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Great Northern Railway construction

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

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

Scope and Content: Photograph of a work crew working on the Great Northern Railway line that ran along the north shore of Burnaby Lake. The line was built ca. 1904.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

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

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-168

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of a work crew working on the Great Northern Railway line that ran along the north shore of Burnaby Lake. The line was built ca. 1904.

Subjects: Occupations - Railroad Labourers; Construction - Railroad Construction; Transportation - Rail

Names: Great Northern Railway

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Images

Great Northern Railway construction, [1904] thumbnail

Group around a car

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of young women and men gathered around what looks to be a McLaughlin Model F Buick (Canadian-built car). Three young men in suits are climbing into the car, and two women in dresses and hats, are standing by watching them. The people and location are unidentified.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of young women and men gathered around what looks to be a McLaughlin Model F Buick (Canadian-built car). Three young men in suits are climbing into the car, and two women in dresses and hats, are standing by watching them. The people and location are unidentified.

Subjects: Transportation - Automobiles

Accession Code: HV977.123.18

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-18

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Group around a car, [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977 thumbnail

Harriet Woodward and Kitty

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38802

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1902]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harriet Woodward and a young Kitty Hill, most likely on the lawn of "Brookfield," the Hill family home in the Deer Lake area of Burnaby. A wheelchair is seen in the foreground.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1902]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-121

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harriet Woodward and a young Kitty Hill, most likely on the lawn of "Brookfield," the Hill family home in the Deer Lake area of Burnaby. A wheelchair is seen in the foreground.

Subjects: Transportation - Wheelchairs

Names: Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"; Woodward, Harriet

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying 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

Harriet Woodward and Kitty, [1902] thumbnail

Haying on the Hill farm

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1905]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.7 x 10.5 cm on page 14 x 17.5 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of two farmers loading hay into a horse-drawn wagon at the home of Claude Hill, in the Burnaby Lake area. The horse's name is Tom.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1905]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.7 x 10.5 cm on page 14 x 17.5 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-180

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of two farmers loading hay into a horse-drawn wagon at the home of Claude Hill, in the Burnaby Lake area. The horse's name is Tom.

Subjects: Agriculture - Crops; Animals - Horses; Occupations - Farmers; Transportation - Wagons

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

Haying on the Hill farm, [1905] 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.

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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

Julia "Jue" Jones Owens and unidentified girl

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens with an unidentified girl. Behind them is a train.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Hill family and Vidal family fonds

Series: Hill family and Vidal family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 10 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 550-031

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2013-03

Scope and Content: Photograph is a portrait of woman identified as Julia "Jue" Jones Owens with an unidentified girl. Behind them is a train.

Subjects: Transportation - Rail

Names: Owens, Julia "Jue" Jones

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph; Note in pencil on album page reads: "Aunt Jue 1900 / (Ontario)"; Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Aunt Julia Jones (Owens) / Ontario 1900 abt"

Images

Kitty Hill in a wagon

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill as a small child, sitting in a wooden wagon.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-097

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill as a small child, sitting in a wooden wagon.

Subjects: Toys; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Hill Family; Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Kitty Hill with her dolls

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1902]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill standing next to a cart holding a doll. The picture was most likely taken outside the Hill family home, Brookfield, in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1902]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-137

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Kitty Hill standing next to a cart holding a doll. The picture was most likely taken outside the Hill family home, Brookfield, in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Toys - Dolls; Transportation - Carts

Names: 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

Kitty Hill with her dolls, [1902] thumbnail

Learning to Ride a Bike

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 8.2 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a young girl (probably Kitty Hill) being helped to ride a bicycle by Claude Hill, Kitty's father. The girl standing in the background is unidentified. Photograph appears to have been taken at the Hill family home, Brookfield, in the Burnaby Lake area.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 8.2 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-146

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph shows a young girl (probably Kitty Hill) being helped to ride a bicycle by Claude Hill, Kitty's father. The girl standing in the background is unidentified. Photograph appears to have been taken at the Hill family home, Brookfield, in the Burnaby Lake area.

Subjects: Transportation - Bicycles

Names: Hill Family; 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

Learning to Ride a Bike, [1904] thumbnail

Lewis family house

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904] (date of original), copied 1985

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a team of four horses pulling a boat in front of the Evelyn Lewis house on Douglas Road (the house - which is visible on the right - was built by Walter Lewis).

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904] (date of original), copied 1985

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Lewis family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.5 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 140-004

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1985-10

Scope and Content: Photograph of a team of four horses pulling a boat in front of the Evelyn Lewis house on Douglas Road (the house - which is visible on the right - was built by Walter Lewis).

Subjects: Recreational Activities - Boating; Transportation - Horses; Buildings - Residential - Houses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Douglas Road

Images

Lewis family house, [1904] (date of original), copied 1985 thumbnail

Man paddling a canoe on a lake

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man paddling a canoe on a lake near a rocky shore line. Mountains are visible in the distance.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man paddling a canoe on a lake near a rocky shore line. Mountains are visible in the distance.

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

Accession Code: BV022.32.8

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-]

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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Man paddling a canoe on a lake, [190-] thumbnail

Men on shore with fish

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-]

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of nine men on the shore of a lake and one man sitting on the bow of a boat that is beached on the shore. Many of the men are holding fish that they have caught. The shore line is rocky with small trees. The man seated on the bow of the boat could be Thomas Robert "Bob" Love. The other m…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Esther Love Stanley fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of nine men on the shore of a lake and one man sitting on the bow of a boat that is beached on the shore. Many of the men are holding fish that they have caught. The shore line is rocky with small trees. The man seated on the bow of the boat could be Thomas Robert "Bob" Love. The other men are unidentified but could be members of the Love family.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds; Transportation - Boats; Recreational Activities - Fishing

Names: Love Family

Accession Code: BV022.32.7

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-]

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)

Images

Men on shore with fish, [190-] thumbnail

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.

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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

Neil M. McQuarrie and George A. Grant

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription51426

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Neil M. McQuarrie and his companion-secretary; George A. Grant on the deck of a steamship, believed to be the "Marinetta" on a Mediterranean cruise.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Grant subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 243-042

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of Neil M. McQuarrie and his companion-secretary; George A. Grant on the deck of a steamship, believed to be the "Marinetta" on a Mediterranean cruise.

Subjects: Transportation - Ships

Names: Grant, George Alford; McQuarrie, Neil M.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Neil M. McQuarrie and George A. Grant, [1900] thumbnail

Neil M. McQuarrie on the Marinetta

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription51432

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of George A. Grant sitting on the boom of the "Marinetta".

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Grant subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 243-048

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of George A. Grant sitting on the boom of the "Marinetta".

Subjects: Transportation - Ships

Names: McQuarrie, Neil M.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note on verso of photograph reads: "Dad on the 'Marinetta"

Images

Neil M. McQuarrie on the Marinetta, [1900] thumbnail

Observing from the deck

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription51424

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two men sitting on the deck of a steamboat, one man observes something in the distance (to his left) through binoculars as Neil M. McQuarrie looks on. The steamboat is believed to be the "Marinetta", and she is believed to be on a Mediterranean Cruise.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Grant subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 243-040

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of two men sitting on the deck of a steamboat, one man observes something in the distance (to his left) through binoculars as Neil M. McQuarrie looks on. The steamboat is believed to be the "Marinetta", and she is believed to be on a Mediterranean Cruise.

Subjects: Transportation - Ships

Names: McQuarrie, Neil M.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Observing from the deck, [1900] thumbnail

On Horseback

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66399

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"

Passengers on a Mediterannean cruise

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription51429

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the public believed to be on a Mediterannean cruise aboard the "Marinetta".

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1900]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: George Grant subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 9.5 cm (sight) in mat 11 x 14 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 243-045

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1990-06

Scope and Content: Photograph of members of the public believed to be on a Mediterannean cruise aboard the "Marinetta".

Subjects: Transportation - Ships

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Passengers on a Mediterannean cruise, [1900] 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

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

Railway

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription586

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of railway tracks running along a river or inlet. No homes or farms are in sight. The location is not identified.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of railway tracks running along a river or inlet. No homes or farms are in sight. The location is not identified.

Subjects: Transportation - Rail

Accession Code: HV977.99.28

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-18

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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