William Hawley with Pampas Grass
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1961, published January 6, 1961
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 9.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley using Pampas Grass as a barometer to predict the weather. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and hi…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1961, published January 6, 1961
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18.5 x 9.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-093
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Columbian farm and garden columnist William Hawley using Pampas Grass as a barometer to predict the weather. He was the garden columnist for most of the 1960's, and prior to that he was a salesman and nutritionist for Brackman-Kerr feed store in New Westminster for 40 years. He and his wife Doreen were married for 52 years.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Journalists
- Names
- Hawley, William "Bill"
- The Columbian
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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William Holmes fonds
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1841]-1994
- Collection/Fonds
- William Holmes fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping.
Fonds is arranged in series:
1) William Holmes family photographs series
2) William Holmes family…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- William Holmes fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (calotype) + 1 photograph : b&w + 6 photographs : col. + 5 p. textual records + 1 newspaper clipping
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the William Holmes family, family grave markers in cemetery in Ireland along with original correspondence, land title certificates and a newspaper clipping.
Fonds is arranged in series:
1) William Holmes family photographs series
2) William Holmes family records series
3) Holmes family cemetery photographs series
- History
- William Holmes was the first non-Indigenous resident of Burnaby and was born in Kilkenny Ireland January 4, 1812. In 1833, at the age of 20 yrs, William Holmes immigrated to Canada from Ireland in with his parents, Joseph and Jane (McCullough) Holmes and ten other family members including two of his married brothers and their wives, two sisters with their husbands and two unmarried brothers. This was the first group of thirteen to leave Ireland and set up homesteads in Canada near the shores of Lake Huron. The family settled on land concessions in Huron County, Ontario about 14 km southeast of Goderich.
The area in Huron County was first founded in 1832 by John and Samuel Holmes and the community was known as Holmes Hill before becoming Holmesville [ca. 1850]. In 1837, William Holmes is noted as owning Lot 23, Concession IX, Goderich Twp. Much of the village of Holmesville grew up around the five road concession near the border of his brother’s farm so William decided to open a store. The Holmesville post office opened on March 1, 1855 and William was appointed the first post master which he operated until May 1857. William met and married Mary Richardson in 1841 and the couple had three daughters: Jane (1844-1926) (married Charles Studdert Finlaison in New Westminster in 1863); Anne Maria (Annie) (1846-192?) (married John Gunther Jennings in New Westminster in 1865 and married Robert Johnson in New Westminster in 1877) and Elizabeth (1848-1934) (married Thomas Carrington of Lakes District in 1867). William’s wife, Mary (Richardson) Holmes died in Holmesville sometime between 1848 and 1853.
Following the death of his first wife, Mary, William married Charlotte McCullough (McCulloch). The couple had four daughters; Arabella Charlotte Amelia (1854-1943) (married Arthur Robert Green in 1887); Laura (1855-1867); Arabella Henrietta (1857-1929) (married Clark Wesley Gillanders in 1880) and Mary (1863-1864). During the late 1850s, William became aware of the gold rush and opportunities opening up in British Columbia so left for the west coast in 1858 at the age of 46 yrs. In preparation for his move to the west coast of Canada, William obtained a letter of introduction from top government officials of Canada.
William Holmes arrived in British Columbia in 1859. Upon arriving, he first worked running pack trains from Harrison Mills to Lillooet. After earning some money, he decided to re-invest it in land. His first pre-emption of land occurred on January 21, 1860 for 160 acres situated on North Road from the Military Camp to Burrard Inlet and distancing 25 chains south of the Brunette River and 20 chains south of the river with the land extending in a westerly direction. On March 17, 1860, Holmes received a Crown Grant for this and other land in the immediate area totalling 415 acres of which was known as Lot No. 1, Group 1, Rural Land, New Westminster District. The balance of land was situated on the east side of the Brunette River – Lot 13, with 344 2/3 acres of which he made an application to purchase on June 26, 1860, and a Crown Grant dated March 16, 1861 covering 86 acres. Holmes also pre-empted land in Port Moody and Pitt Meadows in 1860 and 1861. The name of “Brunette River” is officially attributed to William Holmes who referred to the river as “Brunette” due to it’s dark colour originating from the peat lands above the lake.
Following his purchase of property, he sent for his wife Charlotte, their three daughters and her three step daughters (from William’s first marriage). Charlotte and the six children made the long trip to B.C. by ship and rail, crossing the Isthmus of Darien at Panama. They arrived in B.C. in October 1861 and moved into a one room log cabin built by William. The cabin stood on the North Road at the foot of Sapperton, on a bluff overlooking the Brunette River. Eventually the family moved to a larger dwelling but the original cabin remained on the site until the 1890s when it was burned after being used as a sick house.
Mr. Holmes was instrumental in organizing the first Orange Lodge in British Columbia. He was a prominent Orangeman who joined the order in 1840 and was the first master in the order of the City of New Westminster when the Lodge No. 1150 was established there. Charlotte Holmes died in New Westminster in 1893 at the age of 70 years and William Holmes died in New Westminster September 11, 1907 at the age of 95 years.
- Responsibility
- Holmes, William
- Accession Code
- HV971.46
- BV997.50
- Date
- [1841]-1994
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Textual Record
- Related Material
- See also: Reference file: Persons - Holmes, William
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
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William L. Lawrence and his wife
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1965, published February 23, 1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 18 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of William L. "Bill" Lawrence and his wife in their scouting uniforms when they were awarded the Medal of Merit for good services to Scouting.
William Myers at St Andrews altar
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1961 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Elaine A. Myers fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg) : sepia ; 96 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Elaine's father, William Myers next to the the altar of St. Andrews Church that he built.
William Myers at St. Andrews pulpit
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1961 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Elaine A. Myers fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg) : sepia ; 96 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Elaine's father, William Myers next to the pulpit of St. Andrews Church that he built.
William Randolph Beamish scrapbook
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1861-2009
- Collection/Fonds
- William Randolph Beamish fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 3.5 cm. of textual records; 17 small b&w prints; 10 med. prints; and 6 large b&w prints.
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records that were compiled into a binder as a scrapbook by Ilma Beamish Dunn, the adopted sister of William Randolph Beamish. Scope and content notes at the file- and item-level have been drawn from the thorough recordkeeping Dunn employed in creating the scrapbook.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1861-2009
- Collection/Fonds
- William Randolph Beamish fonds
- Series
- William Randolph Beamish scrapbook series
- Physical Description
- 3.5 cm. of textual records; 17 small b&w prints; 10 med. prints; and 6 large b&w prints.
- Description Level
- Series
- Record No.
- 66672
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2023-03
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records that were compiled into a binder as a scrapbook by Ilma Beamish Dunn, the adopted sister of William Randolph Beamish. Scope and content notes at the file- and item-level have been drawn from the thorough recordkeeping Dunn employed in creating the scrapbook.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
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William Trainor
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1962, published August 16, 1963
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17.6 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Liberal Party candidate William Trainor.
Wilson Creek
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1965]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Wilson Creek with a view from Burnaby camp. A beach scattered with logs is in the foreground and a large body of water and the shoreline in the distance. Wilson Creek is near Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Series
- Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Wilson Creek with a view from Burnaby camp. A beach scattered with logs is in the foreground and a large body of water and the shoreline in the distance. Wilson Creek is near Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast.
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Recreational Activities - Camping
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Accession Code
- BV015.36.110
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [1965]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Arrangement
- Loose photographs and slides arranged by Kathryn Raadsheer nee Hardy.
- Notes
- Title based on content of photograph
- Note in blue ink on verso of slides reads: Slide 1-"Wilson_Creek_(view_from / Burnaby_Camp)"; Slide 2- "Burnaby_Camp,_Wilson_Creek"; Slide 3- Chapel_entrance_Wilson / Creek__May_65" ; Slide 4- "Burnaby_Camp,_Wilson_Creek"
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Woman with two boys
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 cm x 9.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentifed woman of Chinese descent standing with two unidentified young boys of Asian descent. The woman, in her late thirties or early forties, is dressed in a dark-coloured, long-sleeved, pant suit with black flat shoes and a black hand bag on her right hand. She has light col…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Series
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 14.5 cm x 9.5 cm
- Material Details
- On the back side of the photograph is the number "197" and Chinese characters "[…]" written in pencil, vertically.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentifed woman of Chinese descent standing with two unidentified young boys of Asian descent. The woman, in her late thirties or early forties, is dressed in a dark-coloured, long-sleeved, pant suit with black flat shoes and a black hand bag on her right hand. She has light coloured turtleneck shirt underneath. The older, taller boy, on her right, has a dark pin-striped, double breasted suit with dark long pants and black, laced shoes. The younger boy has a lighter pin-striped, double breasted suit with dark long pants and black, laced shoes. The background shows a paneled divider on the left and an opening with heavy, dark drapes on the right.
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Persons - Children
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.357
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 17-Apr-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Women celebrating
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [196-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. negative ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of women celebrating. This is a double exposure; one image is of women seated, and the other is of women standing. Everyone is smiling and wearing dresses, white gloves and hats. These women are believed to be members of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.
Women having tea together
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [196-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. negative ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of women having tea together. A woman in a white suit is standing with her back to the camera. She is facing three women who are all seated in wooden chairs holding a cup and saucer on each of their laps. The woman closest is wearing a blue floral suit and a blue hat. Her white gloves ar…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [196-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- George Grant subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. negative ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 243-074
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-06
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of women having tea together. A woman in a white suit is standing with her back to the camera. She is facing three women who are all seated in wooden chairs holding a cup and saucer on each of their laps. The woman closest is wearing a blue floral suit and a blue hat. Her white gloves are resting on her lap as she talks to the woman in the white suit. The woman in the middle is wearing a black suit and a black and gold patterned hat. Her white gloves are resting on her lap as she faces the woman on her left. The last woman is wearing a green floral dress and is deep in conversation with the woman in the black dress. These women are believed to be members of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.
- Subjects
- Organizations - Womens' Societies and Clubs
- Names
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Women's Residence under construction
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1965
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.3 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a building under construction at the Simon Fraser University site. A label on the photograph reads in part: "Women's residence. Erickson-Massey Architects. Laing Construction and Equipment Ltd. General Contractors."
Working at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 1966, published April 18, 1966
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of workmen at the Dominion Bridge Co.'s Burnaby plant. They are feeding a flat steel plate, more than three inches think inot a pyramind roll for fabrication in the making of a sulfinol vessel for the petroleum industry in Alberta. The workmen are wearing asbestos aluminum suits to withs…
Wysong family subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-[1960]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of the Wysong House located at Stanley Street and Sperling Avenue in Burnaby. Wysong House was built by local constractor Jacob Wysong in 1912.
Wysong House from a distance
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1960]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the "Wysong House" from across Sperling Avenue, with trees on either side, and long grass obscuring its view.
X-ray equipment
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1964, published October 6, 1964
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 18.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of P. M. Boisvert "having her head examined" at the opening of the British Columbia Institute of Technology's opening ceremony. Dianne Modsell of Royal Jubilee hospital in Victoria (then taking a course on radiology at BCIT) is helping her into the "head unit" (x-ray equipment).
The Yanko family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- December 1962
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of (from left) John Ivan Yanko, Rhonda Yanko, Charmaine "Sherrie" Yanko (later Bayntun) and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko.
Yanko family album
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook : 32 x 34 cm ; 68 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook documenting the families of husband and wife John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko. The scrapbook consists of ca. 255 (mostly black and white, some colour) photographs from the family, with captions that identify the subjects and locations of the photogr…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 scrapbook : 32 x 34 cm ; 68 p.
- Material Details
- Hardcover scrapbook album with clear plastic page covers and a metal binding. Three-dimensional scrapbooking embellishments are affixed to some of the pages.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- MSS170-006
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Item is a scrapbook documenting the families of husband and wife John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko. The scrapbook consists of ca. 255 (mostly black and white, some colour) photographs from the family, with captions that identify the subjects and locations of the photographs. Included in the album are plastic sleeves housing textual records including: correspondence; a baptism certificate; and the title page of another scrapbook.
- Names
- Yanko, John Ivan
- Yanko, Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- Printed in brown writing on front cover of photographic album: "Y"
- Photographs are dated 1924-1967; textual records included in album are dated 1908,1990
- Envelope affixed to scrapbook page titled "moments & memories" with note "Dupelicate [sic] photos" contains 8 additional prints, which are described on the right-hand side of the scrapbook page.
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Yanko family album
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1956-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 album (613 photographs : col.)
- Scope and Content
- Photographic album documenting John Ivan Yanko and Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" (Carman) Yanko and their two daughters, Rhonda and Charmaine (later Bayntun). Photographs depict family parties and events, travel snapshots, scenes in Vancouver, and the family home and pets.
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