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on the south slope and finally on Morley Street at Malvern Avenue. By that time the post - war building boom was well under way and sub-divisions were appearing in all parts of the municipality. Across Malvern there was a large undeveloped forest area stretching from Imperial Avenue to Burris Street (now

in North and South Burnaby. The location of Burnaby’s municipal hall at Edmonds was a result of South Burnaby’s early growth, larger population and political strength. Although the expansion of Burnaby was tempered by another economic recession and the outbreak of the First World War, by 1925 its

lived through the incredible deprivations of homesteading, two depressions, several recessions a n d at least one global war, a n d the phrase I heard most was: 'I w o u l d n ' t have missed it for anything.' To these resilient pioneers, then, to these b o l d builders of Burnaby, I thankfully dedicate

, Kingsway East, Second Street, Sperling Avenue Chapter 3: The War Years (1915-1945) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Burnaby North, Burnaby South, Seaforth, Riverway West, Capitol Hill, Kitchener, Windsor, Stride Avenue Chapter 4: The Baby Boom (1946-1956

Burnaby 14 Annie, Maida and Laura Suey Ying Jung from the Douglas Road Farm, late 1920s. BV017.24.6. COURTESY OF JULIE (CHAN) LEE. 出身于道格拉斯路 菜园的瑞琼、 Maida 和素英， 1920年代 末。 BV017.24.6。李陈桂 秋提供。 �15 Burnaby veteran Dr. Chak Po Tin preserved a handkerchief auto- graphed by his fellow prisoners of war during

particularly fond of the game of tennis and two sons, Bob and Geoff, became crack players, winning many championships in the Pacific Northwest. When World War I started Mrs. Peers felt that gathering just to play tennis was not quite fitting when such a serious thing as a war was taking many of Burnaby's young

was limited by discriminatory legal and social restrictions until after the Second World War. An early 1900s survey map shows the presence of Chinese farms south of Marine Drive (North Arm Road) in Burnaby. Burnaby Village Museum HV977.93.8 Burnaby took shape as a network of small neighbourhoods

"Avalon". The Harts planned to develop the property as a working estate and planted fruit trees, strawberries, raspberries and a vegetable garden in addition to a well endowed series of flower gardens. He and his family lived there until 1916, at which time the death of his son in World War I so saddened

with a partner in downtown Cranbrook. His son, D.T. (George) Yip, fought during the Second World War, and became a farmer in Burnaby after the war had ended. COURTESY OF KEN YIP. 9 Would you leave everything behind for the chance to find gold? Gold Mountain: The True Story of the BC Gold Rush WATCH! Chinese

the Central Park tramline to convey mas- ther 200 prisoners, sive quantities of building materials for the con- Recesslon and War The construction of Oakalla fore- shadowed a darker period for Deer Lake and indeed British Columbia The rampant real estate boom came quickly to an end with a world wide recession

was going to high school at T.J. Trapp Tech in New Westminster on 8th Street, I used to take the Burnaby Lake tram because it went to the terminus at the foot of 8th Street. Sometime after the war, they made the terminus at Sapperton. After the war I was working regular hours in Vancouver and had

to see if we could find coal. When we were at work sinking some shafts in the vicinity of the north end of Bute Street, � L a n d o f P r o m i s e 21 the surveying sloop of war, H.M.S. Plumper, commanded by Captain Richards, R.N., came into the harbour and Captain Richards gave the name of Coal Harbour