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Notes: "A series of text books prepared especially and exclusively for instruction on locomotive engineering by motive power superintendents, master mechanics, traveling engineers and mechanical experts associated with the International School of Engineering" -- Title page; "Locomotive boilers and engines, their construction, care, operation and management, firemen's duties, heat, fuel combustion, injectors, lubrication, and the setting of valves. Also complete description of walschaert and other valve gears, their defects and how to remedy them" -- Title page; Includes index.

Claude and Kitty

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1892 and 1914]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in a hat and a young child riding in a horse-drawn carriage; possibly Mr. L.C. Hill and Kitty Hill being pulled by Kitty's horse Tom.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1892 and 1914]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-897

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in a hat and a young child riding in a horse-drawn carriage; possibly Mr. L.C. Hill and Kitty Hill being pulled by Kitty's horse Tom.

Subjects: Transportation - Carriages; Transportation - Horses

Names: Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"; Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6501 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Images

Claude and Kitty, [between 1892 and 1914] thumbnail

Five children and a dog

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82563

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900-1930]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of three unidentified boys, two unidentified girls and a dog sitting on logs in a clearing of a forest.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900-1930]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-134

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of three unidentified boys, two unidentified girls and a dog sitting on logs in a clearing of a forest.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Animals - Dogs

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Five children and a dog, [1900-1930] thumbnail

Steamboats in the ocean

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82570

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900-1930]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 7 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard shows two steamships in the ocean at sunrise or sunset.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900-1930]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 7 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-141

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard shows two steamships in the ocean at sunrise or sunset.

Subjects: Transportation - Ships

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in black pen on verso reads: "How do you like this scenery? Doesn't it make you think of the 'Blue Danube'? Hastily Dora / Mrs. W J McDonald / Pullman Wash / 1000 Thatuna St"; Stamp on verso reads: ... "Minn."

Images

Steamboats in the ocean, [1900-1930] thumbnail

Young man with horse

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1915]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Scope and Content: Photograph of young man in a suit with his hat in one hand and his horse in the other. He is looking at the horse who is wearing English riding tackle. A dog is visible standing behind the young man.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia

Material Details: inscribed in pencil, verso, "See/ Mother/ Child/ in the corner./ fini./ Liz/ Flurry will be Home/ the last of week/ love to all/ Liz/ Mother/ we will have to/ take time more/ when you come over again

Scope and Content: Photograph of young man in a suit with his hat in one hand and his horse in the other. He is looking at the horse who is wearing English riding tackle. A dog is visible standing behind the young man.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs; Animals - Horses

Accession Code: HV973.110.39

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1915]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: The unidentified soldier in photograph HV973.110.36 may be the young man in this photograph.

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-05-30

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Young man with horse, [between 1900 and 1915] thumbnail

Young man on a horse

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1032

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1900?]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of a young man riding a horse in a residential area.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of a young man riding a horse in a residential area.

Subjects: Animals - Horses

Accession Code: HV973.110.46

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1900?]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For a different shot of the young man on the horse, see photograph HV973.110.45

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-05-30

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Young woman with horse

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1045

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1910]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified young woman in riding apparel and accroutement, including gloves and a hat is standing beside a horse.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified young woman in riding apparel and accroutement, including gloves and a hat is standing beside a horse.

Subjects: Animals - Horses; Clothing

Accession Code: HV973.110.59

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1910]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 800

Scan Date: 2023-05-30

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Young woman with horse, [between 1900 and 1910] thumbnail

Interior of a blacksmith shop

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1138

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [before 1921]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12 x 17.5 cm mounted on board 18 x 22.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of a blacksmith shop. A man in a long jacket is moving next to the furnace at the front of the shop and a farrier (a specialist in equine hoof care) is holding the reins of a horse. The horse appears to be agitated and is kicking out with his hind leg. A third man is visi…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 12 x 17.5 cm mounted on board 18 x 22.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the interior of a blacksmith shop. A man in a long jacket is moving next to the furnace at the front of the shop and a farrier (a specialist in equine hoof care) is holding the reins of a horse. The horse appears to be agitated and is kicking out with his hind leg. A third man is visible walking through the doorway wearing protective equipment of some kind.

Subjects: Occupations - Blacksmiths; Animals - Horses

Accession Code: BV992.45.21

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [before 1921]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Interior of a blacksmith shop, [before 1921] thumbnail

Race track on circus grounds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1176

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a racetrack on circus grounds, with a man saddling up a horse in the foreground. The location has not been identified.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Fred K. Leggett family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a racetrack on circus grounds, with a man saddling up a horse in the foreground. The location has not been identified.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Animals - Horses; Exhibitions

Accession Code: BV993.51.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pen on verso of photograph reads: "P91-5-4"; 1 photograph : b&w ; 120 film copy negative accompanying

Images

Race track on circus grounds, [between 1900 and 1919] (date of original), copied [1993] thumbnail

Group of women standing on a boat

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1900 and 1918] (date of original), copied 2016

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of unidentified women standing on a boat. There are seven women standing on the boat deck itself and one woman standing on wood pilings next to them. There is a canoe floating in the lake just behind the boat on the left side.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of unidentified women standing on a boat. There are seven women standing on the boat deck itself and one woman standing on wood pilings next to them. There is a canoe floating in the lake just behind the boat on the left side.

Subjects: Transportation - Boats; Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds

Accession Code: BV016.43.60

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1900 and 1918] (date of original), copied 2016

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph.; Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 2, grey cover "The Love House".; Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor

Images

Group of women standing on a boat, [between 1900 and 1918] (date of original), copied 2016 thumbnail

On Horseback

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1902 and 1914]

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Ewart "Bill" Grieve on horseback in the Okanagan. He is riding with western tackle and wearing angora chaps.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1902 and 1914]

Collection/Fonds: Grieve family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 11 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 523-013

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2011-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Ewart "Bill" Grieve on horseback in the Okanagan. He is riding with western tackle and wearing angora chaps.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses

Names: Grieve, William Ewart "Bill"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "Bill Grieve in Okanagan / before 1914 war"

CP 581 at Cranbrook

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [after 1903]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 581 (built in 1903) at Cranbrook.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 581 (built in 1903) at Cranbrook.

Subjects: Transportation - Locomotives; Transportation - Rail

Names: Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Accession Code: BV985.6114.61

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [after 1903]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-03-19

Notes: Title based on note written on verso of photograph; Handwritten note in black ball-point pen on verso of photograph reads: "CP 581/ at Cranbrook"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "419"

Images

CP 581 at Cranbrook, [after 1903] thumbnail

CP 585 at Victoria, B.C.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3295

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [after 1903]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 585 (built in 1903) at Victoria, British Columbia.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 585 (built in 1903) at Victoria, British Columbia.

Subjects: Transportation - Locomotives; Transportation - Rail

Names: Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Geographic Access: Victoria

Accession Code: BV985.6114.67

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [after 1903]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2024-03-19

Notes: Title based on note written on verso of photograph; Handwritten note in black ball-point pen on verso of photograph reads: "# 535 C.P. at Victoria B.C"; Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "269A"

Images

CP 585 at Victoria, B.C., [after 1903] thumbnail

Interview with Charles A. Purdon and May E. Purdon July 9, 1975 - Track 1

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1904-1932

Length: 0:08:08

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Charles A. Purdon's employment history and first years of marriage to May E. Purdon.

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview pertains to Charles A. Purdon's employment history and first years of marriage to May E. Purdon.

Date Range: 1904-1932

Length: 0:08:08

Subjects: Transportation - Rail

Interviewer: Bradbury, Dr. Bettina

Interview Date: July 9, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is a taped interview with Charles A. Purdon and May E. Purdon by SFU graduate student Bettina Bradbury July 9, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression and Canadian politics. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".

Biographical Notes: May Eliza was born in London, England in 1907. She came out to Regina with her family when she was eleven. Charles A. Purdon was born February 28, 1904 in London, England. He came to Canada in 1925 from China where he had been working as an accountant for the previous three years. Charles first came to Vancouver and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) but within a week he was sent to Regina. This is where he met May. May and Charles got married in 1926 and Charles began working as an accountant for the Saskatchewan Wheat Growers, then for the Canadian Wool Growers before being laid off. In October of 1930, Charles and May left Regina for Vancouver Island. Charles drove himself out and May rode the train with her children; twin boys and a daughter, only one year apart. They settled at May’s parent’s second house in Coombs. The Purdons arrived in Burnaby in December of 1932 and rented a house on Edmonds Street. Charles was unable to do road work and instead found work through the Liberal Party and also with the Municipal engineers indoors on a number of projects. In 1938 the Purdons were able to get into a reverted house built by Ernie Winch at Maple Avenue (then Jubilee) and Nelson Avenue that had nine bedrooms. They paid ten dollars a month to the municipality for use of this property. May Eliza Purdon died April 6, 1983 at the age of seventy-six.

Total Length: 1:40:03

Interviewee Name: Purdon, Charles A.; Purdon, May Eliza

Interviewer Bio: Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

Audio Tracks

Track one of interview with Charles A. Purdon and May E. Purdon

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-19/100-13-19_Track_1.mp3

Murdock and Lillian McMurray interview November 17, 1975 - Track 5

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1904-1975

Length: 0:09:26

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Murdock McMurray's memories of his first team of horses. Lillian (Wray) McMurray and her husband discuss their son Bob McMurray's volunteerism and professional activities.

1 image 1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Murdock McMurray's memories of his first team of horses. Lillian (Wray) McMurray and her husband discuss their son Bob McMurray's volunteerism and professional activities.

Date Range: 1904-1975

Photo Info: Emerson Doran (left) and Murdoch McMurray, 1917. Item no. 229-004

Length: 0:09:26

Names: McMurray, Bob

Subjects: Transportation - Sleighs; Animals - Horses

Interviewer: McGeachie, Doreen “Pixie”

Interview Date: November 17, 1975

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Murdock McMurray and his wife Lillian (Wray) McMurray conducted by Pixie McGeachie on November 17, 1975. Major themes discussed are: Burnaby's development, the Wray Shoe store and Murdock McMurray's cordwood delivery business.

Biographical Notes: Murdock McMurray was born in Vancouver in 1892 to Wilhelmina May and Robert William McMurray. Other children in the family included older siblings John “Jack” and Margaret Lillian, younger siblings Minnie May born May 4, 1895 and Hampton born June 8, 1902. Murdock’s father Robert worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) but retired shortly after moving his family to Burnaby in 1906. He bought six acres of land of what had been previously the Gilley Ranch, the base of operations for Gilley Bros. Ltd. at 2519 Windsor Street (later renumbered and renamed to the 6400 block Imperial Street). Murdock McMurray quit school early to apprentice as a printer. By sixteen he had left the trade and gone into partnership with his older brother Jack. With a team of horses, harness and a wagon, the brothers helped to macadamize roads, haul building supplies for new homes, deliver cord wood for heating, clear land and excavate basements. When Jack McMurray set off to serve overseas during World War I as a driver in the engineer corps, Murdock bought his team of horses and continued working, mainly in the Deer Lake district. In 1916 Murdoch McMurray partnered with Emerson Doran, nephew of the owner of Doran's Mill to buy Edmonds Coal and Wood fuel yard. As everything was geared towards the war effort, Murdock and Emerson soon ran out of work and had to sell the business. Murdock sold off his horses and equipment and went to work at the ship yard on Pitt River. By 1919 Jack McMurray had returned home from overseas and was working as a fireman at the Shull Lumber and Shingle Mill on the Fraser River. In 1921, he and Murdock teamed up with Emerson Doran and repurchased the Edmonds Coal and Wood fuel yard which they ran together until 1947. Murdock McMurray married Lillian Wray on September 17, 1925. Lillian was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wray, who came to settle in the Jubilee area of Burnaby in 1919. The family lived on Dow Road and Edward Wray operated Jubilee Shoe Store and Post Office. He was known throughout the district as "Wray - The Shoe Man." Mrs. Wray died in 1957 at the age of eight-six and Edward Wray died January 14, 1967 at age of ninety-three. Murdock and Lillian lived at Inverness Street (now Arcola) and raised three children together, Bob, Jack and Bessie. Murdock McMurray died in New Westminster on April 28, 1985 at the age of ninety-two. Lillian Ethel (Wray) McMurray died in Burnaby on February 28, 1986 at the age of eighty-seven.

Total Tracks: 7

Total Length: 0:58:55

Interviewee Name: McMurray, Lillian Wray; McMurray, Murdoch

Interviewer Bio: Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie was a resident of Burnaby for over sixty years. Pixie married John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie and raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. Pixie served as the editor for the Burnaby Examiner newspaper and wrote a column entitled "Burnaby History" for The News. In 1974 she authored her first book titled "Bygones of Burnaby" which was one of the first to develop anecdotal stories about pioneer life in Burnaby. She authored "Burnaby - A Proud Century" in 1992 and in 2002 she wrote a biography of the city's namesake in the book "Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's letters from Colonial B.C." She also contributed many hours of volunteering; helping to establish Burnaby's first museum Heritage Village in 1971, serving as President of the Burnaby Historical Society from 1991-1993. She served a six year term on Burnaby's Heritage Commission leading the charge to preserve many historic sites throughout the city, and during her twenty years as the Community Archives volunteer archivist for the historical society, she succeeded in gathering thousands of rare and valuable historic photographs and documents which now forms the core of the photograph collection on the Heritage Burnaby website (as these items were donated by the Society to the City Archives in 2007). The City of Burnaby awarded Pixie McGeachie the Kushiro Cup as Citizen of the year in 2002. In 2006 she received a Heritage BC project award for leading the Friends of Interurban 1223 project, and in 2008 Heritage BC recognised her again by presenting her with the Ruby Nobb Award. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine. On 24 September, 2011, the City of Burnaby dedicated the reading at the City Archives in honour of Pixie and formally named it the Pixie McGeachie Reading Room in recognition of her years of service to the community.

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Oral history subseries

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.

Images

Emerson Doran (left) and Murdoch McMurray, 1917. Item no. 229-004 thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track five of recording of interview with Lillian and Murdock McMurray

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS137-010/MSS137-010_Track_5.mp3

Charlotte and Dorothy Vidal holding puppies

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1905 and 1910]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a portrait of two girls each holding a puppy and flanking an unidentified boy. The girls identified from left to right are Dorothy Vidal and Charlotte Vidal.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [between 1905 and 1910]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 9.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-046

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a portrait of two girls each holding a puppy and flanking an unidentified boy. The girls identified from left to right are Dorothy Vidal and Charlotte Vidal.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Hill, Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal; Loomis, Dorothy Kate Vidal

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on note accompanying photograph and contents of photograph; Note at bottom of album page in pencil reads: "Charlotte & Dorothy / Ioco, BC"; Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Mom & Aunt Dor / Ioco"

Images

Charlotte and Dorothy Vidal holding puppies, [between 1905 and 1910] thumbnail

Love family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription2976

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1905 and 1910]

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of the Love family taken outside on the grass. Their tri-coloured border collie is lying in the front row and a black poodle is standing over him, licking his face. This group is identified as; (back row, l to r) Phoebe Love (later Feedham), unidentified young woman in large h…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Love family fonds

Series: Love family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photographic postcard of the Love family taken outside on the grass. Their tri-coloured border collie is lying in the front row and a black poodle is standing over him, licking his face. This group is identified as; (back row, l to r) Phoebe Love (later Feedham), unidentified young woman in large hat, Sarah Love (later Parker), William Michael Parker (later married Sarah Love), Martha (Dot) Love (later Brandrith); (mid row, l to r) Henry Love, George Love, Albert Lewis (neighbor of the Love family); (front row, l to r) Esther Love (later Stanley), Leonard Love, and Hannah (Girlie) Love (later Barnes).

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Feedham, Phoebe Leonard Love; Lewis, Albert; Love, George Richard; Barnes, Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love; Love, Henry; Love, John Leonard; Parker, Sarah Maria Love; Parker, William Michael; Stanley, Esther Love; Brandrith, Martha Dorothy “Dot” Love; Love Family

Accession Code: BV988.45.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [between 1905 and 1910]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For a copy print of the same image taken from the Bernard Hill family album, see HV977.123.39; See also BV022.32.222 for similar photo

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of postcard reads: "LOVE FAMILY"

Images

Love family, [between 1905 and 1910] thumbnail

Bob Love's boat on a horse-drawn wagon

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19307

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1905 and 1918]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love's boat on a horse-drawn wagon being driven by a man on a dirt road. An unidentified man is standing on top of the boat and holding the reins of the two horses in front. A dog is running on the roadway in front. Tall barren trees are growing through the undergr…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Material Details: Photograph is over exposed, washing out some of the detail

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love's boat on a horse-drawn wagon being driven by a man on a dirt road. An unidentified man is standing on top of the boat and holding the reins of the two horses in front. A dog is running on the roadway in front. Tall barren trees are growing through the undergrowth on either side of the dirt road.

Subjects: Transportation - Boats; Animals - Horses

Names: Love, Thomas "Bob" Robert

Accession Code: BV022.32.24

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1905 and 1918]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-04-04

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1905 and 1918]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love's boat "Burnaby Kid" on a wooden wagon next to a fence and building.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Material Details: Photograph is over exposed, washing out some of the detail

Scope and Content: Photograph of Thomas Robert "Bob" Love's boat "Burnaby Kid" on a wooden wagon next to a fence and building.

Subjects: Transportation - Boats

Accession Code: BV022.32.25

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1905 and 1918]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-04-04

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 1 (BV022.32.1)

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