Burnaby Rhododendron Festival stage
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- May 1971
- Collection/Fonds
- Donald Copan collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.9 x 12.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee chair, James Barrington, vice chair, Rose Bancroft, former Miss Burnaby 1969 Carolyne Lewis and fomer Miss Burnaby 1970 Melodie Spring on stage during the Burnaby Rhododendron Festival.
Burnaby's first May Day
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- May 1925
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the first May Day celebration in Burnaby featuring a march led by boy scouts at the front, with flower girls and the May Queen and her suite following behind. A group of women are standing in the foreground in front of a long row of chairs, with a boy in a sailor suit and a young girl…
Burnaby's First May Day 1925
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- May 1925
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the procession of May Queen Suite and other attendants at the first May Day celebration in Burnaby in 1925. Each girl in the suite is holding a flower basket and escorted by a man in a suit and matching hats. A flag flying in the back and a water tower can be seen from behind the pr…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Series
- Burnaby events photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the procession of May Queen Suite and other attendants at the first May Day celebration in Burnaby in 1925. Each girl in the suite is holding a flower basket and escorted by a man in a suit and matching hats. A flag flying in the back and a water tower can be seen from behind the procession. Guards and crowds are also visible.
- Subjects
- Events - Parades
- Events - May Day
- Names
- Whittaker, Ruth Lavinia Bearn
- Hawkshaw, Mabel Edith Honor McClean
- Jeffers, Eileen Mary Jacques
- McLean, Alexander K.
- McCulloch, Margaret
- Geographic Access
- Central Park
- Imperial Street
- Street Address
- 3883 Imperial Street
- Accession Code
- HV977.17.11
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- May 1925
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-07-04
- Scale
- 100
- Photographer
- Stride, Charles Edgar
- Notes
- Annotation on the back of the photograph read: "Ruth Byrne [sic] [the first May Queen in Burnaby, leading the procession], Jessie, Margaret McCulloch, Eileen Jacques"
- Second annotation reads: "Reeve A.K. McLean, Mrs. John Hawkshaw in white turban."
- Inscribed in the original negative, and printed on the photograph, bottom front: "#11 / Burnaby's First May Day 1925 / Stride Photo."
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Burnaby Welcomes You
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.7 x 12.4 cm mounted on cardboard
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the welcome arch erected at Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. Prince Arthur was Governor General of Canada at this time. The sign on the arch reads, "Burnaby Welcomes You."
Burnaby Welcomes You
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the welcome arch erected at Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. A large crowd is milling around the decorated arch which reads, "Burnaby Welcomes You." Prince Arthur was Governor General of Canada at this time.
Burnaby Welcomes You
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied [1997]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the welcome arch erected at Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. A large crowd is milling around the decorated arch which reads, "Burnaby Welcomes You." Prince Arthur was Governor General of Canada at this time.
Constable George Jeffery
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.4 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Constable George Jeffery leading the May Day Parade as parade marshall. A pipe band follows behind him.
Constable George Jeffery
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 26, 1934 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.4 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Constable George Jeffery leading the May Day Parade as parade marshall. A pipe band follows behind him.
Copper Queen celebration at Britannia Beach
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1939
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of royal procession at "Copper Queen" May Day ceremony at Britannia Beach. Procession is composed of the Boy Scouts' drum and bugle band lead by a female drum major.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Hawkshaw family fonds
- Series
- Hawkshaw family photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 6.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of royal procession at "Copper Queen" May Day ceremony at Britannia Beach. Procession is composed of the Boy Scouts' drum and bugle band lead by a female drum major.
- Subjects
- Events - May Day
- Events - Parades
- Organizations - Bands
- Names
- Boy Scouts of Canada
- Accession Code
- BV996.6.277
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1939
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Date
- 2023-02-21
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Caption beneath photograph reads: "Drumette"
- Caption on previous page in album reads: "Copper Queen Celebrations / Britannia Beach BC / 1939"
- Photograph is part of photograph album BV996.6.1
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Crowd at Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a crowd gathered near a tram car at Edmonds and Kingsway during Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught's visit to Burnaby. A Union Jack is hanging from one of the windows of the triangular Edmonds Block, which is visible in the background. The Duke of Connaught was Governor G…
D.C. Patterson house
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 9 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the D.C. Patterson house decorated with bunting for the visit of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. A group of unidentified people can be seen gathered on the front steps. This home was built in 1910. The house was originally located at 7260 Edmonds Street (near Kingsway). It was rel…
Decorated truck pumping gas
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of truck decorated for May Day parade pumping gas Frank "Stan" Stanley's service station in Port Moody. Group of men standing around automobile are dressed in costumes. The truck is decorated with flags and signage. Sign above automobile reads "Greetings to Moody and stuff".
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Esther Love Stanley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of truck decorated for May Day parade pumping gas Frank "Stan" Stanley's service station in Port Moody. Group of men standing around automobile are dressed in costumes. The truck is decorated with flags and signage. Sign above automobile reads "Greetings to Moody and stuff".
- Subjects
- Events - May Day
- Events - Parades
- Buildings - Commercial - Service Stations
- Accession Code
- BV022.32.628
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [194-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-08-22
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of Esther Love Stanley photograph album 2 (BV032.22.431)
- Note in black ink on verso of photograph reads: "ESSO / STAN'S GAS / STATION / PORT MOODY"
- Note in white ink on album page reads: "STAN'S ESSO / STATION"
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Dignitaries at opening of Heritage Village
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 19 November 1971
- Collection/Fonds
- Donald Copan collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 8.9 x 8.9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of dignitaries at opening of Heritage Village (now Burnaby Village Museum) on November 19, 1971. Mrs. Alice Burritt, Mrs. Centennial of Canada, 1967 (dressed in traditional indigenous clothing) greets Governor-General Roland Michener (in black suit) with a kiss on the cheek. Members of t…
Discovery Days
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 12 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs from festivities at Burnaby's Discovery Days festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs show festival attendees participating in a giant inflatable maze and an obstacle course, watching live entertainment, and other arts and crafts activities. Photographs also show entertainm…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 12 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-1616
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs from festivities at Burnaby's Discovery Days festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs show festival attendees participating in a giant inflatable maze and an obstacle course, watching live entertainment, and other arts and crafts activities. Photographs also show entertainment including Japanese Taiko drummers, a pottery demonstration, and square dancers. One photograph also shows a group of young people taking part in the Night of 2000 Lights parade despite the rain.
- Subjects
- Events - Festivals
- Events - Parades
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a July 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-1616-1: "Intermittent showers didn't discourage the crowds from enjoying the live entertainment on stage."
- 535-1616-2: "The Japanese Taiko drummers are a rousing opening act on the entertainment stage."
- 535-1616-3: "Gayle Gibson keeps her eyes on the beanbags as she tries to learn how to juggle."
- 535-1616-4: "Drake, the three year-old iguana, takes in the Discovery Day festivities from the shoulder of her owner, Amanda Fenrick."
- 535-1616-5: "The hat making workshops just weren't for the kids."
- 535-1616-6: "Olivia Jean Dixon, 7, prepares her painting board in the Chevron activity tent."
- 535-1616-7: "Jeff Reich, a visiting artist from one of Burnaby's sister cities, Mesa, Arizona, demonstrates his technique on the potter's wheel."
- 535-1616-9: "The Wesburn Wranglers show off their square dancing moves."
- 535-1616-10: "Local boy scouts set up a Survivor-like obstacle course."
- 535-1616-11: "Even the heavy showers couldn't extinguish the enthusiasm of the torch and lantern parade at the Night of 2000 Lights."
- 535-1616-12: "A giant inflatable maze provides all kinds of mysteries and surprises."
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake
- Deer Lake Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
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Discovery Days
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of attendees and performers at the annual Discovery Days Festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs depict: Amanda Fenrick with her iguana; Michele Christen performing as a butterfly; Mary-anne Meyer outlining her son, Nicholas Larson, with chalk on a sidewalk; and Kaj Mogens…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2002]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-2594
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of attendees and performers at the annual Discovery Days Festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs depict: Amanda Fenrick with her iguana; Michele Christen performing as a butterfly; Mary-anne Meyer outlining her son, Nicholas Larson, with chalk on a sidewalk; and Kaj Mogensen, of the Burnaby Association of Marine Modellers, with a model of the training ship Copenhagen.
- Subjects
- Events - Festivals
- Events
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a July 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-2594-1: "Amanda Fenrick has a close encounter with her pet common green iguana, Bubbles, at Burnaby's annual Discovery Days Festival, at Deer Lake Park on Sunday."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2594-2: "Michele Christen gets a butterfly's view of Burnaby's annual Discovery Days Festival, at Deer Lake Park on Sunday."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2594-3: "Mary-anne Meyer chalks the outline of her son, Nicholas Larson, 2, at Burnaby's annual Discovery Days Festival, at Deer Lake Park."
- Caption from metadata for 535-2594-4: "Kaj Mogensen, of the Burnaby Association of Marine Modellers, adjusts the rigging on his 1:100 scale model of the Copenhagen, a training ship built in 1922, and lost at sea in the South Pacific in 1928. The model was on display at Burnaby's annual Discovery Days Festival, at Deer Lake Park."
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake Park
- Deer Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
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Discovery Days
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1999]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 6 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs from the Burnaby Discovery Days festival at Deer Lake Park. Photographs depict people at events during the festival, including: in the rain at a car show; a dance performance; and children and adult attendees enjoying activities at the event, including painting, giant bubb…
Discovery Days
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2001]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the annual Discovery Days festival in Deer Lake Park. Photographs depict children and adults enjoying the many events (including giant bubbles, a bike rodeo, flying a kite, painting, pottery) and performers, including a juggler.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2001]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 8 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3392
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the annual Discovery Days festival in Deer Lake Park. Photographs depict children and adults enjoying the many events (including giant bubbles, a bike rodeo, flying a kite, painting, pottery) and performers, including a juggler.
- Subjects
- Events
- Events - Festivals
- Performances
- Persons - Children
- Persons - Crowds
- Names
- South Burnaby Garden Club
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an August 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-1: "Young cyclists learn road safety under the watchful eye of instructor Martin Prestage, at the bike rodeo."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-2: "Luiu Wang, 11, appears about to be swallowed by a giant soap bubble."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-3: "Aaron Ko, 11, gets instruction on the pottery wheel from Barbara Toohey."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-4: "Pete Greenaway, the president of the South Burnaby Garden Club, admires the dahlias he grew at the allotment gardens."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-5: "A juggler keeps his eyes on the flaming torches, one of the roving enterainment acts at Burnaby's Discovery Days."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-6: "David Leung takes a kite he built out for a test flight."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-7: "All the activity at Burnaby's Discovery Day gets to be too much for one participant, who finds a shady spot to grab a nap."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3392-8: "Sylvan Hamburger, 7, gets ready to add to the artistic creations at the Painting Pandemonium tent."
- Geographic Access
- Deer Lake
- Deer Lake Park
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Morley-Buckingham Area
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First prize float
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1955
- Collection/Fonds
- Charles MacSorley fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the first prize float in the Pacific National Exhibition parade, along Hastings Street in Vancouver. The float reads: "Burnaby / BCs Garden of Eden." The Burnaby May Day Queen and her court are seated on the float and a large crowd of spectators can be seen lined up along the street t…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1955
- Collection/Fonds
- Charles MacSorley fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 486-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
- Accession Number
- 2005-14
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the first prize float in the Pacific National Exhibition parade, along Hastings Street in Vancouver. The float reads: "Burnaby / BCs Garden of Eden." The Burnaby May Day Queen and her court are seated on the float and a large crowd of spectators can be seen lined up along the street to watch the parade.
- Subjects
- Events - Parades
- Transportation - Parade Floats
- Events - May Day
- Persons - Crowds
- Names
- Pacific National Exhibition (PNE)
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note on recto reads: "P.N.E. Float 1st Prize 1955"
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Fraser Merchants Association annual dinner
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [199-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Harry Toy fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Fraser Merchants Association (FMA) annual dinner at Pink Pearl Restaurant in Vancouver. Members of the assocation are identified from left to right: FMA Directors Bing Wong, Henry Lau, Michael Chow (secretary), Benny Kwok (owner of Cariboo Hill Grocery in Burnaby), Howard Lam, Keith C…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Harry Toy fonds
- Series
- Harry Toy photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Fraser Merchants Association (FMA) annual dinner at Pink Pearl Restaurant in Vancouver. Members of the assocation are identified from left to right: FMA Directors Bing Wong, Henry Lau, Michael Chow (secretary), Benny Kwok (owner of Cariboo Hill Grocery in Burnaby), Howard Lam, Keith Chu, Jim Howe (treasurer), Harry Toy (president). Red sign hanging behind group reads "FRASER MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION BANQUET [Chinese characters beneath]. Harry Toy is speaking from a podium with the sign "PINK PEARL".
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Organizations
- Organizations - Business Associations
- Events
- Events - Parties
- Names
- Fraser Merchants' Association
- Toy, Harry Wee Koon "Harry"
- Wong, Bing
- Lau, Henry
- Chow, Michael
- Kwok, Benny
- Lam, Howard
- Chu, Keith
- Howe, Jim
- Accession Code
- BV023.25.9
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [199-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Related Material
- See also BV023.16.19 - Interview with Harry Toy, Beverley Babey and Christina Toy
- For associated artifacts from Canada Way Food Market see Accession BV023.17
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-12-01
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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