Community Heritage Commission Special Project fonds

Physical Description: 43 photographs : col. (tiffs) ; 600ppi + 2306 photographs : copied (tiffs) + 219 photographs : copied (jpegs) + 30 interviews (wav) : digital sound files + 79 photographs (jpegs) + 56 cm of textual records + 662 photographs : b&w + 1 sound recording (microcassette tape)

Storage Location: Photo catalogue 512; Photo catalogue 615; Photo catalogue 503; MSS198; MSS171; MSS196; Photo catalogue 549; Photo catalogue 315

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of project records created by Burnaby's Community Heritage Commission as part of their initiative and mandate.The fonds is organized into the following project series: 1. Charting Change Project series 2. Burna-Boom Oral History Project series 3. Burnaby Centennial series 4. In t…

Physical Description: 43 photographs : col. (tiffs) ; 600ppi + 2306 photographs : copied (tiffs) + 219 photographs : copied (jpegs) + 30 interviews (wav) : digital sound files + 79 photographs (jpegs) + 56 cm of textual records + 662 photographs : b&w + 1 sound recording (microcassette tape)

Storage Location: Photo catalogue 512; Photo catalogue 615; Photo catalogue 503; MSS198; MSS171; MSS196; Photo catalogue 549; Photo catalogue 315

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of project records created by Burnaby's Community Heritage Commission as part of their initiative and mandate.The fonds is organized into the following project series: 1. Charting Change Project series 2. Burna-Boom Oral History Project series 3. Burnaby Centennial series 4. In the Shadow by the Sea series 5. Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project series 6. Life with the Moores of Hart House series

History/Biography: The History and Heritage Committee was established in 1992 under Burnaby's Centennial Committee. When the Centennial Committee was disbanded on December 31, 1992 , the History and Heritage Committee was made a part of the Burnaby Heritage Advisory Committee and proceeded under it's authority until 1995 when it was renamed The Community Heritage Commission (CHC) as a municipal heritage advisory committee by the Burnaby City Council under section 15 of the Heritage Conservation Act.The commission endeavours to provide comprehensive community heritage and history projects and programs to bring together the 'personal history' of citizens and facilitate a wider understanding and appreciation of Burnaby's 'collective memory'. Projects undertaken by Burnaby's Community Heritage Commission include: Burnaby Centennial Anthology: Stories of Early Burnaby; In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village, the Heritage Burnaby website (www.heritageburnaby.ca); Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas and various oral history projects. These projects fall under the Community Heritage Commission's mandate to provide the citizens of Burnaby and the wider public with access to information about the city and its unique history through publications and online finding aids.

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