20,000 words for stenographers, students, authors and proofreaders
The 1902 edition of the Sears Roebuck catalogue
1962 Ford Galaxie registered owner's manual and owner service policy
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.35.94
- Call Number
- 629.2 FOR
- Edition
- Fifth ed.
- Place of Publication
- Oakville, Ont.
- Publisher
- Ford Motor Co. of Canada
- Publication Date
- 1962
- Printer
- Sumner Printing
- Inscription
- "J. H. Robins
3525 Dover St
Burnaby BC" [handwritten on cover in blue ink]
"Champion - F - 11 - Y
Autolite BF - 42
.032-.036
.014.016" [handwritten in pencil on back cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Automobiles--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Ford automobiles--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Names
- Ford Motor Company
- Object History
- The tools included in this donation belonged to Samuel Robins. Samuel and his wife Sarah Ann Robins moved to Burnaby in 1918. Samuel was a stonemason who worked on many projects in the Lower Mainland, including constructing houses in Shaughnessy and he also worked in the Vancouver City Hall.
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1966-1967 official directory of Rotary International
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV003.68.29
- Call Number
- 367 ROT 1966
- Place of Publication
- Evanston, Ill.
- Publisher
- Rotary International
- Publication Date
- c1966
- Physical Description
- 480 p. ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Paul's" [written in ink over title on cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Directories
- Subjects
- Organizations - Societies and Clubs
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1967-1968 official directory of Rotary International
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV003.68.30
- Call Number
- 367 ROT 1967
- Place of Publication
- Evanston, Ill.
- Publisher
- Rotary International
- Publication Date
- c1967
- Physical Description
- 506 p. ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Paul DiFonzo" [underlined, and handwritten in blue ink on cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Directories
- Subjects
- Organizations - Societies and Clubs
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A child's Christmas cookbook
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 394.2663 CHA
- Author
- Chancellor, Betty
- Contributor
- Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
- Place of Publication
- Walnut Creek, CA
- Publisher
- Evergreen
- Publication Date
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 39 p. : ill. ; 21 x 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "Burnaby Village Museum", handwritten in ink on cover page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Christmas cooking
- Notes
- A collection of recipes and suggestions for simple meals and desserts as well as instructions for making easy Christmas gifts.
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Once upon a Christmas, at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, December, 1964."
- "Illustrations from Thomas Nast and the St. Nicholas books, originally published in the late Victorian period."
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A dictionary of marks : ceramics, metalwork, furniture : the identification handbook for antique collectors
A dictionary of textile terms
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 677 DAN
- Edition
- 9th ed.
- Author
- Dan River Mills, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Danville, Va.
- Publisher
- Dan River Mills
- Publication Date
- c1964
- Physical Description
- 128 p. ; 16 cm.
- Inscription
- "G. Macleod", handwritten in ink on front cover and title page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Textile industry
- Textile fabrics--Dictionaries
- Notes
- Sixth ed. published in 1951 under title: Dan River's dictionary of textile terms.
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A Frontier guide to The Dewdney trail : Hope to Rock Creek, No.19
A Frontier guide to The Dewdney trail : Rock Creek to Salmo, No.20
A heritage of light : lamps and lighting in the early Canadian home
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0802015301
- 9780802015303
- Call Number
- 749.2 RUS
- Author
- Russell, Loris S. (Loris Shano), 1904-1998
- Place of Publication
- [Toronto]
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date
- c1968
- Physical Description
- 344 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Lamps
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-338) and index.
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All steel climax baling presses : electric power and hand operated
A shopper's view of Canada's past : pages from Eaton's catalogues 1886-1930
A study of the history of the International Typographical Union, 1852-1966 : volume ii
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV999.40.3
- Call Number
- 331.8 ITU
- Contributor
- International Typographical Union
- Place of Publication
- Colorado Springs
- Publisher
- International Typographical Union
- Publication Date
- c1967
- Physical Description
- 536 p. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"H.T. "Joe" Chambers" [written in blue ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Printing
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Audels answers on blue print reading for mechanics and builders
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Call Number
- 620.042 GRA
- Author
- Graham, Frank Duncan, 1875-1965
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Audel
- Publication Date
- c1962
- Physical Description
- 408 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
- Inscription
- "OAKALLA PRISON FARM / LIBRARY", stamped in ink on inside of front cover.
- "XBU / OAKALLA PAINT / SHOP OUT 2 1991", handwritten in ink on inside of back over.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Blueprints
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Audels carpenters and builders guide no. 2 : a practical illustrated trade assistant on modern construction for carpenters, joiners, builders, mechanics, and all wood workers
The Automobile Association members handbook 1963
Bancroft family subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]-1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Bancroft family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and other materials
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1986-44
- BHS2004-06
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the Bancroft family and friends and ephemera pertaining to agricultural farming and the air force.
- History
- Rose Croucher was born to Ann Eliza "Annie" (b. August 1861, d. 1962) and R. Coucher in January 1895. In 1907, the Croucher family moved to British Columbia. As a student, Rose studied geometrical drawing using Blair’s Canadian Drawing Series workbooks.
On on February 21, 1914, Rose married James Oakes Bancroft in Vancouver, BC. Together they had three children: James A. (b. 1916 or 1917), Rosie (date unknown), and George E. (b. August 1927).
The Bancroft family were poultry farmers throughout the early 1900s, transporting their farmed eggs from Burnaby to the Hudson’s Bay Company Vancouver using the British Columbia Electric Railway system. Rose Bancroft also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Park Poultry Co-op Association in the 1920s until her husband's death in 1930 at the age of 42.
In the late thirties and early forties, while James A. Bancroft was stationed in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force, his younger siblings lived together with their mother and grandmother at 1963 21st Avenue in Burnaby. Rosie Bancroft studied French and English history in Social Studies in 1937; her brother George studied the seasons in General Science II in 1942.
Rose died in 1965 at the age of 76.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Cartographic Material
- Creator
- Bancroft, Rose
- Notes
- MSS030, PC490, PC507, and MSS110
- Title based on creator and contents of subseries
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The Boy Scout series : map and compass, no. 7
Burnaby Address Re-Numbering 1958-1961|House re-numbering
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Digital Resource
- Contributor
- City of Burnaby
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, BC
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- [1961]
- Subjects
- Government - Local Government
- Public Services - Municipal Services
- Notes
- In 1958, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby embarked on an address re-numbering project. Burnaby's new address system was a numerical continuation of the Vancouver system. The project included East Burnaby which had previously worked off of the New Westminster address system. This was problematic due to the diagonal grid system that New Westminster and East Burnaby was based off of.
- The project was completed in two phases: From 1958 to 1959, and 1960 to 1961.
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