Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. The photo is face on to the house looking west(?), the whole house is shown. Mr and Mrs Boal (William Ewart Boal and Ethel May Boal, nee Jackson) are standing on the front porch.
Stamped numeral on back of photograph reads: "305".
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. The photo is face on to the house looking west(?), the whole house is shown. Mr and Mrs Boal (William Ewart Boal and Ethel May Boal, nee Jackson) are standing on the front porch.
History
Material belonged to Glen and Ann Boal (nee Lockhart), who grew up in Burnaby and attended Burnaby South High School. They met and became engaged and married in 1954.
Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. The photo is face on to the house looking west(?), the whole house is shown. Mr and Mrs Boal (William Ewart Boal and Ethel May Boal, nee Jackson) are standing on the front porch.
Stamped numeral on back of photograph reads: "51".
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Boal home at 4319 Norland Ave in Burnaby. The photo is face on to the house looking west(?), the whole house is shown. Mr and Mrs Boal (William Ewart Boal and Ethel May Boal, nee Jackson) are standing on the front porch.
History
Material belonged to Glen and Ann Boal (nee Lockhart), who grew up in Burnaby and attended Burnaby South High School. They met and became engaged and married in 1954.
Photograph of students from Douglas Road School, possibly grade seven or eight class. Students and a male teacher are standing and sitting in front of a outside wooden staircase. There are 10 female students and 11 male students. Glen Boal is seated in the front row, third from the right.
Handwritten text on back of photograph reads: 'Glen Boal seated front row / 3d from right".
Scope and Content
Photograph of students from Douglas Road School, possibly grade seven or eight class. Students and a male teacher are standing and sitting in front of a outside wooden staircase. There are 10 female students and 11 male students. Glen Boal is seated in the front row, third from the right.
Photograph of students from Douglas Road School, elementary grade. This is possibly a combined class as there are two teachers in the photo and 51 students. The students are in four rows with a male teacher at either end of the third row. Glen Boal is at the left end of the third row standing next …
Handwritten text on back of photograph reads: 'Glen Boal / 3d Row far left beside teacher".
Scope and Content
Photograph of students from Douglas Road School, elementary grade. This is possibly a combined class as there are two teachers in the photo and 51 students. The students are in four rows with a male teacher at either end of the third row. Glen Boal is at the left end of the third row standing next to a teacher.
Photograph of Tom and Glen Boal, sitting in an old tree in the back yard of their home on Norland Avenue. The back of the Boal house and raspberry canes are in the background. 4319 Norland Ave
Handwritten text in ink on back reads: "Tom & Glen Boal Norland Ave. / late 1930's. They grew raspberries & / shipped them by train back East & / grew bulbs (daffodils) & sold to Forest Lawn / Glen's dad had lost an eye in the 1st WW / & had TB. Spent time in sanitorium of / TRANQUILLE" .
Scope and Content
Photograph of Tom and Glen Boal, sitting in an old tree in the back yard of their home on Norland Avenue. The back of the Boal house and raspberry canes are in the background. 4319 Norland Ave
Recording is of an interview with Warren McWilliams. Major themes discussed are: Elworth and his grandparents, Edwin and Mary (Dale) Bateman.
Biographical Notes
When Warren McWilliam's grandfather, Edwin Bateman was twenty-one he immigrated to Manitoba, Canada where he met Catherine “Cassie” Dale. They were married in 1886 and had seven children, the eldest Edna Caroline Annie (Corner) born in 1889, George, Mamie Dale (McWilliams) born in Portage La Prairie in 1892, Marianne May “May” Bateman born in Hartney, Manitoba in 1894, Jessie (Fox Kemp), Carey, and the youngest Warren Stafford born in 1901. Cassie died in Portage La Prairie in 1909.
Edwin was transferred to Vancouver by the CPR where he married Cassie’s younger sister Mary Dale and moved his six children to Vancouver. In 1920 Edwin Bateman moved his wife and youngest daughter May to Deer Lake and commissioned 'Elworth' house, designed by English-born and trained architect Enoch Evans. The house was completed by contractor William Dodson in 1922 and located at the site of what would become Burnaby Village Museum, 6501 Deer Lake Avenue.
Mamie Bateman married George Lloyd McWilliams May 19, 1915 and had one child, Warren McWilliams. When Warren was very young, the McWilliams family moved into a small house just across Douglas Road from the Bateman’s and Mamie and Warren were daily visitors to Elworth house for ten years. Warren McWilliams attended Douglas Road School and spent a lot of time at Deer Lake swimming and skating.
E.W. Bateman died in 1957 at the age of ninety-nine. George Lloyd McWilliams died June 30, 1961 at the age of seventy-four, his wife Mamie Dale (Bateman) McWilliams died June 1, 1979 at the age of eight-seven.
Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.