for the B.C.Electric Railway Company,interur- ban car 1223 was operated as a passenger car on the electric interurban lines of Burnaby and the Lower Mainland until 1958. It was rescued from destruction and dedicated as a historic monument by The Burnaby Historical Society in 1958 at Edmonds and Kingsway and in 1971

-1914 was fuelled by an expanding provincial economy that was based on the growth of the mining and lumber trade and rapid immigration. Burnaby, located between two expanding urban centers, achieved tremendous growth as the expansion of the local electric railway system, steam railroads and highways