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Boal family home

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1950]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. This is a three-quarter shot of the house which has new, light coloured siding (white?) and a garage in the back. A man is mowing the lawn next to the house.

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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 9 cm

Material Details: Handwritten text in ink on front of photograph reads: "1950".; Stamped numeral on back of photograph reads: "452".; Handwritten text on back of photograph reads: "summer, 1950 / Boals' house".

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. This is a three-quarter shot of the house which has new, light coloured siding (white?) and a garage in the back. A man is mowing the lawn next to the house.

History: Material belonged to Glen and Ann Boal (nee Lockhart), who grew up in Burnaby and attended Burnaby South High School. They met and became engaged and married in 1954.

Names: Boal, William Ewart; Boal, Ethel May Jackson; Boal, Glen

Geographic Access: Norland Avenue

Street Address: 4319 Norland Avenue

Accession Code: BV017.28.22

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1950]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 06-Mar-2018

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Boal family home

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [195-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. This is a three-quarter shot of the house. The house has been altered by enclosing the front porch and lowering the front door to ground level. Doors and window sills are painted light blue. Window shutters have been added. The house is wh…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. This is a three-quarter shot of the house. The house has been altered by enclosing the front porch and lowering the front door to ground level. Doors and window sills are painted light blue. Window shutters have been added. The house is white. There are trees in full leaf around the house.

History: Material belonged to Glen and Ann Boal (nee Lockhart), who grew up in Burnaby and attended Burnaby South High School. They met and became engaged and married in 1954.

Names: Boal, William Ewart; Boal, Ethel May Jackson; Boal, Glen

Geographic Access: Norland Avenue

Street Address: 4319 Norland Avenue

Accession Code: BV017.28.23

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [195-]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 06-Mar-2018

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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The Bobbsey twins in the country

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Hope, Laura Lee

Publication Date: c1953

Call Number: 813.5 HOP

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV004.20.16

Call Number: 813.5 HOP

Author: Hope, Laura Lee

Contributor: Scott, Janet Laura

Place of Publication: Racine

Publisher: Wisconsin

Publication Date: c1953

Series: The Bobbsey Twins

Printer: Whitman Publishing Company

Physical Description: 282 p. : ill. : 20cm.

Inscription: "Merry Christmas, 1963 / To Susan, / Love from / Steven.", handwritten in blue pen on back of front endpaper "Susan H.", handwritten in purplish blue pen on back of front endpaper

Library Subject (LOC): Fiction--20th century

Bob Love at beach in Lincoln City

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1950 and 1951]

Collection/Fonds: Robert Leonard Love fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of young Robert Mathew "Bob" Love seated in the water at beach in Lincoln City, Oregon.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Robert Leonard Love fonds

Series: Robert and Margaret Love family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of young Robert Mathew "Bob" Love seated in the water at beach in Lincoln City, Oregon.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Geographic Features - Beaches

Names: Love, Robert Mathew "Bob"

Accession Code: BV023.24.34

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1950 and 1951]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-12-05

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Bob @ Beach"

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Bob Love at beach in Lincoln City, [between 1950 and 1951] thumbnail

Bob Love in yard

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1951]

Collection/Fonds: Robert Leonard Love fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of toddler Robert Mathew "Bob" Love standing in the yard of his family home in Lebanon, Oregon. Home of Bob's parents Robert Leonard and Margaret Love is visible in the background.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Robert Leonard Love fonds

Series: Robert and Margaret Love family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of toddler Robert Mathew "Bob" Love standing in the yard of his family home in Lebanon, Oregon. Home of Bob's parents Robert Leonard and Margaret Love is visible in the background.

Subjects: Persons - Children; Geographic Features - Beaches

Names: Love, Robert Mathew "Bob"

Accession Code: BV023.24.37

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1951]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-12-05

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Rob Love @ / Home Lebanon Ore"

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Bob O'Brien with Burnaby Garbage Department trucks

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [after 1941]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six men standing in a parking lot next to four garbage trucks (two of the men are in suits). Robert Emmette O'Brien is second from the right. He worked for Burnaby for many years (the other men are unidentified). All the trucks bear the sign "Corp. of the District of Burnaby Garbage D…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 24 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six men standing in a parking lot next to four garbage trucks (two of the men are in suits). Robert Emmette O'Brien is second from the right. He worked for Burnaby for many years (the other men are unidentified). All the trucks bear the sign "Corp. of the District of Burnaby Garbage Department" or "MUNICIPALITY OF BURNABY GARBAGE DEPARTMENT" and look to be Chevrolets built between 1941 and 1946.

Subjects: Public Services - Garbage Removal; Transportation - Trucks; Occupations - Civic Workers

Names: O'Brien, Robert Emmette

Accession Code: BV996.15.3

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [after 1941]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 01-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Notes written on verso of photograph reads: "R.E. O'BRIEN/ By GARBAGE WAGON 2ND FROM RIGHT/ BURNABY, B.C." and "TR 196/ O'BRIEN"

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Bob O'Brien with Burnaby Garbage Department trucks, [after 1941] 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.

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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 log boom pond of the Kapoor Sawmills Limited in Burrard Inlet.

History: Kapoor Singh Siddoo was born in 1885 in the Punjab village of Kharaudi, India. Kapoor was one of the pioneer South Asian Canadian Sikhs who immigrated to America in 1906 and onto Canada in 1912. Kapoor first arrived in San Francisco in 1906, along with twenty uneducated men from the Province of Punjab, India. Kapoor was the only one among these men who was educated so acted as their interpreter, manager and accountant. They worked along the Southern Pacific Railway line near Marysville, California, toward Reno and Nevada. Kapoor heard about the beauty of British Columbia and decided to travel to the west coast but times were tough with discrimination against all South Asians in British Columbia. With this information, Kapoor traveled east to Northern Ontario where he tried homesteading for a year but the extreme winter conditions didn’t appeal to him. Kapoor returned to British Columbia after receiving word from South Asian Canadians that they were in need of an educated accountant/manager for a sawmill. In 1923, with the change in immigration laws, Kapoor arranged for his wife, Besant Kaur to emigrate from India. Besant came to Canada accompanied by Kapoor’s older brother. Kapoor and Besant had two daughters, both born in Duncan B.C. Jagdis Kaur Siddoo was born in 1925 and Sarjit Kaur Siddoo was born in 1926. Both of their daughters graduated as doctors from University of Toronto medical school. His career in B.C. began as a lumberman for a large lumber mill on Vancouver Island until 1935. Following this, Kapoor established the Kapoor Lumber Company Limited and operated a mill at Shawnigan Lake before eventually purchasing 45 acres in 1939 of the eastern section of the former Barnet Mill site in Burnaby. He purchased the site from the Municipality of Burnaby under the name of Modern Sawmills Limited since there was a restriction on selling this piece of a property to a non-white person. Eventually the name was changed to Kapoor Sawmills Limited. Kapoor’s company was a financial success but was tragically razed on January 14, 1947 due to a devastating fire. A smaller mill was rebuilt on the site and Kapoor maintained a successful financial operation until 1959. In 1959, Kapoor Siddoo was considered one of Vancouver’s most influential men in the South Asian Community. In this same year, the family set up the Kapoor Singh Siddoo Foundation and with help from his wife and daughters opened a hospital in the Punjab village of Aur. In 1964, Kapoor died in India at the age of 79 years. Kapoor’s younger brother, Tara Singh Siddoo came to Canada from India in 1906 but after suffering discrimination, he returned to India in 1912. Several years later Tara returned to Canada joining Kapoor at a logging mill on Vancouver Island. Lesser shares of the mill were held by Tara and other family members. Tara and his wife, Beant Siddoo lived at Barnet between 1943 and 1945, with their family of five sons, Lakhbeer, Gurdeb, Gurcharn, Baldev, Hardev and three daughters, Harjeet (Sangha), Runjeet (Basi) and Buckshish (Sarai). One of Tara’s responsibilities was to oversee the logging camp and ensure that the logs arrived regularly from Cowichan Bay near Duncan to the Barnet logging mill.

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"

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

[Bound collection of pamphlets]| Burnaby Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Program, June 29th to July 5th, 1952.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Publication Date: [1950s?]

Call Number: 917.1 MIS

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV016.13.1

Call Number: 917.1 MIS

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, B.C?]

Publication Date: [1950s?]

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 27 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): British Columbia--Description and travel; Burnaby (B.C.)--History; Poetry

British Columbia : a centennial anthology

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Watters, Reginald Eyre

Edition: 1st ed.

Publication Date: 1958

Call Number: 971.11 WAT

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV002.90.4

Call Number: 971.11 WAT

Edition: 1st ed.

Author: Watters, Reginald Eyre

Place of Publication: Toronto

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart

Publication Date: 1958

Printer: Evergreen Press

Physical Description: xvi, 576 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Canadian literature

Notes: Includes a map of part of the coast, and many photographs.

British Columbia : a history

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Ormsby, Margaret A. (Margaret Anchoretta), 1909-

Publication Date: c1958

Call Number: 971.1 ORM

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

Call Number: 971.1 ORM

Author: Ormsby, Margaret A. (Margaret Anchoretta), 1909-

Place of Publication: [Toronto]

Publisher: Macmillans in Canada

Publication Date: c1958

Physical Description: 558 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Inscription: "This copy / of the first edition of / BRITISH COLUMBIA: A HISTORY / by Margaret A. Ormsby / is presented / with the compliments of / The British Columbia / Centennial Committee", printed on sheet inserted in front cover pages.

Library Subject (LOC): British Columbia--History

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 527 - 534) and index.

British Columbia centenary, 1858-1958

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Edition: 1st ed.

Publication Date: 1958

Call Number: 917.11 INT

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV017.17.4

Call Number: 917.11 INT

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Vancouver

Publisher: International

Publication Date: 1958

Printer: Ward & Phillips

Physical Description: 352 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): British Columbia--Description and travel; British Columbia--History; British Columbia--Centennial celebrations, etc.

British Columbia Electric Railway Company timetables

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1946 and 1973]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a BC Electric Railway timetable for the Lulu Island Branch, Eburne, and New Westminster Line, including a Sunday schedule and freight schedule.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a BC Electric Railway timetable for the Lulu Island Branch, Eburne, and New Westminster Line, including a Sunday schedule and freight schedule.

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Accession Code: HV973.41.5

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1946 and 1973]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For an earlier donation made by the same donor in regards to BCER tram, see accession HV972.202.

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 2023-05-16

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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British Columbia Electric Railway Company timetables

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1946 and 1973]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 20.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two British Columbia Electric Railway Company timetables for the Central Park line, one "corrected to October 15, 1933" and the other "corrected to May 16, 1946." Also in the photograph are two tickets, one reads, "Good for one fare at 10 for $1.25 between Vancouver and Burnaby North…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 20.6 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of two British Columbia Electric Railway Company timetables for the Central Park line, one "corrected to October 15, 1933" and the other "corrected to May 16, 1946." Also in the photograph are two tickets, one reads, "Good for one fare at 10 for $1.25 between Vancouver and Burnaby Northwest Zone" and the other reads, "Good for one fare between Vancouver and Park Ave."

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Accession Code: HV973.41.6

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1946 and 1973]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For an earlier donation made by the same donor in regards to BCER tram, see accession HV972.202.

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 2023-05-16

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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British Columbia Electric Railway tram 1223

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [October 1957]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 17.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company Interurban tram no. 1223 at Marpole station in Vancouver. There are people standing by the tram, and a conductor is climbing onto the tram from the front.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : col. ; 12.5 x 17.9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the exterior of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company Interurban tram no. 1223 at Marpole station in Vancouver. There are people standing by the tram, and a conductor is climbing onto the tram from the front.

Subjects: Transportation - Electric Railroads

Names: British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: HV972.202.3

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [October 1957]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-04-25

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; An annotation on the back of the photograph reads, "BCER 1223 (1232 in background) / Marpole BC / Oct. 57."

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British Columbia Electric Railway tram 1223, [October 1957] thumbnail

British Columbia geography manual

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Robinson, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1918-; Chapman, John D. (John Doneric), 1923-

Publication Date: 1954

Call Number: 917.1 ROB

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Special Collection

Material Type: Book

Accession Code: BV014.17.68

Call Number: 917.1 ROB

Author: Robinson, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1918-; Chapman, John D. (John Doneric), 1923-

Place of Publication: Victoria, B.C.

Publisher: Province of British Columbia. Department of Education

Publication Date: 1954

Physical Description: vi, 119 p. : maps ; 29 cm.

Inscription: Susan Warne / GB11 BlkC" [written in ink on inside front cover]; Burnaby South Senior Secondary School / 6626 Kingsway, Burnaby, 1 BC" [stamped in inside front cover]