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Columbian Newspaper subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97177
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1865]-1983
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs from the Columbian Newspaper collected by the Burnaby Historical Society.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1865]-1983
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Columbian Newspaper subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1989-19
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs from the Columbian Newspaper collected by the Burnaby Historical Society.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Creator
- The Columbian
- Notes
- Title based on contents of subseries
- PC 222
- History/Bio adapted from New Westminster Archives
Drs Blythe and Violet Eagles papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription57955
- 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
- 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
Army of the Common Good papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65603
- 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
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88242
- 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
Girl Guiding
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4588
- 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 …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- 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 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
- 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)
Images
Documents
Burnaby Region - Lake Group Registration 1938-1963
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription55165
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Scouts subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 39334
- Accession Number
- BHS1994-05
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Fire Department Scrapbook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription5783
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Fire Department fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- Textual records and graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Scrapbook contains hundreds of newspaper clippings taped onto pages, along with a few black and white photographs. Many pages have come loose and the book is in generally very poor condition because of the tape used to affix the clippings. The book has been bound together by a wooden spine that i…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Fire Department fonds
- Physical Description
- Textual records and graphic material
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 8734
- Accession Number
- 2001-02
- Scope and Content
- Scrapbook contains hundreds of newspaper clippings taped onto pages, along with a few black and white photographs. Many pages have come loose and the book is in generally very poor condition because of the tape used to affix the clippings. The book has been bound together by a wooden spine that is attached with four screws. On the cover in blue ink is written "B.F.D. #2" with the years "1938-1963" written in red ink.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
In memoriam papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription62797
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of in memoriam programmes for the funerals of Charles Victor Erickson and his wife Amanda Hervig Erickson, the parents of Hazel Erickson Peterson. Included in the file is a British Columbia Insurance Bulletin and newspaper clipping in memoriam for George Littell Schetky.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Hazel Peterson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS094-003
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS2000-08
- Scope and Content
- File consists of in memoriam programmes for the funerals of Charles Victor Erickson and his wife Amanda Hervig Erickson, the parents of Hazel Erickson Peterson. Included in the file is a British Columbia Insurance Bulletin and newspaper clipping in memoriam for George Littell Schetky.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Knight family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64497
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- History
- Milton "Milt" Waller Knight was born in Canada circa 1904. His wife Virginia Harrington was born in Duluth, Minnesota circa 1905 and lived most of her life in Canada. Virginia was the first person in British Columbia to breed budgies when she began in 1932 and by 1939 she and her husband created the first crested budgie in the world. By 1942, Virginia was also housing two-hundred and fifty birds at the home of her mother, Mrs. N.M. Herington, which was located at 1775 West 13th Avenue in Burnaby. Milton and Virginia Knight moved into their own home during the war years but, as they could not get their large aviary moved, they were forced to sell their crested birds. When they started up in their birds again, they obtained some of their crested back. By 1948 they had created two types of crested: those with a miniature cockatiel crest and those with a crest like a crested canary. By 1950 they had created the crested in over twelve colours of budgie, including cobalt and yellow-wing greens. The Knights lived together at 3718 Sperling Avenue (later renumbered 5255 Sperling Avenue) and opened Lakeview Aviaries on their one acre property at Deer Lake where Virginia specialized in budgies (Budgerigars) and bred the first albino in Canada and the first crested variety in the world. She kept Java rice birds, button quail, red factor canaries, cockatiels, finches, love birds and twelve varieties of budgerigar. She was a member of the British Columbia Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society. The facilities at Lakeview Aviaries included two heated aviary cages and three outdoor flight cages constructed by Milton. Lakeview housed the only "hospital" facilities in the city for cage birds, which featured an electrically heated, thermostatically controlled hospital cage. Virginia, known in the community as “the Bird Doctor” nursed many sick birds back to health free of charge for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or SPCA. The Knights often donated their trained birds to sick and injured children, for Virginia believed, “Budgies do wonders for the kiddies. They make them forget their troubles and of course a happy mental outlook is a definite aid to better physical health.” The couple’s personal pets included eight different types of parrot, three talking budgies, a dancing bare-eyes cockatoo, three talking cockatiel, and “Hoppy” her pet owl. By 1952, they had a toucan and a macaw as pets. In later years, they added two small dogs. By 1965, Milton had over 25 years of service as a truck driver at the Vancouver Service Department. He was also an avid collector of antique watches and clocks. He reconditioned the timepieces, systematically restoring them to their original condition. He was a member of the National Association of Clock and Watch Collectors. Milt also treasured old music boxes and restored their large metal discs and rolls to “as new” condition. Milton Knight died March 7, 1966 at 62 years of age. Virginia Knight lived alone at 5755 Sperling Avenue after her husband’s death and continued her work at the Lakeview Aviary where she “doctored 700-800 [birds] a year free of charge (except medicine) and gave SPCA donations up to $1000 a year.” Virginia Knight passed away November 10, 1987 at 82 years of age.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Knight, Milton
- Knight, Virginia
- Notes
- MSS117, PC510
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
Publications
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64500
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of publications (mostly manuals on health and training of talking birds) collected by "the Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS117-003
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- File consists of publications (mostly manuals on health and training of talking birds) collected by "the Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Oakalla Prison farm papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64511
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-[1939] (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 photocopies of the "Oakalla Weekly Spotlite" newsletter for August 24, 1938 and a speech delivered ca. 1939 by Oakalla Prison Warden Walter Owen.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-[1939] (date of originals)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Ed Eckley subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records (photocopies)
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS120-006
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FOIPPA
- Accession Number
- BHS2006-01
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photocopies of the "Oakalla Weekly Spotlite" newsletter for August 24, 1938 and a speech delivered ca. 1939 by Oakalla Prison Warden Walter Owen.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Alfred Bingham papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65599
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and literature pertaining to a housing conference sponsored by the Labour Progressive Party, presented by Alfred Bingham, LLP Secretary. Also included in the file are personal correspondence, pamphlets on housing from 1938 and 1944 as well as a magazine titled "The C…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Alfred Bingham subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS001-001
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence and literature pertaining to a housing conference sponsored by the Labour Progressive Party, presented by Alfred Bingham, LLP Secretary. Also included in the file are personal correspondence, pamphlets on housing from 1938 and 1944 as well as a magazine titled "The Canadian Unionist", dated July 1945.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Alfred Bingham papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription65600
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Alfred Bingham fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 cm. of textual records.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of Alfred Bingham’s notes on the lives of various Burnaby Pioneers as well as his own writtings; “The Stump Ranchers “ with a great deal of information on the history of the Army of the Common Good. Also included in the file is a series of stories of Alf Bingham’s first memories of mo…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Alfred Bingham fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 cm. of textual records.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS142-001
- Access Restriction
- Subject to FOIPPA
- Accession Number
- 2010-09
- Scope and Content
- File consists of Alfred Bingham’s notes on the lives of various Burnaby Pioneers as well as his own writtings; “The Stump Ranchers “ with a great deal of information on the history of the Army of the Common Good. Also included in the file is a series of stories of Alf Bingham’s first memories of moving to Burnaby; “I Arrive in Burnaby and We Build a Shingle Mill”, “We Build a Home and Dig a Well”, “What the Lochdale District Looked Like in 1919-20-21-22”,“Second Settlers in the Lochdale District”, “The Death of Mary Hawthorn”, “The Rum Runners and Bootleg Whiskey in Burnaby”, “Burnaby, North, South, East and West, 1892-1943”, “The Ice Age and other observations before Burnaby”, “Our House Burns Down” and “History of the Working People of Burnaby.”
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Marine Drive
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription88132
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1938 and 1958] (date of originals), copied [199-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : sepia and b&w ; 12 x 8.5 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Royals' house on Riverway Road (Marine Drive), the Kiewitz house and Glen Lyon and members of the Parslow, Bolton, Rorison, Down and Kiewitz families.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1938 and 1958] (date of originals), copied [199-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Mary Forsyth fonds
- Physical Description
- 7 photographs : sepia and b&w ; 12 x 8.5 cm or smaller
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 572-013
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2014-27
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of the Royals' house on Riverway Road (Marine Drive), the Kiewitz house and Glen Lyon and members of the Parslow, Bolton, Rorison, Down and Kiewitz families.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Note in blue pen on verso of photograph 572-013-1 reads: "Gertie Kiewitz, Mary Bolton/ Marine Dr. by Kiewitz house/ August 1938"
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph copy print 572-013-2 reads: "Chess in front of the Royal's house showing gravel Riverway Rd" (note on original reads: "Chess/ Royal's / accross")
- Note in blue ink and pencil on verso of photograph 572-013-3 reads: "Mary Paulson/ Mary Bolton/ looking across to 18th and Marine Drive when paved".
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph copy print 572-013-5 reads: "Glen Lyon"
- Note in blue ink on verso of photograph copy print 572-013-6 reads: "1942/ Muriel Down/ Kay Rorison (North)/ Doreen Binns (Parson)".
![Political photographs, [1938-1990], predominant 1938-1953 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2013/2013_0012_0006_001.jpg?width=280)
Political photographs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription3649
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1938-1990], predominant 1938-1953
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 35 photographs : b&w + col. prints + slides
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs relating to Winch's political career, including professional portraits of Harold Winch, tourist photographs of Ottawa, and photographs of Winch with New Democratic Party (NDP) colleagues Dave Barrett (Premier of British Columbia, 1972-1975; also served as MLA and MP) an…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harold Edward Winch collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 35 photographs : b&w + col. prints + slides
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photographs relating to Winch's political career, including professional portraits of Harold Winch, tourist photographs of Ottawa, and photographs of Winch with New Democratic Party (NDP) colleagues Dave Barrett (Premier of British Columbia, 1972-1975; also served as MLA and MP) and Dave Stupich (served as MLA and MP). Includes a photograph taken by photographer Ken McAllister of members of the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) standing outside of the British Columbia Legislature [ca. 1941].
- Subjects
- Government - Federal Government
- Accession Code
- BV013.12.6
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1938-1990], predominant 1938-1953
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-04-14
- Photographer
- McAllister, Kenneth "Ken"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Annotation in blue ink on recto of photograph of CCF members [ca. 1941] includes names of people identified; "Arthur Tuenue, Colin Cameron, Laura Jamieson, Grant MacNeil / Wallis Lefeaux, Sam Guthrie, Bernard Webber, / Front: Bert Herridge, Grace MacInnis, Bert Gargrave, Harold Winch, Gretchen Steeves, Len Shepherd, Ernie Winch"
Images
![Political photographs, [1938-1990], predominant 1938-1953 thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Images/2013/2013_0012_0006_001.jpg)
Trudi Tuomi subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription126
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1945]-1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1945]-1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Trudi Tuomi subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records and 5 photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1996-20
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the squatter community known as Crabtown that ran along the Burrard Inlet, accompanied by articles about growing up in that community.
- History
- Gustav and Aune Rintanen came to Vancouver from a mixed farm on the prairies in 1936 with the hopes of finding employment. The couple had two children: nine year old Aili (later Topalian) and eight year old Trudi (later Tuomi), when they moved to a “squatters shack” at North Burnaby’s waterfront Crabtown community in 1937. They paid 50 dollars for their two-room cabin, which was built on a platform and supported by pilings. Though the squatters’ homes that ran along the Inlet were commonly referred to as shacks and Crabtown a slum, in reality they were very neatly kept homes in a community. Crabtown residents rallied together to build a water supply system and trails up the steep bluff with stairs and banisters so children could go to school safely. Before Gustav found a job, he “busied himself with fixing up the place”: building a new chimney, railing, wood shed, clothes line and sauna for his family. By 1940, he was working at the mill near Windermere pool (now New Brighton Park). Aune worked as a dishwasher and prep cook at Ye Olde English Fish and Chips in downtown Vancouver. In 1946, they sold the cabin for two hundred dollars and moved to a small house. All Crabtown squatters were eventually evicted in 1959.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Tuomi, Trudi Rintanen
- Notes
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
- PC337, MSS144
Fraser Wilson illustrations
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription58319
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1947]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Scope and Content
- File consists of sixteen original illustrations, most of which are political caricatures, written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson for the Vancouver Sun.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1947]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Fraser Wilson subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Material Details
- Original pen and ink illustrations; some include white ink and/or graphite detailing
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS062-004
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-25
- Scope and Content
- File consists of sixteen original illustrations, most of which are political caricatures, written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson for the Vancouver Sun.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Responsibility
- Written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson
Bancroft family papers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription63822
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists correspondence and receipts, including tax and hospital insurance receipts.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1951
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Bancroft family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS110-004
- Accession Number
- BHS2004-06
- Scope and Content
- File consists correspondence and receipts, including tax and hospital insurance receipts.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Grieve family correspondence
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66378
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1966
- Collection/Fonds
- Grieve family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Grieve family. Included in the file is correspondence from Canada's twelfth Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and from British Columbia's twenty-second Premier, T. D. Pattullo.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1966
- Collection/Fonds
- Grieve family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS155-005
- Accession Number
- 2011-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Grieve family. Included in the file is correspondence from Canada's twelfth Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and from British Columbia's twenty-second Premier, T. D. Pattullo.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Event invitations and menus
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription66385
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Grieve family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an invitation to attend the opening of the BC Legislature and accompanying admittance card, the menu from the Laurier Club commemoration dinner for the Honourable Ian A. Mackenzie and the luncheon menu and souvenir programme for the opening of the Pattullo Bridge.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937-1948
- Collection/Fonds
- Grieve family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS155-011
- Accession Number
- 2011-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of an invitation to attend the opening of the BC Legislature and accompanying admittance card, the menu from the Laurier Club commemoration dinner for the Honourable Ian A. Mackenzie and the luncheon menu and souvenir programme for the opening of the Pattullo Bridge.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title