Buckingham Elementary School opened in 1962 with 86 pupils. The school was intended to take some of the pressure off of both Lakeview and Morley Elementary Schools which saw large volumes of enrolments throughout the 1950s. In 1964, two additional rooms were built onto the school and in 1969 a library, staffroom and medical room were added.
Photograph of Buckingham Elementary School students dressed up as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson with a satellite phone at the school's Millennium Fair.
Photograph of Buckingham Elementary School students dressed up as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson with a satellite phone at the school's Millennium Fair.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 1999 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: ""Alexander Graham Bell," Clement Luah, 12, a Grade 7 student at Buckingham Elementary, places a call on his satellite phone to his assistant, "Thomas Watson," Brock Fabbro, 11, at the school's Millennium Fair. Students dressed up as historical figures and created exhibits showing how they changed the world in the last 1000 years."
Photograph of grade 6 students Jennifer Chui, Lindsay Herberts, and Stephanie Standerwich, who collect recyclables during Buckingham Elementary's lunch hour. The school received a provincial environmental award.
Photograph of grade 6 students Jennifer Chui, Lindsay Herberts, and Stephanie Standerwich, who collect recyclables during Buckingham Elementary's lunch hour. The school received a provincial environmental award.
Collected by editorial for use in a June 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Jennifer Chui, Lindsay Herberts and Stephanie Standerwich are Grade 6 students who cruise the halls of Buckingham Elementary at lunch hour, collecting recyclables. The school has been honored with a provicial envirnmental award."
A history of the Burnaby school district and individual school buildings in Burnaby, BC, between 1893 and 2013.
The “First Nations cemetery” described on page 109 in Mary Johnson’s recollections was originally written as “Indian” and may refer to the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Sikh cremations at the Vancouver Cemetery.
1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard
Scope and Content
Photograph shows pedestrians using school crosswalk at the corner of Burris Street and Buckingham Avenue, near Buckingham Elementary School. Two members of the school's traffic patrol are holding back traffic as people cross.
1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm mounted on cardboard
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556-350
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2013-13
Scope and Content
Photograph shows pedestrians using school crosswalk at the corner of Burris Street and Buckingham Avenue, near Buckingham Elementary School. Two members of the school's traffic patrol are holding back traffic as people cross.