This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's description of Commissioner Fraser taking power in Burnaby. Alfred mentions the Burnaby Housing Committee and the Willingdon Heights Subdivision before beginning reading his series of short stories. He reads "I ARRIVE IN BURNABY AND WE BUILD A…
This portion of the recording includes Alfred Bingham's description of Commissioner Fraser taking power in Burnaby. Alfred mentions the Burnaby Housing Committee and the Willingdon Heights Subdivision before beginning reading his series of short stories. He reads "I ARRIVE IN BURNABY AND WE BUILD A SHINGLE MILL/ 1919/ Burnaby Lake" as well as "WE BUILD A HOME AND DIG A WELL. 1920", both written in 1963.
Recording is of Alfred Bingham's writings, as read by Alfred Bingham. Major themes discussed are: Pioneers, early days in Burnaby and the Co-op Movement. To view "Narrow By" terms for each track expand this description and see "Notes".
Biographical Notes
Alfred "Alf" Bingham was born in England in 1892 and moved to Canada in 1912. His first job in Canada was laying track for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR) from Edmonton to McBride in 1912. His second was in Vancouver at the Rat Portage Mill on False Creek, working on the Resaw machine. He quit after one week due to poor working conditions.
After taking part in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike as a delegate of the Retail and Mailorder Union (A.F.L.) on the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, Alfred moved to Burnaby where he and fellow Burnaby residents Aungus McLean and Percy Little worked ten hour days to build a Shingle Mill on the edge of Burnaby Lake for Simpson & Giberson. George Green, carpenter and millwright (author of “The History of Burnaby”) also helped in the construction of the mill. Alfred built his own home from lumber cut from the mill in the Lochdale area on Sherlock Street between Curtis Street and Kitchener Street.
On April 10, 1920 Alfred married Mary Jane “Ada” Reynolds. Alfred and Ada often took in foster children during their marriage. Due to her nursing experience, Ada was often called upon to deliver babies in the Burnaby area.
Alfred and Ada Bingham were instrumental members of the Army of the Common Good, collecting vegetables and grains from growers in the area and even producing over 125 tons of vegetables from its own gardens to feed children and youth suffering from the lack of resources during the Depression years. The army was in operation for ten years and during that time the members organised the Credit Union movement of British Columbia and drew up the Credit Union act thorough the Vancouver Co-operative Council. They also started Co-Op stores and the Co-Op Wholesale Society.
Alfred was also Secretary of the Burnaby Housing committee and in 1946 he became the Secretary of the North Burnaby Labour Progressive Party (LPP).
Mary Jane “Ada” (Reynolds) Bingham died on August 9, 1969. Her husband Alfred died on April 29, 1979.
Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
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Track six of recording of Alfred Bingham's writings
Track six of recording of Alfred Bingham's writings
Photograph of custodian Alf Vickson unscrewing an "exit" sign at Burnaby Central Secondary School after renovations and before the school's reopening for the fall.
Photograph of custodian Alf Vickson unscrewing an "exit" sign at Burnaby Central Secondary School after renovations and before the school's reopening for the fall.
Collected by editorial for use in a September 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Alf Vickson, a custodian at Burnaby Central Secondary, removes an emergency exit sign to replace a burned out light bulb. Most of the major renovation work, floor buffing and painting are done at the school, leaving just the smaller, routine jobs to be completed in the last hectic days before the school reopens for the Fall semester."
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Photograph of children enjoying an Alice in Wonderland party held as part of the St. Alban's Strawberry Social, 1912. The children are playing a game on the lawn at the Hart House, the estate belonging to Frederick J. Hart in the Burnaby Lake area.
1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 9.7 cm on page 14 x 17.5 cm (pasted in album)
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Photograph of children enjoying an Alice in Wonderland party held as part of the St. Alban's Strawberry Social, 1912. The children are playing a game on the lawn at the Hart House, the estate belonging to Frederick J. Hart in the Burnaby Lake area.
File contains photographs of a basketball game between Alpha Secondary School and West Vancouver during the Crehan Cup Lower Mainland Girls AAA Basketball Championship at Burnaby Central Secondary School.
File contains photographs of a basketball game between Alpha Secondary School and West Vancouver during the Crehan Cup Lower Mainland Girls AAA Basketball Championship at Burnaby Central Secondary School.
Collected by editorial for use in a February 2004 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-1788-1: "Alpha Aztecs' forward Alyssa Agostini drives past a West Vancouver defender in their first round game at the Crehan Cup, for the Lower Mainland Girls AAA Basketball Championship, Saturday at Burnaby Central."
Caption from metadata for 535-1788-2: "Alpha Aztecs' guard Vicky Yee tries to work around West Vancouver's Brea McLaughlin, in their first round game of the Crehan Cup, for the 2004 Lower Mainland Girls' AAA Basketball Championship, Saturday at Burnaby Central."
Photograph of John Abbrusci, of Alpha Secondary School, and an unidentified Carson Graham player in action during a AAA BC high school regional playoff soccer game, at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.
Photograph of John Abbrusci, of Alpha Secondary School, and an unidentified Carson Graham player in action during a AAA BC high school regional playoff soccer game, at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.
Collected by editorial for use in a November 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "John Abbrusci of the Alpha Aztecs (left) edges out his Carson Graham Eagles opponent in the chase for the ball in AAA B.C. high school soccer regional playoffs Wednesday at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex West."
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School soccer team at the BC Boys' AAA High School Championships. Photographs depict players listening to their coach before the game and unidentified players in action during the game against Stelly's Secondary School.
File contains photographs of the Alpha Secondary School soccer team at the BC Boys' AAA High School Championships. Photographs depict players listening to their coach before the game and unidentified players in action during the game against Stelly's Secondary School.
Collected by editorial for use in a November 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-3004-1: "Alpha Aztecs' coach, and former player, ?????????????, has some final words for his team before their opening round game, against Stelly's, in the BC Boy's AAA High School Championships."
Caption from metadata for 535-3004-2: "An Alpha Aztecs' forward and Stelly's defender clash as they go up for the ball in their opening round game at the BC Boys' AAA High School Championships, Thursday at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex."
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Photograph of the Anderson family in front of the Anderson family home at 3908 Norland Avenue (previously numbered 4437 Norland Avenue). Left to right: Mrs. Anderson (grandmother), Madelaine Anderson (mother), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Cliff Anderson (son).
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Photograph of the Anderson family in front of the Anderson family home at 3908 Norland Avenue (previously numbered 4437 Norland Avenue). Left to right: Mrs. Anderson (grandmother), Madelaine Anderson (mother), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Cliff Anderson (son).
1 photograph : b&w ; 3.9 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
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Photograph of the Anderson family in front of their home at 3908 Norland Avenue (originally numbered 4437 Norland Avenue) after a snowfall. Left to right: Cliff Anderson (son), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Robert "Bob" Anderson (father). To the side is a 1959 Galaxie car.
1 photograph : b&w ; 3.9 x 4.3 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
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370-031
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Photograph of the Anderson family in front of their home at 3908 Norland Avenue (originally numbered 4437 Norland Avenue) after a snowfall. Left to right: Cliff Anderson (son), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Robert "Bob" Anderson (father). To the side is a 1959 Galaxie car.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.1 x 3.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.4 cm
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Photograph of the Anderson family at the back of their home at 3908 Norland Avenue (previously numbered 4437 Norland Avenue). Left to right: Cliff Anderson (son), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Robert "Bob" Anderson (father). The background includes the area of the Trans Canada Highway before it w…
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.1 x 3.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.4 cm
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370-035
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Photograph of the Anderson family at the back of their home at 3908 Norland Avenue (previously numbered 4437 Norland Avenue). Left to right: Cliff Anderson (son), Janet Anderson (daughter), and Robert "Bob" Anderson (father). The background includes the area of the Trans Canada Highway before it was built.
1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
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Photograph of the front of the Anderson family home at 4437 Norland Avenue (later renumbered 3908 Norland Avenue). Robert and Madelaine Anderson lived here with their family.
1 photograph : b&w ; 3.2 x 4.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
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370-020
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Photograph of the front of the Anderson family home at 4437 Norland Avenue (later renumbered 3908 Norland Avenue). Robert and Madelaine Anderson lived here with their family.
Photograph of Education Minister Pat McGreer delivering the first message with the Anik-B educational television system which connected fourteen classrooms around the province and in the Northwest Territories to the originating studio at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Photograph of Education Minister Pat McGreer delivering the first message with the Anik-B educational television system which connected fourteen classrooms around the province and in the Northwest Territories to the originating studio at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "ON THE AIR ... The Anik-B educational television system went on the air live Monday as Education Minister Pat McGreer delivered the first message. The system connects some 14 classrooms around the province and in the Northwest Territories to the originating studio at BCIT. The lessons are beamed via sattelite [sic] to the classrooms, most of which have the capacity to talk back to the instructor during the lesson."
Note on recto of photograph reads: "CAMERA IS AT TOP ON PHOTO."
Photograph shows Anne Peers and her younger sister, Babs standing on the steps of their grandparents' residence. Anne and Babs are the daughters of Kitty Peers (nee Hill) and Bob Peers and the home belonged to Annie Hill and the late Claude Hill.
Photograph shows Anne Peers and her younger sister, Babs standing on the steps of their grandparents' residence. Anne and Babs are the daughters of Kitty Peers (nee Hill) and Bob Peers and the home belonged to Annie Hill and the late Claude Hill.
Photograph shows Anne Peers and her younger sister Babs, standing in a garden. The location of this photograph may be the home of grandparents, Annie Hill and the late Claude Hill.
Photograph shows Anne Peers and her younger sister Babs, standing in a garden. The location of this photograph may be the home of grandparents, Annie Hill and the late Claude Hill.
1 photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted on album)
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Photograph of Anne Peers and three dolls sitting on the step of an unidentified home.This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's house on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted on album)
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477-415
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2007-12
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Photograph of Anne Peers and three dolls sitting on the step of an unidentified home.This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's house on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
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Photograph of Anne Peers, with a dog, seated on the front step of an unidentified home. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : b&w ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
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477-417
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2007-12
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Photograph of Anne Peers, with a dog, seated on the front step of an unidentified home. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : sepia ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
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Photograph of Anne Peers posing on the front steps of an unidentified house with a puppy and three dolls. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : sepia ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
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477-416
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Photograph of Anne Peers posing on the front steps of an unidentified house with a puppy and three dolls. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
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Photograph of Annie Hill and her daughter Kitty on a picnic table in front of two trees. Annie is holding an umbrella. This photograph was probably taken at the Hill family home known as Brookfield, which was located on Deer Lake Avenue. A road (possibly Douglas Road) is partially visible in the b…
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
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477-876
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Photograph of Annie Hill and her daughter Kitty on a picnic table in front of two trees. Annie is holding an umbrella. This photograph was probably taken at the Hill family home known as Brookfield, which was located on Deer Lake Avenue. A road (possibly Douglas Road) is partially visible in the background.