Wally Westerman
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Westerman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.2 x 11 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Walter "Wally" Westerman posing on a piece of farming equipment on an unidentified farm. Another piece of farming equipment is visible behind him.
Arthur Francis Peers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 11.8 cm on page 17.5 x 26.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Arthur Francis Peers standing near railway tracks at an unknown location. Snow can be seen covering the ground and Arthur is pictured wearing winter jacket, boots, hat and mittens. In his right hand he is holding a box camera and he is smoking a pipe. Throughout the late 1920s, Arthu…
Automatic equipment being installed
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1959
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three men working with rows of equipment at the British Columbia Telephone Company Glenburn Exchange at Delta Avenue and Parker Street. A typed description on the back of the photograph reads, "Automatic equipment being installed in the new Glenburn exchange. / B.C. Telephone Company…
Bill and Jackie Martin
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1933 and 1940] (date of original), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- William Martin family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Bill and his younger brother Jackie Martin, each pushing their own wheelbarrow.
Bill Campbell with Crystal Radio Set
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923 (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 Bill Campbell with a crystal radio set built by his father, John Campbell.
Bill Speirs
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929 (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 Bill Speirs operating a steam shovel for the municipality of Burnaby. Here he is working on the roads around Gilley Avenue and Imperial Street (formerly Windsor Street).
Bill Speirs
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929 (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 Bill Speirs operating a steam shovel. Bill and his wife, Dell Speirs, moved to Burnaby from Edmonton in 1929.
Bulldozer
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 23, 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 6.8 x 11.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified man standing beside a small John Deere bulldozer described as the "supply machine" at the Willingdon Heights subdivision site. Piles of lumber can be seen in the background.
Bulldozer operator
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 18, 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 6.8 x 11.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of bulldozer operator, Mr. Chapman seated in a bulldozer at the Willingdon Heights subdivision site.
Central Park Garage Opening
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1955]
- Collection/Fonds
- Charles MacSorley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of four men on stage in front of a microphone at what is identified by the caption as the "Central Park Garage Opening." Charles MacSorley is standing to the right, but the others are unknown.
Charles Street
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 20, 1947
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 6.8 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Charles Street where a man is using machine to dig a ditch; the side of the truck reads, "Alfred Horie Construction Co. Ltd." Houses under construction can be seen in the background. This is part of the Willingdon Heights subdivision site.
Children on the beach
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.2 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of five children sitting on the beach. The girl in the middle is holding a box camera on her lap.
Chip and Roy at Hart House
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.6 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Chip and Roy, two Australian soldiers or sailors, at Hart House. They are in uniform, and one of them is holding a camera.
Construction of the Westminster Rollerway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm print + 6 p.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the construction of the Westminster Rollerway at 660 Edmonds Street (renumbered 7850 Edmonds Street). A "Commercial Truck Co. Ltd." construction crane is in the foreground.
Cutting pile tops for Nicomen Slough Bridge
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 12.2 cm on page 17.5 x 23.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of workmen operating machinery to cut pile tops for the Nicomen Slough Bridge, near Deroche.
Dave Gray and Bob Wood
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1927 (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 Dave Gray and Bob Wood on a hike to the Lions peaks in West Vancouver. Dave Gray has his pipe clenched in his teeth, as Bob Wood points a box camera at him. The third member of hiking party, Art Hilton (not pictured), took this photograph. Dave Gray, a famous baseball player and late…
Digging In
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 7 cm on page 17.5 x 26.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a steam shovel digging into a hill. A horse team pulling a dump wagon stand next to it. The location is unknown. This photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway dur…
Dominion Bridge Addition Opening
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1955
- Collection/Fonds
- Charles MacSorley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Charles MacSorley speaking into two microphones at the Dominion Bridge addition opening.
Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1957
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.0 cm mounted on cardboard
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a crane lifting a large pipe on or off a truck at the Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. A number of other pipes are piled at the left side of the photograph.
Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- January 1956
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the fabrication of large construction industry components inside a Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd. building.