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1223 at Kitsilano Shops, Vancouver, c. 1955. Henry Ewert Collection FRIENDS OF INTERURBAN 1223 RESTORATION BOARD, 2001~2007 LEFT TO RIGHT: CAROL RUSH, CICE BROWN, ED ECKLEY, PIXIE MCGEACHIE, DENNIS BROWN, MARGARET MATOVICH ED ECKLEY PHOTOGRAPH �3 F O R W A R D Built in 1912 by the St.Louis Car Company

- pioneers were just starting to trickle into the pocket of settlement around Deer Lake i n 1888. It was also three years before the completion of the single rail line between N e w Westminster a n d Vancouver, later to become k n o w n as the B . C . Electric Railway Co.'s Central Park interurban. M o s t

’S I was born in North Vancouver on December 5, 1919. My father was a Canadian born in Toronto in 1886. My mother (nee Mary Adair) was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1897. I have three brothers - Wilmot (Bill) born in New Westminster in 1923; Eric, also born in New Westminster in 1925; and Halford born

into small seams oflignite, a low rank ofcoal, which can still be seen on the mountain today and as far west as Coal Harbour in Vancouver. This sheet of rock was raised 336 meters (1200 feet) above sea level to form Burnaby Mountain by tectonic plate movements. In the Shadow by the Sea 7 AE.COLLECTIONS

h Anthony R. Hurren — artwork The Corporation of the District of Burnaby The University of British Columbia Library Simon Fraser University Archives The Vancouver Public Library British Columbia Hydro Library �BYGONES OF BURNABY PROLOGUE For 22 years my love affair with Burnaby grew and strengthened

Burnaby Village Museum NORTH BURNABY Vancouver Heights Capitol Hill Broadview Lochdale/Burnaby Mountain Barnet Burquitlam ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GLOSSARY INDICES Index by Address Index by Owner, Builder & Contractor 2 4 6 8 10 10 26 40 49 60 66 78 94 100 100 124 128 132 138 142 148 150 152 152 154 �also lists

VILLAGE MUSEUM CBA: CITY OF BURNABY ARCHIVES CVA: CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES VPL: VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY NWM: NEW WESTMINISTER MUSEUM & ARCHIVES WHISTLER MUSEUM EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & ARCHIVES ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HISTORICAL COLLECTION BRANTFORD ELEMENTARY WEBSITE BURNABY CENTRAL SECONDARY

a fire. Donations to the Vancouver and New Westminster Fire Departments' Benevolent Funds brought the first lire engines to Burnaby's rescue. As the population increased, by-laws were enacted to develop a full-time fire service. Se\ eral members saw the value in jotting down ecollections of their

i t h the earliest inroads Into the p r i m e v a l forest w h i c h stretched continuously from Prospect Point to M a r y H i l l w h i c h form but a part of that development w h i c h had a commencement twenty-five years before Vancouver, now Canada's t h i r d City, was born, the fascinating

delivering vegetables door to door in trucks or wagons. An amendment to the bylaw in 1918 charged an extra $25 security deposit fee against traders who were not residents of Burnaby, targeting Chinese Canadian vegetable sellers who, unlike their White counterparts, typically lived in Chinatown in Vancouver

processes during the project, suggestions Spires, Margaret - supplying vintage photographs at the old Vancouver Airport, Lansdowne Stevens, Colin - Museum Curator, surfing the Burnaby Village Museum archives to locate suitable photographs, assigning a volunteer to help, advice, proof reading Swan, Carol

................................................................87 Robert Burnaby, James Lowe & Stahlschmidt, c. 1867...............................87 Henderson & Burnaby Advertisement, 1864.............................................88 Ross Bay Farms, Vancouver Island, c. 1870..............................................89 Robert Burnaby and Kenneth McKenzie

the needs of agricultural produc- tion and the romantic architecture of Victorian homes. However, it was the wealthy men and women of Vancouver and New Westminster during the Edwardian era that spurred the devel- opment of the ultimate suburban retreat in the style of the English Countryside. From

(determined by their individual family connections). hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestors travelled to resource sites all over the present-day municipalities of North and West Vancouver, Squamish, Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Richmond, Delta, and Surrey. Family task groups criss-crossed

, often around transportation routes. Before 1892, settlers viewed Burnaby as simply the land between New Westminster and the new but rapidly growing City of Vancouver. Although a few men acquired property in the 1860s and 1870s, the extension of the Canadian Pacific Railway from Port Moody to Vancouver

did not meet their children until much later in life. BV019.10.1, COURTESY OF THE HONG FAMILY. FAMILY LIFE Men in Vancouver Chinatown, 1936. CVA Bu N158.2 The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 was passed on July 1. While many Canadians celebrate Canada Day on July 1, many Chinese Canadians remember it