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Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs and textual records collected by Vera Jackson Pel. These records document Pel's personal life as well as her time as a clerk at the Royal Bank in Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1927 (date of original)-1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Vera Jackson Pel subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1991-15; BHS1991-37; BHS1992-04; BHS1992-46; BHS1989-04; BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs and textual records collected by Vera Jackson Pel. These records document Pel's personal life as well as her time as a clerk at the Royal Bank in Burnaby.

History: Harold Joseph Jackson and Florence Colocott married in 1925. The couple bought a brown wooden shingled house at 3507 Booth Avenue in Burnaby in 1926. Vera Rose Jackson was born to Harold and Florence at Mrs. Scott’s private hospital on Kingsway near Central Park December 4, 1927. Her brother Ronald Harold Jackson was born June 21, 1929. In 1934, the family moved to 2706 Cassie Avenue (later renumbered 6457). Vera attended Miss Edith Hall’s Kindergarten on Grange Street until she was old enough to enter Kingsway West as a grade one student. The family were members of the West Burnaby United Church and Vera and Ron both went to Sunday school in the old church basement. Vera attended Burnaby South High School where she met her future husband, Fred Pel. In 1944, Vera started a job at the Royal Bank in Burnaby. Besides the manager and the accountant, the entire staff at the branch were young women fresh out of school, as the men had left to serve during World War II. She worked at the Royal Bank from 1944 until 1952. During her time as clerk, she witnessed two armed robberies: one in May of 1946 and the other in January of 1948.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Pel, Vera Rose Jackson

Notes: Title based on contents and creator of subseries; MSS053, PC256, PC274, PC305, MSS044, MSS069

Marjorie Coe subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1927]-1952

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 7 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby in the early 20th century.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1927]-1952

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Marjorie Coe subseries

Physical Description: 7 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-11; BHS1986-40

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby in the early 20th century.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Coe, Marjorie

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; PC161, PC189

Donald N. Brown subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925 (date of original)-1995

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other material

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs taken by Freeman Donald N. Brown while involved in Burnaby Historical Society activities and textual records pertaining to his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Also included in the subseries are documents and photographs from his involvement with vari…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925 (date of original)-1995

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Donald N. Brown subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other material

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1987-03; BHS2003-04; BHS1992-20; BHS1995-09; BHS2000-10; BHS1991-41; BHS2001-12; BHS2004-01; BHS2004-12

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs taken by Freeman Donald N. Brown while involved in Burnaby Historical Society activities and textual records pertaining to his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Also included in the subseries are documents and photographs from his involvement with various community groups including the Oakalla Lands Citizens' Committee, renovations of Burnaby Village Museum, and the restoration of Interurban tram no. 1223.

History: Donald Neil "Don" Brown was born in Birmingham, England. In 1922, while still an infant, he and his family moved to Winnipeg, Canada. On September 8, 1939, Don left his Senior Matriculation classes to join the Royal Canadian Engineers. Two weeks later, he eloped with his high school sweetheart, Helen J., just months before he was to be shipped overseas with the 3rd Contingent of Canadian Troops. He served in the army with the Royal Canadian Engineer’s 12th Field Company and saw action in both Sicily and Italy. In 1945, Don returned to obtain his Senior Matriculation and a year of university studies before re-enlisting in the army as a Second Lieutenant. He spent the next two years stationed in Chilliwack with Helen and their first child. In 1947, he left the army to join the ranks of the British Columbia Provincial Police force, embarking on a three-decade long career. His first assignment brought him to Burnaby where he served from 1947-1954, first as a member of the BC Police Department and then as a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. In 1954, Don was transferred to Regina, Saskatchewan and then to Ottawa, Ontario to serve in the Crime Detection Laboratories. He became a qualified Examiner of Questioned Documents and provided expert testimony in handwriting, counterfeiting, graphic arts, and alterations. He attained the rank of first Corporal, and then Sergeant in the RCMP. He was transferred to Vancouver to be the Second in Charge of a new laboratory and head of the Document Section in July, 1963. On December 9, 1967, Helen Brown ran as an independent for the position of Alderman on the Burnaby Council. She was not elected. In May 1970, Don was promoted to Sub-Inspector and transferred to Edmonton to take command of the new Crime Detection Laboratory. By 1972, he was promoted to full Inspector. Transferred back to Vancouver in 1975, Don became the Officer-in-Charge of a new Crime Laboratory and took over the National Police Services pilot project for British Columbia. He was rewarded for this work with a promotion to Superintendent in September 1975. In 1976, after a distinguished 35 years combined service to the armed forces and the police, Don retired and founded his own laboratory to carry on his work in the field of questioned documents. He became a Fellow (Emeritus) of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a Life Member (Emeritus) and Past Director of the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences, a Member of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners. After his retirement, Don became involved in local politics and, with the blessing of his wife and six children, joined the Burnaby Voters’ Association as their Secretary. In 1978 he was elected to a two-year term as a Burnaby School Trustee. During the next municipal election in November 1979, he successfully ran for Alderman. Don Brown served Burnaby as Alderman from 1979 to 1985. During this time, Don also became a member of the Community College for the Retired, the Horsemen’s Society and the Burnaby Historical Society. He also gave his support to Arts Council programs and numerous other community functions over the years and author "Why?: The Last Years of the British Columbia Policy 1858-1950" about the BC Provincial Police. In 1991, Don was appointed as Chair of the Burnaby Centennial Committee, dedicating himself to making Burnaby’s Centennial celebration a memorable success. His contributions were always supported by his wife Helen, and their work during the Centennial Year was just one example of the strength of their 66-year partnership. They were both formally recognized for their efforts when they were chosen to receive the Kushiro Cup and named the Citizens of the Year in 1992. Also that year, Don was a recipient of the Canadian 125 Medal and one year later, in March 1993, Donald Brown was awarded Burnaby’s highest honour and was made a Freeman of the City of Burnaby. Don passed away in 2009.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Moving Images

Creator: Brown, Donald N. "Don"

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds; PC194, PC241, MSS098, MSS148

Helen Davy subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-[195-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 8 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby events and locations, including Burnaby May Days, and class photographs.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-[195-]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Helen Davy subseries

Physical Description: 8 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1985-08

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs that depict Burnaby events and locations, including Burnaby May Days, and class photographs.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Davy, Helen

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; PC138

Keel family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925-1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the Keel family home and McPherson Junior High School.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1925-1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Keel family subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-09

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the Keel family home and McPherson Junior High School.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: Keel family

Notes: PC279; Title based on contents of subseries

Love farmhouse oral history project subseries

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1925-1930 (interview content), interviewed between 1988 and 1991

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records + 3 audio cassettes + 1 videocassette

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records created and collected during research of the Love family and the Love family farmhouse and include oral history interviews in various formats. Interviews were conducted by Jim Wolf and Burnaby Village Museum curator Colin Stevens with members of the Love family includi…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Jesse Love farmhouse series

Subseries: Love farmhouse oral history project subseries

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records + 3 audio cassettes + 1 videocassette

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records created and collected during research of the Love family and the Love family farmhouse and include oral history interviews in various formats. Interviews were conducted by Jim Wolf and Burnaby Village Museum curator Colin Stevens with members of the Love family including; Annie Chamberlain, William Parker, Esther Stanley, Albert Parker and Elsie Hughes. Interviews were focused on the subject of the interior and exterior of the farmhouse from a first person perspective. The goal was to obtain as much information as possible from family members in order to accurately restore, furnish and exhibit the farmhouse back to it's original 1920s era.

Accession Code: BV018.41

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: 1925-1930 (interview content), interviewed between 1988 and 1991

Media Type: Textual Record; Sound Recording; Moving Images

Notes: Title based on content of subseries

Mabel Rogers subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 1 notebook

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a notebook belonging to Mabel Turner. The notebook includes autographs, writing, and artwork from her time as a student in Winnipeg.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1926

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Mabel Rogers subseries

Physical Description: 1 notebook

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1999-16

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a notebook belonging to Mabel Turner. The notebook includes autographs, writing, and artwork from her time as a student in Winnipeg.

History: Mabel Rogers (nee Turner) lived at 1704 Frederick Street, Burnaby from 1943 to 1997. In 1997 she moved to Rideau Manor retirement residence.

Media Type: Textual Record

Creator: Rogers, Mabel Turner

Notes: Title based on content and collector of subseries

Lochdale Community Hall subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records pertaining to the Lochdale Community Hall with emphasis on financial records and meeting minutes.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Lochdale Community Hall subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1991-19

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records pertaining to the Lochdale Community Hall with emphasis on financial records and meeting minutes.

History: The Lochdale Social Club of Lochdale, BC began in January 1925. The object of the club was "to promote friendly assistance and social intercourse within the community." The club later changed its name to the Lochdale Community Hall Association.

Media Type: Textual Record

Creator: Lochdale Community Hall

Notes: MSS056; Title based on contents of subseries

In the Shadow by the Sea subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1971 (date of originals), copied 2003-2006

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of copies of family photographs of early Barnet residents compiled for the publication, "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Families involved in the project include: Brichmore, Blake, Burkmar, Calihou, Cary, Charters, Cordy, Dean, Drummond, Eva…

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1925-1971 (date of originals), copied 2003-2006

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: In the Shadow by the Sea subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2007-01

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of copies of family photographs of early Barnet residents compiled for the publication, "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village". Families involved in the project include: Brichmore, Blake, Burkmar, Calihou, Cary, Charters, Cordy, Dean, Drummond, Evans, Fish, Fraser, Hall, Hope, Irwin, McNie, Johnston, Kask, Keys, Kitchener, McNie, LaFavor, Laine, Laleune, Lauder, Lorenz, Marshall, Mathewson, Moore, Pert, Philbrook, Pruden, Rex, Rutherford, Siddoo, Stemo, Stewart, Teja, Traff (Trafinenkov), Urbanovits, Wells, Williams, Wilson, Woolsey and Yatsui.

History: Personal memories and family photographs from early Barnet residents were complied and developed into a book entitled "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village" under the direction of the Community Heritage Commission. Community Heritage Commission volunteer Harry Pride was the driving force behind this project.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: Community Heritage Commission

Notes: PC512; Title based on contents of subseries

Easthope family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1924-1982

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Photographs and other material

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs, papers, and film footage related to the Easthope family, including George Jr. and Dorothy May's home at 6671 Halifax Street in Burnaby.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1924-1982

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Easthope family subseries

Physical Description: Photographs and other material

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2003-06; BHS2003-10

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs, papers, and film footage related to the Easthope family, including George Jr. and Dorothy May's home at 6671 Halifax Street in Burnaby.

History: The Easthope family has lived in Burnaby since 1889, when Ernest and Ann Easthope emigrated from Wolverhapton, England with eight of their nine children and settled in the Edmonds district. They later moved to Vancouver where Ernest started Easthope Bros., a marine engine business on Georgia Street with two of his sons, Percy and George. George married Elizabeth Tisdale of Sapperton, BC in 1902 and in 1905, George Jr. was born, eventually having eight siblings. In 1926, the family moved to Lochdale, Burnaby, where the children attended St. Helen's Catholic private school, Capitol Hill School and Burnaby North High School. George Jr. married Dorothy May Parkes (b. 1903), and by 1930, they had built a house at 6671 Halifax Street in Burnaby where they lived for the rest of their married lives. George Jr. died in 1986.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph; Moving Images

Creator: Easthope family

Notes: Title based on contents of subseries; PC451, MSS105, MI630

People files subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1924-2010

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of papers pertaining to notable people in Burnaby collected by the Burnaby Historical Society for research and information purposes.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1924-2010

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: People files subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1993-03; BHS1997-16; BHS1999-02; BHS2000-06; BHS2003-13; BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of papers pertaining to notable people in Burnaby collected by the Burnaby Historical Society for research and information purposes.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on content of subseries

Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook.

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a Riverway West School PTA scrapbook and photographs.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association subseries

Physical Description: 1 scrapbook.

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-03

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of a Riverway West School PTA scrapbook and photographs.

History: The original Riverway West School was a one room school house built in 1923 just west of the ravine at Sussex Avenue and Marine Drive. Miss Marion Swanson was the first teacher at the school ande Mr. Morrison its first custodian. Miss Carrie Kidd taught from 1924 to 1935, with the enrolment increasing from 18 in 1924 to 42 pupils in 1929, and including grades one to seven. In 1930 grades one to four were at Riverway while the older students went to Nelson. It continued on as a one-room school of four grades until 1952. As the school was seen by parents to be “greatly lacking” for students and teachers “in comfortable accommodations and vital equipment necessary for their extra curricular and recreational needs, such as were enjoyed by children in the larger schools” they formed a parent-teacher association in September 1951 to remedy the situation. From the beginning the PTA was very active in making its desires known to the School Board and “the school was very fortunate to have an organisation which put forth such a united effort on behalf of the children”. Their first bazaar fundraiser allowed the PTA to purchase a hot plate and the necessary utensils to provide the students with soup and cocoa during the cold weather. At their request, the School Board improved the electrical wiring in the school and built a roof over the stairs to the basement and provided more sports equipment for the children. Art classes and piano classes were started through the efforts of the members and in 1953 a cub pack and a brownie pack with PTA members as Cub Leaders and Brownie Leaders was created. A ditto machine and school library were the direct results of successful bazaars held by the PTA. The PTA also made a survey of the school district in 1951 to analyse the future school population and presented the results to the School Board. Following this, a portable unit was erected beside the existing school house for use the following September. It was in use until 1958. In the late 1950s, the PTA approached the School Board and the Burnaby Parks and Recreation Commission and proposed a park on the grounds adjacent to their school to relieve a playfield deficiency. The creation of Riverway West Park was the direct result of this proposal. As Parks Planner Paul Stocksted pointed out in 1961, “All of this would not have been possible had not the people associated with the PTA insisted on the solution to the problem of inadequate play areas.” In 1957 the first unit of the new Riverway West School underwent construction. Designed by Carlberg and Jackson with Remigio Maniaga as the contractor, it was completed in September of 1957 and consisted of four classrooms, an activity room and administration facilities. A two classroom addition, also designed by Carlberg and Jackson. was completed on the last day of 1959, three months after its construction began.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Riverway West School Parent-Teachers Association

Notes: PC273, MSS068; Title based on creator and contents of subseries

John Burton subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97454

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1923]-[194?]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the John Burton family home at 420 12th Avenue in Burnaby, BC.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1923]-[194?]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: John Burton subseries

Physical Description: Photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1989-05

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the John Burton family home at 420 12th Avenue in Burnaby, BC.

History: John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, Edmonds, Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930. While at high school, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school. John Burton's grandfather, John Foley, was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper: Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter. When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. He was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.

Media Type: Photograph

Creator: Burton, John

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; PC216

Alvin Burtch subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1953

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 2 files of textual records and 1 photograph

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of textual records pertaining to Alvin Burtch's house in Burnaby, a newspaper clipping, and photograph of Burtch in his BCER uniform.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1923-1953

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Alvin Burtch subseries

Physical Description: 2 files of textual records and 1 photograph

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-02; BHS1993-12; BHS1995-07

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of textual records pertaining to Alvin Burtch's house in Burnaby, a newspaper clipping, and photograph of Burtch in his BCER uniform.

History: Alvin Burtch was a British Columbia Electric Railway conductor who drove for the BCER for 38 years, 30 of those years on the Burnaby Lake Line. He was the driver for the line's final run in 1953, his 37th year of service. Burtch had a daughter named Hazel Cunningham, who grew up in Burnaby and married Friends of the Carousel member Harry Sumner.

Media Type: Photograph; Textual Record

Creator: Burtch, Alvin

Notes: Title based on contents of subseries; MSS067, PC493

Ross family subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1922(date of originals)-[1998]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 2 files of textual records and 2 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1922(date of originals)-[1998]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Ross family subseries

Physical Description: 2 files of textual records and 2 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1998-05; BHS1999-14

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of Ross family history, memories of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, Ross Service Station letterhead and photographs of the Ross Service Station.

History: Frederick "Fred" Sullivan Ross was born 1887 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He took his apprenticeship in mechanics in Glasgow prior to 1911, following which he immigrated to Canada. During the First World War he returned to Britain and joined the Royal Navy. He was a Chief Petty Officer, working in the engine room of a mine sweeper in the North Atlantic. Margaret Binnie Dougal was in 1884 in Linlithgow, Scotland. She trained as a nurse before emigrating to Canada in 1911. She also returned to Britain during the war years, nursing at Boulogne in France and later Bristol before returning to Vancouver in 1919. She met Fred through a mutual friend, Agnes Rhind. Fred and Margaret married in 1920 in Vancouver, BC. Their first home was in North Vancouver and was where their first child, Ronald, was born. In 1921 or 1922 they moved to the Burnaby Lake area, buying a three-quarter acre parcel of land at 2974 Sprott Street and had two more children, Ian and Alistair. Fred built, owned and operated the Ross Service Station on Douglas Road, established in 1922 or 1923. The station property ran from Douglas Road up to the Douglas Road School’s fence line. After the municipality appropriated part of the property in the 1930s to create a junction for the new Grandview Highway and existing Douglas Road, Fred got permission to build an upper station with two more pumps. The driveway curved down to the station from where Sprott Street now joins Canada Way and rejoined that road near its junction with Douglas Road. At Ross Service Station, Fred did automobile repairs and used the family car, a Studebaker Commander, as a towing vehicle. He created a garden north of the service station on the upper level where he grew chrysanthemums and daises. In the 1930s, Terry Rowley worked at the service station as one of Fred’s assistants. Fred ran the station until he sold it in about 1949. Margaret died December 29, 1969 at the age of 85. Fred died on August 21, 1971 at the age of 84.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Ross family

Notes: Title based on contents of subseries; PC58 and MSS146

C.B. Pritchard subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records and ephemera items created and collected by C.B. Pritchard. Records pertain to the North East Burnaby Farmer's Institute, Lozells Community Association, and Burnaby Ratepayers Central Executive.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921-1967

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: C.B. Pritchard subseries

Physical Description: Textual records

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of records and ephemera items created and collected by C.B. Pritchard. Records pertain to the North East Burnaby Farmer's Institute, Lozells Community Association, and Burnaby Ratepayers Central Executive.

Media Type: Textual Record

Creator: Pritchard, C.B.

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries

John Burnie subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58363

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921-1970

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of property tax receipts paid by John Burnie for DL 33 Block 20, 29-30 Lot 20S.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1921-1970

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: John Burnie subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS1992-25

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of property tax receipts paid by John Burnie for DL 33 Block 20, 29-30 Lot 20S.

Media Type: Textual Record

Creator: Burnie, John

Notes: MSS073; Title based on content of subseries

B. Keisler subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1920-1937

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 12 photographs and 1 textual record

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of B. Keisler's photograph and memorabilia collection. Photographs in this collection include images of Kingsway West School, Burnaby South High School and Burnaby May Day celebrations. Also included in Keisler's collection is a 1937 Graduation Banquet dance card.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1920-1937

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: B. Keisler subseries

Physical Description: 12 photographs and 1 textual record

Description Level: Subseries

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-15

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of B. Keisler's photograph and memorabilia collection. Photographs in this collection include images of Kingsway West School, Burnaby South High School and Burnaby May Day celebrations. Also included in Keisler's collection is a 1937 Graduation Banquet dance card.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Keisler, B.

Notes: Title based on creator of subseries; PC214, MSS151

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