Photograph of the L.6BCER, a British Columbia Electric Railway line car, used to repair overhead power lines along interurban tracks. Photographed near Jubilee Station, between Imperial and Nelson.
Photograph of the L.6BCER, a British Columbia Electric Railway line car, used to repair overhead power lines along interurban tracks. Photographed near Jubilee Station, between Imperial and Nelson.
Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company trams no. 1225 and 1230 linked together and going through an intersection. The destination board at the front reads, "BURNABY LK", indicating it is the Burnaby Lake line. There are street signs on the lamppost on the street corner at the left …
Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company trams no. 1225 and 1230 linked together and going through an intersection. The destination board at the front reads, "BURNABY LK", indicating it is the Burnaby Lake line. There are street signs on the lamppost on the street corner at the left but only the crossing street sign, "5th AVE" is visible. There are hand painted advertisements for "COAL/ SAWDUST/ WOOD" and "FUEL" in the background.
Item consists of a video recording of a live Zoom webinar hosted by Kate Petrusa, Burnaby Village Museum assistant curator. The webinar is titled "Burnaby Streetcars and Interurbans" and is presented by Lisa Codd, Heritage Planner for the City of Burnaby. The zoom webinar is the sixth in a collecti…
Date of Presentation: October 22 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Total Number of tracks: 1
Total Length of all tracks:61 min., 39 sec.
Recording Device: Zoom video communication platform
Scope and Content
Item consists of a video recording of a live Zoom webinar hosted by Kate Petrusa, Burnaby Village Museum assistant curator. The webinar is titled "Burnaby Streetcars and Interurbans" and is presented by Lisa Codd, Heritage Planner for the City of Burnaby. The zoom webinar is the sixth in a collection of seven "Burnaby Neighbourhood Speaker series" webinars that were presented and made available to the public between September 29 and October 27, 2020. The live webinar and recording was also made available on the Burnaby Village Museum's facebook page.
In this webinar, Lisa Codd takes participants on a virtual tour of Burnaby’s early electric railway system, including visits to locations where physical traces of the railway can still be found. Lisa supports her presentation with maps and historical photographs to tell the story of the B.C. Electric Railway transportation routes that shaped Burnaby. Lisa takes questions and comments from participants throughout her presentation and at the end.
Photograph of a BC Electric Railway Company Observation car, full of people and conducted by "Teddy" Lyons. The car number is 124, and a sign on the rear end of the car reads, "See Vancouver / Two Hour / Trip / Fare 35c." The photograph was probably taken prior to 4:00 pm, as there are signs hang…
Photograph of a BC Electric Railway Company Observation car, full of people and conducted by "Teddy" Lyons. The car number is 124, and a sign on the rear end of the car reads, "See Vancouver / Two Hour / Trip / Fare 35c." The photograph was probably taken prior to 4:00 pm, as there are signs hanging on the car by the conductor that read, "Extra Trip / 7:00 PM" and "Next Trip / 4:00 PM." There are restaurants and various stores which line the street by the tracks in the background. The caption printed on the front bottom of the photo reads, "B.C. Electric Rly. Co. Observation Car, Vancouver. / "Teddy" Lyons, Conductor. Harry Bullen Photo. 2608 Gran. Bayview 8869." Stamped on the back of the photo is "Vancouver, B.C. Jul 22 1934."
For another photograph of BCER car # 124, but from a different year, see photograph HV973.26.143
For another photograph of BCER observation car by Harry Bullen, see HV975.88.1
In "History of Metropolitan Vancouver" at http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology6.htm, it notes that Harry Bullen sold long narrow souvenir photographs of the passengers taken in the car
Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby.…
Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby. The uppermost window in the house was the donor's bedroom.
Photograph of Fraser Arm Interurban station at Gilley Avenue. Lyle Le Grove became a British Columbia Electric Railway buff because his father worked at the British Columbia Electric Railway New Westminster maintenance depot for many years.
Photograph of Fraser Arm Interurban station at Gilley Avenue. Lyle Le Grove became a British Columbia Electric Railway buff because his father worked at the British Columbia Electric Railway New Westminster maintenance depot for many years.
Photograph of the "dinky" store (so-called because of its small size) at Highland Park Interurban station at Buller Avenue. In front: Margaret Thould. Lionel Thould, who opened this store, later opened a similar store at Fraser Arm Interurban station and gave up the Highland Park store when buses…
Photograph of the "dinky" store (so-called because of its small size) at Highland Park Interurban station at Buller Avenue. In front: Margaret Thould. Lionel Thould, who opened this store, later opened a similar store at Fraser Arm Interurban station and gave up the Highland Park store when buses replaced first street cars, then Interurban trams.
Photograph of the Duke of Connaught's Interurban tram, called that because the Duke used it on visit to British Columbia as Governor General of Canada. It was used on the Central Park Interurban line and on the Chilliwack run.
Photograph of the Duke of Connaught's Interurban tram, called that because the Duke used it on visit to British Columbia as Governor General of Canada. It was used on the Central Park Interurban line and on the Chilliwack run.
Photograph of Connaught Hill station on the Central Park Interurban right-of-way at 10th Avenue. To the right, a spur line to the gravel pit used as ballast on tract beds near the Stride garbage dump. The Skytrain maintenance centre was later located there.
Photograph of Connaught Hill station on the Central Park Interurban right-of-way at 10th Avenue. To the right, a spur line to the gravel pit used as ballast on tract beds near the Stride garbage dump. The Skytrain maintenance centre was later located there.
Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company interurban tram no.1007 with "CENTRAL PARK" written on the front board sign and a uniformed conductor at the wheel. The Central Park Interurban rail line connected the Central Park neighbourhood to Vancouver.
Photograph of British Columbia Electric Railway Company interurban tram no.1007 with "CENTRAL PARK" written on the front board sign and a uniformed conductor at the wheel. The Central Park Interurban rail line connected the Central Park neighbourhood to Vancouver.
Stamped on verso of photograph reads: "RAILROAD ["BCE" written in pencil]/ CAR NUMBER ["1007" written in pencil]/ LOCATION / [note on restriction on reproduction]/ WILLIAM A. STEVENTON, Hawkins, Wisconsin"
Subseries consists of textual records pertaining to Alvin Burtch's house in Burnaby, a newspaper clipping, and photograph of Burtch in his BCER uniform.
Subseries consists of textual records pertaining to Alvin Burtch's house in Burnaby, a newspaper clipping, and photograph of Burtch in his BCER uniform.
History
Alvin Burtch was a British Columbia Electric Railway conductor who drove for the BCER for 38 years, 30 of those years on the Burnaby Lake Line. He was the driver for the line's final run in 1953, his 37th year of service.
Burtch had a daughter named Hazel Cunningham, who grew up in Burnaby and married Friends of the Carousel member Harry Sumner.
Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the…
Subseries consists of publications, correspondence and other miscellaneous papers relating to the Bancroft family's interests and work history. Topics include gardening, raising poultry, the Liberal government and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Also included in the subseries are photographs of the Bancroft family and friends and ephemera pertaining to agricultural farming and the air force.
History
Rose Croucher was born to Ann Eliza "Annie" (b. August 1861, d. 1962) and R. Coucher in January 1895. In 1907, the Croucher family moved to British Columbia. As a student, Rose studied geometrical drawing using Blair’s Canadian Drawing Series workbooks.
On on February 21, 1914, Rose married James Oakes Bancroft in Vancouver, BC. Together they had three children: James A. (b. 1916 or 1917), Rosie (date unknown), and George E. (b. August 1927).
The Bancroft family were poultry farmers throughout the early 1900s, transporting their farmed eggs from Burnaby to the Hudson’s Bay Company Vancouver using the British Columbia Electric Railway system. Rose Bancroft also served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Park Poultry Co-op Association in the 1920s until her husband's death in 1930 at the age of 42.
In the late thirties and early forties, while James A. Bancroft was stationed in Calgary with the Royal Canadian Air Force, his younger siblings lived together with their mother and grandmother at 1963 21st Avenue in Burnaby. Rosie Bancroft studied French and English history in Social Studies in 1937; her brother George studied the seasons in General Science II in 1942.
Rose died in 1965 at the age of 76.
Item is a photocopy of a booklet entitled "Early History of The British Columbia Electric Power System in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia" an address given by A. Vilstrup, Chief Electrical Engineer, British Columbia Electric Railway Co. Ltd, before the Vancouver Section of the American Insti…
Item is a photocopy of a booklet entitled "Early History of The British Columbia Electric Power System in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia" an address given by A. Vilstrup, Chief Electrical Engineer, British Columbia Electric Railway Co. Ltd, before the Vancouver Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.