Personal material
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1910-1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlai…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1910-1978]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Series
- Simnett personal papers series
- Physical Description
- 9 paintings : colour print, 2 photographs : b&w, and 1 folder of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS167-008
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- File consists of application for a driver's license, Kingsway Driving School report card, driver's examination receipt and a letter addressed to Hazel Simnett from the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada. Also included is an immigration inspection card of Fred Simnett aboard the S.S. Lake Champlain from Liverpool and a letter from the Office of the Mayor addressed to Mary Ann Simnett for her ninetieth birthday. Also included is a photograph (see item 559-001). Also included are newsclippings regarding Robert Burnaby and the "Bygones of Burnaby" book, a programme of the Robert Burnaby Commemorative Dinner, a photocopy of "The Argus" (Burnaby South High School's newspaper) from 1938, a programme from Madys Pridmore Brown's Variety Programme, "The Buzzer" Volume 40 Issue 16 advertising Vancouver street cars, New Vista Society certificate addressed to Hazel Simnett, an envelope of Fenwick Lansdowne bird prints from 1957 and a print of the Royal Family found in a cardboard envelope postmarked 1972.
- Subjects
- Arts - Paintings
- Documentary Artifacts - Newspapers
- Documentary Artifacts - Photographs
- Performances - Concerts
- Organizations - Societies and Clubs
- Personal Symbols - Certificates
- Transportation
- Persons - Royalty
- Names
- Simnett, Hazel
- Simnett, Frederick "Fred"
- Simnett, Mary Ann
- Lansdowne, James Fenwick
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Graphic Material
- Notes
- Title based on note accompanying file on folder ; The Argue was stapled together
- Simnett personal papers series
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area
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Burnaby North High School report card
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1939-1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Burnaby North High School report card for Dorothy Mallett, Division III, Grade XI, signed by school principal George B. Carpenter, teacher D.R. McLean and one of her parents.
Certificate of Canadian Citizenship issued to Quon Lip Lee
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 6 Oct. 1966
- Collection/Fonds
- Quon Lip Lee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Certificate of Canadian Citizenship issued to Quon Lip Lee on October 6, 1966. The back of the certificate includes vitial information including date of birth, marital status and date of issue.
Head tax certificate issued to Dung Way How
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1922-1934 (date of original), copied 2021
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Document collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 certificate (tiff) : col. ; 600 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a head tax certificate issued by the Dominion of Canada - Immigration Branch - Department of the Interior to Dung Way How (Dong Howe). The certificate was first issued on March 18, 1922 and includes certification stamps on the front along with a photograph of Dung Way How. Certifi…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Document collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 certificate (tiff) : col. ; 600 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a head tax certificate issued by the Dominion of Canada - Immigration Branch - Department of the Interior to Dung Way How (Dong Howe). The certificate was first issued on March 18, 1922 and includes certification stamps on the front along with a photograph of Dung Way How. Certification stamps on the verso of the certificate were issued by Chinese Immigration authorities between 1922 and 1934.
Information on the front of the certificate reads "...This Certifies That / Dung Way How whose photograph is attached / hereto arrived or landed at Vancouver B.C. / on the 23rd day of January 1922 / ex "Empress of Asia" / and upon representations made has been / admitted as exempt from head tax under the / provisions of the Chinese Immigration Act. / The above mentioned party claims / to be a native of Bark Choon Jong in the District of Pon Yue of the age of 20 years. The declaration in this case is C.I.4. No. 3715 Date at Vancouver on March 18, 1922" signed by "Controller of Chinese Immigration". Printed text on verso of certificate reads "IMPORTANT / IT IS NECESSARY THAT THIS / CERTIFICATE BE CAREFULLY / PRESERVED AS IT IS OF VALUE / AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION".
- History
- Dung Way How (Dong Howe) arrived from Bak Chun (North Village), Guangdong in 1922 as a paper son. He had two sons during his first marriage, but the sons remained in China and one died at a young age. He married his second wife Chow Goon Pang through an arranged marriage. She was married twice previously and had a son from each marriage, but neither of them survived. Chow was from Nam Chun (South Village) and arrived in Canada as a paper daughter around the late 1930s or early 1940s. Both Dong and Chow spoke a Poon Yue dialect.
The couple raised one daughter Vivian Dong (Dong Jing Yu) in Canada. The Dong family leased and operated the New Fountain hotel in Vancouver located at Abbott Street and Cordova Street. The family later went on to purchase farmland in Burnaby in 1957. The Dong family moved to Burnaby and operated a three acre market garden located at 6220 14th Avenue until 1972. They grew European staples including celery, radishes, green onions, beets, lettuces, endives, as well as Chinese vegetables such as gai lan (Chinese broccoli). There were two Chinese families in the area, including the Wong family who operated the Wong Chew market gardens 6325 14th Avenue. Dong Howe passed away in 1978. Chow Goon Pang passed away in 2000. Their daughter Vivian grew up in Burnaby and attended Riverside Elementary, McPherson Junior High School and Burnaby South Secondary School.
- Creator
- Government of Canada
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Migration
- Names
- Howe, Dong
- Accession Code
- BV021.13.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1922-1934 (date of original), copied 2021
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- March 25, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Head tax certificate issued to Lee Quon Lep [Quan Lip Lee]
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1921-1949 (date of original), copied 2021
- Collection/Fonds
- Quon Lip Lee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a head tax certificate issued by the Dominion of Canada - Immigration Branch - Department of the (Interior) issued to Lee Quon Lep [sic] [Quon Lip Lee]. The certificate was first issued on December 12, 1921 and includes certification stamps on the front along with a photograph of Q…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Quon Lip Lee fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a head tax certificate issued by the Dominion of Canada - Immigration Branch - Department of the (Interior) issued to Lee Quon Lep [sic] [Quon Lip Lee]. The certificate was first issued on December 12, 1921 and includes certification stamps on the front along with a photograph of Quan Lip Lee. Certification stamps on the verso of the certificate were issued by Canadian and Chinese Immigration authorities between 1924 and 1949.
Information on the front of the certificate reads "DOMINION OF CANADA / IMMIGRATION BRANCH - DEPARTMENT.../ RECEIVED FRO.../ Lee Quon Lep whose photograph is attached / hereto on the date and at the place hereunder mentioned the sum / of five Hundred Dollars being the head tax due under the / provisions of the Chinese Immigration Act. / The above mentioned party claims / to be a native of Gong Doey Lee / in the district of Sun Way / of the age of 12 years arrived or landed / at Vancouver on the 28th day of / November 1921 ex Empress [sic] of Asia / The declaration in this case is C.I.4 No. 3716 / Dated at Vancouver on Dec 12, 1921_19_/ (signature) / CONTROLLER OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION".
Printed text on verso of certificate reads "IMPORTANT / IT IS NECESSARY THAT THIS / CERTIFICATE BE CAREFULLY / PRESERVED AS IT IS OF VALUE / AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION" along with Chinese language characters printed vertically below.
- Creator
- Government of Canada
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Migration
- Names
- Lee, Quon Lip
- Accession Code
- BV021.18.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1921-1949 (date of original), copied 2021
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- April 8, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
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High school entrance certificate
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 24 Jul. 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Department of Education High School Entrance Certificate awarded to Dorothy Mallett at the Education Office, Victoria, July 24, 1937.
Roll of honour certificate
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 30 Jun. 1931
- Collection/Fonds
- Dorothy Atkinson fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 p.
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of a Public Schools of British Columbia, Roll of Honour certificate, awarded to Dorothy Mallett of Gilmore Avenue Public School, for Proficiency, signed by teacher, Annalou Mason, June 30, 1931.
Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival Certificate
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 9 Apr. 1935 (date of original), copied [2016]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Copy scan of a certificate from the Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival. "BRONZE MEDAL CERTIFICATE / Awarded to Ramsey Shankie. / For Violin Under 16 years / ... / Date April 9. 1935."
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Copy scan of a certificate from the Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival. "BRONZE MEDAL CERTIFICATE / Awarded to Ramsey Shankie. / For Violin Under 16 years / ... / Date April 9. 1935."
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Names
- Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996
- Accession Code
- BV016.43.37
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 9 Apr. 1935 (date of original), copied [2016]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph.
- Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".
- Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor
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Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival Certificate
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 31 Mar. 1936 (date of original), copied [2016]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Copy scan of a certificate from the Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival. "SILVER MEDAL CERTIFICATE / Awarded to Thomas R. Shankie. / For Violin (under 16 years) / ... / Date March 31st, 1936."
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff)
- Scope and Content
- Copy scan of a certificate from the Vancouver Scottish Musical Festival. "SILVER MEDAL CERTIFICATE / Awarded to Thomas R. Shankie. / For Violin (under 16 years) / ... / Date March 31st, 1936."
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Names
- Shankie, Thomas Ramsay Hunter, 1920-1996
- Accession Code
- BV016.43.38
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 31 Mar. 1936 (date of original), copied [2016]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph.
- Image is from a binder of family history. Binder 1, orange cover "Old Stanley Family Photo / Old Shankie Family Photos / War Photos - Echo Photos".
- Digital image created from orginal photograph by donor
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Brown's guide to British Columbia
Burnaby British Columbia : reference and year book 1931
Foods, nutrition, and home management manual : home economics circular no. 1
Graduation records
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930-1941]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two envelopes and one dictionary. One envelope is empty and is addressed to: "To Whom it May Concern" and is from: "Hugh M. Fraser High School / 2350 Kingsway / New Westminster, BC". It most likely contained the reference letter from May 12, 1941 written by the principal of Hugh M.…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930-1941]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hazel Simnett collection
- Series
- Simnett personal papers series
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- MSS167-013
- Accession Number
- 2013-22
- Scope and Content
- File consists of two envelopes and one dictionary. One envelope is empty and is addressed to: "To Whom it May Concern" and is from: "Hugh M. Fraser High School / 2350 Kingsway / New Westminster, BC". It most likely contained the reference letter from May 12, 1941 written by the principal of Hugh M. Fraser Senior and Junior High Schools. The second envelope is addressed to "Miss Hazel Simnett / 4019 Kingsway / New Westminster, BC" from the Department of Education in Victoria, BC. It contains the reference letter as discussed previously, a University Entrance Examination certificate, a High School Graduation certificate from Burnaby South High School, a Grade Twelve Examination Junior Matriculation certificate and a purple and gold ribbon. The dictionary is a Nelson's "Highroads" English Dictionary. Inside an inscription reads: "Hazel Simnett / 4019 Kingsway / Burnaby / BSHS / Hazel Simnett / Kingsway West School".
- Subjects
- Personal Symbols - Certificates
- Names
- Simnett, Hazel
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Simnett personal papers series
- Geographic Access
- Kingsway
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Garden Village Area
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Andrew Sloane Johnson graduates
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 22.5 x 17.5 cm (sight) in frame 14.5 x 31.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Andrew Sloane Johnson taken in a photographic studio on the occasion of his graduation. He is wearing a robe overtop of a tweed suit and is holding a rolled diploma in his hand.
Annie Sara Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w hand-tinted into col.; 5.5 x 6.8 cm oval
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a hand-coloured, head and shoulders portrait of Annie Sara Hill. Mrs. Hill was the wife of early Burnaby resident, L. Claude Hill.
The Bird's Paradise, Vancouver, BC
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard hand-tinted into col.
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of an unidentified man in tweed suit smoking a pipe.There are birds resting on his head, on his pipe and hand, on his shoulder and his forearm. The birds on his hand have been coloured red, and the others are coloured yellow. A caption to the photograph reads: The Birds' Para…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard hand-tinted into col.
- Material Details
- inscribed in the original negative, printed on recto, c. r. "The Birds' Paradise,/ Vancouver, B.C./ No. 2.", l.l. "[copyright c with circle]"
printed on verso, t. "MADE IN CANADA BY THE GOWEN, SUTTON CO. LTD., VANCOUVER, B. C."
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of an unidentified man in tweed suit smoking a pipe.There are birds resting on his head, on his pipe and hand, on his shoulder and his forearm. The birds on his hand have been coloured red, and the others are coloured yellow. A caption to the photograph reads: The Birds' Paradise / Vancouver, B.C. / No. 2.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Animals - Fowl
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- Accession Code
- BV985.6012.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1945]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2024-02-27
- Photographer
- Gowen Sutton Company Limited
- Notes
- Title based on contents of postcard
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Booking photograph
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1924 and 1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.
Booking photograph
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1926 and 1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1926 and 1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- George Jeffery subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8 x 12 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 013-022
- Access Restriction
- In Archives only
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is a two-part, right-profile and front-view booking photograph of a prisoner, said to have escaped from Oakalla Prison Farm on July 14, 1930.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Names
- Oakalla Prison Farm
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Handwritten note on verso of photograph reads: "Escaped from Oakalla / 14.7.30 / 18255 / EDWARD BOYD / @ / SILAS SIMON / 14290 / Welsh. / Age 24. / 5 ' 5 5/8. Weight 136 / DK BROWN Curly Hair / Brown Eyes"
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Canadian geography for juniors
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV007.21.4
- Call Number
- 910 COR
- Edition
- British Columbia ed.
- Author
- Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
- Contributor
- Lord, A. R. (Alexander Russell), 1885-1961
- Denton, V. L. (Vernon Llewllyn), 1881-1944
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1930
- Printer
- Temple Press
- Physical Description
- xii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Pat McLaren Div. 6" [handwritten in black ink with decoration with purple, red, green, pink, orange and blue pencil on front pastedown]
"Lorraine M White" [handwritten in blue ink on front endpaper]
"africa
Page 265" [handwritten in blue ink over black ink on front endpaper]
"Columbia
Bolivia
Uruguay
Paraguay
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
Peru
Venezuela
Ecuador" [handwritten in black ink on p. after p. 338]
"Columbia" [handwritten in pencil on p. after p. 338]
"Pat
White" [handwritten in pencil on back pastedown]
Drawing of woman's face in pencil on back endpaper
Various drawings of womens' faces in profile, a cat? and the word "salmon" in blue ink on front endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Geography--Historical texts
- Canada--Study and teaching--Historical texts
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Books
- Education
- Notes
- "Revised with additons by A. R. Lord and V. L. Denton" --t.p.
- "With 218 sketch maps, diagrams and illustrations" --t.p.
- Author's given name and dates: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-1960
- Author's given name and dates: Lord, A. R. (Alexander Russell), 1885-1961
- Author's given name and dates: Denton, V.L. (Vernon Llewllyn), 1881-1944
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