73 records – page 4 of 4.

The "Shack" - Parksville

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66274
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1915
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the cabin used by the Peers family during a trip to Parksville, Vancouver Island. A label accompanying the photograph reads: "The Shack - Parksville."
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1915
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Series
Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
Physical Description
1 photograph
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-986
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph shows the cabin used by the Peers family during a trip to Parksville, Vancouver Island. A label accompanying the photograph reads: "The Shack - Parksville."
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Less detail

Shearer Shack

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription70546
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911
Collection/Fonds
Shearer Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg)
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jim Shearer, his wife Katherine (Dormer), and their daughter, Katie, posed in front of the temporary shelter erected at 5573 Buckingham Avenue during the construction of their home on that site, which was commissioned by Katherine's father, Francis Joseph Dormer. The image was taken s…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1911
Collection/Fonds
Shearer Family fonds
Physical Description
1 photograph (jpeg)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
530-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2012-05
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jim Shearer, his wife Katherine (Dormer), and their daughter, Katie, posed in front of the temporary shelter erected at 5573 Buckingham Avenue during the construction of their home on that site, which was commissioned by Katherine's father, Francis Joseph Dormer. The image was taken shortly before their son James Francis was born.
Subjects
Buildings - Heritage
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Buildings - Residential
Names
Shearer, James Dyke
Shearer, Katherine Dormer
Shearer, Katie
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Shearer, Tony
Geographic Access
Buckingham Avenue
Street Address
5573 Buckingham Avenue
Historic Neighbourhood
Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Morley-Buckingham Area
Images
Less detail

Snow covered cabin on Mount Seymour

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription2929
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jack and Pixie's McGeachie's log cabin, "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. There is a very high snow drift in the foreground and just the roof of the cabin is visible through the trees. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin…
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Series
Pixie McGeachie photographs series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jack and Pixie's McGeachie's log cabin, "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. There is a very high snow drift in the foreground and just the roof of the cabin is visible through the trees. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin with friends on Mount Seymour from 1938 until after the Second World War.
Subjects
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Geographic Features - Forests
Geographic Features - Mountains - British Columbia
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Accession Code
BV008.17.18
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Snow covered cabin on Mount Seymour

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription2931
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of a side view of Jack and Pixie McGeachie's cabin, "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. The log cabin is covered with snow and surrounded by snow covered trees. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin with friends on Mount Seymo…
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Series
Pixie McGeachie photographs series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of a side view of Jack and Pixie McGeachie's cabin, "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. The log cabin is covered with snow and surrounded by snow covered trees. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin with friends on Mount Seymour from 1938 until after the Second World War.
Subjects
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Geographic Features - Forests
Geographic Features - Mountains - British Columbia
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Accession Code
BV008.17.20
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Snow covered cabin on Mount Seymour

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription2935
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jack and Pixie McGeachie's snow covered log cabin "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. There is a man (Jack McGeachie?) stairing out the window of the second floor. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin with friends on Mount …
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Pixie McGeachie fonds
Series
Pixie McGeachie photographs series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 600 dpi
Scope and Content
Photograph of Jack and Pixie McGeachie's snow covered log cabin "Argu-In" on Mount Seymour, North Vancouver. There is a man (Jack McGeachie?) stairing out the window of the second floor. Jack McGeachie and friends, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained a cabin with friends on Mount Seymour from 1938 until after the Second World War.
Subjects
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Geographic Features - Forests
Geographic Features - Mountains - British Columbia
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Names
McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"
Accession Code
BV008.17.24
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
[between 1939 and 1949] (date of orignals), copied 2008
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Squatter's shanty

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35849
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 squatter's shanty in an area called 'Crabtown' on the Burrard Inlet shoreline, just west of the Shell dock. Some of the shanties were neat and colourful, and provided cheap accommodation until they were eliminated in the post-war period.
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.
204-708
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1988-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of a squatter's shanty in an area called 'Crabtown' on the Burrard Inlet shoreline, just west of the Shell dock. Some of the shanties were neat and colourful, and provided cheap accommodation until they were eliminated in the post-war period.
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Phillips, James William "Jim"
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Historic Neighbourhood
Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Capitol Hill Area
Images
Less detail

Surveying for the construction of a log cabin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription13696
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[1976]
Collection/Fonds
Century Park Museum Association fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a group of men surveying for the construction of a log cabin. The man in the centre of the photogaph is using a level. In the summer of 1976, Heritage Village Museum offered a two day log cabin building course under the expert instruction of Earl Carter.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Century Park Museum Association fonds
Series
Century Park Museum Association photograph collection series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a group of men surveying for the construction of a log cabin. The man in the centre of the photogaph is using a level. In the summer of 1976, Heritage Village Museum offered a two day log cabin building course under the expert instruction of Earl Carter.
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Land - Land Surveying
Names
Burnaby Village Museum
Carter, Earl
Accession Code
BV020.5.888
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[1976]
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
2400
Scan Date
September 1, 2020
Scale
100
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
See also BV020.5.709 for documentary film titled "Cabin" directed and produced by James (Jim) Bizzochi - documenting the construction of the log cabin in Heritage Village
Images
Less detail

Three men in front of a cabin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39510
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1889
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 14 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of three men standing outside a fence next to a log cabin. The man standing to the right with the white shirt may be Claude Hill, but the others are unidentified. This cabin may have belonged to early Burnaby resident Charles Sprott. During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Charles Sprott…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1889
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Series
Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 14 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-829
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of three men standing outside a fence next to a log cabin. The man standing to the right with the white shirt may be Claude Hill, but the others are unidentified. This cabin may have belonged to early Burnaby resident Charles Sprott. During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Charles Sprott settled on a piece of land in Murrayville (Langley) near the border with the United States. When his cabin burned down in 1891, Sprott moved to Burnaby where another former Murrayville resident, Claude Hill had also relocated.
Subjects
Land Clearing
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Names
Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Tierney's Camp

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34469
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1926
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12.3 cm on page 17.4 x 26.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a cabin under construction in a location identified as Emory Creek. The caption accompanying the photograph indicates that cabin belonged to a Mr. Tierney, but no other identification is provided. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the F…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1926
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Peers family subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 12.3 cm on page 17.4 x 26.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
020-176
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2007-04
Scope and Content
Photograph of a cabin under construction in a location identified as Emory Creek. The caption accompanying the photograph indicates that cabin belonged to a Mr. Tierney, but no other identification is provided. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the later 1920s.
Subjects
Construction
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Natural Phenomena - Snow
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"
Notes
Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Less detail

Two boys standing outside

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription39341
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 6.2 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of two boys, both unidentified, standing outside near a small cabin. The location is unknown.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1922
Collection/Fonds
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
Series
Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 6.2 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-660
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of two boys, both unidentified, standing outside near a small cabin. The location is unknown.
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

Unidentified woman in front of wood shed

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82562
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1900-1930]
Collection/Fonds
Hill family and Vidal family fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a woman sitting in front of a wood shed and holding a baby.
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1900-1930]
Collection/Fonds
Hill family and Vidal family fonds
Series
Hill family and Vidal family photograph series
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
550-133
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2013-03
Scope and Content
Photograph shows a woman sitting in front of a wood shed and holding a baby.
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail

The Waterworks

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription34402
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1926
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph a cabin, elevated on wooden posts, next to some cleared brush and tree stumps. A pipe can be seen running from underneath the cabin towards the treeline. A caption to the photograph reads "the waterworks." This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled thro…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1926
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Peers family subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 10 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
020-109
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2007-04
Scope and Content
Photograph a cabin, elevated on wooden posts, next to some cleared brush and tree stumps. A pipe can be seen running from underneath the cabin towards the treeline. A caption to the photograph reads "the waterworks." This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the later 1920s.
Subjects
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"
Notes
Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Less detail

Woodward cottage

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38370
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1990]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 13 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Woodward cottage as seen from Deer Lake. The cottage was a prefabricted building designed by J.J. Mahoney and architect Joseph Bowman and was manufactured in Vancouver by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company and erected here in 1904. Maude Woodward established a post-office here…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
[1990]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Municipal record subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 13 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
422-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
Accession Number
BHS2001-09
Scope and Content
Photograph of Woodward cottage as seen from Deer Lake. The cottage was a prefabricted building designed by J.J. Mahoney and architect Joseph Bowman and was manufactured in Vancouver by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company and erected here in 1904. Maude Woodward established a post-office here which was operated by her sister, Harriet. Harriet also began a small private school here, the first in Burnaby Lake. The cottage was enlarged with several additions until 1912 when the Woodwards built a new house. This photograph shows the cottage as it appeared in 1990.
Subjects
Buildings - Heritage
Buildings - Residential - Cabins
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Wolf, Jim
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Geographic Access
Sperling Avenue
Street Address
5141 Sperling Avenue
Historic Neighbourhood
Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Planning Study Area
Morley-Buckingham Area
Images
Less detail

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