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Agricultural Society awards

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1900-1904

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of Agricultural Society awards given to Frances Mabel Webb Patterson, and two of her sons, Dugald Campbell and Bruce Patterson.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1900-1904

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Patterson family subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS039-003

Accession Number: BHS1988-13

Scope and Content: File consists of Agricultural Society awards given to Frances Mabel Webb Patterson, and two of her sons, Dugald Campbell and Bruce Patterson.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Alice Hart photograph album

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (31 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Alice Hart. Inscription inside of front cover reads "To dearest Alice from father 30th March 1906". The album is filled with photographs of the Hart family along with friends and relations. The p…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Florence Hart Godwin fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 album (31 photographs: b&w negatives ; 35 mm)

Scope and Content: File consists of a photographic reproduction of a twenty nine page photograph album that was created by Alice Hart. Inscription inside of front cover reads "To dearest Alice from father 30th March 1906". The album is filled with photographs of the Hart family along with friends and relations. The photographs range between 1893 and 1923 and document time spent at residences in New Westminster, Deer Lake and Kerrisdale along with family vacations at Mayne Island, Stanely Park and Pitt Lake.

Names: Godwin, Florence Hart; Hart Family; Hart, Alice Chapman

Accession Code: HV976.169.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1893-1923 (date of original), copied 1976

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Scan Date: 10/27/2020

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph album; Inscription on first page of album reads: "To dearest Alice / from father / 30th March, 1906”.; 31 b&w copy prints accompanying; Album pages are described at item level

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Bancroft family papers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907-1982

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining to the Bancroft family including three Blair's Canadian Drawing Series workbooks belonging to Rose Croucher (later Bancroft), as well as school work produced by two of her children, Rosie and George Brancroft.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907-1982

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Bancroft family subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS110-005

Accession Number: BHS2004-06

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining to the Bancroft family including three Blair's Canadian Drawing Series workbooks belonging to Rose Croucher (later Bancroft), as well as school work produced by two of her children, Rosie and George Brancroft.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

B.C. Electric Railway Franchise

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1913

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains records relating to the operation of the B.C. Electric Railway Franchise in the municipality of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1913

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2073

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains records relating to the operation of the B.C. Electric Railway Franchise in the municipality of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

B.C. Electric Railway Franchise

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1912

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File includes a 1912 report regarding the Corporation of the District of Burnaby vs B.C. Electric Railway in the Supreme Court of BC.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1912

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2076

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File includes a 1912 report regarding the Corporation of the District of Burnaby vs B.C. Electric Railway in the Supreme Court of BC.

Media Type: Textual Record

B.C. Electric Railway Franchise - Agreement

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1913

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual records and architectural drawings

Scope and Content: File contains records relating to agreements made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the B.C. Electric Railway Co., for rail line extensions. File also includes a blueprint plan of station structures for Vancouver Fraser Valley and Southern Railway Co. and a newspaper clipping.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1913

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual records and architectural drawings

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2075

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains records relating to agreements made between the Corporation of the District of Burnaby and the B.C. Electric Railway Co., for rail line extensions. File also includes a blueprint plan of station structures for Vancouver Fraser Valley and Southern Railway Co. and a newspaper clipping.

Media Type: Textual Record; Architectural Drawing

Notes: Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case. File includes original newspaper clipping.

B.C. Electric Railway improvements to Westminster Road and Central Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains agreements and records related to work done by the B.C. Electric Railway Co. on numerous Burnaby streets.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2036

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains agreements and records related to work done by the B.C. Electric Railway Co. on numerous Burnaby streets.

Media Type: Textual Record

Board of Railway Commissioners

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1912

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record, cartographic material, and architectural drawings

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and reports related to the activities of the Board of Railway Commissioners such as the movement of stations, culvert work, and the maintenance of crossings. File also includes white linen plan and blueprint plans (4) of culverts at Cariboo Road and V.W. and Y.Rlwy Jun…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1912

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record, cartographic material, and architectural drawings

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2096

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains correspondence and reports related to the activities of the Board of Railway Commissioners such as the movement of stations, culvert work, and the maintenance of crossings. File also includes white linen plan and blueprint plans (4) of culverts at Cariboo Road and V.W. and Y.Rlwy Junction, 1911.

Media Type: Textual Record; Architectural Drawing; Cartographic Material

Notes: Plans/maps are located in file and have not been moved to map case.

Burnaby By-laws

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1903-1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of texual records

Scope and Content: File consists of the booklet form of By-law No. 153 as well as the promotional form of the proposed Burnaby Water Works Extension Loan By-law 1927 No. 626 (defeated).

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1903-1927

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Municipal record subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of texual records

Material Details: By-law No. 153 has notations in pink pencil crayon (mainly in margins)

Description Level: File

Record No.: 42702

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: File consists of the booklet form of By-law No. 153 as well as the promotional form of the proposed Burnaby Water Works Extension Loan By-law 1927 No. 626 (defeated).

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Letter accompanying file to Mr. Mather from V.J. Lewis, dated December 30, 1958

Burnaby family fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1858-1863

Collection/Fonds: Robert Burnaby fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 5 cm. of textual records.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of letters written by Robert Burnaby related to both his work and explorations in British Columbia as well as personal matters relating to his family. Some of these letters were published in the 2002 book, "Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's Letters from Colonial British Columbia 1858…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1858-1863

Collection/Fonds: Robert Burnaby fonds

Physical Description: 5 cm. of textual records.

Description Level: Fonds

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2009-06 2017-55

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of letters written by Robert Burnaby related to both his work and explorations in British Columbia as well as personal matters relating to his family. Some of these letters were published in the 2002 book, "Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's Letters from Colonial British Columbia 1858-1863."

History: Robert Burnaby was a commission merchant and legislator, born on November 30, 1828, at Woodthorpe, Leicestershire, England, as the fourth son of the Reverend Thomas Burnaby and Sarah Meares. Robert Burnaby came to British Columbia at the end of 1858 as an experienced civil servant from Her Majesty’s Customs Office in London, and with a personal introduction to Governor James Douglas from Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Burnaby’s first year on the Pacific coast was a busy one: he spent a short time as private secretary to Richard Clement Moody, commander of the Royal Engineers at New Westminster; he explored for coal with Walter Moberly at Burrard Inlet; and he made a short visit to San Francisco. During this year, he also founded the firm of Henderson and Burnaby, commission merchants, in partnership with Edward Henderson, an old school friend from Christ’s Hospital and a man of means, who managed the London office. This type of business was precarious since the distance from sources of supply and risks in transportation encouraged overtrading and excessive speculation. The death of Henderson in 1865 and the general economic depression in Vancouver Island and British Columbia brought the firm to an end – a failure caused in part apparently by unwise investment in real estate. Burnaby then embarked upon a real estate and insurance business of his own. The exigencies of a mercantile career seem to have overwhelmed this man who, by upbringing and training, was more suited to a position in government service. Robert Burnaby was intensely interested in the welfare of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and did all in his power to promote stable economic conditions. Before the end of his second year in Victoria, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island for the districts of Esquimalt and Metchosin, and he served his constituents well for five years. He was one of the founders of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce. During an 1866 visit to London on private business, he attended a meeting of prominent Victoria merchants and officials who strongly favoured the union of the two colonies and other measures for developing and improving their economic prospects. This group carried its resolutions to the secretary of state for the colonies. Burnaby was an active freemason and helped found the First Victoria Lodge in 1860. Among his recreational pursuits was a love of drama, and in 1863, he served as president of Victoria’s Amateur Dramatic Association. Burnaby numbered among his intimate friends Colonel Moody, Arthur Thomas Bushby, Henry Pering Pellew Crease, Judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, Edward Graham Alston, and Thomas Elwyn. In 1869, severe ill health caused Burnaby’s retirement and, five years later, his return to England. Friends arranged for him to travel in the Hudson’s Bay Company bark Lady Lampson; they later presented her captain, James Gaudin, with a generous purse in gratitude for the attention he had paid the ailing Burnaby during the voyage. Early in 1878, news reached Victoria that this “prominent and much respected merchant” had died. An honest, conscientious man of spirit, a clear-headed thinker, a “power” in his masonic lodge, a lucid speaker, full of fun, and clever, Burnaby has been fittingly commemorated in a number of place names in British Columbia including a lake, a strait, an island, a municipality, two mountain ranges, and finally Burnaby Mountain, the seat of Simon Fraser University. Burnaby died a bachelor on January 10, 1878, at Woodthorpe. - This information has been adapted from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Media Type: Textual Record

Creator: Burnaby, Robert

Notes: Title based on creator of fonds.

Burnaby Historical Society fonds

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1892-2018

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: ca. 130 linear feet of textual records 30 linear feet of graphic and other material

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of the Burnaby Historical Society's administrative records and community archives collection.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1892-2018

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Physical Description: ca. 130 linear feet of textual records 30 linear feet of graphic and other material

Description Level: Fonds

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of the Burnaby Historical Society's administrative records and community archives collection.

History: The Burnaby Historical Society was founded in 1957. The Historical Society developed a community archives by collecting, compiling and preserving various materials with historical value to the City of Burnaby. It gathered miscellaneous documents, photographs and other items while also soliciting and acquiring entire collections or groups of archival records. In 1991, the Historical Society was provided a permanent space to house their growing collection at the Burnaby Village Museum and they continued to collect and expand their holdings. After the creation of the City of Burnaby Archives in 2001, the Burnaby Historical Society and the City of Burnaby began discussing the possibility of uniting the two collections. In February 2007, an agreement was signed between the two institutions which resulted in the merger of the Society's Community Archives with the City Archives. All records and photographs that had been collected by the Historical Society were transferred into the custody of the City and were moved from the Burnaby Village Museum to the City Archives in the McGill Branch of the Burnaby Public Library. The Burnaby Historical Society disbanded in 2018.

Names: Burnaby Historical Society

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Sound Recording

Creator: Burnaby Historical Society

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Burnaby Municipality accounts 1906

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1905-1906

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1905-1906

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2052

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: For related records see also files 6-3-1-8 to 6-3-1-10 and file 6-3-2-5.

Burnaby Municipality accounts 1907

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1907

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2051

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: For related records see also files 6-3-1-8 and 6-3-1-9 and 6-3-1-11 and 6-3-2-5.

Burnaby Municipality accounts 1908

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2050

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: For related records see also files 6-3-1-8 and 6-3-1-10 and 6-3-1-11 and 6-3-2-5.

Burnaby Municipality accounts 1909

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1910

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909-1910

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2049

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Fore related records see also files 6-3-1-9 to 6-1-3-11 and file 6-3-2-5.

Burnaby Municipality accounts 1910

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1910, predominant 1910

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby 1909-1910. Also included are lists of outstanding contracts in 1910 and an envelope with an unspoiled wax seal from the Dead Letter Office, 1908.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1910, predominant 1910

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2057

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby 1909-1910. Also included are lists of outstanding contracts in 1910 and an envelope with an unspoiled wax seal from the Dead Letter Office, 1908.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: For related records see also files 6-3-1-8 to 6-3-1-11.

Burnaby Municipality - Interim balance sheets

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1905

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1905

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 2053

Accession Number: 2001-02

Scope and Content: File contains financial records detailing the income and expenditures of the Corporation of the District of Burnaby.

Media Type: Textual Record

Burnaby Municipality - Railway Franchises and Extensions

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1910 (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records (photocopies)

Scope and Content: File consists of photocopied pages from a ledger describing telephone calls and decisions made regarding British Columbia Electric Railway "Franchises and Extensions" within the Municipality of Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908-1910 (date of originals)

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Brian Elder subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records (photocopies)

Description Level: File

Record No.: 42660

Accession Number: BHS2001-01

Scope and Content: File consists of photocopied pages from a ledger describing telephone calls and decisions made regarding British Columbia Electric Railway "Franchises and Extensions" within the Municipality of Burnaby.