Photograph of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia located in Victoria. There are people standing on the steps to the front entrance. There is a sign on the lawn in front of the parliament buliding that reads, "PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS."
Photograph of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia located in Victoria. There are people standing on the steps to the front entrance. There is a sign on the lawn in front of the parliament buliding that reads, "PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS."
Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 463 (built between 1912 and 1915) at Victoria, British Columbia. A man in overalls is walking by the caboose.
inscribed in black ballpoint pen, verso, c. "CP 463 at/ Victoria", stamped, l.r. [upside down] "840"
Scope and Content
Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 463 (built between 1912 and 1915) at Victoria, British Columbia. A man in overalls is walking by the caboose.
Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 6151, a 0-6-0 Switcher (built in 1905 and 1906) at Victoria, British Columbia. A railway labourer looks to be cleaning or painting the side of the locomotive.
Photograph of Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive no. 6151, a 0-6-0 Switcher (built in 1905 and 1906) at Victoria, British Columbia. A railway labourer looks to be cleaning or painting the side of the locomotive.
File consists of biographical information and copies vital stastic records about Hannah (Girlie) Victoria Barnes (nee Love). Hannah (Girlie) was the youngest daughter of Jesse and Martha Love and grew up in the Love family farmhouse on Cumberland Street. Hannah married Leslie Beecher Barnes at St. …
File consists of biographical information and copies vital stastic records about Hannah (Girlie) Victoria Barnes (nee Love). Hannah (Girlie) was the youngest daughter of Jesse and Martha Love and grew up in the Love family farmhouse on Cumberland Street. Hannah married Leslie Beecher Barnes at St. Alban's church in Burnaby on May 14, 1931.
File contains photographs of "Queen Victoria" visiting Burnaby Village Museum as part of Victoria Day celebrations. The photographs show the Queen Victoria arriving in a carriage and being attended by members of the Red Hat Society.
File contains photographs of "Queen Victoria" visiting Burnaby Village Museum as part of Victoria Day celebrations. The photographs show the Queen Victoria arriving in a carriage and being attended by members of the Red Hat Society.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-1718-1: ""Queen Victoria" is kept cool and out of the sun by her Ladies in Waiting, from the Red Hat Society, during the monarch's annual Victoria Day visit to Burnaby Village Museum."
Caption from metadata for 535-1718-2: ""Queen Victoria" arrives at Burnaby Village Museum for her annual Victoria Day visit."
File contains photographs of Victoria Day celebrations at Burnaby Village Museum. In one photograph, a woman in period costume raises a glass in a toast. In the other, a volunteer in period costume offers cake to museum visitors; one of the museum's 1920s businesses and streets is visible in the ba…
File contains photographs of Victoria Day celebrations at Burnaby Village Museum. In one photograph, a woman in period costume raises a glass in a toast. In the other, a volunteer in period costume offers cake to museum visitors; one of the museum's 1920s businesses and streets is visible in the background.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-1612-1: "Blanche Gettling toasts Queen Victoria at Victoria Day celebrations at Burnaby Village Museum."
Caption from metadata for 535-1612-2: "Robin Orr, a volunteer at Burnaby Village Museum, hands out free cake at the Museum's Victoria Day celebrations."
Item is a "Journal of Proceedings" for the "Fifth International Convention Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police" which took place in Victoria, British Columbia at the Empress Hotel in July of 1925.
Item is a "Journal of Proceedings" for the "Fifth International Convention Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police" which took place in Victoria, British Columbia at the Empress Hotel in July of 1925.
The Mortimer-Lamb House is a one and one half-storey, Arts and Crafts-style residence with a steeply pitched, side-gabled roof. The original cottage form has been enlarged with a later addition on the west side of the house. Located next to the Burnaby Lake Regional Park Wildlife Rescue Care Centre…
The Mortimer-Lamb House is a one and one half-storey, Arts and Crafts-style residence with a steeply pitched, side-gabled roof. The original cottage form has been enlarged with a later addition on the west side of the house. Located next to the Burnaby Lake Regional Park Wildlife Rescue Care Centre, the house has picturesque views of Burnaby Lake.
Heritage Value
Built circa 1922, the Mortimer-Lamb House is valued for its association with first owners, Harold Mortimer-Lamb (1872-1970), and his wife, Katherine Mary Mortimer-Lamb (1873-1939). Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, Harold Mortimer-Lamb immigrated to Canada in 1889. Seven years later in Vancouver, he married Katherine Mary Lindsay, a native of Winnipeg. Mortimer-Lamb was a key figure in the B.C. mining industry, serving as Secretary of the Mining Association of B.C. between 1900 and 1945, and also as the Secretary of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In addition to his professional life, Mortimer-Lamb was a pioneer art photographer and was among Canada's leading art critics, and this house served as a central gathering place for renowned Canadian artists of the day. Mortimer-Lamb’s daughter, Molly Lamb Bobak (born 1922), became a renowned watercolourist, and was the only woman ever hired as an official Canadian war artist.
The Mortimer-Lamb House is a significant example of the work of noted architect, Samuel Maclure (1860-1929) and his partner, Ross Lort (1889-1969). Maclure, who was a close friend of the Mortimer-Lamb family, was British Columbia's leading residential architect, and was renowned for his high quality designs for prominent citizens in both Vancouver and Victoria. Maclure was a leading exponent of the Art and Crafts design movement in B.C., and established a sophisticated local variation of residential architecture. The Mortimer-Lamb House was designed at the time when Maclure was in partnership with Ross Lort. In 1907, Lort began working for Maclure's firm as a draftsman, and by 1920 was in charge of Maclure's Vancouver office. Lort's architectural career spanned some sixty-years, and he designed some of the province's most familiar houses, apartments, institutions and places of worship.
The Mortimer-Lamb House is also a significant local example of the Arts and Crafts style, and incorporates elements such as board-and-batten siding on the ground floor, shingled gables and leaded casement windows. It is a testament to the domestic architecture built outside of established suburbs during the post-First World War era, typically modest in scale and representative of middle-class residential ideals.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Mortimer-Lamb House include its:
- treed setting with views of Burnaby Lake
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey height, rectangular plan and steeply pitched side-gabled roof
- wood-frame construction
- Arts and Crafts elements such as board-and-batten siding on the ground floor, cedar shingles in the gables and open soffits
- original straight-leaded casement windows in single and multiple-assembly
- internal red-brick chimney with corbelled cap
Photograph of bride, Esther Love Stanley on her wedding day standing next to her younger sister Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love (later Barnes). The sisters are both dressed in white and standing on a small woven carpet placed on the grass outside in a lush garden.
Photograph of bride, Esther Love Stanley on her wedding day standing next to her younger sister Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love (later Barnes). The sisters are both dressed in white and standing on a small woven carpet placed on the grass outside in a lush garden.
Photograph of Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love (later Barnes) dressed in white and standing together with Arthur Whiting on the occassion of the marriage of Frank Stanley and Esther (Love) Stanley. Arthur was the the witness at the wedding. The pair are side by side while standing on a small carpet pl…
Photograph of Hannah Victoria "Girlie" Love (later Barnes) dressed in white and standing together with Arthur Whiting on the occassion of the marriage of Frank Stanley and Esther (Love) Stanley. Arthur was the the witness at the wedding. The pair are side by side while standing on a small carpet placed on the grass outside in a lush garden.
Photograph of Hannah Victoria "Girlie" (Love) Barnes holding a hay rake while standing in a field next to a pile of hay. Girlie is dressed in overalls and wearing a straw hat.
Photograph of Hannah Victoria "Girlie" (Love) Barnes holding a hay rake while standing in a field next to a pile of hay. Girlie is dressed in overalls and wearing a straw hat.
Photograph of Jesse, Martha and Girlie (Hannah) Love at their farmhouse on Cumberland Road. Martha and Girlie Love are on the south side verandah while Jesse Love is standing in the garden. A large fence runs alongside the house with plants growing up it and a large holly tree is growing next to th…
Photograph of Jesse, Martha and Girlie (Hannah) Love at their farmhouse on Cumberland Road. Martha and Girlie Love are on the south side verandah while Jesse Love is standing in the garden. A large fence runs alongside the house with plants growing up it and a large holly tree is growing next to the verandah.
Photograph of Jesse Love and his youngest daughter, Hannah Victoria "Girlie" (Love) Barnes. They both are wearing straw hats and Jesse is smoking a pipe. They are standing on the grass outside of the Love family farmhouse which can be seen to the left. There are trees, a washing line and swing behi…
Photograph of Jesse Love and his youngest daughter, Hannah Victoria "Girlie" (Love) Barnes. They both are wearing straw hats and Jesse is smoking a pipe. They are standing on the grass outside of the Love family farmhouse which can be seen to the left. There are trees, a washing line and swing behind them. Girlie was the youngest of eleven of the Love children. She continued to live in the house with her father until he died in 1928.
Photograph of the Love family. Back row, left to right: Esther Love (sister), Dot Love (sister), George Love (brother), Bob Love (brother), and Annie Love Whiting (sister). Middle: Girlie Love (sister). Front: four Whiting children, the girl may be Edith. Annie Love, the oldest of Love girls, h…
Photograph of the Love family. Back row, left to right: Esther Love (sister), Dot Love (sister), George Love (brother), Bob Love (brother), and Annie Love Whiting (sister). Middle: Girlie Love (sister). Front: four Whiting children, the girl may be Edith. Annie Love, the oldest of Love girls, had married Wallace Whiting.