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Municipal road crew

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1911 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a municipal road crew. Identified: (far left) George H. Thomson. This was George Thomson's first job after arriving in Burnaby from London, England. He would later open Thomson's Cash Grocery stores. Note the horse drawn wagon used to haul materials.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1911 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-467

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of a municipal road crew. Identified: (far left) George H. Thomson. This was George Thomson's first job after arriving in Burnaby from London, England. He would later open Thomson's Cash Grocery stores. Note the horse drawn wagon used to haul materials.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Occupations - Labourers; Construction - Road Construction; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Thomson, George H.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Municipal road crew, 1911 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Oakalla Clydesdale team

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.8 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Clydesdale horse team from Oakalla Prison Farm pulling a wagon inside the Pacific National Exhibition Agridome. A crowd is watching.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.8 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-731

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Clydesdale horse team from Oakalla Prison Farm pulling a wagon inside the Pacific National Exhibition Agridome. A crowd is watching.

Subjects: Persons - Crowds; Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Oakalla Prison Farm; Pacific National Exhibition (PNE)

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

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Oakalla Clydesdale team

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 19.8 x 26.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Pete Connelly and the Clydesdale horse team from Oakalla Prison Farm (2nd team from right) with other teams inside the Pacific National Exhibition Agridome in Vancouver, BC.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1958] (date of original), copied 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Image Bank subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 19.8 x 26.2 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 370-732

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1999-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Pete Connelly and the Clydesdale horse team from Oakalla Prison Farm (2nd team from right) with other teams inside the Pacific National Exhibition Agridome in Vancouver, BC.

Subjects: Persons - Crowds; Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Connelly, Pete; Oakalla Prison Farm; Pacific National Exhibition (PNE)

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying; Negative has a pink cast

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On a horse-drawn wagon

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.4 x 13.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six women and a man riding on a horse-drawn wagon. The driver is a woman in a dark coloured dress. There is a sheet of cloth covering the horse's body. The setting appears to be a farming community, with a farmhouse and a barn in the background, with a high chicken wire fence.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.4 x 13.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six women and a man riding on a horse-drawn wagon. The driver is a woman in a dark coloured dress. There is a sheet of cloth covering the horse's body. The setting appears to be a farming community, with a farmhouse and a barn in the background, with a high chicken wire fence.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Wagons

Accession Code: HV983.42.30

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-09-12

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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On a horse-drawn wagon, [190-] thumbnail

Phillips family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [191-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.6 x 12.6 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Phillips family, parents and two children, in a horse and buggy.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [191-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.6 x 12.6 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-123

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Phillips family, parents and two children, in a horse and buggy.

Subjects: Transportation - Carriages; Transportation - Horses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Phillips family, [191-] (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail

Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1915]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.1 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and wagon at McKay Avenue. Four men are seated and standing on the wagon with lumber. An annotation on the back of photograph reads, "Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1915]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pitman family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.1 x 10.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 186-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-35

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and wagon at McKay Avenue. Four men are seated and standing on the wagon with lumber. An annotation on the back of photograph reads, "Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co."

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Industries - Forestry; Transportation - Wagons; Industries - Logging/lumber

Names: Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McKay Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1915

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.1 x 10.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and wagon with lumber on it at McKay Avenue. A man is standing on one of the wheels of the wagon. They are in front of a building with signs reading, "Office" and "Lumber Co." An annotation on the back of the photo reads, "Phillips Hoyt Lum…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1915

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pitman family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.1 x 10.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 186-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-35

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and wagon with lumber on it at McKay Avenue. A man is standing on one of the wheels of the wagon. They are in front of a building with signs reading, "Office" and "Lumber Co." An annotation on the back of the photo reads, "Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co. / 1915."

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Industries - Forestry; Transportation - Wagons; Industries - Logging/lumber

Names: Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McKay Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.7 x 11.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and sleigh in the snow at McKay Avenue. Two men are standing beside the sleigh which is piled with what may be wood. The sign on the building behind them reads, "Robert J. Burgess / Cash Grocery." An annotation on the back of the photo read…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1916

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pitman family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.7 x 11.3 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 186-003

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-35

Scope and Content: Photograph of a Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company horse team and sleigh in the snow at McKay Avenue. Two men are standing beside the sleigh which is piled with what may be wood. The sign on the building behind them reads, "Robert J. Burgess / Cash Grocery." An annotation on the back of the photo reads, "Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co. / B.C. Electric Track & McKay Ave / 1916."

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Industries - Forestry; Transportation - Wagons; Industries - Logging/lumber

Names: Phillips-Hoyt Lumber Company

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: McKay Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

Images

Phillips Hoyt Lumber Co., 1916 thumbnail

Sleigh ride

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1890 and 1909]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm, mounted on card 10 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man and woman riding through the snow on a horse-drawn sleigh on Park Row in New Westminster.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm, mounted on card 10 x 12.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man and woman riding through the snow on a horse-drawn sleigh on Park Row in New Westminster.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Sleds

Geographic Access: Burnaby Lake

Accession Code: BV003.61.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [between 1890 and 1909]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 09-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pencil on verso of card mount reads: "NEAR BURNABY LAKE,/ Burnaby, B.C."

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Sleigh ride, [between 1890 and 1909] thumbnail

Standen family

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [191-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.1 x 14.9 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Standen and their daughter, Annie, beside a team of horses. The driver is unidentified.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [191-] (date of original), copied 1992

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Centennial Anthology subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.1 x 14.9 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 315-081

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1994-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Standen and their daughter, Annie, beside a team of horses. The driver is unidentified.

Subjects: Transportation - Wagons; Transportation - Horses

Names: Standen, Annie

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Fir Street

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Cascade-Schou Area

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Standen family, [191-] (date of original), copied 1992 thumbnail

Two women in a horse-drawn wagon

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 10.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two women riding in a horse-drawn wagon. They are wearing overcoats, hats and gloves. One of the women is driving the horse. There are trees, fields and a house in the background.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 10.1 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two women riding in a horse-drawn wagon. They are wearing overcoats, hats and gloves. One of the women is driving the horse. There are trees, fields and a house in the background.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Wagons

Accession Code: HV983.42.29

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-09-12

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Two women in a horse-drawn wagon, [190-] thumbnail

Wagon ride to Central Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 15 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of of nineteen children in a wagon going to Central Park May Day activities. The exact location of the photograph is unknown.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Margaret McCallum subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 15 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 375-015

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-42

Scope and Content: Photograph of of nineteen children in a wagon going to Central Park May Day activities. The exact location of the photograph is unknown.

Subjects: Transportation - Wagons; Transportation - Horses

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Wagon ride to Central Park, 1926 thumbnail

William Whiting hauling strawberries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1896]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.9 x 13.8 cm mounted on 17.8 x 22.7 cm cardboard

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Whiting seated in a horse-drawn wagon hauling strawberries from Burnaby to New Westminster.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1896]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.9 x 13.8 cm mounted on 17.8 x 22.7 cm cardboard

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 037-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of William Whiting seated in a horse-drawn wagon hauling strawberries from Burnaby to New Westminster.

Subjects: Agriculture - Fruit and Berries; Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Wagons

Names: Whiting, William

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Annotation on back of photograph reads, "Mr. W. Whiting taking load of stawberries into New West about 62 years ago (1958)."

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William Whiting hauling strawberries, [1896] thumbnail

Bernard Hill farm

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [190-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Hill brothers Frank, Claude and Gerry and their pet dog riding on hay wagon on their father's farm.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [190-] (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-789

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Hill brothers Frank, Claude and Gerry and their pet dog riding on hay wagon on their father's farm.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs; Transportation - Horses; Agriculture - Crops; Agricultural Tools and Equipment

Names: Hill, A Claude; Hill, Frank; Hill, Minard Gerald "Gerry"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Canada Way

Street Address: 4990 Canada Way

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Douglas-Gilpin Area

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Bernard Hill farm, [190-] (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Bob Love's boat on a horse-drawn wagon

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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 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…

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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 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)

Images

Bob Love's boat on a horse-drawn wagon, [between 1905 and 1918] thumbnail

Clearing Douglas Road

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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 ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of men in work clothes clearing Doulgas Road. A group of men to the right side of the photograph have shovels in their hands and are clearing rocks from the road. There is a small girl in a blouse and skirt standing beside two horses pulling a cart. Behind her is a group of men in wor…

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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 men in work clothes clearing Doulgas Road. A group of men to the right side of the photograph have shovels in their hands and are clearing rocks from the road. There is a small girl in a blouse and skirt standing beside two horses pulling a cart. Behind her is a group of men in work clothes as well. There is fenced land to the right of the photograph, and electric power poles and trees line both sides of the road. The accession register and inscription on the photograph identify this as Douglas Road (later renamed in part Canada Way). An annotation on the back of the photo reads: "Working on Douglas Road on hill above Burnaby Lake. No Date."