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Scope and Content: Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Edmonds and East Burnaby Auxiliary receipt book. Included in the receipt book is one piece of correspondence.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1956

Collection/Fonds: Victorian Order of Nurses fonds

Physical Description: 1 ledger book

Description Level: Item

Record No.: MSS021-067

Accession Number: 2010-09

Scope and Content: Item is a Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) Edmonds and East Burnaby Auxiliary receipt book. Included in the receipt book is one piece of correspondence.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of item

Army of the Common Good papers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1971

Collection/Fonds: Alfred Bingham fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 0.5 cm. of textual records.

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining mainly to the Army of the Common Good, including a Trust Account deposit slip for the Common Good Credit Union (the first Credit Union in Canada), correspondence, notes and minutes. Also included in the file are minutes of the North Burnaby Community Centre Associ…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1971

Collection/Fonds: Alfred Bingham fonds

Physical Description: 0.5 cm. of textual records.

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS142-004

Accession Number: 2010-09

Scope and Content: File consists of papers pertaining mainly to the Army of the Common Good, including a Trust Account deposit slip for the Common Good Credit Union (the first Credit Union in Canada), correspondence, notes and minutes. Also included in the file are minutes of the North Burnaby Community Centre Association, correspondence and notes regarding logging in Burnaby and a newspaper clipping pertaining to the Vancouver Archives.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Burnaby Lodge

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939, predominant 1992-[2004]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of a typewritten paper titled "Burnaby Lodge" by Mary Forsyth; a party invitation for Miss Mabel Miles and Miss Alice Parslow at the Burnaby Lodge and a handwritten letter to Mary Forsyth about the history of the "Shangrila Club".

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939, predominant 1992-[2004]

Collection/Fonds: Mary Forsyth fonds

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS185-041

Access Restriction: Open access

Accession Number: 2014-27

Scope and Content: File consists of a typewritten paper titled "Burnaby Lodge" by Mary Forsyth; a party invitation for Miss Mabel Miles and Miss Alice Parslow at the Burnaby Lodge and a handwritten letter to Mary Forsyth about the history of the "Shangrila Club".

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Transcribed title

Relief cash book

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1944

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

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1944

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 3842

Access Restriction: Subject to FOIPPA

Reproduction Restriction: Reproductions subject to FOIPPA

Accession Number: 2001-02

Media Type: Textual Record

Disbursements ledger (works)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1941

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

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1941

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

Series: Clerk's Department record series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 3884

Accession Number: 2001-02

Media Type: Textual Record

Dog Tax Register

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1942

Collection/Fonds: Finance Department fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: Textual record

Scope and Content: One bound volume containing the register of dog licenses between 1939 and 1942 - arranged chronologically. Each entry includes date license was issued, name of applicant, fee paid, and breed of dog licensed.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1942

Collection/Fonds: Finance Department fonds

Series: Historical Finance records series

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 9426

Accession Number: 2003-06

Scope and Content: One bound volume containing the register of dog licenses between 1939 and 1942 - arranged chronologically. Each entry includes date license was issued, name of applicant, fee paid, and breed of dog licensed.

Media Type: Textual Record

Farmer's Institute cash book

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1943

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 notebook (soft-cover)

Scope and Content: Item is a cash book for Farmer's Institutes put out by the Department of Agriculture which lists expenditures and receipts, filled out by the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (now named the South Burnaby Garden Club). A number of loose receipts are housed inside the not…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1939-1943

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: South Burnaby Garden Club subseries

Physical Description: 1 notebook (soft-cover)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: MSS028-005

Accession Number: BHS1986-36

Scope and Content: Item is a cash book for Farmer's Institutes put out by the Department of Agriculture which lists expenditures and receipts, filled out by the South Burnaby Horticultural Association and Farmers Institute (now named the South Burnaby Garden Club). A number of loose receipts are housed inside the notebook as well.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of item

Drs Blythe and Violet Eagles papers

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1939] -1978

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File contains records pertaining to Blythe and Violet Eagles including correspondence from the Burnaby Historical Society, pamphlets on Burnaby and various conferences, notes on the Eagle's visit to Robert Burnaby's grave and ration books from World War II.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1939] -1978

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Eagles family subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS032-001

Accession Number: BHS1987-07

Scope and Content: File contains records pertaining to Blythe and Violet Eagles including correspondence from the Burnaby Historical Society, pamphlets on Burnaby and various conferences, notes on the Eagle's visit to Robert Burnaby's grave and ration books from World War II.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Girl Guiding

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1939-1951

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook album (99 photographs+ textual records + other material)

Scope and Content: File consists of 18 loose pages of a scrapbook created by Ivy McGeachie (nee Ivy Oldham) who was involved in guiding in Burnaby between 1942 -1948. The front page of the scrapbook is titled “Girl / Guiding” and has a wood-burnt image of a camp fire and a singed photo of a flag pole. The scrapbook …

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Series: Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook album (99 photographs+ textual records + other material)

Scope and Content: File consists of 18 loose pages of a scrapbook created by Ivy McGeachie (nee Ivy Oldham) who was involved in guiding in Burnaby between 1942 -1948. The front page of the scrapbook is titled “Girl / Guiding” and has a wood-burnt image of a camp fire and a singed photo of a flag pole. The scrapbook contains photographs along with bits and pieces of ephemera. Included in the material is a four page, type-written diary of a Girl Guide camp held at Aldergrove Beach in August of 1963. Many of the photographs document the activities of the 2nd Burnaby Girl Guide Company and include photos of Ivy and Margaret McGeachie in uniform on roller skates; Burnaby District Camp (Aldergrove, BC) / 1948; Hiking; Canadian Girl Guide Golden Jubilee; Open House at St. Alban’s church hall; a hand tinted photo of Ivy McGeachie 1939 and the 2nd Kamloops Folk Dance – Yale Cariboo Musical festival 1951.

Creator: McGeachie, Ivy Ashliegh

Subjects: Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs

Names: McGeachie, Ivy Ashliegh; Girl Guides of Canada

Accession Code: BV015.35.160

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1939-1951

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Notes: Title based on content of file; Some photographs within scrapbook have been described at item level (BV015.35.191 to BV015.35.210)

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Pixie McGeachie fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1939 and 1949] (date of originals), copied 2008 ; 1976

Collection/Fonds: Pixie McGeachie fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 24 photographs (tiffs) : b&w + 1 membership card

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs from a McGeachie family album documenting a time that Jack and Pixie McGeachie spent at their log cabin on Mount Seymour and a membership card for the Century Park Museum Association. Jack McGeachie, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained the cabin with f…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Pixie McGeachie fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 24 photographs (tiffs) : b&w + 1 membership card

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs from a McGeachie family album documenting a time that Jack and Pixie McGeachie spent at their log cabin on Mount Seymour and a membership card for the Century Park Museum Association. Jack McGeachie, Maurice Skinner and Jack Gannon built and maintained the cabin with friends on Mount Seymour from 1938 until after the Second World War. Fonds is arranged into series: 1) Pixie McGeachie photographs series 2) Pixie McGeachie documents series

History: Doreen "Pixie" Johnson was born in 1922 and married John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie in April 1942. Jack and Pixie McGeachie lived on Rosewood Street (formerly named Campbell Street pre 1951) in Burnaby from 1948 where they raised their two children; David and Kathi. Pixie was well known for her volunteer work in Burnaby. Pixie served for over 20 years as the volunteer archivist for the Burnaby Historical Society; served as president of the Century Park Museum Association and the Friends of the Interurban 1223 and a six year term on Burnaby's Heritage Commission. Pixie was also a Burnaby historian and author who published a column in the Burnaby Examiner Newspaper entitled "Burnaby History" as well as three books about Burnaby History entitled "Bygones of Burnaby"; "Burnaby - A Proud Century" and "Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's letters from Colonial B.C." Due to her diligent volunteer work in Burnaby, Pixie was the recipient of many awards between 2002 and 2008. Awards included: 2002 - the Kushiro cup for Citizen of the Year; 2006 - Heritage BC project award for her work with Friends of the Interurban 1223 and in 2008 - Heritage BC - Ruby Nobb Award. Jack McGeachie passed away in 1981, at the age of 67 years and Pixie McGeachie passed away in August 2010 at the age of 88 years. On September 24, 2010, Pixie was honoured by the City of Burnaby when they dedicated the reading room of the City of Burnaby Archives by naming it the "Pixie McGeachie Reading Room".

Creator: McGeachie, Doreen "Pixie"

Accession Code: BV008.17; BV013.4.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1939 and 1949] (date of originals), copied 2008 ; 1976

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Pilot's flying log book

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1939-1940

Collection/Fonds: Elmer Wilson Martin fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 book

Scope and Content: Item consists of a Royal Canadian Air Force, Pilot's Flying Log Book belonging to Elmer Wilson Martin (Can. C522). Book contains entries between June 29 and December 23, 1939 and January 13 and July 31, 1940 and Sept. 1940. Pilot training took place at Camp Borden where training for pilots, navigat…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Elmer Wilson Martin fonds

Series: E.W. Martin military records and photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 book

Scope and Content: Item consists of a Royal Canadian Air Force, Pilot's Flying Log Book belonging to Elmer Wilson Martin (Can. C522). Book contains entries between June 29 and December 23, 1939 and January 13 and July 31, 1940 and Sept. 1940. Pilot training took place at Camp Borden where training for pilots, navigators, air gunners, air bombers and flight engineers for the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces. According to the log book, Elmer Martin was trained on various aircraft at this location. Canadian Forces Base Borden is located in Ontario.

Subjects: Transportation - Air; Wars - World War, 1939-1945

Names: Royal Canadian Air Force; Martin, Elmer Wilson

Accession Code: BV019.37.10

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1939-1940

Media Type: Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: February 4, 2021

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of item

Images

Pilot's flying log book, 1939-1940 thumbnail

Documents

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Vaccination card

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1939 and 1941]

Collection/Fonds: Elmer Wilson Martin fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 card

Scope and Content: Item consists of a vaccination card issued to Wing Commander Martin, E.W. Card is a record of vaccinations received by E.W. Martin during his military service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Elmer Wilson Martin fonds

Series: E.W. Martin military records and photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 card

Scope and Content: Item consists of a vaccination card issued to Wing Commander Martin, E.W. Card is a record of vaccinations received by E.W. Martin during his military service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Cards; Wars - World War, 1939-1945

Names: Royal Canadian Air Force; Martin, Elmer Wilson

Accession Code: BV019.40.26

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1939 and 1941]

Media Type: Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: February 8, 2021

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of item

Letter from Colin Fox to May Bateman

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1939]

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p.

Scope and Content: Item consists of a letter written by Colin Rhodes Fox to his aunt Marianne "May" Bateman while undergoing basic and artillery training in Edmonton prior to heading overseas with his unit, 13th Canadian Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Return address on the letter reads "Gnr. R. Fox K 1902…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Series: Bateman family World War II letters series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p.

Scope and Content: Item consists of a letter written by Colin Rhodes Fox to his aunt Marianne "May" Bateman while undergoing basic and artillery training in Edmonton prior to heading overseas with his unit, 13th Canadian Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Return address on the letter reads "Gnr. R. Fox K 19022 / c/o 107 field Battery R.C.A. / Edmonton Alta."

Subjects: Wars - World War, 1939-1945; Documentary Artifacts - Letters and Envelopes

Names: Bateman, Marianne May; Fox, Colin Rhodes

Accession Code: BV020.27.11

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [1939]

Media Type: Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 10-Feb-2021

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of item

Bateman family World War II letters series

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1939-1947, predominant 1942-1945

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 6 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters written to Marianne "May" Bateman and Jessie (Bateman) and Ernest Fox. The majority of the letters are written by Colin Rhodes Fox during World War II along with one letter written to May Bateman by a friend named Murray. Letters from Colin Fox were written during his ini…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: E.W. Bateman family fonds

Series: Bateman family World War II letters series

Description Level: Series

Physical Description: 6 cm of textual records

Scope and Content: Series consists of letters written to Marianne "May" Bateman and Jessie (Bateman) and Ernest Fox. The majority of the letters are written by Colin Rhodes Fox during World War II along with one letter written to May Bateman by a friend named Murray. Letters from Colin Fox were written during his initial training in Edmonton and while serving overseas with his unit, the 13th Field Regiment , 44th Canadian Field Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery and later as part of the 78th Canadian Field Battery.

Accession Code: BV020.27

Access Restriction: Restricted access

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1939-1947, predominant 1942-1945

Media Type: Textual Record

Related Material: See also: Interview with Marianne May Bateman February 22, 1978 - Tracks 1-4. City of Burnaby Archives Item No. MSS137-014-1

Notes: Title based on contents of series

Burnaby North High School report card

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1939-1940

Collection/Fonds: Dorothy Atkinson fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p.

Scope and Content: Item consists of a Burnaby North High School report card for Dorothy Mallett, Division III, Grade XI, signed by school principal George B. Carpenter, teacher D.R. McLean and one of her parents.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Dorothy Atkinson fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 p.

Scope and Content: Item consists of a Burnaby North High School report card for Dorothy Mallett, Division III, Grade XI, signed by school principal George B. Carpenter, teacher D.R. McLean and one of her parents.

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts - Certificates

Names: Burnaby North High School; Atkinson, Dorothy Mallett

Accession Code: BV021.28.12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproductions subject to FIPPA

Date: 1939-1940

Media Type: Textual Record

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2021-10-04

Notes: Title based contents of item

Earl and Adell Philips family fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1939-1969

Collection/Fonds: Earl and Adell Philips family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 22 photographs + 2 p. of textual records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs of Earl Gene and Adell Philips and family along with realestate listing slips for homes on Barker Avenue and Spruce Street in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Earl and Adell Philips family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 22 photographs + 2 p. of textual records

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of photographs of Earl Gene and Adell Philips and family along with realestate listing slips for homes on Barker Avenue and Spruce Street in Burnaby.

History: Earl Gene Philips (1915-1968) was born, Eugene William Phillips in Kamloops, British Columbia and Adell Philips (1915-2022) was born, Lilian Odell Greenwood in Jaffray, British Columbia. The couple met at Mac & Mac Hardware in New Westminster where Earl was working as a salesman and Adell was working as a secretary and bookkeeper. Earl and Adell were married on May 15, 1942 in New Westminster. The couple lived briefly in Mission while Earl was working for the Mackie Brothers and returned to New Westminster where they lived on Queens Avenue while Earl worked for the Nelson Brothers Fisheries. In 1943, their first child, Cory (Linda Anne Phillips) was born followed by; Lorayne (Donna Elaine Phillips) in 1944 and Judith (Diane Elizabeth Phillips) in 1949. In 1949, the family moved to 5877 Barker Avenue, Burnaby and Adell worked for MacDonald Realty as a legal secretary. In 1952, Earl became involved in numerology and changed his name from Eugene William Phillips to Earl Gene Philips (with one “l”). The names of his wife and children were also changed from; Lilian Odell Phillips to Adell Philips, Linda Anne Phillips to Cory Philips, Donna Elaine Phillips to Lorayne Philips and Diane Elizabeth Phillips to Judith Philips. In 1955, their fourth child Lea Philips was born. All four children attended schools in Burnaby including; Nelson Elementary, Kingsway West School, Suncrest Elementary School, Maywood Elementary School, Burnaby South High School, Moscrop Junior High School, Burnaby Central Secondary School and BCIT. In 1969, following the death of Earl (in 1968), Adell and her son, Lea moved from their home on Barker Avenue to a house located at 4085 Spruce Street. Lea lived with his mother Adell until 1978 when he was married. Adell continued to live on Spruce Street until 2021 when she moved to a care home at the age of 106. Adell died in 2022, just 3 weeks shy of her 107th birthday.

Creator: Philips, Adell Greenwood; Philips, Earl Gene

Accession Code: BV022.11

Date: 1939-1969

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Arrangement: Family records within fonds were compiled and arranged by Lea, Cora and Judith Philips and arranged and described at item level in the order in which they were donated to Burnaby Village Museum.