The Richmond Park Neighbourhood is part of the larger Edmonds Town Centre - one of four official Town Centres in the City. Richmond Park contains a residential subdivision that developed during the 1950s as well as a strong commercial and retail centre along Edmonds and Kingsway.
Photograph of Alex McKenzie (uncle of Margaret Urquhart) with the family's last cow, Nero. Alex McKenzie was employed by Burnaby water works and lived right across Griffiths Avenue from the Urquhart family, and was married to Isabella.
Photograph of Alex McKenzie (uncle of Margaret Urquhart) with the family's last cow, Nero. Alex McKenzie was employed by Burnaby water works and lived right across Griffiths Avenue from the Urquhart family, and was married to Isabella.
File contains photographs of two children, Harrison Hunter and Isuru Withange, playing in a fire hose and fire extinguishing foam during the Burnaby Fire Department's Community Day at Richmond Park (now Edmonds Park).
File contains photographs of two children, Harrison Hunter and Isuru Withange, playing in a fire hose and fire extinguishing foam during the Burnaby Fire Department's Community Day at Richmond Park (now Edmonds Park).
Collected by editorial for use in an August 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2663-1: "Harrison Hunter, 5, races through a fire hose to wash off some of the fire extinguishing foam he'd been rolling in at the Burnaby Fire Department's first Community Day at Richmond Park."
Caption from metadata for 535-2663-2: "Isuru Withange, 8, uses a fire hose to wash off some of the fire extinguishing foam kids were able to frolic in at the Burnaby Fire Department's first Community Day at Richmond Park."
Photograph of two women carpet bowling in an auditorium at the Edmonds Seniors Centre. One woman crouches to prepare to bowl while another woman stands behind her, observing the game.
Photograph of two women carpet bowling in an auditorium at the Edmonds Seniors Centre. One woman crouches to prepare to bowl while another woman stands behind her, observing the game.
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Fran Whittrock delivers her shot, under the watchful eye of Jaennine Hyndman, in a game of carpet bowling at the Edmonds Seniors Centre."
Photograph of Chanel Lapierre in the Eastburn Community Centre, displaying a painted wooden fish that she painted for the "Stream of Dreams" fence mural. A table with paints and other painted fish are visible behind her.
Photograph of Chanel Lapierre in the Eastburn Community Centre, displaying a painted wooden fish that she painted for the "Stream of Dreams" fence mural. A table with paints and other painted fish are visible behind her.
Collected by editorial for use in a September 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Chanel Lapierre, 10, shows off the colorful wooden fish she created at Eastburn Community Centre. Her fish will join 4,999 others on a "Stream of Dreams" fence mural around the empty lot at Kingsway and Edmonds. The mural is being built to celebrate BC Rivers Day and the painted fish represent the 5,000 fish reportedly killed two years ago when a toxic substance entered Byrne Creek through a storm drain."
Photograph of Deyan Jankovic, a volunteer, posing in front of the Burnaby RCMP Community Police Office in the Edmonds area (now the Donald N. Brown Community Police Office).
Photograph of Deyan Jankovic, a volunteer, posing in front of the Burnaby RCMP Community Police Office in the Edmonds area (now the Donald N. Brown Community Police Office).
Collected by editorial for use in a November 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Deyan Jankovic volunteers 20 to 30 hours a week at the Edmonds Community Police Office. He's originally from Serbia, immigrating to Canada when he was 16."
Photograph of "Richmond Box" lacrosse field near Humphries, Edmonds. Identified are: (2nd from right) George Leaf (manager, East Burnaby Owls); (facing off ball) Commissioner Hugh M. Fraser. George Leaf was an early Burnaby resident having arrived as child in 1888 with his mother and stepfather, …
Photograph of "Richmond Box" lacrosse field near Humphries, Edmonds. Identified are: (2nd from right) George Leaf (manager, East Burnaby Owls); (facing off ball) Commissioner Hugh M. Fraser. George Leaf was an early Burnaby resident having arrived as child in 1888 with his mother and stepfather, Jack Burgess, to settle in the area that would become East Burnaby. George went on to open one of the first businesses in Burnaby, the George Leaf General Store.
Photograph of the exterior front entrance and front windows of the Middlegate Bakery. Dry Cleaning business is visible to the right. The bakery is located in the Middlegate Shopping Centre at 7155 Kingsway, Burnaby.
Photograph of the exterior front entrance and front windows of the Middlegate Bakery. Dry Cleaning business is visible to the right. The bakery is located in the Middlegate Shopping Centre at 7155 Kingsway, Burnaby.
File contains photographs of a construction worker working on a concrete pillar on the site of the new Highgate Village. A crane is visible in the background.
File contains photographs of a construction worker working on a concrete pillar on the site of the new Highgate Village. A crane is visible in the background.
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "A worker prepares a mold for a concrete pillar at the site of the new Highgate Village, in the Edmonds area. Construction workers and cranes are becoming a familiar sight around Burnaby, as the city enjoys a building boom."
File contains photographs of residents of the New Vista Seniors' Care Home with Cory, a 20-year-old Arabian horse from Mustang Riding Stables, as part of a therapeutic visit. Photographs depict resident Dorothy Beauchamp with Cory and Joe Milankovics; Mary Scardina with Cory; and Cory's unidentifie…
File contains photographs of residents of the New Vista Seniors' Care Home with Cory, a 20-year-old Arabian horse from Mustang Riding Stables, as part of a therapeutic visit. Photographs depict resident Dorothy Beauchamp with Cory and Joe Milankovics; Mary Scardina with Cory; and Cory's unidentified handlers bringing him to the home as other staff and residents look on.
Collected by editorial for use in a July 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2589-1: "Dorothy Beauchamp is thrilled as she's helped down from her ride on Cory, a 20 year-old Arabian, by Joe Milankovics, at the New Vista Seniors Care Home. The horse, from Mustang Riding Stables in Maple Ridge, is making its second annual visit to the home, as therapy for some of its residents."
Caption from metadata for 535-2589-2: "Mary Scardina meets Cory, a 20 year-old Arabian from Mustang Riding Stables in Maple Ridge, at a theraputic visit to the New Vista Seniors Care Home."
Caption from metadata for 535-2589-3: "Cory, a 20 year-old Arabian from the Mustang Riding Stables in Maple Ridge, arrives for a visit at the New Vista Seniors Care Home."
Recording is a taped interview with John A."Jack" McGeachie by SFU (Simon Fraser University) graduate student Bettina Bradbury June 18, 1975. Major themes discussed are: the Depression, the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) and farming in Burnaby. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
Biographical Notes
John Aloysius “Jack” McGeachie was born January 14, 1914 in Little Mountain, Vancouver to Helen and John McGeachie.
Helen and John had four children; John Aloysius “Jack”, Florence Mary, Thomas Joseph “Tom” and Roderick Noel “Rod.” In 1922 the McGeachie family moved from Vancouver to East Burnaby where the children attended Edmonds School.
John Sr. became ill and died, leaving the eldest Jack as the main breadwinner of the family when he was still just a teenager. He began his working life at a chicken farm, later learning his trade while working for the Hudson Bay Company.
Jack McGeachie married Burnaby Historian Doreen Pixie Johnson. He and Pixie raised their children Kathi (Dunlop) and David McGeachie in the house the couple built themselves in 1947.
John Aloysius "Jack" McGeachie died October 12, 1981 at the age of sixty-seven.
Doreen "Pixie" (Johnson) McGeachie died August 14, 2010 at the age of eighty-nine.
Bettina Bradbury teaches history and women's studies at York University. She is the author of Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, June 2011), 520p; Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal. (Toronto: Canadian Social History Series, McClelland and Stewart, 1993); (Republished Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996) (3rd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). These interviews were undertaken after she completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 1975 with the support of an LIP grant.
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.
Photograph of a 1923 Model T Ford owned by Robert "Bob" Moore (aka "Ham" to his friends) in the family yard at 875 Edmonds Street (later renumbered 7625 Edmonds Street).
Photograph of a 1923 Model T Ford owned by Robert "Bob" Moore (aka "Ham" to his friends) in the family yard at 875 Edmonds Street (later renumbered 7625 Edmonds Street).
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Maria Phillips, a rehab assistant at Burnaby's New Vista Society Care Centre, helps Joseph O'Connell with his exercises on a mobile active bike. The Centre opened a new exercise room on Friday, to launch its "Strong Seniors-Well Seniors" program."
Photograph of 1929 and 1925 Kingsway (later renumbered 7255 Kingsway), Horace H. Palethorpe's real estate office, opposite the former Municipal Hall, Kingsway and Edmonds Street. The crowd is waiting for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a royal visit.
Photograph of 1929 and 1925 Kingsway (later renumbered 7255 Kingsway), Horace H. Palethorpe's real estate office, opposite the former Municipal Hall, Kingsway and Edmonds Street. The crowd is waiting for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a royal visit.
Photograph of two unidentified children and an unidentified adult walking along the new "Stream of Dreams" mural project at Kingsway and Edmonds. The mural is made of painted wooden fish attached to a chain link fence.
Photograph of two unidentified children and an unidentified adult walking along the new "Stream of Dreams" mural project at Kingsway and Edmonds. The mural is made of painted wooden fish attached to a chain link fence.
Collected by editorial for use in a September 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Passersby admire the handiwork of volunteer and school kids who cut and painted hundreds of wooden salmon for the "Stream of Dreams" project on the corner of Kingsway and Edmonds. The fence was unveiled on Saturday as part of the Edmonds Neighborhood's celebration of its community."
File contains photographs of Vicki Kreuzer and Loonie House Market. Photographs depict Kreuzer holding up drug pipes in front of a market on Edmonds Street and confronting the owner of the market.
File contains photographs of Vicki Kreuzer and Loonie House Market. Photographs depict Kreuzer holding up drug pipes in front of a market on Edmonds Street and confronting the owner of the market.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-1954-1: "Vicki Kreuzer holds up crack pipes she says can be readily bought at a discount store on Edmonds St, making it difficult to rid the Burnaby neighbourhood of drug addicts and crime."
Caption from metadata for 535-1954-2: "Vicki Kreuzer, right, confronts the owner of the Looniehouse Market in Burnaby's Edmonds neighbourhood, where she says drug addicts can easily buy crack pipes. She says she's asked the owner to stop selling the pipes, and she won't shop there until they're no longer available."