Jeffery- Peers family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three generations of the Jeffery - Peers family taken in Victoria. Front row (l to r): Babs and David's children David, Moira, and Anne Jeffrey. Back row (l to r): Babs and David Jeffrey, and Babs' parents, Bob and Kitty Peers.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1969
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-016
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three generations of the Jeffery - Peers family taken in Victoria. Front row (l to r): Babs and David's children David, Moira, and Anne Jeffrey. Back row (l to r): Babs and David Jeffrey, and Babs' parents, Bob and Kitty Peers.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Portraits
- Names
- Jeffrey, David
- Jeffrey, Moira
- Jeffrey, Anne
- Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"
- Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"
- Peers, William John "Bob"
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Strable, Roy P.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- ca. 1000 photographs
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of photographs taken by members of the Hill family during their first years of settlement in Burnaby. Photographs depict various members of the Hill family including Burnaby pioneers L. Claude Hill, his brother Bernard Hill and their families. Photographs also show numerous social…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- ca. 1000 photographs
- Description Level
- Series
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of photographs taken by members of the Hill family during their first years of settlement in Burnaby. Photographs depict various members of the Hill family including Burnaby pioneers L. Claude Hill, his brother Bernard Hill and their families. Photographs also show numerous social events in Burnaby and many of the earliest residents, particularly in the Deer Lake and Burnaby Lake areas. Also included in the series are photographs taken and compiled by Claude Hill’s daughter Kitty which include her life and activities after her marriage to William John “Bob” Peers and the growth of their family.
- Media Type
- Photograph
Less detail
Peers family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.3 x 10.3 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Peers family, consisting of (l to r): Anne Peers, Bob Peers, Barbara Peers, Kitty Peers, and Robert Peers.
Peers family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.3 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the family of Bob and Kitty Peers, posing for the camera and standing in front of an unidentified house. From left to right: Bob, Anne, Kitty, and Robert. The youngest, Barbara (Babs) is standing directly in front of Kitty.
Peers family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1943]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 9.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Peers family standing in front of an unidentified house. From left to right: Bob, Barbara (Babs), Anne (in front), Kitty and Robert.
Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-1980]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- ca. 1200 photographs and other material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records, primarily photographs, compiled by various members of both the Hill and Peers families that document their lives during the early days of settlement in Burnaby. The fonds includes records of citizenship, wills and other official papers pertaining to the life and activitie…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1880-1980]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Physical Description
- ca. 1200 photographs and other material
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of records, primarily photographs, compiled by various members of both the Hill and Peers families that document their lives during the early days of settlement in Burnaby. The fonds includes records of citizenship, wills and other official papers pertaining to the life and activities of L. Claude Hill; photographs of the Peers family’s Burnaby Lake home, Greyfriars, and pictures taken by Arthur Peers during his work and travels throughout British Columbia in the first part of the 20th century; and photographs of the family of Claude Hill, early Burnaby Lake residents and scenes, and pictures Kitty took as an adult documenting the growth of her own family. Also included in this fonds are a number of photographs showing Yellow Point, Vancouver Island, where the Peers and Hill families often vacationed.
- History
- Bob Peers was born William John Peers, the son of real estate broker and early Burnaby resident, Francis John Peers and his wife Elizabeth Frisby. Originally from England, the family moved to Vancouver in 1905 and soon after settled at Burnaby Lake. The family included one daughter (Mary Elizabeth Dora) and four boys (Arthur Francis, William John “Bob”, Geoffrey Hugh, and Richard Dominic). When they arrived in Burnaby, Francis Peers purchased a piece of land from another early settler, Claude Hill, and built the family home “Greyfriars” near Deer Lake. The children attended school in the home of Miss Harriet Woodward, the first school to be held in the Burnaby Lake area. In 1925, Bob married Claude Hill’s daughter and another former pupil of “Miss Harry’s,” Kitty Hill.
Kitty (born Katherine Maude Hill) was the only child of Burnaby pioneers L. Claude Hill and Annie Sara Kenrick. Having moved to the Burnaby Lake area in the early 1890s, Claude went on to operate a successful strawberry farm and soon became active in the political development of Burnaby – being elected to the first Burnaby Council and serving from 1892-1894 and again from 1909-1910. The first Hill family home, “Brookfield,” was sold around 1907 and the family moved to their new home, “Broadview,” which was also built in the vicinity of Deer Lake.
In 1925, Bob and Kitty were married and they went on to have three children, Robert C.K., Barbara (later Barbara Jeffrey), and Anne (later Anne Latham).
- Formats
- All photographic records have been scanned and are saved in jpeg format on the City of Burnaby network. Archival master copies have also been produced in tiff format and have been burned to CD for preservation purposes.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Peers family
- Hill family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
Less detail
Peers family in Victoria
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1942 or 1943]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a picture of (left to right) Babs, her mother Kitty and father Bob. The photograph was taken at Newport Avenue, Oak Bay, Victoria.
Peers family in Victoria
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1946]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Peers family in Victoria, BC. From left to right : William John "Bob," Anne, Robert C.K., Barbara, and Kitty Peers.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1946]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-030
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Peers family in Victoria, BC. From left to right : William John "Bob," Anne, Robert C.K., Barbara, and Kitty Peers.
- Subjects
- Clothing - Military Uniforms
- Names
- Peers Family
- Jeffrey, Barbara Peers "Babs"
- Latham, Anne Peers
- Peers, Katherine Maude Hill "Kitty"
- Peers, Robert C.K.
- Peers, William John "Bob"
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Peers family on Douglas Street in Victoria
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1941
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of Kitty Peers and her children Babs, Anne and Bob walking down a street identified on the back as Douglas Street, Victoria.
Swim team with trophy
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1943]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of five young people in swimming outfits and three men in suits posing in front of a trophy. Robert C.K. Peers is standing on the far right, he was a member of the Oak Bay High Swim Team.
Anne Peers and a friend
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 9.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers (left) with an unidentified friend.
Anne Peers in Brownies' uniform
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers attired in a Brownies uniform at the Peers home in Winnipeg.
Anne Peers shovelling snow
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers with a snow shovel in front of a garage door, in front of her family's home in Winnipeg.
Anne skipping rope
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.7 x 10.3 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers jumping with a skipping rope.
Annie Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1850]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a portrait of Annie Hill, aunt to Louis Claude and Bernard Hill and matron of the North London Hospital, Highgate.
Annie Sara Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 8.5 cm mounted on carboard
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a portrait of Annie Sara Hill (nee Kenrick), taken in approximately 1940.
Annie Sara Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.; 5.5 x 6.8 cm oval
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a hand-coloured, head and shoulders portrait of Annie Sara Hill. Mrs. Hill was the wife of early Burnaby resident, L. Claude Hill.
Babs Peers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Barbara Peers (Babs) sitting on the steps of an unidentified home.