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���Looking north along Pole Line Road now Sperling Avenue Deer Lake at bottom left c. 1910 Burnaby Village Museum photo ����Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves w h o arrived from every corner of the w o r l d between 1888 a n d 1930 some witnessing incorporation of the district i n

the Woodwards were having built by Bernard Hill on the east end of Deer Lake was not ready so Miss Harriet moved into the Hill's home for a short time and ran the post office from there. In 1904 Harriet Woodward also started in her own home a private school for the local children. Kitty Hill and Beatrice

arrangements were made to have the typing done. a Pam Bryant, Executive Secretary - who has worked steadfastly to type all our stories (which involved not only office hours, but also some evenings and weekends). The Burnaby Mayor and Council - All for their support for this project, and approving

that were tapped to fill a two hundred thousand gallon storage tank that was distributed through p ressure to all the homes. This was the first large scale water system to be initiated in Burnaby. lhe instant town immediately required a post office which opened on January 1, 1900. A school was also

...............................................83 1860 Hydrographic Chart with Burnaby Lake..........................................84 City of New Westminster, c.1861.............................................................84 New Westminster, Government Buildings, c.1862.....................................85 New Westminster, Columbia Street

in order to enter grade 8. They could now attend Burnaby South High School paying $3.00 per month, but it was difficult to get there. Students had to walk to the Sprott Station, get on the Burnaby Lake line to New Westminster, transfer at Edmonds Street onto a little streetcar going to South Burnaby

over Deer Lake c.1917 [BCA] Rear Cover: Fairacres Mansion,rendering, 1911 [Burnaby Art Gallery Collection] All photographcs by Donald Luxton & Associates Inc. unless otherwise noted Graphic Design & production by G. Todd Brisbin (www.iotacreative.ca) Published by the City of Burnaby Ownership

with the Woodward family, 1905. Maude Woodward, the New Westminster nurse who had attended the birth of the Claude and Annie Hill's only child Kitty, purchased the critical piece of land at Deer Lake Brook and the new Sperling Avenue. She established a small cottage on the property and opened the first Post Office

. The City of Burnaby created the Burnaby Lake Regional Park in 1979 from land it had purchased over several decades. City of Burnaby Archives 304-004 Despite Burnaby’s growing cosmopolitan and affluent appearance, locals frequently continued to elect social democrats to public office who championed

����HISTORY OF BURNABY A N D VICINITY �G E O R G E G R E E N A u t h o r of " T h e Life and W o r k of George M a l c o l m A n n a b l e , " A story of the early development of the Canadian West. "Some Pioneers of L i g h t and P o w e r i n B r i t i s h C o l u m b i a . " " T h e F o u n d i n

LIFE WITH THE MOORES OF HART HOUSE Pioneer Days on Burnaby's Deer Lake ��LIFE WITH THE MOORES OF HART HOUSE Pioneer Days on Burnaby's Deer Lake Harry Pride ^ ^ • v ^ C C i t y o f XiyBurnaby Published by the City of Burnaby Community Heritage Commission 2002 �National Library of Canada Cataloguing

activity. The Burnaby Fire Prevention Office provides this valuable service through inspections and education in fire safety. I served as Union President and later as the Sixth District Vice-President of the International Association of Fire Fighters. I am proud of my role in the union

Lake area. He and his wife, Jung Gee Shee, arrived in Burnaby 1907 and raised a family of five: Anne, Maida, Laura (my mother), Harry and Gordon. In my mother’s teenage years, she was fiercely independent and strong-willed. Her two sisters had arranged marriages; my mother refused to comply