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Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified woman sitting on a chair with a book on her lap in a living room. The living room is decorated with chairs, tables, house plants and lamps. Another woman who appears older than the seated woman is standing by a piano to the left of the photograph. There is a furnace b…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 9.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified woman sitting on a chair with a book on her lap in a living room. The living room is decorated with chairs, tables, house plants and lamps. Another woman who appears older than the seated woman is standing by a piano to the left of the photograph. There is a furnace behind the woman, and area rugs on the floor. The woman's clothing style date this photograph to mid 1900s, as she is wearing a skirt that goes down to her knees.

Subjects: Furniture

Accession Code: HV983.42.95

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [193-]

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For another photograph taken in the same house, see HV983.42.94

Scan Resolution: 800

Scan Date: 2023-10-31

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Women in the living room, [193-] thumbnail

Women's Section ULFTA The Pas, Man.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription77683

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1938

Collection/Fonds: Yanko family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 23.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Women's Section of the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA) for The Pas, Manitoba. Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy is standing at the centre of the second row.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1938

Collection/Fonds: Yanko family fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.5 x 23.5 cm

Material Details: Secured to album page with photo corners

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 545-002

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2012-09

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Women's Section of the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA) for The Pas, Manitoba. Eugenia “Jenny” (Haresomovych) (Carman) Nagy is standing at the centre of the second row.

Subjects: Organizations

Names: Nagy, Eugenia "Jenny" Haresomovych Carman

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Transcribed title; Note written on album page reads: "centre + centre row"

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Women's Section ULFTA The Pas, Man., 1938 thumbnail

Wood Cutting Applications

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport62885

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55339

Meeting Date: 21-Mar-1932

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55339

Meeting Date: 21-Mar-1932

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 55339

21-Mar-1932 Meeting Minutes

Wood Cutting in DL 215

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport63476

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55589

Meeting Date: 23-May-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55589

Meeting Date: 23-May-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 55589

23-May-1932 Meeting Minutes

Wood Family

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription35690

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of Wood mother and son, (left to right) Bob Wood and Esther Wood. Mrs. Wood was a pioneer and one-time secretary of the Burnaby School Board. She loved dogs.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1930 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Pioneer Tales subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 204-548

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1988-03

Scope and Content: Photograph of Wood mother and son, (left to right) Bob Wood and Esther Wood. Mrs. Wood was a pioneer and one-time secretary of the Burnaby School Board. She loved dogs.

Subjects: Animals - Dogs

Names: Wood, Esther Giffen; Wood, Robert "Bob"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Wood Family, 1930 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

Wood Purchase from Block 4, DL 128

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport63644

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55733

Meeting Date: 6-Jun-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55733

Meeting Date: 6-Jun-1932

Format: Council - Committee Report

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

Documents

Report 55733

6-Jun-1932 Meeting Minutes

Woodwards beacon

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1936

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph looking towards Hastings Street in Vancouver with the Woodwards department store building at the end of the street with it's iconic "W" sign.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph looking towards Hastings Street in Vancouver with the Woodwards department store building at the end of the street with it's iconic "W" sign.

Subjects: Buildings - Commercial; Buildings - Commercial - Department Stores

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV996.6.104

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1936

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-02-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption beneath photograph reads: "Woodwards Beacon"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

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Woodwards' men softball champs

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1936

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Woodwards' men's softball team named the "Deuces". Softball champs in 1936. The softball team, composed of eight players are gathered together in two rows on the baseball field. Crichton Hawkshaw is a member of the team and is identified standing third from the left in the back row.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Woodwards' men's softball team named the "Deuces". Softball champs in 1936. The softball team, composed of eight players are gathered together in two rows on the baseball field. Crichton Hawkshaw is a member of the team and is identified standing third from the left in the back row.

Subjects: Sports - Baseball

Names: Hawkshaw, Richard Crichton Gilliland "Crichton"

Accession Code: BV996.6.158

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1936

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-02-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption beneath photograph in album reads: "DEUCES" / WOODWARDS / MEN / Softball CHAMPIONS / "1937"; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

Images

Woodwards' men softball champs

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19453

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1937

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Woodwards' men's softball team named the "Deuces". Softball champs in 1937. The softball team, composed of nine players are gathered together in two rows on the baseball field. Two men in the front row are holding baseball bats and there is one lying in front. Crichton Hawkshaw is a m…

1 image

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Hawkshaw family fonds

Series: Hawkshaw family photographs series

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of Woodwards' men's softball team named the "Deuces". Softball champs in 1937. The softball team, composed of nine players are gathered together in two rows on the baseball field. Two men in the front row are holding baseball bats and there is one lying in front. Crichton Hawkshaw is a member of the team and is identified standing second from the left in the back row.

Subjects: Sports - Baseball

Names: Hawkshaw, Richard Crichton Gilliland "Crichton"

Accession Code: BV996.6.159

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: 1937

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-02-06

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Caption beneath photograph in album reads: "DEUCES" / WOODWARDS / MEN / Softball CHAMPS / "1936""; Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1

Images

Woodwards' men softball champs, 1937 thumbnail

Woodward's National architect : a Victorian guidebook of 1869

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Woodward, George E. (George Evertson), 1829-1905; Thompson, Edward G.

Publication Date: 1977; c1869

Call Number: 728 WOO

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection: Reference Collection

Material Type: Book

ISBN: 0892570172; 9780892570171; 0916530051; 9780916530051

Call Number: 728 WOO

Author: Woodward, George E. (George Evertson), 1829-1905; Thompson, Edward G.

Place of Publication: Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Publisher: American Life Foundation

Publication Date: 1977; c1869

Physical Description: ca. 200 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Library Subject (LOC): Architecture

Notes: Reprint of the ed., published by G.E. Woodward, New York.

Woodyard on Norland Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54950

Meeting Date: 2-Nov-1931

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 54950

Meeting Date: 2-Nov-1931

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 54950

2-Nov-1931 Meeting Minutes

Work at Confederation Park

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport55499

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71610

Meeting Date: 5-Jun-1935

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71610

Meeting Date: 5-Jun-1935

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71610

5-Jun-1935 Meeting Minutes

Work Done at Confederation Park

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport55052

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71158

Meeting Date: 6-Oct-1937

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71158

Meeting Date: 6-Oct-1937

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71158

6-Oct-1937 Meeting Minutes

Work done by Vancouver Parks Board in Central Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56481

Meeting Date: 1-Dec-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 56481

Meeting Date: 1-Dec-1930

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 56481

1-Dec-1930 Meeting Minutes

Work Done in Front of Home on Burris Street

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport54969

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71074

Meeting Date: 23-Nov-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 71074

Meeting Date: 23-Nov-1938

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 71074

23-Nov-1938 Meeting Minutes

Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription10550

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Names: United Fraser Growers Limited

Accession Code: BV019.11.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers, [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Workers outside of United Fraser Growers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription10549

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Subjects: Persons - Chinese Canadians

Names: Law, Yee "Herbert"; United Fraser Growers Limited

Accession Code: BV019.11.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Workers outside of United Fraser Growers, [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Work For Amount of Relief Received

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport63501

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55597

Meeting Date: 30-May-1932

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 55597

Meeting Date: 30-May-1932

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

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

Documents

Report 55597

30-May-1932 Meeting Minutes

Work group from the Bay

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1920 and 1930]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of staff who worked at the "Mirror Room" which was the dressmaking department at "The Bay" department store. Flossie Parsons (nee Smith) is identified in the third row, third person from the left.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of staff who worked at the "Mirror Room" which was the dressmaking department at "The Bay" department store. Flossie Parsons (nee Smith) is identified in the third row, third person from the left.

History: Flossie Maude Parsons (nee Smith) was born to George Henry Smith, a farm labourer, and Harriet Ann Savage on February 13, 1896 in Ealing, England. She immigrated to Canada with some of her family members in the early 1920s. They lived in Winnipeg for a few years as an older brother had settled there in 1912. She married Herbert Russell Parsons on June 23, 1928. They first lived in Vancouver and finally bought a home at 7091 Jubilee Avenue, South Burnaby in the early 1930s. In 1943, Flossie was certified in Home Nursing. Herbert Parsons was active during the Second World War as a volunteer for Civil Defence in Burnaby and worked as a salesman for Woodwards. The couple had no children. Herbert passed away on May 23rd, 1957 (age 84) and Flossie passed away on April 6, 1996 (age 100).

Other Title Information: Title based on content of photograph

Names: Parsons, Flossie Maude Smith

Accession Code: BV017.38.12

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1920 and 1930]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Date: 26-Mar-2018

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