Item is a green record book with red spine in which information about the #2 Burnaby Fire Hall, such as who was on duty, calls/runs made, and notes about equipment and weather, was recorded daily for the year 1951.
Item is a green record book with red spine in which information about the #2 Burnaby Fire Hall, such as who was on duty, calls/runs made, and notes about equipment and weather, was recorded daily for the year 1951.
Item is a black volume with red along top and bottom titled "#2 Hall" on the front cover and "Sept. 30th 1949 - Dec 31st..." on the spine in which information about the #2 Burnaby Fire Hall, such as who was on duty, calls/runs made, and notes about equipment was recorded.
Item is a black volume with red along top and bottom titled "#2 Hall" on the front cover and "Sept. 30th 1949 - Dec 31st..." on the spine in which information about the #2 Burnaby Fire Hall, such as who was on duty, calls/runs made, and notes about equipment was recorded.
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float. The float is decorated with a large toad stool, mountain and tree with uniformed Brownies seated beneath. The sides of the float are decorated with cutouts of 'sprites' and the words "5th Burnaby Brownies". The float won first prize in the North Burn…
Handwritten annotations below photograph in scrapbook read: "Float which won 1st prize in the N.B. Community Parade - 1950"
Scope and Content
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float. The float is decorated with a large toad stool, mountain and tree with uniformed Brownies seated beneath. The sides of the float are decorated with cutouts of 'sprites' and the words "5th Burnaby Brownies". The float won first prize in the North Burnaby Community Parade.
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float going down a street in North Burnaby. The float is decorated with a large toad stool, mountain and tree with uniformed Brownies seated beneath. The sides of the float are decorated with cutouts of 'sprites' and the words "5th Burnaby Brownies". The fl…
Handwritten annotations below photograph read: "Float in N.B.C.Day Parade - 1st place 1950"
Scope and Content
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float going down a street in North Burnaby. The float is decorated with a large toad stool, mountain and tree with uniformed Brownies seated beneath. The sides of the float are decorated with cutouts of 'sprites' and the words "5th Burnaby Brownies". The float won first prize in the North Burnaby Community Parade and is seen going by the side of an unidentified house.
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float going down a road next to an unidentified park. The float is decorated with greenery and a large toad stool with Brownies seated beneath.
Photograph of 5th Burnaby Brownies parade float going down a road next to an unidentified park. The float is decorated with greenery and a large toad stool with Brownies seated beneath.
Photograph of the view of the new 10th Avenue connector from Gord Thorneycroft's garage. Thorneycroft holds a mug and is silhouetted by the light coming from outside, where the Bombardier SkyTrain plant is visible in the distance.
Photograph of the view of the new 10th Avenue connector from Gord Thorneycroft's garage. Thorneycroft holds a mug and is silhouetted by the light coming from outside, where the Bombardier SkyTrain plant is visible in the distance.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Gord Thorneycroft says he used to be able to enjoy his morning coffee looking out onto a quiet, tree-lined lane while working in his garage behind his home on 9th Ave. But workers building the new 10th Ave. connector tore out the trees last September, the City of Burnaby isn't making any promises to erect noise barriers, and his lane has become a thoroughfare to the Bombardier Skytrain plant."
Photograph of two unidentified runners handing a baton to each other at the start/finish line during the 24 Hour Relay for Kids fundraising event for Easter Seals Camps at Swangard Stadium. Other relay runners wait in the background and the stadium's stands are filled with spectators.
Photograph of two unidentified runners handing a baton to each other at the start/finish line during the 24 Hour Relay for Kids fundraising event for Easter Seals Camps at Swangard Stadium. Other relay runners wait in the background and the stadium's stands are filled with spectators.
Collected by editorial for use in a June 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Runners hand off to each other at the hectic Start/Finish area in the early-going of The 24 Hour Relay for the Kids, held all weekend at Swangard Stadium. The annual event attracted more than 2400 runners on 120 teams, who covered almost 18,000 miles to raise money to send kids to Easter Seal Camps around BC."
Photograph of crowd of runners at the starting line for the 21st annual 24 Hour Relay for the Kids at Swangard Stadium. The runners are starting from beneath a banner advertising the event and the stands in the background are filled with people.
Photograph of crowd of runners at the starting line for the 21st annual 24 Hour Relay for the Kids at Swangard Stadium. The runners are starting from beneath a banner advertising the event and the stands in the background are filled with people.
Collected by editorial for use in a June 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Runners from 145 teams start the 21st annual 24 Hour Relay for the Kids at Swangard Stadium. Money raised by the relay goes towards funding one-week camping trips for children with disabilities."
Item is a photograph of Harold Winch holding letters congratulating him on his twenty-fifth anniversary of holding elected office, first as an MLA in BC and then as an MP in the federal government. Winch served in both positions as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and then…
Item is a photograph of Harold Winch holding letters congratulating him on his twenty-fifth anniversary of holding elected office, first as an MLA in BC and then as an MP in the federal government. Winch served in both positions as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and then the New Democratic Party (NDP) which succeeded it.
Photograph of the first company of the 42nd Burnaby Girl Guide Company. The guides are gathered together in a wooded clearing with trees behind them (could be Burnaby Mountain). Most guides are unidentified except for Captain Mrs. M. Kozak and Lieut. Mrs. I. Kaill.
Hand-written text in blue ink on back of photograph reads: "1959 1st 42nd Co / Capt Mrs M. Kozak / Lieut Mrs I Kaill".
Scope and Content
Photograph of the first company of the 42nd Burnaby Girl Guide Company. The guides are gathered together in a wooded clearing with trees behind them (could be Burnaby Mountain). Most guides are unidentified except for Captain Mrs. M. Kozak and Lieut. Mrs. I. Kaill.
Item consists of a video recording of a live Zoom webinar hosted by Burnaby Village Museum Program Education Coordinator Ashley Jones and presented by Museum Interpreter and blacksmiths, Eric Damer ad Lorne Gray. The webinar is titled "50 Years of Blacksmithing at BVM". The webinar is the sixth in …
Date of Presentation: Tuesday, September 29, 2022. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Total Number of tracks: 1
Total Length of all tracks: 94 min., 55 sec.
Recording Device: Zoom video communication platform
Original recording of 94 min., 55 sec.was edited to 89 min., 21 sec. for viewing on Heritage Burnaby
Scope and Content
Item consists of a video recording of a live Zoom webinar hosted by Burnaby Village Museum Program Education Coordinator Ashley Jones and presented by Museum Interpreter and blacksmiths, Eric Damer ad Lorne Gray. The webinar is titled "50 Years of Blacksmithing at BVM". The webinar is the sixth in a series of six webinars presented in partnership by Burnaby Village Museum and Burnaby Public Library. The live webinar was also made available on the Burnaby Village Museum's facebook page. Community members were invited to participate by bringing questions during the interactive online sessions.
The session opens with the host Ashley Jones, providing introductions. Following the introduction, the presentation begins with Eric Damer and Lorne Gray’s slide presentation titled “50 years of Blacksmithing at Burnaby Village Museum”. The presentation is an historical exploration of the blacksmith shop through images and commentary from these two long-standing museum blacksmiths.
Eric and Lorne's presentation is organized into themes beginning with “The Age of Nostalgia” where they discuss the implementation of the original Burnaby Village Museum blacksmithing shop and live exhibit with a working blacksmith when the museum opened in November 1971. They comment on the original design of the forge and other components implemented into the design of the blacksmith shop, stereotypes of blacksmiths and various items that were forged on site in the blacksmith shop. “The Age of Accuracy” looks at changes to the Burnaby Village Museum’s programming and exhibits in the 1980s which included focusing more on the history of Burnaby and upgrading some of the components in the blacksmith shop including blowers, tools, forge design and costuming. Eric and Lorne comment on the history of Burnaby blacksmith, Frank Wagner who operated as a blacksmith in Burnaby “Wagner & Son” on Kingsway. Frank was a trained machinist, farrier and an automotive blacksmith who patented and manufactured the “Wagner Triple Spring Bumper”. With this information, the Burnaby Village Museum changed the name of the blacksmith shop to reflect the history of Burnaby blacksmith Frank Wagner. In “The Age of Diversity” Eric and Lorne talk about a shift in the 1990s when the staffing of the blacksmith shop was diversified to include women and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. These changes as well as an increased interest in artistic blacksmithing also lead to updates in Burnaby Village Museum’s blacksmith training procedures and interpretation, increased course offerings in blacksmithing and a renovated blacksmith shop which included new forges and equipment as well as an improved viewing area. Eric and Lorne talk about specifics regarding blacksmithing techniques and equipment and improvements to make this exhibit more accessible.
Their presentation is followed by a short video highlighing Burnaby Village Museum interpreters who have worked as blacksmiths at Burnaby Village Museum. Each person shares their own perspectives on their experiences working as a blacksmith and interacting with the public.
In the last part of the webinar, Eric and Lorne answer questions from attendees and further reflect and comment on their own experiences working as blacksmiths, various tools and techniques used and blacksmithing course offerings at Burnaby Village Museum.
History
Host biography:
Ashley Jones is the Burnaby Village Museum Education Programmer, responsible for the development and administration of school and public programs at BVM. She has a Master of Arts degree in History and is passionate about creating hands-on programming that promotes historical and environmental literacy.
Presenters biography:
Eric Damer is a Burnaby Village Museum Interpreter, Museum Registrar, Researcher and Blacksmith. Eric pounded hot steel for the first time in 1977 in junior high. Fifteen years later, he joined Burnaby Village Museum where he has smithed for three decades. He also provides historical research for museum exhibits and special projects. Outside the museum, Eric is a social historian with a special interest in educational history.
Lorne Gray has a BA with a major in the History of Science and Technology. He took up blacksmithing as a hobby when he was promoted to middle management and had to start hitting things. He was hired by Burnaby Village Museum as a blacksmith to fill in during the Christmas season of 2001. He has attended several blacksmithing conferences and taken classes with both an artist blacksmith and a journeyman blacksmith. On the weekends, you’ll find him teaching many of the museum’s public blacksmithing courses. He also has a steam ticket that permits him to run the museum’s steam boiler and stationery steam engines.
Photograph of a 1927 Buick with a cross sign on top of the windshield and "AMBULANCE" written at the bottom of the windshield and identified as the "third" ambulance (the Wagner family operated this ambulance service as well as Dexter Cabs).
inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, verso, t., stamped, u.l. "678"
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Photograph of a 1927 Buick with a cross sign on top of the windshield and "AMBULANCE" written at the bottom of the windshield and identified as the "third" ambulance (the Wagner family operated this ambulance service as well as Dexter Cabs).