"Sussex-Nelson Area" found 19 records

Alta Vista Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

Heritage Value: As with many areas of Burnaby during this period, the years after World War Two marked a rapid growth in residential development in the Alta-Vista Neighbourhood. Subdivisions like Sussex and Suncrest were built and new schools and amenities were constructed to meet the demands of increased population.

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Sussex Avenue School

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-1982

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Geographic Access: Irmin Street

Associated Dates: 1955-1982

Heritage Value: Sussex Avenue school was another school built during the peak expansion years of the 1950s and early 1960s. Burnaby's population was growing at such a fast pace during that decade that 10 new schools were built, and existing schools were expanded. Sussex Avenue School opened with 304 pupils. By the 1970s, student enrolment had slowed considerably from its peak and as a result, a number of schools - including Sussex - were closed.

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Street Address: 4443 Irmin Street

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Sussex-Nelson Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1955-2008

Heritage Value: The Sussex-Nelson Neighbourhood is located just south of Metrotown and in 1980 was characterised as the most populated of all of Burnaby's Planning Study areas. The area immediately south of Metrotown was initially developed as post-war 1950s housing stock, while the sector south of Rumble was developed after the 1960s and 1970s as single-family housing.

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Car in Driveway

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [ca. 1950] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 4.8 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 26.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a car parked in the driveway at the back of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [ca. 1950] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 4.8 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 26.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-670

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of a car parked in the driveway at the back of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

Subjects: Transportation - Automobiles

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Waverley Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Waverley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Car in Driveway, [ca. 1950] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

David Ellis

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1952 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.3 x 3.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of David Ellis, leaving for school, in front of 6926 Nelson Avenue, the home of James and Sarah Ellis, his grandparents.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1952 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.3 x 3.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.1 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-306

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of David Ellis, leaving for school, in front of 6926 Nelson Avenue, the home of James and Sarah Ellis, his grandparents.

Subjects: Natural Phenomena - Snow

Names: Ellis, David

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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David Ellis, 1952 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Digney Pee-Wee Bowling League

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958 or 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 40.5 x 104 cm

Scope and Content: Panorama photograph of the Digney Pee-Wee Bowling League. Some members are identified as; Ernest Frank "Dig" Digney (back row- far left); Natasha Wiebe (back row-2nd from left); Carol Loew; Cathy Strang; Susan Dunham; Lynne Pemble; Leah Pemble; Karen Proby and Bruce Digney (front row-6th from the …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958 or 1959]

Collection/Fonds: Digney Family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 40.5 x 104 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 562-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2014-09

Scope and Content: Panorama photograph of the Digney Pee-Wee Bowling League. Some members are identified as; Ernest Frank "Dig" Digney (back row- far left); Natasha Wiebe (back row-2nd from left); Carol Loew; Cathy Strang; Susan Dunham; Lynne Pemble; Leah Pemble; Karen Proby and Bruce Digney (front row-6th from the left). Andy Digney opened the Digney Bowl on August 19, 1955 and passed the business onto his son Ernest who ran it until his son Bruce Digney took over in 1980. The Digney Bowl was located at 6521 Bonsor Avenue. The bowling league met every Saturday morning at the Digney bowling alley where there were a total of 32 teams (5 children per team) who bowled in shifts since there wasn't enough room for everyone to bowl at once. Paul Digney (the son of Dig Digney) helped out by emptying ashtrays.

Subjects: Sports - Bowling

Names: Digney Bowling Alley; Digney, Ernest Frank "Dig"; Wiebe, Natasha; Loew, Carol; Strang, Cathy; Dunham, Susan; Pemble, Lynne; Proby, Karen; Digney, Bruce; Digney, Paul

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title

Geographic Access: Bonsor Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Digney Pee-Wee Bowling League, [1958 or 1959] thumbnail

Ellis Family at Christmas, 1951

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1951 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.4 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Ellis family, Christmas 1951. The photo was taken in the Ellis house at 6926 Nelson Avenue. Left to right: Mr. Ellis, Bobby Ellis, Annie Ellis, Audrey Ellis, Bob Ellis, Harry Ellis, Jim Ellis, David Ellis, and Sarah Ellis.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1951 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.4 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.1 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-302

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Ellis family, Christmas 1951. The photo was taken in the Ellis house at 6926 Nelson Avenue. Left to right: Mr. Ellis, Bobby Ellis, Annie Ellis, Audrey Ellis, Bob Ellis, Harry Ellis, Jim Ellis, David Ellis, and Sarah Ellis.

Subjects: Holidays - Christmas

Names: Ellis, Annie King; Ellis, Audrey; Ellis, Robert "Bob"; Ellis, Bobby; Ellis, David; Ellis, Dr. Harry M.; Ellis, Jim; Ellis, Sarah

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Ellis Family at Christmas, 1951, 1951 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Ellis family gathering

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1956 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 3.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a gathering of the Ellis family inside a family home at 6926 Nelson Avenue. The family is seated and standing beside a set table.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1956 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 3.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-342

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of a gathering of the Ellis family inside a family home at 6926 Nelson Avenue. The family is seated and standing beside a set table.

Subjects: Events

Names: Ellis Family

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Ellis family gathering, 1956 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

The Fair Haven

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1957]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. postcard ; 9 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Aerial photographic postcard of "the Fair Haven," a group of United Church homes for Senior Citizens. The road in the foreground is Rumble Street, and the long road to the right is Sussex Avenue. The small forest behind "the Fair Haven" is the David Gary Park.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1950 and 1957]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Vera Jackson Pel subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. postcard ; 9 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 305-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Accession Number: BHS1992-46

Scope and Content: Aerial photographic postcard of "the Fair Haven," a group of United Church homes for Senior Citizens. The road in the foreground is Rumble Street, and the long road to the right is Sussex Avenue. The small forest behind "the Fair Haven" is the David Gary Park.

Subjects: Aerial Photographs; Documentary Artifacts - Postcards; Buildings - Residential - Seniors Housing

Names: Fair Haven

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Typewritten note on verso of postcard reads: "AERIAL VIEW/ 'The Fairhaven', Burnaby BC / United Church Homes for Senior Citizens / 4341 Rumble St., Burnaby, BC"; Handwritten note on verso of postcard reads: ""The road in the foreground is Rumble Street. The long road to the right is Sussex Avenue. The road, going up, on the left, barely visible is McKay Avenue = lower corner. Behind Fair Haven is the future David Gary Park cleared in the late 1950's - then more trees were felled in October 1962 with Hurricane Freda (blown over, uprooted trees) that left the park as it is today in 1993. The top row of little (5) white cottages were moved from the N.W. corner of Willingdon and Kingsway where Old Orchard Mall is now - they were part of Old Orchard Auto Villas, the first Fair Havens. Note: All cottages on right side of Lodge have been moved to Vancouver Island in 1991 for Motel units - by barge."; Printed on verso of postcard: "Traveltime product, made in Vancouver, Canada, by Grant-Mann Lithographers Ltd."

Geographic Access: Rumble Street

Street Address: 4341 Rumble Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

The Fair Haven, [between 1950 and 1957] thumbnail

Ida Le Grove and Beth

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1950] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 4.1 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mrs. Ida Le Grove holding a young child identified as "Beth" on the steps of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1950] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 4.1 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-613

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mrs. Ida Le Grove holding a young child identified as "Beth" on the steps of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

Names: Le Grove, Ida

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Waverley Avenue

Street Address: 2337 Waverley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

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Ida Le Grove and Beth, [1950] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Interview with Don Brown by Rod Fowler February 26, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1947-1950

Length: 00:05:23

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s three years working for the BC Provincial Police in Burnaby. He describes the communication and transportation challenges that separated neighbourhoods in Burnaby, and what the area looked like around his first house on Portland Street.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s three years working for the BC Provincial Police in Burnaby. He describes the communication and transportation challenges that separated neighbourhoods in Burnaby, and what the area looked like around his first house on Portland Street.

Date Range: 1947-1950

Photo Info: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Don Brown, November 2, 1997. Item no. 535-0979

Length: 00:05:23

Names: Burnaby Police Department

Subjects: Public Services - Policing

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood); Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 26, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Don Brown, conducted by Rod Fowler. Don Brown was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Don Brown’s description of the changes in Burnaby’s built and natural landscapes and socioeconomic conditions, especially between 1947 and 1975, the strong impression made on him by those changes evident in the interview. He talks about his work and career as a police officer with the Burnaby Provincial Police and RCMP. The interview also details his involvement in Burnaby politics and volunteer community groups. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Donald Neil “Don” Brown was born in Birmingham, England May 4, 1919, and immigrated with his parents and siblings to Winnipeg in 1922. At the outbreak of WWII Don Brown left high school and enlisted in the 12th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, serving six years in the army. Before going overseas he married Helen Birch in 1939. In 1947 Don Brown joined the B.C. Provincial Police which was absorbed by the RCMP in 1950. He worked as a police officer in Burnaby from 1947 to 1954, and then was transferred to Ottawa (with a stop in Regina) for nine and a half years where he attended Carleton University to study forensics. In 1963 Don Brown was transferred back to Vancouver and bought and moved into a house on Watling Street in Burnaby where he still lived in 1990. Another transfer took him to Edmonton for five years, returning to Burnaby in 1975. Following retirement in 1980 with the rank of Supervisor and after 22 years in forensic laboratories, Don Brown started his own business as a private document examiner. Don Brown was active in Burnaby politics, serving as Alderman from 1979-1985. He was also involved in many community groups including the South Burnaby Men’s Club, which he helped found in 1952, as well as active in the Burnaby Historical Society, and served on the Burnaby School Board, Burnaby Centennial Committee, and the Community College for the Retired. Don and Helen Brown had six children: Donna, Don, Gina, Patricia, Christopher and Susan. Don Brown died May 16, 2009.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 01:35:07

Interviewee Name: Brown, Donald N. "Don"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Images

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Don Brown, November 2, 1997. Item no. 535-0979 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Don Brown

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Interview with Don Brown by Rod Fowler February 26, 1990 - Track 7

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1947-1954

Length: 00:09:03

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s memories about what his neighbourhood looked like in the early 1950’s, his salary as a policeman, housing costs, buying vegetables from the Chinese market gardens, and what he and his wife and friends did for entertainment. He talks about the night…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Don Brown’s memories about what his neighbourhood looked like in the early 1950’s, his salary as a policeman, housing costs, buying vegetables from the Chinese market gardens, and what he and his wife and friends did for entertainment. He talks about the nightclubs and liquor laws in Burnaby at that time

Date Range: 1947-1954

Photo Info: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Don Brown, November 2, 1997. Item no. 535-0979

Length: 00:09:03

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 26, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Don Brown, conducted by Rod Fowler. Don Brown was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Don Brown’s description of the changes in Burnaby’s built and natural landscapes and socioeconomic conditions, especially between 1947 and 1975, the strong impression made on him by those changes evident in the interview. He talks about his work and career as a police officer with the Burnaby Provincial Police and RCMP. The interview also details his involvement in Burnaby politics and volunteer community groups. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Donald Neil “Don” Brown was born in Birmingham, England May 4, 1919, and immigrated with his parents and siblings to Winnipeg in 1922. At the outbreak of WWII Don Brown left high school and enlisted in the 12th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, serving six years in the army. Before going overseas he married Helen Birch in 1939. In 1947 Don Brown joined the B.C. Provincial Police which was absorbed by the RCMP in 1950. He worked as a police officer in Burnaby from 1947 to 1954, and then was transferred to Ottawa (with a stop in Regina) for nine and a half years where he attended Carleton University to study forensics. In 1963 Don Brown was transferred back to Vancouver and bought and moved into a house on Watling Street in Burnaby where he still lived in 1990. Another transfer took him to Edmonton for five years, returning to Burnaby in 1975. Following retirement in 1980 with the rank of Supervisor and after 22 years in forensic laboratories, Don Brown started his own business as a private document examiner. Don Brown was active in Burnaby politics, serving as Alderman from 1979-1985. He was also involved in many community groups including the South Burnaby Men’s Club, which he helped found in 1952, as well as active in the Burnaby Historical Society, and served on the Burnaby School Board, Burnaby Centennial Committee, and the Community College for the Retired. Don and Helen Brown had six children: Donna, Don, Gina, Patricia, Christopher and Susan. Don Brown died May 16, 2009.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 01:35:07

Interviewee Name: Brown, Donald N. "Don"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

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Audio Tracks

Track seven of interview with Don Brown

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-016/MSS187-016_Track%207.mp3

Interview with William A. Lewarne by Rod Fowler March 14, 1990 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1926-1989

Length: 00:10:22

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is mainly about the start of the Lewarne family ice cream business in the Depression and its history under three generations of the family. He also remembers the hard times of the Depression, the schools he attended in South Burnaby, and Mr. Seller’s shetland ponies.

Date Range: 1926-1989

Photo Info: Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012

Length: 00:10:22

Subjects: Occupations - Entrepreneurs; Business

Geographic Access: Nelson Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: March 14, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost. Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.

Total Tracks: 14

Total Length: 1:34:40

Interviewee Name: Lewarne, William A. "Bill"

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Images

Burnaby Alderman, Bill (William) Lewarne, [1973]. Item no. 231-012 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Bill Lewarne

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-019/MSS187-019_Track_1.mp3

Jubilee Avenue

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 1955

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a section of Jubilee Avenue; the entire span of the paved road has been dug up and two trucks are visible driving over the muddy ground.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a section of Jubilee Avenue; the entire span of the paved road has been dug up and two trucks are visible driving over the muddy ground.

Subjects: Construction - Road Construction; Transportation - Trucks

Geographic Access: Jubilee Avenue

Accession Code: BV004.7.5

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: May 1955

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Related Material: For another photograph of roadwork scene at Jubilee Avenue, see BV004.7.6

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 09-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Jubilee Ave/ May 1955"

Images

Jubilee Avenue

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: May 1955

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a section of Jubilee Avenue; the entire span of the paved road has been dug up and a line of dump trucks are driving over the muddy ground in the distance.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a section of Jubilee Avenue; the entire span of the paved road has been dug up and a line of dump trucks are driving over the muddy ground in the distance.

Subjects: Construction - Road Construction; Transportation - Trucks

Geographic Access: Jubilee Avenue

Accession Code: BV004.7.6

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: May 1955

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Related Material: For another photograph of roadwork scene at Jubilee Avenue, see BV004.7.5

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 09-Jun-09

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "At its worst/ Jubilee Ave/ South Burnaby/ May 1955"

Images

Lyle Le Grove in Car

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38092

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1951 or 1952] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 4.8 cm print on contact sheet 21.5 x 26.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lyle Le Grove in a "woody" wagon car at the back of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1951 or 1952] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 4.8 cm print on contact sheet 21.5 x 26.8 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-679

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Lyle Le Grove in a "woody" wagon car at the back of 2337 Waverley Avenue (later renumbered 6926 Waverley Avenue).

Subjects: Transportation - Automobiles

Names: Le Grove, Frederick Carlyle "Lyle"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

Geographic Access: Waverley Avenue

Street Address: 6926 Waverley Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Lyle Le Grove in Car, [1951 or 1952] (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Nelson Avenue School Grade 5 class

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38008

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.6 x 4.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the 1958 Nelson Avenue School, Division 4, Grade 5 class.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1958 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.6 x 4.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-595

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the 1958 Nelson Avenue School, Division 4, Grade 5 class.

Names: Nelson Avenue School

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast; Photographer identified as "Layton"

Geographic Access: Irmin Street

Street Address: 4850 Irmin Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Sussex-Nelson Area

Images

Nelson Avenue School Grade 5 class, 1958 (date of original), copied 1991 thumbnail

Ricky Ellis

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37755

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1959 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 2.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ricky Ellis standing behind table set for a Christmas gathering inside the Ellis family home at 6926 Nelson Avenue.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1959 (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 2.9 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-343

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Ricky Ellis standing behind table set for a Christmas gathering inside the Ellis family home at 6926 Nelson Avenue.