Photograph of Burnaby May Day celebrations showing a man in uniform leading a bagpipe band on a field. Maypoles and a crowd can be seen in the background.
Photograph of Burnaby May Day celebrations showing a man in uniform leading a bagpipe band on a field. Maypoles and a crowd can be seen in the background.
Photograph of participants in the Burnaby South High School annual concert, February 7, 1927. The concert was held at the Burnaby Public Hall next to the old Municipal Hall, Edmonds and Kingsway. Identified: (back row, 11th from left) Una Patience; (12th from left) Ethel Beamish; (front row, from…
Photograph of participants in the Burnaby South High School annual concert, February 7, 1927. The concert was held at the Burnaby Public Hall next to the old Municipal Hall, Edmonds and Kingsway. Identified: (back row, 11th from left) Una Patience; (12th from left) Ethel Beamish; (front row, from right, behind piano) C.G. Brown (principal), Mr. Green, Mr. Smith and Mr. Black (teachers)
Photograph of the procession of the bag pipe band at Burnaby May Day, at Robert Burnaby Park. Leading the pipe band is Constable George Jeffrey. A crowd and maypoles can be seen in the background.
Photograph of the procession of the bag pipe band at Burnaby May Day, at Robert Burnaby Park. Leading the pipe band is Constable George Jeffrey. A crowd and maypoles can be seen in the background.
Photograph of Janet and Ramsay Shankie standing in a garden. Janet is wearing a light coloured dress and is holding a small violin. Ramsay is wearing a white shirt, necktie, and dark shorts. The family's Barker Avenue home and yard is visible behind them.
Handwritten text in white on front of photograph reads: "14 may 1926".
Scope and Content
Photograph of Janet and Ramsay Shankie standing in a garden. Janet is wearing a light coloured dress and is holding a small violin. Ramsay is wearing a white shirt, necktie, and dark shorts. The family's Barker Avenue home and yard is visible behind them.
Photograph of a four row Parker Carousel "Carry Us All" in Alum Rock Park in San Jose, California. The Tangley calliaphone (air blown instrument similar to a calliope) is visible on the left. The carousel operator was V. L. Taplin (not pictured).
Photograph of a four row Parker Carousel "Carry Us All" in Alum Rock Park in San Jose, California. The Tangley calliaphone (air blown instrument similar to a calliope) is visible on the left. The carousel operator was V. L. Taplin (not pictured).
Photographer identifies himself / location as: "-JOHNSON-/ PHOTO/ SAN JOSE" and adds "PARKER CARRY US ALL USING TANGLEY CALLIOPE/ OPERATED BY V. L. TAPLIN, ALUM ROCK PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL."
Photograph of young boy, Thomas Ramsay Shankie, and his sister, Janet Shankie Bower, pictured in the garden beside the family home on Barker Avenue. Ramsay is on the left and is playing the violin.
Photograph of young boy, Thomas Ramsay Shankie, and his sister, Janet Shankie Bower, pictured in the garden beside the family home on Barker Avenue. Ramsay is on the left and is playing the violin.
Photograph of the kitchen crew sitting and standing in three rows in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of eighteen men and one woman are mostly dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping th…
Photograph pierced (most likely by tacks) on all four corners and has a large tear on the right side
Scope and Content
Photograph of the kitchen crew sitting and standing in three rows in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of eighteen men and one woman are mostly dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. The man seated second to the right in the front row, wearing a baker's uniform is Charles J. Caunt. All other individuals are unidentified.
Photograph of cooks, pantrymen, bakers and fellow kitchen staff standing in a row in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of men are dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. Bak…
Photograph of cooks, pantrymen, bakers and fellow kitchen staff standing in a row in front of Paradise Inn at Rainier National Park, Washington. The group of men are dressed in white, wearing aprons and hats with scarves around their necks and side towels by their waists for wiping their hands. Baker, Charles J. Caunt is standing on the far right. All other men are unidentified.
1 photograph : sepia ; 1.5 x 1.5 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of Bob Peers wearing a military-style cap and jacket. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
1 photograph : sepia ; 1.5 x 1.5 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-501
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of Bob Peers wearing a military-style cap and jacket. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.9 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of a large group clustered in front of an automobile. Claude Hill is standing, second from the left, holding a pipe and wearing a military uniform. The rest of the people are unidentified.
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.9 x 10 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-587
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of a large group clustered in front of an automobile. Claude Hill is standing, second from the left, holding a pipe and wearing a military uniform. The rest of the people are unidentified.
Photograph of Firefighter Albert Killer behind the wheel of the second fire truck in North Burnaby. It was a 4 cylinder Dodge combination hose and chemical truck.
Photograph of Firefighter Albert Killer behind the wheel of the second fire truck in North Burnaby. It was a 4 cylinder Dodge combination hose and chemical truck.
Photograph of Thomas, Susie and Fred Blake standing together behind a large tree trunk on the road allowance in front of 4456 Pandora Street. Fred Blake is wearing glasses.
Photograph of Thomas, Susie and Fred Blake standing together behind a large tree trunk on the road allowance in front of 4456 Pandora Street. Fred Blake is wearing glasses.
Typed sticker on verso of photograph reads: "(L to R)/ Thomas, Susie, Fred Blake/ on the road allowance in/ front of 4456 Pandora St./ [written over in black pen] (1921)"
Address sticker on verso of photograph reads: "MR & MRS F BLAKE 4165 PANDORA ST BURNABY BC V5C 2B2"
Photograph is a portrait of unidentified men and women standing outside of a building. The woman third from the left in the second row is identified as Charlotte Hill holding David Hill.
Photograph is a portrait of unidentified men and women standing outside of a building. The woman third from the left in the second row is identified as Charlotte Hill holding David Hill.
This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's memories of Burnaby during the Depression years including his sister's personal and work history.
This portion of the interview pertains to John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie's memories of Burnaby during the Depression years including his sister's personal and work history.
Date Range
1929-1938
Photo Info
McGeachie family; John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie is the eldest child, standing second from the right, 1925 (date of original). Item no. 204-464
Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
Biographical Notes
John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie.
Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School.
John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company.
Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947.
John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven.
Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.
Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.
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.