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![Andrew Johnson house and family, [1913] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/335-001.jpg?width=280)
Andrew Johnson house and family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37198
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1913]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm, mounted on board 21.5 x 27 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Andrew M. Johnson, his wife Margaret and their child Andrew Sloane Johnson holding on to their dog, in a chauffeured car, parked in front of their house.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1913]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Andrew Johnson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm, mounted on board 21.5 x 27 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 335-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1997-16
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Andrew M. Johnson, his wife Margaret and their child Andrew Sloane Johnson holding on to their dog, in a chauffeured car, parked in front of their house.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 5152 Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
Images
![Andrew Johnson house and family, [1913] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/316/335-001.jpg)
![Automobile accident, [after 1924] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550048.jpg?width=280)
Automobile accident
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1499
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [after 1924]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a Dodge coupe with its front end in an icy, snow covered ditch, and the rest of the body hanging on the slope.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a Dodge coupe with its front end in an icy, snow covered ditch, and the rest of the body hanging on the slope.
- Accession Code
- BV999.55.48
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [after 1924]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Related Material
- For other photographs depicting the retrieval of a damaged car in snow, see BV999.55.47 - .49 They may be of the same or related events.
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 09-Jun-09
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Automobile accident, [after 1924] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550048.jpg)
![Damaged car, [193-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550050.jpg?width=280)
Damaged car
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1501
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an automobile damaged after an accident on a dirt roadway.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 5.5 cm
- Material Details
- Light leak occurred at time of exposure causing an unreadable area on the right side of the photograph
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an automobile damaged after an accident on a dirt roadway.
- Accession Code
- BV999.55.50
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [193-?]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 09-Jun-09
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Damaged car, [193-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550050.jpg)
![Damaged cars, [193-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550051.jpg?width=280)
Damaged cars
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1502
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-?]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two automobiles damaged after an accident on a dirt roadway.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8 cm
- Material Details
- Light leak occurred at time of exposure causing an unreadable area at the center of the photograph
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two automobiles damaged after an accident on a dirt roadway.
- Accession Code
- BV999.55.51
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [193-?]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 09-Jun-09
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Damaged cars, [193-?] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550051.jpg)
Interview with Don Brown by Rod Fowler February 26, 1990 - Track 6
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory507
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1947-1954
- Length
- 00:05:44
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about the paving and widening of Kingsway in 1953, the development along main roads, and the end of the Interurban tram system
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about the paving and widening of Kingsway in 1953, the development along main roads, and the end of the Interurban tram system
- Date Range
- 1947-1954
- Photo Info
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Don Brown, November 2, 1997. Item no. 535-0979
- Length
- 00:05:44
- Subjects
- Accidents - Automobile Accidents
- Transportation - Automobiles
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- 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
- 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
Audio Tracks
Track six of interview with Don Brown
Track six of interview with Don Brown
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-016/MSS187-016_Track%206.mp3
Jim Bowman
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35040
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1935 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Jim Bowman with a dog at a farm looking east towards Sperling Avenue. The description in the accession file states this is "Taxi man (at C.P.R. station) Jim Bowman [with] his car, which was a taxi," and that he "lived [in a] hotel across from [the station]"
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1935 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Chamberlain family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.6 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 179-011
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-27
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Jim Bowman with a dog at a farm looking east towards Sperling Avenue. The description in the accession file states this is "Taxi man (at C.P.R. station) Jim Bowman [with] his car, which was a taxi," and that he "lived [in a] hotel across from [the station]"
- Names
- Bowman, Jim
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Joseph Nagy and Butch, [1946] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/545-070.jpg?width=280)
Joseph Nagy and Butch
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77854
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1946]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Joseph Nagy standing with a cigar in his mouth and one foot resting on the running board of a car. Joseph's dog Butch is standing on his hind legs, facing his owner.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1946]
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 6 cm
- Material Details
- Secured to album page with photo corners
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 545-070
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Joseph Nagy standing with a cigar in his mouth and one foot resting on the running board of a car. Joseph's dog Butch is standing on his hind legs, facing his owner.
- Names
- Nagy, Joseph
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note written on album page reads: "Joseph + Butch"
Images
![Joseph Nagy and Butch, [1946] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/540/545-070.jpg)
![Picken Family, [1927] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-327.jpg?width=280)
Picken Family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35469
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Picken family. Left to right: Stanley Picken, Isabel Picken (nee Ponton), and Mary Picken (later Mary Healy) with the 1926 Studebaker that brought them across the continent from Florida to Burnaby, April, 1927.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-327
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Picken family. Left to right: Stanley Picken, Isabel Picken (nee Ponton), and Mary Picken (later Mary Healy) with the 1926 Studebaker that brought them across the continent from Florida to Burnaby, April, 1927.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Picken Family, [1927] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/204/204-327.jpg)
Rorison Family
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35381
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of William Rorison and children in the family car, along River Road (now Marine Drive).
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Pioneer Tales subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 204-238
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of William Rorison and children in the family car, along River Road (now Marine Drive).
- Names
- Rorison, William
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Geographic Access
- Marine Drive
- Street Address
- 4593 Marine Drive
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Sussex-Nelson Area
Images
![Towing a Dodge coupe, [after 1924] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550049.jpg?width=280)
Towing a Dodge coupe
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1500
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [after 1924]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 7.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a Dodge coupe convertible on a snow covered slope with an unidentified man pulling on ropes by the rear wheel and another man at the driver's side. Together, the men are attempting to tow the car up the slope.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 7.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a Dodge coupe convertible on a snow covered slope with an unidentified man pulling on ropes by the rear wheel and another man at the driver's side. Together, the men are attempting to tow the car up the slope.
- Accession Code
- BV999.55.49
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [after 1924]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Related Material
- For other photographs depicting the retrieval of a damaged car in snow, see BV999.55.47 - .49 They may be of the same or related events.
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 09-Jun-09
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Towing a Dodge coupe, [after 1924] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1990/199900550049.jpg)