Discussion of Air-Supported Structures within the Context of the Northeast Burnaby Library/Recreation Site - Lougheed Town Centre Community Plan Area "G"
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 76 x 108 cm
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan of "Structures Inc. Circular Building Models" for Model No. 35 (100 sq. ft); Model No. 30 (730 sq. ft.); Model No. 25 (520 sq. ft); Model No. 20 (320 sq. ft.). These models were manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the p…
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 76 x 108 cm
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan of "Structures Inc. Circular Building Models" for Model No. 35 (100 sq. ft); Model No. 30 (730 sq. ft.); Model No. 25 (520 sq. ft); Model No. 20 (320 sq. ft.). These models were manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the paneloc building.
Stamp in black ink reads: "Proprietary Notice / This is an unpublished manuscript which is revealed / in confidence. This drawing and information contained / herein is the trade secret of Structures Inc. / The possession of this material/drawing confers no / license or right to produce the product or to re- /produce, transmit or reveal in oral or written form / what is depicted therein without written permission / of Structures Inc."
Printed note on plan reads; "Manufactured and sold under one or more of the following patents held by E.W. Martin 7231 Sutliff St. N. Burnaby / B.C. Canada. Canada No. 571061 638,698_680,686 / 701,531 U.S.A._3,119,153 and 3,277,620. Other patents / pending. Also patents in Israel, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, / Japan, Paraguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, / Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Uraguay, bolivia, / Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, / United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Spain, / Portugal, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, / South Africa, Philippines. Other patents pending."
Identifier in bottom left portion of drawing reads: "S022-5/1/73"
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 55.5 x 91.5 cm
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan, sheet No. A-1 Project No. 73-0031 created by Structures Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio. This plan model was manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the paneloc building.
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 55.5 x 91.5 cm
Material Details
Scales differ between 1/4" = 1'-0" and 3" = 1'-0"
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan, sheet No. A-1 Project No. 73-0031 created by Structures Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio. This plan model was manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the paneloc building.
Note in red ink at bottom of drawing reads: "PRELIMINARY - NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION"
Stamp in black ink reads: "Proprietary Notice / This is an unpublished manuscript which is revealed / in confidence. This drawing and information contained / herein is the trade secret of Structures Inc. / The possession of this material/drawing confers no / license or right to produce the product or to re- /produce, transmit or reveal in oral or written form / what is depicted therein without written permission / of Structures Inc."
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 55.5 x 91.5 cm
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan, sheet No. A-2 Project No. 73-0032 created by Structures Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio. This plan model was manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the paneloc building.
1 architectural drawing : blueline print ; 55.5 x 91.5 cm
Material Details
Scales 11/2"=1'-0" and 3/8"=1'-0"
Scope and Content
Item consists of architectural plan, sheet No. A-2 Project No. 73-0032 created by Structures Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio. This plan model was manufactured and sold under patents held by E.W. Martin of Burnaby who designed the paneloc building.
Stamp in black ink reads: "Proprietary Notice / This is an unpublished manuscript which is revealed / in confidence. This drawing and information contained / herein is the trade secret of Structures Inc. / The possession of this material/drawing confers no / license or right to produce the product or to re- /produce, transmit or reveal in oral or written form / what is depicted therein without written permission / of Structures Inc."
The Burnaby Village Museum is a ten-acre heritage site located adjacent to Deer Lake. The site was originally created as a B.C. Centennial Project in 1971. The official sod turning for was April 11, 1971 by the then Governor General of Canada Roland Mitchener. The Village was initially managed by the Century Park Museum Association, a volunteer society of Burnaby citizens. Over the years many heritage building which could not be maintained in their original locations have been moved to the museum. Today half of the buildings in the village are heritage structures and the remainder are reproductions. In 1990 the City of Burnaby assumed direct management of the Village, and the museum became part of the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department. Visitors can enjoy the shops on Hill Street, ride the Parker 119 Carousel, and climb aboard the Interurban 1223 tram.
Photograph of the exterior of Continental Can Company factory, located on Winston Street by Burnaby Lake. The photograph is taken from across Winston Street, facing south, and the railway tracks are visible in front of the manufacturing plant. The Continental Can water tower stands in the backgroun…
Photograph of the exterior of Continental Can Company factory, located on Winston Street by Burnaby Lake. The photograph is taken from across Winston Street, facing south, and the railway tracks are visible in front of the manufacturing plant. The Continental Can water tower stands in the background, and there are signs on the side of the road for a "spindle sale" and Braemar Gardens.
This portion of the recording pertains to Judith "Judy" (Robins) Hagen's memories of taking dance lessons and being in Girl Guides. She tells a story of seeing the Second Narrows Bridge collapse in 1958.
This portion of the recording pertains to Judith "Judy" (Robins) Hagen's memories of taking dance lessons and being in Girl Guides. She tells a story of seeing the Second Narrows Bridge collapse in 1958.
Date Range
1944-2012
Photo Info
Judith "Judy" Robins (later Hagen) posing in a dance costume, 1949. Item no. 549-036.
Recording is an interview with Judith "Judy" (Robins) Hagen conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, November 7, 2012. Major theme discussed: the neighbourhood of Dover Street.
Biographical Notes
Judy Robins (later Hagen) was born in 1941 and grew up in South Burnaby. Her paternal grandfather, a master stone mason from Devon, moved to Vancouver in 1912 to find work before bringing over the rest of the family. He bought three lots in Burnaby and in 1918 moved his family to a small house on Dover Street (formerly Paul Street). Judy’s father, Jack, married, bought one of his father’s lots and built a new home for his family.
Judy attended school and church nearby, took dance and piano lessons and participated actively in Girl Guides. After high school, she attended the University of British Columbia (UBC) and then Simon Fraser University (SFU), worked for a few years and then married in 1967 before moving to Courtaney, British Columbia.
Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.
Photograph of the pedestrian overpass by the Burnaby Municipal Hall on the 4900 block of Canada Way and part of one of the buildings of the Municipal Hall complex. The photograph is taken from the north sidewalk on Canada Way, facing west.
Photograph of the pedestrian overpass by the Burnaby Municipal Hall on the 4900 block of Canada Way and part of one of the buildings of the Municipal Hall complex. The photograph is taken from the north sidewalk on Canada Way, facing west.
Photograph of a mostly dry stream in Robert Burnaby Park. The stream is surrounded by a forested area and the photograph shows a footbridge in the background. The photograph is taken in front of the stream, facing south.
Photograph of a mostly dry stream in Robert Burnaby Park. The stream is surrounded by a forested area and the photograph shows a footbridge in the background. The photograph is taken in front of the stream, facing south.
Photograph of people and automobiles gathered at the site of a drive-in theatre for a swap meet. Numerous vendors can be seen with their merchandise displayed on tables. The location of this photograph may be the Lougheed Drive-in Theatre as swap meets were held there often throughout the 1970s a…
Photograph of people and automobiles gathered at the site of a drive-in theatre for a swap meet. Numerous vendors can be seen with their merchandise displayed on tables. The location of this photograph may be the Lougheed Drive-in Theatre as swap meets were held there often throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Photograph of people and automobiles gathered at the site of a drive-in theatre for a swap meet. The location of this photograph may be the Lougheed Drive-in Theatre as swap meets were held there throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Photograph of people and automobiles gathered at the site of a drive-in theatre for a swap meet. The location of this photograph may be the Lougheed Drive-in Theatre as swap meets were held there throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Photograph of commercial and industrial buildings by Burnaby Lake on Winston Street. The photograph is taken from a high point, facing south. The photograph shows the Furniture Fair warehouse and parking lot in the foreground and the Continental Can Company plant and its water tower are in the back…
Photograph of commercial and industrial buildings by Burnaby Lake on Winston Street. The photograph is taken from a high point, facing south. The photograph shows the Furniture Fair warehouse and parking lot in the foreground and the Continental Can Company plant and its water tower are in the background.
Fonds consists of materials related to the political career of Tommy Douglas.
History
Thomas Clement “Tommy” Douglas served as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, leading the first, and only, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government in Canada. Trained as a Baptist preacher, he became a skilled politician, witty orator, and advocate for social justice, believing political action was the best way to improve Canadians’ lives. As Premier, his government pioneered publicly-funded hospital insurance, which laid the foundations for a national medicare program. He became the first leader of the federal New Democratic Party in 1961, a position he held until 1971, and wielded significant influence defending human rights and strengthening Canada’s social welfare programs.
Tommy Douglas was born on October 20, 1904, in Falkirk, Scotland, to a religious, working-class family, who encouraged him to debate politics, religion, and current events while being open to other perspectives. The family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1911. His commitment to civil liberties was reinforced after witnessing ‘Bloody Saturday’ during the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, where several strikers were killed and leaders arrested. He would go on to become an ordained pastor in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and, in 1933, helped found the CCF, a political coalition of progressive and labour groups with a platform centered on economic reform.
Douglas won a federal seat with the CCF in 1935, serving two terms before entering provincial politics. First elected premier of Saskatchewan in 1944, he would serve five terms. His government’s ambitious platform included new administrative structures for economic planning and an innovative program of social reform. It introduced labour and human rights codes and pioneered a new approach to relations between Indigenous Peoples and government. Douglas was also an important influence on the development of medicare in Canada, building on the Saskatchewan tradition of co-operative values to implement the first publicly funded, universally accessible hospital insurance plan in 1947. This was followed by a plan to cover physician services, which concerned doctors worried about regimentation and interference in the doctor-patient relationship. A disruptive 1962 doctor’s strike delayed its implementation, but a compromise was reached and, despite some lingering hostilities, both programs would set the standard for other provinces. This led to federal cost-sharing to facilitate universal, Canada-wide public health care, which remains deeply tied to Canadian identity and values.
In 1961, Douglas returned to federal politics as leader of the newly-created New Democratic Party, an alliance between the old CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress. As the third party in Parliament, it was able to use its position to influence minority governments in pushing for the adoption of national social welfare programs, such as medicare and old age pensions. Often the conscience of Parliament on civil liberties, Douglas was one of the few who spoke against the invocation of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis of 1970.
Douglas remains a much-admired political figure and the namesake of one of the branches of the Burnaby Public Library. Even those who disagree with his politics admire his pragmatism, oratory skills, integrity, and commitment to social justice. But most of all, Tommy Douglas is an icon for medicare. For his lifetime of service, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1980.
Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2019/03/thomas-clement-tommy-douglas-19041986.html.
129 photographs + 10 cm of textual records + approx. 6 architectural drawings + 1 video recording
Scope and Content
Series consists of records pertaining to the moving, restoration, exhibit and repair of the Bell's Dry Goods store and Whitechurch Hardware store building that was relocated from Sixth Avenue to Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) in 1974. The building was set up as a permanent exhibit on sit…
129 photographs + 10 cm of textual records + approx. 6 architectural drawings + 1 video recording
Scope and Content
Series consists of records pertaining to the moving, restoration, exhibit and repair of the Bell's Dry Goods store and Whitechurch Hardware store building that was relocated from Sixth Avenue to Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) in 1974. The building was set up as a permanent exhibit on site at Burnaby Village Museum. The majority of the records were created by museum and City of Burnaby staff.
Series is arranged into four subseries:
1) Restoration, upgrades and repairs subseries
2) Bell's building photographs subseries
3) Bell's exhibit photographs subseries
4) Bell's research files subseries
History
The Bell's Dry Goods building was built in 1922 by Clifford Tuckey with a small lean to structure on the back housing a kitchen and bedroom. The building was located on the northwest corner of Sixth Street and Thirteenth Avenue in Burnaby. William Bell (1884-1952) and Flora Bell (nee Connell) (1889-1953) immigrated to Burnaby from Scotland between 1917 and 1918. In about 1924, the building was purchased by William and Flora Bell. Flora operated "Bell's Dry Goods" store out of the building and the couple lived at the back of the store. William worked as a driver for a local lumber mill. Bell's Dry Goods was in operation in this one storey building between 1925 and 1937 with the building address, 1314 Sixth Street (later 7695 Sixth Street). In 1927, they moved to a house located on Thirteenth Avenue while they converted the back of the store to include the East Burnaby Post Office.
In 1937, the Bells moved the one storey "Bell's Dry Goods" building a little further north and built a two storey building on the corner. Flora continued to operate Bell's Dry Goods on the ground level of the new building until 1941 and the couple lived upstairs. The new two storey building assumed the address of 1314 Sixth Street (later 7695 Sixth Street) and the older one storey building obtained a new address of 1316 Sixth Street (later 7685 Sixth Street). The East Burnaby Post Office continued to operate at 1314 Sixth Street until about 1954.
On December 1, 1937, Maurice Whitechurch moved his Whitechurch Hardware store into the one storey building which he rented out from the Bells. In 1943, Maurice Whitechurch purchased the building from the Bells and Whitechurch Hardware store continued to operated at this location until the Spring of 1973. In June 1973, Mr. Fergie Will bought the store and the building was donated to Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum).
In August 1974, the building was relocated from it's location on Sixth Avenue to Heritage Village. Sometime prior to the move, the extension at the rear of the building was removed. After the building was moved to Heritage Village, some exterior repairs were completed including the installation of exterior siding at the rear of the building and installation of large wood sliding door. The building opened as a carpentry shop exhibit in 1975. In March 1976, an extension at the rear of the building was rebuilt by museum staff. The building underwent several repairs and restorations between 1992 and 1996 and was closed to the public. Due to structural problems, the extension was demolished in 1992. Between 1993 and 1996, the building underwent a series of exterior and interior structural repairs to restore it to Bell's Dry Goods store which included the rebuilding of the extension at the rear of the building and the moving of the building onto a new foundation. The newly restored building opened as Bell's Dry Goods store (exhibit) on August 6, 1996. On November 23, 1992, the building was designated a heritage building under Heritage Designation Bylaw 1992, Bylaw Number 9807.
Some records within this collection are subject to FIPPA
For other records and photographs associated with this building, see also Century Park Museum Association fonds and Burnaby Village Museum fonds and Jesse Love farmhouse fonds