1st Div 1907 West Burnaby School
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1907]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the First Division class for 1907 at West Burnaby School (later renamed Kingsway West School). There are two rows of students standing and one row of seated students. there is a male teacher standing on the left side of the group just beside a bicycle that is leaning against the build…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 8.2 cm
- Material Details
- Handwritten in the photograph is "1st Div 1907 / West Burnaby School". The reverse side of the photograph is printed in a postcard format.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the First Division class for 1907 at West Burnaby School (later renamed Kingsway West School). There are two rows of students standing and one row of seated students. there is a male teacher standing on the left side of the group just beside a bicycle that is leaning against the building.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Teachers
- Persons - Students
- Names
- Kingsway West School
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Street Address
- 4800 Kingsway
- Accession Code
- BV012.20.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1907]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 13-Mar-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Parade of Elephants
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1904]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a parade of elephants along a street (possibly Granville Street) in Vancouver.
B. Patterson with his dog on Burnaby Lake
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [190-] (date of original), copied 1977
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of four men and a dog named Hector standing on a frozen lake, looking at a dead frozen deer. Some of them seem to be wearing skates. According to a catalogue record from 1977, the original print had written explanation stating: "Bruce and Bill [Patterson] with some friends found a wild…
Costumed people
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.42 x 23.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large gathering of people who are in costumes varying from a clown to a swedish maid to a beggar to a drunk. They are gathered to take a photograph in a room with high ceiling, hardwood floors, and electric lamps. The woman seated fourth from the left on the second row from the fron…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.42 x 23.5 cm
- Material Details
- Photograph is mounted on a card; the photograph itself and the card mount are both torn along the top edge
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large gathering of people who are in costumes varying from a clown to a swedish maid to a beggar to a drunk. They are gathered to take a photograph in a room with high ceiling, hardwood floors, and electric lamps. The woman seated fourth from the left on the second row from the front resembles the woman depicted in other photographs in this accession identified as Gloriana Bird, or Birdie.
- Subjects
- Clothing - Costumes
- Events - Parties
- Accession Code
- HV983.42.157
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-12-05
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier at New Westminster Exhibition Grounds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a car bringing Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier to meet a group of people waiting at the New Westminster Exhibition grounds. Prime Minister Laurier is seated in the back seat of the car, on the right.
Airship at New Westminster
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.2 x 10.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large crowd gathering around an airship in a clearing in New Westminster. The craft bears a banner reading "Motor Boats Built by Hinton Electric Ltd. At Victoria." The airship was piloted by Harry Ginter and made twice daily flights over the 1909 exhibition.
Alexander E. E. "Bill" Vidal
The Ancient and Honorable Anvil Brigade
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 24, 1906 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 13 x 18 cm mounted on board 22 x 27 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of "the Ancient + Honourable Anvil Brigade" standing outside a General Blacksmith and Machinist shop.
Authorized by the Education Ministry For Lower Division Primary School Use, Volume 10
New Chinese Language Textbook
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.360.10
- Author
- Shang Wu Yin Shu Guan
- Place of Publication
- Shanghai
- Publisher
- Commercial Press, Limited
- Publication Date
- 1906
- Series
- Commercial Press's New Primary School Text Books
- Physical Description
- 61 p. : ill (some col.), ports, maps ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Object History
- Some books in this accession are marked: "Mr. Chan Y. Leong, 111 Pender St. E., Vancouver B.C., Canada, North America, Western H."
- Sam Kee & Company merchants is the business located at 111 Pender St. E. Vancouver - originally owned by Chan Toy (many alternative names including Chang Toy) which was later run by Chang Yat Leong - presumably the same person as Chan Y. Leong.
- Notes
- Chinese language book
- On double leaves, East Asian binding
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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons
Boy in a sailor suit
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [190-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a sitting room of a house, with an unidentified boy in a sailor suit seated on a chair. Another boy in a sailor suit is standing beside him, moving his head, and an unidentified woman is standing by a dresser behind the two boys.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a sitting room of a house, with an unidentified boy in a sailor suit seated on a chair. Another boy in a sailor suit is standing beside him, moving his head, and an unidentified woman is standing by a dresser behind the two boys.
- Subjects
- Persons - Children
- Accession Code
- HV973.110.58
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [190-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-05-30
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Britain's King and Queen : the story of their lives , with sixty-eight illustrations
Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal Hill and Dorothy Kate Vidal Loomis
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a portrait of two girls identified as Charlotte Elizabeth Vidal Hill and Dorothy Kate Vidal Loomis
Charlotte Vidal and class
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1908 and 1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard shows a class portrait of girls. Identified fifth from the left in the back row is Charlotte Vidal.
Crowd gathered at Sperling Avenue and Douglas Road
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1905]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 10.5 cm on page 14 x 17.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a crowd of people gathered near the corner of Sperling Avenue and Douglas Road (later Canada Way). A sign in the background reads: "Burnaby By the Lakes Business Sites."
Dorothy and Alexander Vidal
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1908 and 1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph shows a boy and a girl identified as Alexander Vidal and Dorothy Vidal, respectively.
Farm workers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1908]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5 x 8 cm (oval, sight) on sheet 15 x 22.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of four unidentified farm workers at the farm of Claude Hill.
Five children and a dog
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900-1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a portrait of three unidentified boys, two unidentified girls and a dog sitting on logs in a clearing of a forest.
Hazel Peterson photographs
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- ca. 60 photographs : b&w and col. -- 2 prints : col. illustrations
- Scope and Content
- File consists of loose photographs of Hazel Peterson (nee Erickson), as well as photographs of her family and parents, Charles and Amanda Erickson, and her husband, Edwin Peterson. Photographs are from all stages of Hazel Peterson's life, including infancy and childhood and later years of her life,…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Hazel Peterson subseries
- Physical Description
- ca. 60 photographs : b&w and col. -- 2 prints : col. illustrations
- Material Details
- Some photographs remain in frames or paper covers.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 504-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2000-08
- Scope and Content
- File consists of loose photographs of Hazel Peterson (nee Erickson), as well as photographs of her family and parents, Charles and Amanda Erickson, and her husband, Edwin Peterson. Photographs are from all stages of Hazel Peterson's life, including infancy and childhood and later years of her life, including a trip to Hawaii in 1982. File includes studio portraits, cartes de visites, postcards, and some illustrations.
- Subjects
- Travel
- Persons - Children
- Names
- Peterson, Hazel
- Peterson, Edwin
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on content of file
- Note on verso of 504-022 reads: "This was taken several years ago / Your niece / Hazel Petersen (at left)"
- Note on verso of 504-027 reads: "Hazel Erickson Peterson"
- Note on verso of 504-028 reads: "all of us except Ethel" and identifies the siblings in the photo
- Note on verso of 504-029 reads: "not such a bad picture considering" and identifies the people in the photo.
- Note on verso of 504-030 reads: "Agnus McDonald" and "Touch up outline of deer"
- Note on envelope for 504-039:504-041 reads: "Hazel Petersen resided at Dania Home, Burnaby, for 20 years before her death shortly before her 100th birthday."
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