Collected by editorial for use in a January 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Paul McDonell, the chair of the Simon Fraser Health Region, says it's time for health care to go in a new direction, to become a Crown Corporation."
Photograph of Bill Callaghan using a pulmonary function tester as Christine Skorek, a respiratory therapist, monitors the test, in an unidentified location.
Photograph of Bill Callaghan using a pulmonary function tester as Christine Skorek, a respiratory therapist, monitors the test, in an unidentified location.
Collected by editorial for use in an April 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Bill Callaghan blows his hardest into a pulminory [sic] function tester, as Respiratory Therapist Christine Skorek monitors his lung capacity."
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru test site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Covid Care Enter Here".
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru test site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Covid Care Enter Here".
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Mon-Fri / 12-5:45".
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Mon-Fri / 12-5:45".
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Burnaby Corona Virus.Com"
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Burnaby Corona Virus.Com"
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Sat-Sun / 12:30-5:15".
Photograph of portable LED signage at entrance to COVID-19 drive thru testing site in Central Park parking lot in Burnaby. LED sign reads "Sat-Sun / 12:30-5:15".
Photograph of Burnaby General Hospital with RCMP cars, RCMP officers and healthcare workers out in front. Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley, Vancouver Canucks' mascot "Fin", Richard Liu and another man are dressed in Vancouver Canucks hockey jerseys and are standing near the front of the hospital holding h…
Photograph of Burnaby General Hospital with RCMP cars, RCMP officers and healthcare workers out in front. Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley, Vancouver Canucks' mascot "Fin", Richard Liu and another man are dressed in Vancouver Canucks hockey jerseys and are standing near the front of the hospital holding hockey sticks. They are giving a stick tap salute in appreciation to the healthcare workers.
History
Photograph was taken by Richard Liu on May 12, 2020 around 7:00pm. Richard helped organize a 'stick-tap' to salute front line health care workers at the Burnaby Hospital. The Vancouer Canuck's mascot "Fin", Mayor of Burnaby Mike Hurley, MLA Anne Kang and MLA Katrina Chen, MP Peter Juilan, the RCMP Chief, the Fire Chief and Transit Police Chief were in attendance.
These 'salutes' to health care workers were common in April and May during the earliest and most uncertain months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many local neighbourhoods across Burnaby, the Lower Mainland and the Province began regularly gathering at 7:00pm to bang pots and pans, honk horns, and generally celebrate and acknowledge the work of health care professionals.
The presence of "Fin" was added because the Vancouver Canuck and NHL were not playing, so Fin was available to make the rounds. His visits were often surprises. Fin played the Canucks goal horn through the Fin Mobile roof speakers, with green and blue flashing lights. Fin visited six hospitals, as well as Canuck Place Children’s Hospice.
File contains photographs of the new hospice facility at St. Michael's Centre just before its opening. Photographs depict: workers finishing the quiet room and a shower; Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team; and Gerry Herkel with a new compressed air and oxygen system and…
File contains photographs of the new hospice facility at St. Michael's Centre just before its opening. Photographs depict: workers finishing the quiet room and a shower; Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team; and Gerry Herkel with a new compressed air and oxygen system and posing in the sun room.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-1: "Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team, says the new hospice at St. Michael's will allow her to focus more on the emotional support for families with a dying loved one."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-2: "With an eye to future needs for acute care, St. Michael's has already installed a self-contained compressed air and oxygen system."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-3: "Painters put the finishing touches on the "quiet room," for families of patients at the hospice. Gerry Herkel, of St. Michael's, says they're striving for a peaceful color scheme throughout the facility."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-4: "Workers continue last-minute preparations for the opening of the St. Michael's Hospice."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-5: "Gerry Herkel takes in the view from the sun room at the new St. Michael's Hospice."
Photograph of a hand painted sign inside the front store window of the Mountain Gems shop on Hastings Street. The sign includes a heart and reads "Thank you 1st Responders".
Photograph of a hand painted sign inside the front store window of the Mountain Gems shop on Hastings Street. The sign includes a heart and reads "Thank you 1st Responders".
Victorian Order of Nurses (V.O.N.) seal is the tabletop stamping type which imprints the words "VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES" and "BURNABY BRANCH"; official; stamper is black metal, lever at top; "MADE IN CANADA" at side of base; seal disc is brass; label at front transcribes the words on the seal.
Object History
The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada is a non-profit charitable organization created for the purposes of home care and social services established in 1898 to perpetuate the memory of Victoria the Good. The Burnaby Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) was established in 1912 with Miss Colhoun as its first nurse.
Florence Hart was born in 1898 in New Westminster, and moved to Burnaby when she was 13. Her family lived in what is now known as Hart House. Both Florence and her husband Harold Godwin were awarded life memberships from the VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) for more than half a century of service.
Hear her discuss her involvement with VON during the Great Depression:
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory13
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory14
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/oralhistory15
Photograph of three unidentified postal workers who are holding packages and posing in a post office, next to a handmade sign that reads "Relay for a friend" and indicates a fundraising activity.
Photograph of three unidentified postal workers who are holding packages and posing in a post office, next to a handmade sign that reads "Relay for a friend" and indicates a fundraising activity.
Photograph of sailors in a parade at Granville and Hastings, Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, as well as the Post Office, and the Royal Bank and "Famous Furs" stores.
Faint circular stamp mark of "Vancouver Drug Co." on verso, and gummed paper on each corner
The stamp reads, "Come to Vancouver's Golden [illegible]/ 50 Years of Progress" outside its circular seal for "Vancouver Drug/ Co. Ltd./ Nu-Gloss/ PHOTO FINISH"
Scope and Content
Photograph of sailors in a parade at Granville and Hastings, Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, as well as the Post Office, and the Royal Bank and "Famous Furs" stores.
Photograph of a parade lead by an open car, with a driver, two men with top hats and two women inside. Behind them, a large group of Royal Canadian Mounted Police are following. The setting is Granville and Hastings in Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, Po…
Faint circular stamp mark of "Vancouver Drug Co." on verso, and gummed paper on each corner.
The stamp reads, "Come to Vancouver's Golden [illegible]/ 50 Years of Progress" outside its circular seal for "Vancouver Drug/ Co. Ltd./ Nu-Gloss/ PHOTO FINISH"
Scope and Content
Photograph of a parade lead by an open car, with a driver, two men with top hats and two women inside. Behind them, a large group of Royal Canadian Mounted Police are following. The setting is Granville and Hastings in Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, Post Office, Royal Bank and "Famous Furs" store.
Photograph of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police participating in a parade at Granville and Hastings in Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, Post Office, Royal Bank and "Famous Furs" store.
Faint circular stamp mark of "Vancouver Drug Co." on verso, and gummed paper on each corner.
The stamp reads, "Come to Vancouver's Golden [illegible]/ 50 Years of Progress" outside its circular seal for "Vancouver Drug/ Co. Ltd./ Nu-Gloss/ PHOTO FINISH"
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police participating in a parade at Granville and Hastings in Vancouver. Visible in the background are crowds of people at the street side, Post Office, Royal Bank and "Famous Furs" store.
Photograph of a procession led by flower girls at Burnaby May Day, at Robert Burnaby Park. A constable in uniform is standing next to one of the lead flower girls with his hands on her shoulders, directing her. People are gathered around on the field to watch the procession. A Maypole can be seen o…
Photograph of a procession led by flower girls at Burnaby May Day, at Robert Burnaby Park. A constable in uniform is standing next to one of the lead flower girls with his hands on her shoulders, directing her. People are gathered around on the field to watch the procession. A Maypole can be seen on the left.
Film clip of Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and employee named Rob with the City of Burnaby Solid Waste and Recycling Program. The Mayor and Rob explain the new COVID-19 procedures in how to dispose of solid waste.
Film clip of Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and employee named Rob with the City of Burnaby Solid Waste and Recycling Program. The Mayor and Rob explain the new COVID-19 procedures in how to dispose of solid waste.
History
Video taken by the City of Burnaby Marketing Department in 2020. The original intent of the clip was to produce communications about the pandemic and changes throughout the City that residents needed to be aware of.