Alistair Ross papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1922]-[1998]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records (photocopies)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a four page, typewritten personal memory of growing up in Burnaby (photocopied), specifically of the Burnaby Lake Interurban, written by Alistair Ross.
A Sound Investment
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 brochure
- Scope and Content
- Item is a brochure entitled "A Sound Investment" which includes a "Map Showing Location of Burnaby Reverted Lands Now Offered for Sale."
Autograph book
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook
- Scope and Content
- Item is a notebook used for collecting autographs. This was Mabel Turner's autograph book compiled while she attended Leester Avenue Elementary School, then St. John's High School in Winnipeg. Included in the notebook are short poems, advice, ink drawings and watercolours.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1925-1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Mabel Rogers subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 42651
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-16
- Scope and Content
- Item is a notebook used for collecting autographs. This was Mabel Turner's autograph book compiled while she attended Leester Avenue Elementary School, then St. John's High School in Winnipeg. Included in the notebook are short poems, advice, ink drawings and watercolours.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Writing embossed on outside cover of notebook reads: "Autographs"
Less detail
Beautiful Burnaby pamphlet
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 pamphlet
- Scope and Content
- Item is a "Beautiful Burnaby British Columbia" pamphlet from 1924 which includes photographs and written descriptions of the municipality as well as advertisements from local businesses.
British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 booklet
- Scope and Content
- Item is a thirty-nine page booklet describing and illustrating British Columbia Electric Railway Company operations and development in the Lower Mainland between 1910 and 1923.
Burnaby Lawn Bowling Club minute book
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook (hardcover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Burnaby Lawn Bowling Club minute book (this club was later renamed the South Burnaby Lawn Bowling Club). Minute book includes a financial records ledger.
The Burnaby Post, Thursday, May 23, 1929
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 23, 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 8 p. of newsprint
- Scope and Content
- Item is eight pages of newsprint from Volume VII, No. 27 of The Burnaby Post featuring an article entitled,"SATURDAY'S MAY DAY FESTIVAL" with Winnifred Jeffery as the May Queen.
Burnaby Ratepayers Central Executive minute book
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1930
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook (hardcover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a minute book for the Burnaby Ratepayers Central Executive. Typewritten pages of minutes have been glued into the pages of the notebook along with newspaper articles pertaining to the executive.
Burnaby School House contract
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1893 (date of original), copied 1988
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 2 p. (photocopied)
- Scope and Content
- Item is the (photocopied pages of the) original Public Works contract between W.S. Gore Deputy Commissioner of Lands and Works and John M. Archibald, Contractor for the construction of Burnaby School House.
Burnaby South High School Annual 1928-1929
By-law No. 509
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 booklet
- Scope and Content
- Item is the Corporation of the District of Burnaby By-law No. 509 (in booklet form) otherwise cited as "Burnaby Health By-law 1926."
Canadian Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Membership
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- June 1, 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item is an original Canadian Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Membership granted to the South Burnaby Board of Trade.
Central Park District Patrol Report 1920
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920-1924
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook (hardcover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a notebook containing a handwritten Patrol Reports written by constables on patrol in Burnaby. The handwriting looks to be that of Constable George Jeffery.
Central Park Lawn Bowling Club minute book
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1919-1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook (hardcover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Central Park Lawn Bowling Club minute book (this club was later renamed the South Burnaby Lawn Bowling Club).
Central Park Lawn Bowling Club minute book
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1928-1932
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 notebook (hardcover)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a Central Park Lawn Bowling Club minute book (this club was later renamed the South Burnaby Lawn Bowling Club). Minute book includes financial balance sheets.
Certificate for Jeanie Brown
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- November 9, 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 certificate
- Scope and Content
- Item is a certificate awarded to C. G. Brown's wife, Jeanie Brown from St. Albans Church in appreactation of services to the woman's auxiliary.
Complimentary dinner invitation
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 invitation and envelope
- Scope and Content
- Item is a complimentary dinner invitation which reads, "ADMIT BEARER / TO / COMPLIMENTARY DINNER / TENDERED TO BURNABY 1929 MAY QUEEN / MISS WINNIFRED JEFFREY [sic] / AND MAIDS OF HONOUR / SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, 1929 / AT SIX O'CLOCK / 'ST. ALBANS' HALL DOUGLAS RD. AND EDMONDS ST." and its envelope.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- George Jeffery subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 invitation and envelope
- Material Details
- Black writing on white rag paper
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS013-001
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Item is a complimentary dinner invitation which reads, "ADMIT BEARER / TO / COMPLIMENTARY DINNER / TENDERED TO BURNABY 1929 MAY QUEEN / MISS WINNIFRED JEFFREY [sic] / AND MAIDS OF HONOUR / SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, 1929 / AT SIX O'CLOCK / 'ST. ALBANS' HALL DOUGLAS RD. AND EDMONDS ST." and its envelope.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- 2 duplicate copies of the dinner invitation, without envelopes
- Written in pencil on recto of envelope reads: "1929 May Queen"
Less detail
Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 1929
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 brochure
- Scope and Content
- Item is a brochure of Burnaby Land prices produced by the Property Department, Corporation of Burnaby, Edmonds BC (via New Westminster).