Photograph of an unidentified person looking at a laminated page of QSL cards, as a promotion for the Burnaby Amateur Radio Club's "field day" event. Ham radio equipment is visible in the background.
Photograph of an unidentified person looking at a laminated page of QSL cards, as a promotion for the Burnaby Amateur Radio Club's "field day" event. Ham radio equipment is visible in the background.
Photograph of Dennis St. Germain, information systems coordinator at St. Mary's Hospital, Len Worley, BCIT instructor, and David Dranchuk, executive director of the Compustep Youth Society, posing in a room filled with keyboards, CRT monitors, and other computer equipment.
Photograph of Dennis St. Germain, information systems coordinator at St. Mary's Hospital, Len Worley, BCIT instructor, and David Dranchuk, executive director of the Compustep Youth Society, posing in a room filled with keyboards, CRT monitors, and other computer equipment.
Collected by editorial for use in a June 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Dennis St. Germain, information systems co-ordinator at St. Mary's Hospital, Len Worley, BCIT instructor, and David Dranchuk, executive director of the Compustep Youth Society, are ankle deep in used computers and monitors that will be refurbished and donated to worthy causes."
Photograph of an unidentified person wearing a white hard hat and holding up two bottles of water of different quality. The dredging equipment at Burnaby Lake is visible behind the person.
Photograph of an unidentified person wearing a white hard hat and holding up two bottles of water of different quality. The dredging equipment at Burnaby Lake is visible behind the person.
Photograph of Investment minister and New Democratic Party (NDP) hopeful Glen Clark (later British Columbia Premier) in a bulldozer, breaking ground at the construction site of the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane on Highway 1 in Burnaby.
Photograph of Investment minister and New Democratic Party (NDP) hopeful Glen Clark (later British Columbia Premier) in a bulldozer, breaking ground at the construction site of the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane on Highway 1 in Burnaby.
Photograph of an unidentified camera operator from a Korean TV crew filming a person driving a forklift on a construction site, with a concrete mixer in the background.
Photograph of an unidentified camera operator from a Korean TV crew filming a person driving a forklift on a construction site, with a concrete mixer in the background.
Photograph of a photographer on Burnaby Mountain. The person is taking a photograph of the skyline, where the tops of Vancouver office towers are visible above a blanket of fog.
Photograph of a photographer on Burnaby Mountain. The person is taking a photograph of the skyline, where the tops of Vancouver office towers are visible above a blanket of fog.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "The low fog that has shrouded much of the Lower Mainland for more than a week has been a lure for photographers atop Burnaby Mountain, who are able to capture a unique view of Burnaby."
Photograph of Tom Collings, a lab engineer at Simon Fraser University (SFU) holding his 'V-chip' invention that allows images and language to be programmed out of television shows.
Photograph of Tom Collings, a lab engineer at Simon Fraser University (SFU) holding his 'V-chip' invention that allows images and language to be programmed out of television shows.
This portion of the interview pertains to John Burton's explanation of the connection between printers and unions throughout history. He also tells the story of the cylinder press being smashed by handpress workmen to protect their jobs at the London Times as well as his own experiences learning on…
This portion of the interview pertains to John Burton's explanation of the connection between printers and unions throughout history. He also tells the story of the cylinder press being smashed by handpress workmen to protect their jobs at the London Times as well as his own experiences learning on the Linotype.
Recording is of an interview with John Burton at his residence in Surrey by Lynda Mauve Orr, August 24, 1989. This interview focuses on the history of newspaper and printing presses in Canada.
Biographical Notes
John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, then Edmonds, then Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930.
While at High School, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school.
John Burton's grandfather John Foley was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper; Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter.
When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. Unfortunately, he was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.
Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
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Track six of interview with John Burton by Lynda Maeve Orr
Track six of interview with John Burton by Lynda Maeve Orr
Photograph of the steam donkey exhibit under a wooden shelter inside Burnaby Village Museum. The steam donkey came from the Anderson Saw Mill on Powell Lake, Vancouver Island and was acquired by the Burnaby Village Museum in the mid nineteen seventies.
Photograph of the steam donkey exhibit under a wooden shelter inside Burnaby Village Museum. The steam donkey came from the Anderson Saw Mill on Powell Lake, Vancouver Island and was acquired by the Burnaby Village Museum in the mid nineteen seventies.