Burnaby North High School grade 9 class
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1931
- Collection/Fonds
- Westerman family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the grade nine class of Burnaby North High School arranged in rows and standing in front of the entrance to the school. Walter "Wally" Westerman is identified on the far left, standing in the fourth row from the bottom.
Firefighters Albert Killer and Fred Blake
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1939 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 15 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Firefighters Albert Killer and Fred Blake lying down on their beds and reading (in the dormitory during the night shift) at No. 1 Burnaby Fire Hall at Carleton Avenue and Eton Street. Fire boots (with fire resistant pants gathered over them) are visible at the side of Fred Blake's bed.
Fire insurance plans - Greater Vancouver - Volume XV - Municipality of Burnaby
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1927-1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 11 plans on 8 sheets : col. lithographic print ; 64 x 54 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of fire insurance plans titled "Greater Vancouver / Volume XV / Municipality / of Burnaby" surveyed May 1927 and revised October 1940. Volume XV includes a two page Key Plan (A and B) identifying associated plan numbers and district lots and nine numbered fire insurance plans identifi…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Series
- Fire Insurance plans of Greater Vancouver and Burnaby series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 11 plans on 8 sheets : col. lithographic print ; 64 x 54 cm
- Material Details
- Scales between [1:600] and [1:6000]
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of fire insurance plans titled "Greater Vancouver / Volume XV / Municipality / of Burnaby" surveyed May 1927 and revised October 1940. Volume XV includes a two page Key Plan (A and B) identifying associated plan numbers and district lots and nine numbered fire insurance plans identified as; 1507; 1508 ; 1517; 1518; 1519; 1520;1521; 1531and 1532.
- Creator
- British Columbia Underwriters' Association
- Publisher
- Plan Department of Fire Branch of British Columbia Underwriters' Association
- Accession Code
- BV987.1.70
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1927-1940
- Media Type
- Cartographic Material
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Willingdon Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 400
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- These plans are contained within a bound book with labels on cover page reading: "Plan No. 90 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / of / Vancouver VOLUME "8" / IN THE PROPERTY OF THE / British Columbia Insurance Underwriter's Association / Vancouver B.C. / AND IS LOANED / MELVILLE F. THOMSON CO. .../ Date May 26th, 1934"; / "Plan No. 74 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / OF / VANCOUVER VOLUME "9"" / Plan No. 11 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / OF / BURNABY VOLUMES 15-19" / "THIS PLAN IS THE PROPERTY OF / THE / BRITISH LAW INSURANCE COMPANY / LIMITED"
- Fire insurance plans cover various district lots in Burnaby including: District Lot 116,121, 186 and 187.
- Sticker adhered to Key Plan B reads: "
- Contact Burnaby Village Museum to view fire insurance plans that are part of Volume XV
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Fred and Margaret Knight
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia hand-tinted col. ; 6 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of twins, Fred Knight and Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together in an empty lot near their home on Gilmore Avenue. They are both dressed in trousers and wearing caps on their heads. Fred is standing behind Margaret with his arms around her. Trash is littering the ground around t…
Gilmore Avenue School students
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 15.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of students standing in front of Gilmore Avenue School with their teacher. There are five rows of boys and girls aged about twelve years old. The girls are all wearing knee length dresses or skirts with a low waist band and stockings. The boys are mostly wearing button up shir…
House on Gilmore Avenue
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted col. ; 6.5 x11 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Knight-Roberts family home located at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby. The house was moved from the location of the forty hundred block of Georgia Street in the mid 1920s.
Intihar family on steps of their home
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.3 x 6.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Frank and Maria "Mary" Intihar and their daughter, Amalya Maria (Intihar) Kelley standing on the front stairs of the family home located at 4169 Keefer Street (street was renamed Frances Street) in Burnaby. The family moved into the home in 1929. The
Margaret and Louise Knight on steps of family home
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.7 x 6.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Margaret Norton (nee Knight) (left) and Louise Knight (nee Ellis) (right) seated on the steps of the Knight-Roberts family home with two young girls. The house is located at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby.
Margaret and Naida Knight
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing with her sister Naida Hansen (nee Knight). They are standing together in front of a large sign on Hastings Street in Burnaby.
Margaret Knight with Kathleen Ellis
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 15.5 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together with her young cousin, Kathleen Ellis. Margaret is standing on a wooden plank and Kathleen is seated on a rock outside of the Knight-Roberts family home after it was moved to 931 Gilmore Avenue. The ground around the house is rough with d…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 15.5 x 10 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together with her young cousin, Kathleen Ellis. Margaret is standing on a wooden plank and Kathleen is seated on a rock outside of the Knight-Roberts family home after it was moved to 931 Gilmore Avenue. The ground around the house is rough with debris.
- Names
- Norton, Margaret Knight
- Ellis, Kathleen
- Geographic Access
- Gilmore Avenue
- Street Address
- 931 Gilmore Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV020.34.32
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [193-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- March 22, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "MARGARET KKNIGHT & / KATHLEEEN ELLIS"
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Naida Knight
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia hand-tinted col. ; 14.7 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Naida Hansen (nee Knight) standing in the garden of the Knight-Roberts family home at 931 Gilmore Avenue, Burnaby.
Pallbearers and procession in Masonic Cemetery
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of pallbearers and funeral procession in the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby where Charles Woodward was laid to rest in the mausoleum of the Woodward family.
Pallbearers and procession in Masonic Cemetery
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of pallbearers and funeral procession in the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby where Charles Woodward was laid to rest in the mausoleum of the Woodward family. The procession is leaving from the hearse into the cemetery.
Pallbearers carrying coffin into mausoleum
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of pallbearers carrying the coffin of Charles Woodward into the Woodward family mausoleum inside the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby.
Pallbearers in Masonic Cemetery
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 7 Jun. 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of six pallbearers standing in the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby where Charles Woodward was laid to rest in the mausoleum of the Woodward family. Two women are seated on a bench.