrs. Edgar

Sprott, Muriel

Sprott, Lucy Christina Schou

Geographic Access

Burnaby

Accession Code

HV978.1.15

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

May be restricted by third party rights

Date

[190-?] (date of original), copied 1978

Media Type

Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood

Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Scan Resolution

300

Scan Date

25-Aug-06

Scale

100

Photographer

unknown

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

Less detail

Repository

City of Burnaby Archives

Date

1912

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Historical Society Community Archives Collection

Series

Burnaby Historical Society Photograph Collection

Description Level

Item

Item No.

003-001

Accession Number

BHS2007-4

Storage Location

AV Storage

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9.5 x 11.6 cm

Media Type

Photograph

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

May be restricted by third party rights

Scope and Content

Photograph of a group of male Burnaby Lake residents posed outside near Deer Lake Drive. Identified, standing: B.R. Hill (3rd from left), Rev. D. Dunlop (6th from left), Harry Ramsay (8th from left), Edgar Sprott (9th from left), and George Evert Clayton (10th from left). Sitting on bench: [first name unknown] Clayton (1st from left), Robert Pontifex (2nd from left), Mr. Clay (4th from left), and Frank Hill (6th from left). Sitting on ground: Claude Hill (1st from left) and Percy Boyer Brown (2nd from left).

Names

Brown, Percy Boyer

Clay, Mr.

Clayton, Mr.

Clayton, George Evert

Dunlop, Rev. D.

Hill, Bernard R

Hill, Frank

Brown, Alex

Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"

Pontifex, Robert

Ramsay, Harry

Sprott, Edgar

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

Identification key accompanying in the envelope for photo 003-001 (labeled BHS 3.1)

Geographic Access

Burnaby - Deer Lake

Burnaby - Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood

Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area

Douglas-Gilpin Area

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