Photograph of Brian Cowie, a legally blind cyclist and participant in the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. Cowie is posing in his cycling outfit and photographed through the crossbars of his bicycle.
Photograph of Brian Cowie, a legally blind cyclist and participant in the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. Cowie is posing in his cycling outfit and photographed through the crossbars of his bicycle.
Collected by editorial for use in a March 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Brian Cowie is a legally blind cyclist, preparing to go to the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens this summer, with his riding partner Murray Solem."
File contains photographs of an professional cyclists at an unidentified cycling race at the indoor cycling track at the Harry Jerome Sports Centre. Photographs depict: racing bicycles and toolkits; portraits of cyclists Tanya Dubnicoff, Doug Baron, and Jennie Read; and cyclists in a race.
File contains photographs of an professional cyclists at an unidentified cycling race at the indoor cycling track at the Harry Jerome Sports Centre. Photographs depict: racing bicycles and toolkits; portraits of cyclists Tanya Dubnicoff, Doug Baron, and Jennie Read; and cyclists in a race.
Collected by editorial for use in a March 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-1: "The lightweight, high-tech track bikes have only one gear, and no brakes."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-2: "Canadian Olympian Tanya Dubnicoff, catches her breath after a 20-minute sprinting workout."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-3: "Doug Baron, of Calgary, ready for another workout, straps on his helmet."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-4: "Staying in a paceline allows trailing riders to conserve energy while the lead runner bears the brunt of wind resistance."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-5: "Jennie Reed, from Seattle, a rider with the US National Team, makes some last minute adjustments to her bike, as other cyclists take to the track."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-6: "Jennie Reed, who rides with the US National Team, limbers up between track sessions."
Caption from metadata for 535-2092-7: "The riders adjust their own bikes, keeping tool kits and various gear rings at close hand."
File contains photographs of Tristan Crees, a member of Canada's national kayak polo team, practicing in Burnaby Lake. Photographs depict Crees tossing a polo ball in the air and in action with Sam Mottram.
File contains photographs of Tristan Crees, a member of Canada's national kayak polo team, practicing in Burnaby Lake. Photographs depict Crees tossing a polo ball in the air and in action with Sam Mottram.
Collected by editorial for use in a July 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2542-1: "Tristan Crees is getting ready to play for Canada's national kayak polo team at the upcoming world championships."
Caption from metadata for 535-2542-2: "Tristan Crees (wearing helmet) and Sam Mottram battle for the ball, playing kayak polo in Burnaby Lake. Crees is preparing to play for Canada's national team at the upcoming world championships."
This portion of the interview is about Ron Burton’s description of mountain biking on Burnaby Mountain in the 1980’s and 1990’s and trail building on SFU lands prior to the land transfer in 1995/96. He talks about the guidelines used for trail building, and the uncertainty about what impact the lan…
This portion of the interview is about Ron Burton’s description of mountain biking on Burnaby Mountain in the 1980’s and 1990’s and trail building on SFU lands prior to the land transfer in 1995/96. He talks about the guidelines used for trail building, and the uncertainty about what impact the land transfer from SFU to Burnaby would have on biking in the new conservation area. He also talks about forming the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association in 2000, its goals, fund raising, and members.
Recording is of an interview with Ron Burton conducted by Kathy Bossort. Ron Burton was one of 23 participants interviewed as part of the Community Heritage Commission’s Burnaby Mountain Oral History Project. The interview is mainly about the founding, goals, and activities of the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association as told by one of the founders and President of the club, Ron Burton, and about the development of mountain biking and trail construction on Burnaby Mountain, both prior to and after the creation of the conservation area in 1995/96. Ron Burton also talks about his childhood, his work as a Burnaby school trustee, and the sports and recreational activities he has enjoyed on the mountain.
Biographical Notes
Ron Burton was born in Burnaby in 1954 to Fred and Shirley Burton. He grew up in East Vancouver and attended Hastings Elementary and Gladstone Secondary schools. He worked on the waterfront for Viterra, became a member of the Grain Workers Union and joined the NDP in 1972. He and his wife moved to Burnaby’s Vancouver Heights in 1982 and Forest Grove in 1988. He has served as a Board of Education Trustee in the Burnaby School District since first being elected in 1987, currently serving as Board Chair. Ron is founder and President of the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association and an active rider on Burnaby Mountain since 1988. The Association was founded in 2000, registering as a society in 2005, with the goals to build sustainable trails on Burnaby Mountain, to provide education about trail riding, and to advocate for and improve the image of mountain biking. Under Ron’s leadership the Association has successfully recruited members and formed a cooperative relationship with Burnaby’s Parks staff and with other park trail users.
Meeting room at the Burnaby School District office
Interviewer Bio
Kathy Bossort is a retired archivist living in Ladner, BC. She worked at the Delta Museum and Archives after graduating from SLAIS (UBC) in 2001 with Masters degrees in library science and archival studies. Kathy grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and, prior to this career change, she lived in the West Kootenays, earning her living as a cook for BC tourist lodges and work camps. She continues to be interested in oral histories as a way to fill the gaps in the written record and bring richer meaning to history.
Photograph of teenagers Justin Tong, Ashley Kurtz, and Rob Pritchard with their mountain bikes in the woods, posing in front and on top of a structure they built along a mountain bike trail in North Burnaby.
Photograph of teenagers Justin Tong, Ashley Kurtz, and Rob Pritchard with their mountain bikes in the woods, posing in front and on top of a structure they built along a mountain bike trail in North Burnaby.
Collected by editorial for use in a July 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Justin Tong,15, Ashley Kurtz, 16, and Rob Pritchard, 16, want the City of Burnaby to stop disassembling the various bridges and stunts they've built along mountain bike trails in North Burnaby."
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School basketball team. Photographs are primarily of Desi Collinson and Duane Alsop, who moved from Haida Gwaii to play basketball at Alpha, both posing and in action during the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships against MEI. One photog…
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School basketball team. Photographs are primarily of Desi Collinson and Duane Alsop, who moved from Haida Gwaii to play basketball at Alpha, both posing and in action during the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships against MEI. One photograph also depicts Dustin Nykoluk, another Alpha player, in action with MEI player Jonathan Schmidt during the same game.
Collected by editorial for use in a March 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-1: "Desi Collinson and Duanne Alsop are native basketball players who moved from their homes in the Queen Charlotte Islands to hone their game at Alpha Secondary in Burnaby."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-2: "Duane Alsop battles MEI defenders beneath the basket."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-3: "Alpha's Desi Collinson drives to the net."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-4: "Alpha's Duane Alsop goes airborne for a layup in the first round of the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, against MEI."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-5: "Alpha's Duane Alsop battles beneath the basket with MEI's Mitchell Dueck."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-6: "Alpha's Desi Collinson splits the MEI defense, in their first-round game at the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, Wednesday at the Agrodome."
Caption from metadata for 535-2278-7: "Alpha's Dustin Nykoluk drives to the basket against MEI defender, Jonathan Schmidt, early in their first-round match at the BC Boys' AAA Provincial Basketball Championships, Wednesday at the Agrodome. Alpha lost the game, 97-60."
Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Burnaby Central's Angela Anoliefoh has embraced the high jump as an individual event after years of competing as part of the heptathalon."
File contains photographs of graduating St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Jon Cornish. Cornish poses with a football and a STM polo shirt on the STM football field.
File contains photographs of graduating St. Thomas More Collegiate football player Jon Cornish. Cornish poses with a football and a STM polo shirt on the STM football field.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Graduating running back, Jon Cornish, of St. Thomas More, has signed a letter of intent to ply at the University of Kansas in the Fall."
Photograph of Simon Fraser University volleyball player Heather Androsoff. She is posing behind a volleyball net in a gymnasium with a volleyball tucked under her arm.
Photograph of Simon Fraser University volleyball player Heather Androsoff. She is posing behind a volleyball net in a gymnasium with a volleyball tucked under her arm.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "An ankle injury has forced SFU's Heather Androsoff, who's graduating this year, to miss the last month of her volleyball career."
Collected by editorial for use in a 2001 Burnaby NewsLeader issue.
Caption from metadata: "Sadie McLure is off to Colorado to play semi professional womans soccer. The SFU student will return in September to finish her studies."
Photograph of two wrestlers from Simon Fraser University and Douglas College, dressed in their wrestling uniforms and posing for the camera with their arms crossed.
Photograph of two wrestlers from Simon Fraser University and Douglas College, dressed in their wrestling uniforms and posing for the camera with their arms crossed.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Roozebeh Banihashemi, of SFU, and Travis Cross, of Douglas College, are cross-town wrestling rivals and training partners. They dominate the 184-pound weight class, inevitably meeting each other in championship matches."
Photograph of Daniel Johnston, a basketball player at St. Thomas More Collegiate. Johnston holds a basketball and leans against a concrete wall with a large shadow behind him.
Photograph of Daniel Johnston, a basketball player at St. Thomas More Collegiate. Johnston holds a basketball and leans against a concrete wall with a large shadow behind him.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2003 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Daniel Johnston, a starting guard at St. Thomas More, will be leading his team into the Provincial AA basketball championships, beginning next week in Kamloops. He's able to hone his game against his twin brother, Tim, who plays for Archbishop Carney. They ended up playing for different schools because coaches always mixed them up."
Photograph of Sylvia Proke, a coach for the Burnaby Figure Skating Club, speaking to skaters Jennifer Edwards-Moore and Jessica Dorazio inside of an ice rink.
Photograph of Sylvia Proke, a coach for the Burnaby Figure Skating Club, speaking to skaters Jennifer Edwards-Moore and Jessica Dorazio inside of an ice rink.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Sylvia Proke, a coach for the Burnaby Figure Skating Club, gives encouragement to two of her charges, Jennifer Edwards-Moore and Jessica Dorazio. Proke coaches "Sylvia's Kids," as she's made a specialty of taking under her wing older skaters who've just come into the sport."
Photograph of 12-year-old swimmer Vanessa Hanbury, of the Gators Swim Club, posing next to the pool at Simon Fraser University before a meet. Other swimmers are visible in the pool in the background.
Photograph of 12-year-old swimmer Vanessa Hanbury, of the Gators Swim Club, posing next to the pool at Simon Fraser University before a meet. Other swimmers are visible in the pool in the background.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Vanessa Hanbury, 12, of the Gators Swim Club, watches swimmers from Simon Fraser University work out before the Clan Cup Swim Meet. She'll be competing against the world record holder in the Women's 200-metre breaststroke, Hui Qi of China."
File contains photographs of Quentin Adrian of the Burnaby Velodrome Club posing on the wooden indoor bike track at the Harry Jerome Sports Centre. The track, inflatable roof, and other sports settings are visible behind Adrian.
File contains photographs of Quentin Adrian of the Burnaby Velodrome Club posing on the wooden indoor bike track at the Harry Jerome Sports Centre. The track, inflatable roof, and other sports settings are visible behind Adrian.
Collected by editorial for use in a March 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Quentin Adrian, of the Burnaby Velodrome Club, says the future is looking bright for North America's only indoor bike track after the Club received an infrastructure grant."