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![Parade float, [between 1930 and 1945] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1985/1985_5331_0002_001.jpg?width=280)
Parade float
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1255
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.15 x 24.13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a parade float at night. The float is decorated with vines and streamers and is two tiered at the front. Girls in dresses are riding on the float (some have fans in their hands). All are unidentified and the location is not known.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.15 x 24.13 cm
- Material Details
- .
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a parade float at night. The float is decorated with vines and streamers and is two tiered at the front. Girls in dresses are riding on the float (some have fans in their hands). All are unidentified and the location is not known.
- Subjects
- Transportation - Parade Floats
- Events - Parades
- Persons - Children
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Accession Code
- BV985.5331.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2024-01-23
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note on verso of photograph reads: "Night picture."
Images
![Parade float, [between 1930 and 1945] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/1985/1985_5331_0002_001.jpg)
![Barge at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd., [1947] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0013_001.jpg?width=280)
Barge at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15192
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1947] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a barge filled with sawdust docked outside of the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in the Burrard Inlet. A loading conveyor is visible in front of the barge. Sawdust chips were transported from the sawmill to pulp mills.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a barge filled with sawdust docked outside of the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in the Burrard Inlet. A loading conveyor is visible in front of the barge. Sawdust chips were transported from the sawmill to pulp mills.
- Names
- Kapoor Sawmills Limited
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.13
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1947] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- See page 62 in book "In the Shadow by the Sea - recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The conveyor that loaded the sawdust chips on to a barge for transport to pulp mills, c. 1940s"
Images
![Barge at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd., [1947] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0013_001.jpg)
![Besant Kaur Siddoo at her kitchen stove, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0002_001.jpg?width=280)
Besant Kaur Siddoo at her kitchen stove
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15181
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Besant Kaur Siddoo (spouse of Kapoor Singh Siddoo) tending the sawdust burner at her kitchen stove. A large galvanized hopper which fed the sawdust to the fire box of the stove is to her left.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Besant Kaur Siddoo (spouse of Kapoor Singh Siddoo) tending the sawdust burner at her kitchen stove. A large galvanized hopper which fed the sawdust to the fire box of the stove is to her left.
- Subjects
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- see page 63 in the book "In the Shadow by the Sea - recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Mrs. Kapoor Siddoo tending the sawdust burner at her kitchen stove. Note the hopper which fed the sawdust to the fire box of the stove. c. 1940s"
Images
![Besant Kaur Siddoo at her kitchen stove, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0002_001.jpg)
![Boom man with logs, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0016_001.jpg?width=280)
Boom man with logs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15195
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified South Asian Sikh boom man standing on a log with a steel pointed pike pole directing logs within a log boom. The log boom was located in Burrard Inlet at the Kapoor Sawmills Limited.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified South Asian Sikh boom man standing on a log with a steel pointed pike pole directing logs within a log boom. The log boom was located in Burrard Inlet at the Kapoor Sawmills Limited.
- Names
- Kapoor Sawmills Limited
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.16
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- See page 61 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "A boom man needed to be nimble on his feet to select and move logs to the log slip where they could be haulde up into the mill."
Images
![Boom man with logs, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0016_001.jpg)
Canada Victory Bonds organization Chinese branch in Victoria, B.C
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3376
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1 Jun. 1941
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 23.5 cm (sight) in mat 30.5 x 35.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Canada Victory Bonds organization Chinese branch in Victoria, B.C., seated and standing together in two rows. The photograph was taken on June 1, 1941 in the hall of the Chee Kung Tong Chinese Freemasons building. Lum Chuck Yue, a proprietor of the Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 23.5 cm (sight) in mat 30.5 x 35.5 cm
- Material Details
- Chinese characters have been added to recto of mat
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Canada Victory Bonds organization Chinese branch in Victoria, B.C., seated and standing together in two rows. The photograph was taken on June 1, 1941 in the hall of the Chee Kung Tong Chinese Freemasons building. Lum Chuck Yue, a proprietor of the Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. Chinese herbalist shop in Victoria, served as the committee secretary and is identified as sitting in the front row, first from the right.
- Subjects
- Organizations
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Accession Code
- BV985.5331.8
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1 Jun. 1941
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/7/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
Images
![Canoe floating on flooded farm, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0012_001.jpg?width=280)
Canoe floating on flooded farm
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4059
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1000 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) and Puy Yuen Chan in a canoe on the flooded family farm; background contains trees and a building.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1000 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) and Puy Yuen Chan in a canoe on the flooded family farm; background contains trees and a building.
- Accession Code
- BV017.24.12
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1948]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Scan Resolution
- 1000
- Scan Date
- 01-Oct-2017
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Canoe floating on flooded farm, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0012_001.jpg)
![Cecil Lee and brothers, [between 1943 and 1944] (date of original) thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0033_0002_001.jpg?width=280)
Cecil Lee and brothers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15036
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1943 and 1944] (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 1000 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Cecil (Chue Kan) Lee (far right) and his two brothers, Dick (Chue Duck) Lee (far left) and Ken (Chue Kwong) Lee (middle) outside of the Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster. The three brothers are seen squating together in grassy area with the school building behind them.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 1000 dpi
- Material Details
- Labels in Chinese
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Cecil (Chue Kan) Lee (far right) and his two brothers, Dick (Chue Duck) Lee (far left) and Ken (Chue Kwong) Lee (middle) outside of the Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster. The three brothers are seen squating together in grassy area with the school building behind them.
- History
- Photographs from the collection of Julie Lee. Julie married Cecil Lee (Chue Kan), the youngest of the Lee family.
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Geographic Access
- New Westminster
- Accession Code
- BV019.33.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [between 1943 and 1944] (date of original)
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 1000
- Scan Date
- 19-Mar-2019
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Cecil Lee and brothers, [between 1943 and 1944] (date of original) thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0033_0002_001.jpg)
Certificate of Canadian Citizenship issued to Quon Lip Lee
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription16718
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 6 Oct. 1966
- Collection/Fonds
- Quon Lip Lee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Certificate of Canadian Citizenship issued to Quon Lip Lee on October 6, 1966. The back of the certificate includes vitial information including date of birth, marital status and date of issue.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Quon Lip Lee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Certificate of Canadian Citizenship issued to Quon Lip Lee on October 6, 1966. The back of the certificate includes vitial information including date of birth, marital status and date of issue.
- Creator
- Government of Canada
- Names
- Lee, Quon Lip
- Accession Code
- BV021.18.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 6 Oct. 1966
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- April 8, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
Images
![Chan Family photograph, [1946] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0009_001.jpg?width=280)
Chan Family photograph
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4056
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1946]
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 800 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) (seated right) and Puy Yuen Chan (seated left) posing with their two daughters: June Ling Chan (L) and Julie Cho Chan Lee (R).
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 800 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) (seated right) and Puy Yuen Chan (seated left) posing with their two daughters: June Ling Chan (L) and Julie Cho Chan Lee (R).
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Accession Code
- BV017.24.9
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1946]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 800
- Scan Date
- 01-Oct-2017
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Chan Family photograph, [1946] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0009_001.jpg)
Chinese Passport of Larry Lee
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4271
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1949 (date of original), copied 2017
- Collection/Fonds
- Larry Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Chinese Passport of Larry Lee. Yellow paper with Chinese characters throughout. Stamped with approval by the Special Commissioner/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Canada Immigrant Visa, Vancouver.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Larry Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Chinese Passport of Larry Lee. Yellow paper with Chinese characters throughout. Stamped with approval by the Special Commissioner/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Canada Immigrant Visa, Vancouver.
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Lee, Larry
- Accession Code
- BV017.37.7
- Access Restriction
- Restricted access
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1949 (date of original), copied 2017
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 12/3/2017
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15202
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a devasting fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited on January 14, 1947. The ground is covered with snow and smoke and flames are visible rising from the buildings.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a devasting fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited on January 14, 1947. The ground is covered with snow and smoke and flames are visible rising from the buildings.
- Names
- Kapoor Sawmills Limited
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.23
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on Tuesday, January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but toolate to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
Fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15206
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire at Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire at Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947.
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.27
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but too late to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
Fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15207
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan.1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. A group of bystanders are looking on while firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department fight the blaze.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. A group of bystanders are looking on while firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department fight the blaze.
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.28
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan.1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on Tuesday January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but too late to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
Fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15209
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan.1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire at the Kapoor Sawmills Limited on January 14, 1947. Mill buildings are engulfed in flames. There is snow on the ground.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fire at the Kapoor Sawmills Limited on January 14, 1947. Mill buildings are engulfed in flames. There is snow on the ground.
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.29
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan.1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on Tuesday January 14, 1947
Images
Fire fighters battling fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15203
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.24
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but too late to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
Fire fighters battling fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15204
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.25
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but too late to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
Fire fighters battling fire at Kapoor Sawmills Ltd.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15205
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of firefighters from the Burnaby Fire Department battling the fire that destroyed the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in January 1947. Water was pumped from Burrard Inlet to fight the fire.
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Natural Phenomena - Fires
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Persons - South Asian Canadians
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.26
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 14 Jan. 1947 (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Information from page 6 of The Province newspaper-Jan. 15, 1947 confirms that the fire occurred on January 14, 1947
- See page 67 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The February, 1947 Kapoor Sawmill fire. Maintenance workers were trying to thaw out frozen bearings on a machine with a blowtorch and inadvertently started a fire in oily shavings. all the water pipes were frozen preventing the workers from dousing the intital small flames. Finally, but too late to prevent the mill's destruction, water was pumped in from the inlet by the Burnaby Fire Department."
Images
![Fleet of Kapoor Sawmills trucks, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0011_001.jpg?width=280)
Fleet of Kapoor Sawmills trucks
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15190
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fleet of trucks for Kapoor Sawmills Limited.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a fleet of trucks for Kapoor Sawmills Limited.
- Names
- Kapoor Sawmills Limited
- Geographic Access
- Burrard Inlet
- Barnet Marine Park
- Accession Code
- BV019.32.11
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [194-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- See page 62 in book "In the Shadow by the Sea - recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The fleet of Kapoor Sawmill trucks, c. 1940s"
Images
![Fleet of Kapoor Sawmills trucks, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2019/2019_0032_0011_001.jpg)
![Flooded Chan family farm, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0023_001.jpg?width=280)
Flooded Chan family farm
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4069
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1000 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) and Puy Yuen Chan in a canoe on the flooded family farm; background contains trees and two buildings; foreground contains a hedge.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1000 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) and Puy Yuen Chan in a canoe on the flooded family farm; background contains trees and two buildings; foreground contains a hedge.
- Accession Code
- BV017.24.23
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1948]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Scan Resolution
- 1000
- Scan Date
- 01-Oct-2017
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Flooded Chan family farm, [1948] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0023_001.jpg)
![Gee Shee Jung standing on plankboard, [between 1942 and 1952] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0016_001.jpg?width=280)
Gee Shee Jung standing on plankboard
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4063
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1942 and 1952]
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Gee Shee Jung standing on plankboard in yard; telephone pole and small white building in background. Gee Shee Jung (1879-1952) was the mother of Suey Ying Jung (Laura).
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : sepia ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Gee Shee Jung standing on plankboard in yard; telephone pole and small white building in background. Gee Shee Jung (1879-1952) was the mother of Suey Ying Jung (Laura).
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Jung, Gee Shee
- Accession Code
- BV017.24.16
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [between 1942 and 1952]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 1200
- Scan Date
- 01-Oct-2017
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
![Gee Shee Jung standing on plankboard, [between 1942 and 1952] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2017/2017_0024_0016_001.jpg)