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Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Date of photograph [1926] based on birth dates of Yasue "Margaret"- born 1921 and Harding Yasui- born July 1923; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui.

Images

Harding and Yasue Yasui, [1926] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Harding and Yasue Yasui in the family car

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15214

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1926] (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 Harding Yasui and his sister Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) in the family's 1918 Dodge touring sedan. Harding is seated in the driver's seat and Yasue "Margaret" is seated in the back seat.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harding Yasui and his sister Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) in the family's 1918 Dodge touring sedan. Harding is seated in the driver's seat and Yasue "Margaret" is seated in the back seat.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Transportation - Automobiles; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Yasui, Harding

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.35

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1926] (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; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui

Images

Harding and Yasue Yasui in the family car

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15215

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1926] (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 Harding Yasui and his sister Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) in the family's 1918 Dodge touring sedan. Harding is in the driver's seat and his sister Yasue "Margaret" is beside him.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Harding Yasui and his sister Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) in the family's 1918 Dodge touring sedan. Harding is in the driver's seat and his sister Yasue "Margaret" is beside him.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Transportation - Automobiles; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Yasui, Harding

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.36

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1926] (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 128 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Yasue and Harding Yasui in their family's 1918 Dodge car, 1926"; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui.

Images

Sukegoro, Harding and Yasue Yasui with family car

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15217

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1927] (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 Sukegoro Yasui with his daughter, Yasue and son, Harding with their 1918 Dodge sedan. Mr. Yasui is standing next to the car and his children are standing on ther running board. The car is parked on the side of a bridge with a wooden railing.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Sukegoro Yasui with his daughter, Yasue and son, Harding with their 1918 Dodge sedan. Mr. Yasui is standing next to the car and his children are standing on ther running board. The car is parked on the side of a bridge with a wooden railing.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Transportation - Automobiles; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Yasui, Harding; Yasui, Sukegoro

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.37

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1927] (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 129 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Mr. Sukegoro Yasui with Yasue and Harding by their 1918 Dodge car, 1926"; Date of photograph [1927] based on birth dates of Yasue "Margaret"- born 1921 and Harding Yasui- born July 1923; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui.

Images

Sukegoro, Harding and Yasue Yasui with family car, [1927] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Tane, Sukegoro, Yasue and Harding Yasui

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15212

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1926 (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 Tane (Hirata) Yasui and Sukegoro Yasui with their daughter, Yasue Margaret and son Harding Yasui. The family are seated on a log with a tall grass and bushes behind them.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Tane (Hirata) Yasui and Sukegoro Yasui with their daughter, Yasue Margaret and son Harding Yasui. The family are seated on a log with a tall grass and bushes behind them.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Yasui, Harding; Yasui, Tane Hirata; Yasui, Sukegoro

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.32

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1926 (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 126 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Mrs. Lane Yasui, Yasue, Harding and Mr. Sekagoro Yasui, 1926.; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui.

Images

Yasue and Harding Yasui

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1924] (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 Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) and her brother Harding Yasui on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant. Yasue is standing next to her brother who is seated on the grass beside her. A fence is visible behind them.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) and her brother Harding Yasui on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant. Yasue is standing next to her brother who is seated on the grass beside her. A fence is visible behind them.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Nichols Chemical Company Limited; Yasui, Harding

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.34

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1924] (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 127 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Yasueand Harding Yasui, 1923"; Date of photograph [1924] based on birth dates of Yasue "Margaret"- born 1921 and Harding Yasui- born July 1923; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui

Images

Yasue and Harding Yasui, [1924] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Yasue Yasui

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1923] (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 young Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) standing on a wooden bridge on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Yasui family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of young Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) standing on a wooden bridge on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians; Persons - Children

Names: Matsumura, Yasue Yasui "Margaret"; Nichols Chemical Company Limited

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.33

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1923] (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 127 of book "In the Shadow by the Sea - Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "Yasue Yasui, 1926"; Date of photograph [1924] based on birth dates of Yasue "Margaret"- born 1921 and Harding Yasui- born July 1923; In the Shadow by the Sea spells Sukegoro's wife's name as "Lane" (Harata) Yasui, obits for Sukegoro Yasui and his wife use the spelling "Tane" Hirata Yasui.

Images

Yasue Yasui, [1923] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Eleanor and Louise Irwin with Hideko Kokuryo

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15245

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1938] (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 Eleanor Irwin Nelson (left), Louise Irwin (right) and Hideko Kokuryo (behind) and dog in front of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill.Eleanor and Louise are seated on a wagon. The front steps and porch of the Irwin home are visible behind them.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Irwin family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of Eleanor Irwin Nelson (left), Louise Irwin (right) and Hideko Kokuryo (behind) and dog in front of the Irwin family home at the Barnet Lumber Mill.Eleanor and Louise are seated on a wagon. The front steps and porch of the Irwin home are visible behind them.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians

Names: Barnet Mill; Barnet Lumber Company; Nelson, Eleanor Irwin; Irwin, Louise; Kokuryo, Hideko

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.64

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1938] (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

Images

Eleanor and Louise Irwin with Hideko Kokuryo, [1938] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

The Kokuryos, Sukegoro Yasui and Louise Irwin

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1980-] (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 (left to right) the Kokuryos, Sukegoro Yasui and Louise Irwin standing on the former site of the Barnet Mill. The north shore of Burrard Inlet is visible in the distance.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Irwin family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of (left to right) the Kokuryos, Sukegoro Yasui and Louise Irwin standing on the former site of the Barnet Mill. The north shore of Burrard Inlet is visible in the distance.

Subjects: Persons - Japanese Canadians

Names: Yasui, Sukegoro; Irwin, Louise; Kokuryo, Hideko

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet

Accession Code: BV019.32.75

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1980-] (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

Images

The Kokuryos, Sukegoro Yasui and Louise Irwin, [1980-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

Working on the green chain

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription15193

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 two unidentified Chinese Canadian men working on the green chain of Kapoor Sawmills Limited. Burrard Inlet and the north shore mountains are visible in the distance.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of two unidentified Chinese Canadian men working on the green chain of Kapoor Sawmills Limited. Burrard Inlet and the north shore mountains are visible in the distance.

Subjects: Industries - Logging/lumber; Persons - Chinese Canadians; Occupations - Millworkers; Persons - South Asian Canadians

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet; Barnet Marine Park

Accession Code: BV019.32.14

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

Images

Working on the green chain, [194-] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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.

Subjects: Industries - Logging/lumber; Persons - South Asian Canadians

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

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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.

Subjects: Industries - Logging/lumber; Persons - South Asian Canadians; Occupations - Millworkers

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

Booms and mill

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1950] (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 log boom pond of the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in Burrard Inlet.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Photograph of log boom pond of the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in Burrard Inlet.

Subjects: Persons - South Asian Canadians; Industries - Logging/lumber

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited

Geographic Access: Burrard Inlet; Barnet Marine Park

Accession Code: BV019.32.8

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1950] (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 66 in book "In the Shadow by the Sea - recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Caption with photograph reads: "The vast log boom pond of Kapoor Sawmill, c. 1950"

Images

Booms and mill, [1950] (date of original), copied 2004 thumbnail

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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.

Subjects: Industries - Logging/lumber; Natural Phenomena - Fires; Persons - South Asian Canadians

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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.

Subjects: Industries - Logging/lumber; Natural Phenomena - Fires; Persons - South Asian Canadians

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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."

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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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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.

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series: Kapoor Singh Siddoo family photographs series

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

Names: Kapoor Sawmills Limited; Burnaby Fire Department

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."

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