Attention of the BC Electric Railway Company to Be Called to the Flooding Caused by the Ditches Being Blocked Along the BC Electric Railway Company (Eburne Line)
Union of BC Municipalities Seniors Housing and Support Initiative Funding Application in Partnership with the Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of BC (COSCO)
"W227" [writen on front endpaper and front flyleaf, crossed out]
"This book is the property of the"
"Mainland Fire Underwriters'"
"Association of British Columbia,"
"and is loaned to" [typed in black ink, plaque glued to front endpaper]
"Henry O Guhr Esq." [handwritten in black ink, signed on dotted line on plaque]
"for personal use only." [typed in black ink, part of plaque]
"New Westminster"
"Philadelphia Underwriters" [handwritten in black ink on bottom of plaque]
"Sl_ _ah"
"6" [handwritten in pencil on back flyleaf, inside a handwritten box]
[some writing throughout]
[illegible writing on cover in pencil]
Byrne Creek School opened in 2005 and accommodates students from grades 8 through 12. When built, the school was created to house as many as 1200 students, but by 2009, plans have been prepared to increase that capacity to 1500.
In 1911, the Vancouver Daily Province reported that “Mr. Harrison D. Morrison is building a twelve-room house of two stories and an attic, with stone basement, on Dundas Street, at a cost of about $4,500.” Harrison Donald Morrison (1864-1944) was a life-long contractor who lived in Burnaby with his wife Beatrice Amanda (née Smith, 1875-1954), until his death in 1944. This Edwardian-era house displays many holdover elements of the Queen Anne Revival style, particularly the elaboration of wall surfaces. In this example, the use of bay and cutaway bay windows, and integral first and second storey verandahs–now removed or altered–add visual interest. The distinct dual pitch of the roof is also a transitional characteristic, used in the late days of the Queen Anne Revival style. A later coat of stucco now covers the original ground floor siding.
This front gabled residence is characteristic of workers houses from the Edwardian era. One of the oldest houses in this area, it retains numerous original architectural elements such as its double-hung windows with multi-paned upper sashes, triangular eave brackets and a glazed front door with applied ornamentation. It was built for Isaiah Poirier in a subdivision that was created adjacent to the Rayside station of the Burnaby Lake interurban line of the B.C. Electric Railway.
The Sperling Avenue School was opened in 1914 to service the growing community around the B.C. Electric Company's Pole Line Road (Sperling Avenue). This school replaced the one-room Duthie schoolhouse.