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Around the world cruise 1924
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6585
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.126.6
- Call Number
- 910 CAN
- Place of Publication
- [Montreal]
- Publisher
- Canadian Pacific
- Publication Date
- 1924
- Printer
- Southam Press Ltd.
- Physical Description
- 40 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroads--Canada
- Ocean liners--Canada
- Tourism
- Subjects
- Transportation
The Art of Railroading
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7506
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Alymer-Small, Sidney
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Call Number
- 385 ALY
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 385 ALY
- Author
- Alymer-Small, Sidney
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Publisher
- Railway Publications Society
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Printer
- Frederick J. Drake & Co.
- Physical Description
- 924 p. : ill. 6 cm thick
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroads--Design and construction
- Railroads
- Electric railroads
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- Electrical Railroading / Electricity as applied to railroad transportation
The book of trains
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary6772
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.151
- Call Number
- 420 WIL
- Place of Publication
- [S.l]
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Publication Date
- 1900
- Printer
- Press of the Publishers
- Physical Description
- 96 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- Inscription
- "Douglas J. Lunn Xmas - 1928" [handwritten in ink on front endpapers]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroads
- Juvenile literature
- Subjects
- Transportation
Canadian Pacific Railway, annotated time table, with information as to C.P.R. transcontinental routes
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2787
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Edition
- Eastbound ed.
- Publication Date
- 1907
- Call Number
- 385.06571 CAN
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.26.139
- Call Number
- 385.06571 CAN
- Edition
- Eastbound ed.
- Place of Publication
- [Montreal]
- Publisher
- [Canadian Pacific Railway]
- Publication Date
- 1907
- Physical Description
- 100 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Inscription
- "F. Bettschen 1261 Powell St. Mrs. Price 470 Hastings St. Mr Sanderson 323 4th Ave New Westminster" [handwritten in pencil on last page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Railroads--Canada--Timetables
- Canada--Description and travel
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- "Corrected to July 16th, 1907" --Title page.
Copper River and Northwestern Ry. : standard spiral tables
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2612
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Hawkins, E. C.
- Edition
- Rev.
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Call Number
- 385 HAW
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV974.23.4
- Call Number
- 385 HAW
- Edition
- Rev.
- Author
- Hawkins, E. C.
- Publisher
- Office of Chief Engineer Cordova, Alaska
- Publication Date
- 1908
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. ; 18 cm.
- Inscription
- "J. D. Smith" [handwritten on the inside front cover in pencil]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Alaska
- Railroads--Alaska
- Railroads--Alaska--Design and construction
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- "Compiled January 1908, Revised April 1909"
Electric power stations electric railway systems, line and track, line calculations, motors and controllers, electric-car equipment, multiple-unit systems.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3335
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV991.38.3
- Call Number
- 625 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton
- Publisher
- International Textbook Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- Series
- I. C. S. Reference Library
- Printer
- Burr Printing House
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (various pagings) : ill. : 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electric power-plants
- Electric railroads
- Subjects
- Transportation
Electric railways interior wiring
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3336
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV991.38.4
- Call Number
- 625 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pa.
- Publisher
- International Textbook Co.
- Publication Date
- 1904
- Printer
- Burr Printing House
- Physical Description
- vi, 1 v. (various pagings), xv : ill. : 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Electric railroads
- Electric wiring, Interior
- Railroads
- Electric wiring
- Subjects
- Transportation
- Notes
- Includes index.
Interview with Jack McGeachie June 18, 1975 - Track 3
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory37
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1925
- Length
- 0:07:37
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's impressions of the neighbourhood he grew up in.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's impressions of the neighbourhood he grew up in.
- Date Range
- 1925
- Photo Info
- McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464
- Length
- 0:07:37
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Richmond Park Area
- Interviewer
- Bradbury, Dr. Bettina
- Interview Date
- June 18, 1975
- Scope and Content
- Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
- Biographical Notes
- John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie. Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School. John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company. Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947. John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven. Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.
- Total Tracks
- 8
- Total Length
- 0:51:13
- Interviewee Name
- McGeachie, John Aloysius "Jack"
- Interview Location
- Rosewood
- Interviewer Bio
- Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Oral history subseries
- Transcript Available
- None
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
- Web Notes
- Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
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Audio Tracks
Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie
Track one of interview with Jack McGeachie
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/100-13-10/100-13-10_Track_3.mp3Interview with Leonard Evenden and Allen Seager by Kathy Bossort November 18, 2015 - Track 1
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory621
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date Range
- 1925-2015
- Length
- 0:12:50
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Dr. Evenden and Dr. Seager’s description of their early years at Simon Fraser University. They talk about the challenges to commuting up and down Burnaby Mountain and the solutions people used, particularly hitchhiking. Dr. Seager talks about living in Monteci…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Summary
- This portion of the interview is about Dr. Evenden and Dr. Seager’s description of their early years at Simon Fraser University. They talk about the challenges to commuting up and down Burnaby Mountain and the solutions people used, particularly hitchhiking. Dr. Seager talks about living in Montecito in the 1980s. Dr. Evenden talks about the early use of Burnaby Mountain and its undeveloped state when the site for SFU was proposed in 1963.
- Date Range
- 1925-2015
- Length
- 0:12:50
- Names
- Simon Fraser University
- Subjects
- Education
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Lochdale (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Sperling-Broadway Area
- Interviewer
- Bossort, Kathy
- Interview Date
- November 18, 2015
- Scope and Content
- Recording is of an interview with Dr. Leonard Evenden and Dr. Allen Seager conducted by Kathy Bossort. Leonard Evenden and Allen Seager were two of 23 participants interviewed as part of the Community Heritage Commission’s Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project. The interview is mainly about aspects of Simon Fraser University’s history that is related to its site on Burnaby Mountain, as told by two retired SFU professors, Dr. Evenden of the Geography Department and Dr. Seager of the Department of History. The interview ranges over campus access and housing issues created by the isolated mountain site; the relationship of the university to the local community and the dispute over land ownership and control with the City of Burnaby; SFU’s environmental stewardship; the development of UniverCity; and the future of parkland in the conservation area on Burnaby Mountain.
- Biographical Notes
- Dr. Leonard J. Evenden was born 1937 in Beijing, China, to parents and Salvation Army missionaries Leonard Evenden and Elsie Pearl March. Dr. Evenden attended McMaster University (B.A. 1960), University of Georgia (M.A. 1962) and University of Edinburgh (Ph.D. 1970). He was appointed to Simon Fraser University’s Department of Geography in 1966, shortly after SFU opened in the fall of 1965, and retired in 2002. Dr. Evenden’s research has focused on Canadian urban geography. He edited a collection of essays about Burnaby titled “Suburb of Happy Homes: Burnaby centennial themes” (1995), and directed “Voices of Burnaby”, an SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee oral history project (1992). Dr. Evenden is married with three children. Dr. Allen Seager was born 1953 in Montreal, Quebec, to parents C.F.B. Seager and Evelyn DeGex Chesam. Dr. Seager is a retired Simon Fraser University professor, being a member of SFU’s Department of History from 1981 to 2014, and has current links with SFU as an instructor for Continuing Studies. His research interests include history of Canada and Western Canada, and labour and working class history, particularly in the coal mining and railway industries. Dr. Seager moved to Burnaby and the Montecito area in 1981 where he continues to live and enjoy the hiking trails on Burnaby Mountain and the amenities at SFU. Dr. Seager is a member of the Burnaby North NDP, and has volunteered with Scouts Canada and the Burnaby Centennial Committee.
- Total Tracks
- 6
- Total Length
- 1:11:28
- Interviewee Name
- Evenden, Leonard J.
- Seager, Allen
- Interview Location
- Clubhouse at Burnaby Mountain Golf Course Restaurant
- Interviewer Bio
- Kathy Bossort is a retired archivist living in Ladner, BC. She worked at the Delta Museum and Archives after graduating from SLAIS (UBC) in 2001 with Masters degrees in library science and archival studies. Kathy grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and, prior to this career change, she lived in the West Kootenays, earning her living as a cook for BC tourist lodges and work camps. She continues to be interested in oral histories as a way to fill the gaps in the written record and bring richer meaning to history.
- Collection/Fonds
- Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds
- Media Type
- Sound Recording
Audio Tracks
Track one of interview with Dr. Leonard Evenden and Dr. Allen Seager
Track one of interview with Dr. Leonard Evenden and Dr. Allen Seager
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS196-011/MSS196-011_Track_1.mp3Personal material
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription82732
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1910-1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1910-1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Physical Description
- 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS167-008
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.
- Subjects
- Arts - Paintings
- Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers
- Documentary Artifacts - Photographs
- Performances - Concerts
- Organizations - Societies and Clubs
- Personal Symbols - Certificates
- Transportation
- Persons - Royalty
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Graphic Material
- Notes
- Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together
- Simnett personal papers series
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area