The American claimant and other stories and sketches
The battle of the strong : a romance of two kingdoms
Beric the Briton : a story of the Roman invasion
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.169.18
- Call Number
- 823.8 HEN
- Author
- Henty, G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Publication Date
- c1893
- Printer
- Blackie & Son Limited
- Physical Description
- 384 p. : ill. (one col.)
- Inscription
- "To John", handwritten in brown ink on front endpaper
"To Leslie", handwritten in black ink on front endpaper
"10", in blue pen on front endpaper
"Heritage Village", handwritten in black pen on label inside front cover
"S3 r", in black pen on label inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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The bondman
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.136.109
- Call Number
- 823.8 CAI
- Author
- Caine, Hall, 1853-1931
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- M.A. Donohue & Company
- Publication Date
- c1890
- Physical Description
- 357, [13] p.
- Inscription
- "W25", in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"C.R. Thornburrow", handwritten in black ink on front endpaper
"Lambert 2350 - 4th Ave E.", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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Both sides the border : a tale of Hotspur and Glendower
Both sides the border : a tale of Hotspur and Glendower
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.140.7
- Contributor
- Peacock, Ralph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Physical Description
- 384, 32 p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "By Conduct Courage", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
"82-", in pencil on front endpaper
"nL 4/ 1.25", in pencil on front endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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By pike and dyke : a tale of the rise of the Dutch republic
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.169.15
- Call Number
- 823.8 HEN
- Author
- Henty, G. A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Publication Date
- c1890
- Physical Description
- 384 p. : ill., maps
- Inscription
- "Heritage Village", handwritten in black pen on white label inside front cover
"S3 o", in black pen on label inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"Billy Merriman / 402 John St.", handwritten in pencil on back of frontispiece
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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Cometh up as a flower : an autobiography
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.136.105
- Call Number
- 823.8 BRO
- Author
- Broughton, Rhoda, 1840-1920
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Printer
- Billing and Sons
- Physical Description
- 416, [12] p.
- Inscription
- "W25", handwritten in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"Lambert 2350 4th Ave E.", handwritten in pencil on front endpaperXXX"C.R. Lambert", handwritten in black ink on front endpaper, "Lambert" crossed out in pencil
"Thornburrow", handwritten in grey ink above crossed-out "Lambert" on front endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
Heroes, hero worship and the heroic in history
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.165.76
- Call Number
- 824.8 CAR
- Author
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- A. L. Burt, Publisher
- Publication Date
- c1892
- Physical Description
- 302, [5] p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "W 63", in pen inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"John Williamson / Vancouver B.C. / 4th Sept 1912", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
"F d grant", handwritten in purple pencil? on front endpaper, crossed out in pencil
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
- Notes
- frontispiece only
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Infatuation
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.133.42
- Call Number
- 823.8 CRO
- Author
- Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary), -1920
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Series
- Chatto & Windus's New Colonial Library
- Printer
- William Clowes and Sons, Limited
- Physical Description
- vi, 332 p.
- Inscription
- "W-10i", in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"M Lea,", handwritten in pencil inside front cover
"27", in pencil on p.1
"C", in pencil on p.332
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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Josiah in New York; or, a coupon from the fresh air fund.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4022.1
- Call Number
- 813.4 OTI
- Author
- Otis, James, 1848-1912
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Hurst and Company
- Publication Date
- c1893
- Physical Description
- 259 p.
- Inscription
- “Robert La Porte”, handwritten in red pen inside front cover, crossed out in black crayon
“10”, in black crayon inside front cover
“To Georgie / from mamma.”, handwritten in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in red pen
“15”, in pencil inside front cover
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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Precepts in practice; or, stories illustrating the Proverbs
Reveries of a bachelor: or a book of the heart
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.26
- Call Number
- 818 MAR
- Author
- Marvel, Ik.
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Publisher
- R. H. Woodward & Company
- Publication Date
- c1893
- Physical Description
- 282 p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "No. 30", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
"Sara Gordon Mac Donald / Christmas 1893. / M.A.S.", handwritten in blue ink on fly-leaf
"I wonder y she thought him good", handwritten in pencil p.260, 'good' underlined
"(I su nI)"?, handwritten in pencil p.260
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
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The sky pilot : a tale of the foothills
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4017.1
- Call Number
- 813.5 CON
- Author
- Connor, Ralph, 1860-1937
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Publication Date
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 300, [6] p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "1919", in pencil inside front cover
"E.L. Keyes. / 1333 Howe St / Vancouver. / B.C.", handwritten in pencil inside front and back covers
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
- Object History
- Ernest Leslie Keyes was born August 29 1902 to Richard and Isabella Keyes (nee McGregor) in Vancouver. Richard Keyes worked for the CPR. Ernest Keyes later married Beryl Edna Palmer in 1930. Ernest died in 1954 in Victoria. His cousin by marriage was BVM donor Alma Keyes.
- Notes
- frontispiece only
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Vera's trust : a tale
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV018.11.18
- Call Number
- 823.8 EVE
- Author
- Everett-Green, Evelyn, 1859-1932
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date
- 1899
- Physical Description
- 302 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "A Prize given by / Mr. Allen / for Regular Attendance / Awarded to / Rhoda Lang, / she having attended / the whole 424 times / that the school was open during the past year / February 1st 1903" [note handwritten and glued onto front pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Children's literature
- Fiction--19th century
- Names
- Exworthy, William Albert "Bert"
- Love, George Richard
- Object History
- Rhoda Lang was born in 1893 in Devon, England to William Henry Lang and Emla Wounacott. She and her first husband, Corp. Albert Edgar Exworthy had at least two children, W.A. Exworthy (William Albert / Bert) and Rosemary June Exworthy. After the death of her first husband in 1919, she married George Love in 1922. George adopted her children. Other accessioned items associated with Mr. Exworthy include: BV989.3.2, BV992.42.1, BV006.9.1, BV011.2, BV018.11.17, and BV018.11.19.
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