Burnaby's history and location
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1927]-1974
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains newspaper clippings, maps and brochures explaining the history and importance of Burnaby.
Canadian booklets
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1904-1949
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two booklets. One is entitled "How to become a Canadian Citizen" published by the Canadian Citizen Branch Department of the Secretary of State. The other is entitled "Canadian History Notes" by Geo. E. Henderson and Chas. G. Fraser.
Ceperley Mansion papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1911 (date of original) -1983
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of photocopied architectural drawings of the Ceperley Mansion.
Copied blueprints
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- February 1912 (date of original), copied [1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of copied blueprints for the house on Broadman Aveuue (renamed Linden Avenue) built in 1912 for W.L. Edmonds and his wife Beryl Briggs Edmonds by architects and builders Disney and Tucker.
Coronation and celebration papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to celebrations attended by George Jeffery. Included in the file are brochures entitled, "Canada's Diamond Jubilee of Confederation / July 2nd / Burnaby's Official Programme" and "Civic Coronation Service / Sunday, May the Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven"…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- George Jeffery subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS013-017
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to celebrations attended by George Jeffery. Included in the file are brochures entitled, "Canada's Diamond Jubilee of Confederation / July 2nd / Burnaby's Official Programme" and "Civic Coronation Service / Sunday, May the Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Seven". There are also notes that appear to be for a speech written on several envelopes and a white Diamond Jubilee of Confederation committee ribbon.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Less detail
Correspondence
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1920-1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File of correspondence pertaining to the Bancroft family (most of which pertains to the Bancroft's poultry farm). Included in the file is a Discharge of Mortgage between James Shaw and John Mathie.
D.C. Patterson papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1931]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to D.C. Pattterson, including newspaper clippings from various Burnaby newspapers as well as his business card.
Drs Blythe and Violet Eagles papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1939] -1978
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains records pertaining to Blythe and Violet Eagles including correspondence from the Burnaby Historical Society, pamphlets on Burnaby and various conferences, notes on the Eagle's visit to Robert Burnaby's grave and ration books from World War II.
Eagles family papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922- [1990]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a Vancouver Daily World newspaper with an article on Blythe Eagles on the front cover dated May 10, 1922 as well as a handbook for the buildings and equipment at the University of British Columbia dated 1925. Also included in the file is a photocopied note outlining what appears to…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922- [1990]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Eagles family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS055-025
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-18
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a Vancouver Daily World newspaper with an article on Blythe Eagles on the front cover dated May 10, 1922 as well as a handbook for the buildings and equipment at the University of British Columbia dated 1925. Also included in the file is a photocopied note outlining what appears to be a obituary for Dr Violet Eagles.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Less detail
Eagles family papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of miscellaneous documents such as receipts from gas for the Burnaby Lake Garage, Port of Vancouver brochures, a banquet invitation from British Columbia Historical Association and a photocopied article entitled "Tribute to Dr. and Mrs. Blythe Eagles" by Evelyn Salisbury.
East Burnaby-Edmonds Liberal Association papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of East Burnaby-Edmonds Liberal Association papers including its constitution, correspondence and various Liberal newsletters. The object of this association was to aid in securing and maintaining good government by the advocacy and support of Liberal Political principals. Included in…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Bancroft family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS110-009
- Accession Number
- BHS2004-06
- Scope and Content
- File consists of East Burnaby-Edmonds Liberal Association papers including its constitution, correspondence and various Liberal newsletters. The object of this association was to aid in securing and maintaining good government by the advocacy and support of Liberal Political principals. Included in the file is a booklet entitled "Mackenzie King to the Canadian People / 1935."
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Less detail
East Burnaby-Edmonds Liberal Association papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934-1939
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the East Burnaby-Edmonds Liberal Association including newsletters, correspondence and receipts.
Easthope photograph album
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1970]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 40 photographs : b&w on 8 album pages : 22 cm x 30 cm
- Scope and Content
- George and Dorothy Easthope photograph album. Album includes photographs of the couple on holiday, with family and pets, and building their home at 6671 Halifax Street in Burnaby, BC.
Edmonds school papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1916 (date of original) -1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to Edmonds school, including correspondence, photocopied photographs (some with identification keys), lists of former teachers, photocopied newspaper articles and pages from books, as well as reports handwritten (on worksheets) by students on the history of Edmond…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1916 (date of original) -1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Edmonds School subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS036-004
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- BHS1988-07
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to Edmonds school, including correspondence, photocopied photographs (some with identification keys), lists of former teachers, photocopied newspaper articles and pages from books, as well as reports handwritten (on worksheets) by students on the history of Edmonds.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Less detail
Elsie B. Wilson papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924-1933
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of programs from concerts which Elsie Wilson appeared in as pianist, as well as a newspaper clipping describing one of the concerts, an original program cover drawing and a receipt from a clothing store.
Events of the Week As Seen by Sun Cartoonist
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1936-1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 newspaper clippings
- Scope and Content
- File contains two newspaper clippings of the political serial cartoon "Events of the Week As Seen by Sun Cartoonist ---- By Fraser Wilson"; one of which is from June of 1937 as it includes a scene of the wedding of actor and producer Gene Raymond to actor and singer Jeanette MacDonald. The other is…
Fraser Wilson illustrations
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1937 and 1947]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of graphic material
- Scope and Content
- File consists of sixteen original illustrations, most of which are political caricatures, written and illustrated by Fraser Wilson for the Vancouver Sun.
George Green photocopied scrapbook
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934-[1951], copied 1988
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records (photocopies)
- Scope and Content
- File consists of pages photocopied from an original scrapbook of newspaper articles written by and about George Green.
Grant family papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1964
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the Grant family. Included in the file is George Grant's Application (and Testimonials) for the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture (written in 1909), various certificates awarded to members of the Gr…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1909-1964
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- George Grant subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS048-002
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-06
- Scope and Content
- File consists of papers pertaining to the Grant family. Included in the file is George Grant's Application (and Testimonials) for the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture (written in 1909), various certificates awarded to members of the Grant family, as well as a Coat of Arms and Emblems illustration for Canada and its Provinces.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
Less detail
Greeting cards
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1907-1981
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of Birthday, St. Valentine's, Easter and Christmas cards and postcards. The majority of the cards are addressed to James Cooter and George Biddick.