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and performing arts. . Left to right: Nancy Peter, Una Carlson, Gordon Thomson, Mary Forsyth, Lorill Hanney, Jim Borelli, Blanche Johnson, Alice Gray. Front kneeling: Harold Wright and Margaret Andrusiak. �Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools v PUBLIC ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS BVM: BURNABY

e summer, broadcast journalism students f r o m the British C o l u m b i a Institute of Technology interviewed pioneers a n d submitted their stories. Appeals through public libraries a n d rest homes i n Burnaby produced more tales. T h e n i n the s u m m e r of 1984, I screened the forms f r o m

of the exceptional photographs of the Kapoor Sawmill and its staff. We are grateful for the generosity of the Shell Canada Limited for their $3,000 grant which provided this book with its beautiful bound cover and the ability to distribute free copies ofthis book to every public school library in Burnaby. This grant

Most stories have been grouped according to the writers’ early-life neighbourhoods, which were often known by the name of the nearby "public" (elementary) school. A few stories have been grouped with respect to the area’s general geographic location, or by a specific topic. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter

confer upon him no claim to Public Employment in the Colony and that it is only intended to serve as a Voucher for his respectability and for the character and position which he held in this Country.” Lord Bulwer-Lytton had supplied this introduction after receiving a letter of request which described

on the boulevard. BURNABY HISTORICAL SOCIETY relying on public transit had to travel to downtown Vancouver by street car and then east along the Central Park interurban line to Edmonds to pay their taxes at the munic- ipal hall. It is interesting to note that into the late 1950s, North Burnaby Firemen using public

h Anthony R. Hurren — artwork The Corporation of the District of Burnaby The University of British Columbia Library Simon Fraser University Archives The Vancouver Public Library British Columbia Hydro Library �BYGONES OF BURNABY PROLOGUE For 22 years my love affair with Burnaby grew and strengthened

they had gone the year before, from California. Moody h u r r i e d l y gathered what m e n he could from the various public w o r k s i n and around the city,—the m e n from the N o r t h R o a d ; from the gang clearing and grading around the government buildings; and from the "pleasure path" he had

interurban to run between Vancouver and New Westminster rattled and swayed its way through a thickly treed area. The few settlers who lived in the vicinity of the tracks came out to welcome this beginning of a mechanical public transit system which would be known as the Central Park tramline. Before

community-engaged processes related to public history and education. �21 代序 本拿比的加華故事 展览 《横跨太平洋》 ， 展示华裔社群从1880 至1970年代在本拿比的历史。 该展览于2020 年荣获卑诗省加华历史协会颁发的王容伦加 华社区及公共历史奖， 以表彰其对于加拿大 华裔社群文史遗产的公共历史所做出的贡 献。 目前社会大众能够到本拿比乡村博物馆 的网站线上参观展览。 展览中的家族故事已 增添至博物馆的永久收藏， 包括汇生源活记 参茸药行以及商业菜园的展示。 这些研究計劃揭露了本市过去对华裔社群所 做出的歧视行为， 就此市长和市