Note from donor: Dorothy Pitman was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives.
Photographic postcard of the Central Park auto tourist grounds. Two unidentified men can be seen standing in front of a car which is parked next to the campground building. In the background, a clothesline has been strung holding towels and blankets.
Photographic postcard of the Central Park auto tourist grounds. Two unidentified men can be seen standing in front of a car which is parked next to the campground building. In the background, a clothesline has been strung holding towels and blankets.
Photograph of Charles Burkman in boots, jacket and cap walking along a railway track with a long tool in his hands sometime between April 6 (when he was passing by Port Arthur, ON) and April 16 (when he was passing by Ignace Ontario) during his cross Canada trip from Halifax to Vancouver.
Photograph of Charles Burkman in boots, jacket and cap walking along a railway track with a long tool in his hands sometime between April 6 (when he was passing by Port Arthur, ON) and April 16 (when he was passing by Ignace Ontario) during his cross Canada trip from Halifax to Vancouver.
Note in blue point pen on verso of photograph reads: "Cross Country Hike Jan - June/ Between 1921 - April 6, (Port Arthur) Thunder/ Bay, Ontario/ and/ 1921 April 16, Ignace, Ontario"
Photograph of cigarette price display sign hanging from ceiling inside of the Canada Way Food Market located at 4694 Canada Way, Burnaby. Boxes are visible beneath the sign. The food market closed in 2010.
Photograph of cigarette price display sign hanging from ceiling inside of the Canada Way Food Market located at 4694 Canada Way, Burnaby. Boxes are visible beneath the sign. The food market closed in 2010.
Inside the front cover:
"Free Text-Book
The Property of" [printed label with following filled in]
"Olive Benton 8A"
"Windsor Street School"
"8"
"1925"
"FIRST - SEPT - 1926" [handwritten in pencil]
Poem written in pencil on front endpaper signed by "O._ [B]".
Short rhyme written in pencil on front fly leaf.
Study notes handwritten in pencil on back fly leaf.
Miscellaneous sayings, poem, rhymes, drawings and a list of 10 U.S. states written chiefly in pencil (some in pen) on back endpaper and paste down.
"Pat Adams / 1114-8th / Ave. / New Westminster / B.C."--Hand written in pencil and ink on front fly leaf.
"Helen Patricia Adams / 1114-8th / Ave. New Westminster / B.C."--Hand written in ink on front fly leaf.
Study notes[?] and drawing hand written in pencil on front past down.
Names of class mates [?] hand written in pencil on back paste down.
"Canadian History"
"Vera Morrow"
"Grade VIII"
"Kitchener _ _[St]" [handwritten in ink on front book cover jacket]
"Vera Morrow"
"Kitchener St."
"School" [handwritten in pencil on front free endpaper]
"Vera Morrow" [handwritten in ink on back of front free endpaper]
Study notes handwritten in pencil on page 48 and back free endpaper.
"Canadian History" [handwritten in ink on back of back free endpaper]
"James Smith
4203-13 Ave East
Burnaby" [handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
"Champlain, Cartier,
Frontinac" [handwritten in pencil above title on title page]
Handwritten notes from front pastedown to title page, p. 354 and p. 365 to back pastedown