Letter from Shirley W. North which appeared on the Agenda for the 1982 May 17 Meeting of Council re: Recent reductions in staffing complement and acute care beds at Burnaby General Hospital
33 photographs + 7 architectural drawings +1 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs and personal papers pertaining to Gerald Frank Sanders and Alice Viola Sparman Sanders along with architectural plans pertaining to the family home located on Spruce Street in Burnaby.
Fonds has been arranged into the following series:
1) Sanders-Sparman photog…
33 photographs + 7 architectural drawings +1 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs and personal papers pertaining to Gerald Frank Sanders and Alice Viola Sparman Sanders along with architectural plans pertaining to the family home located on Spruce Street in Burnaby.
Fonds has been arranged into the following series:
1) Sanders-Sparman photographs series
2) Sanders family personal papers
3) Sanders family architectural drawings
History
Gerald Frank Sanders (1916-2017) was born August 28, 1916 in Hackney, London. In 1918, Gerald immigrated to Canada with his mother Harriett Sanders (nee Chalkley) (1889-1962) while his father, Frank (1887-1967) was convalescing in hospital in England after succumbing to wounds while serving in action during WWI. Gerald's father, Frank soon joined them in British Columbia.
In 1926 they settled in a house located at 4312 Spruce Street near the corner of Spruce Street and Carleton Avenue. By 1946 the family grew in size to four children (Gerald, Leslie, Reginald and Eileen) and they built a larger house right on the corner of Spruce and Carleton Avenue. Gerald attended Inman Elementary, then Van Technical School. He eventually joined the RAF during WWII as an airplane mechanic in England. He sent his pay home and his mother purchased two lots on Pine Street with some of the money.
On March 8, 1948 Gerald married Alice Viola Sparman (1925-1996) and the couple lived in the Sanders' family home on Spruce Street. Alice grew up near Cranbrook and spent her teenage years in Victoria. She trained to be a nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver before marrying Gerald. Alice worked at the Burnaby General Hospital from 1952. Gerald and Alice had six children: Dennis, Kris, Kerry, David, Ruth and Marie. In 1949 with the help of family and friends Gerald built a new house located at 4325 Pine Street (address after 1959- 4091 Pine Street) and he moved in with his family. Gerald worked as a carpenter on various projects including the dentistry building at University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Court House and Jack Poole's house in the British Properties. Gerald lived in Burnaby until his death in 2017.
Frank and Harriett Sanders lived on Spruce Street until Harriett died in 1962. Frank continued to live on Spruce Street until 1964 and then lived with his son Gerald on Pine Street until his death in 1967.
Item consists of pages numbered 1-2 and 7-8 of The Burnaby Columbian newspaper, Friday, February 9, 1968. Article on the front page with headline marked in pen "Hospital gets wind-up fund". Article refers to funds donated by the Valley View Community Centre to Burnaby General hospital for the purch…
Item consists of pages numbered 1-2 and 7-8 of The Burnaby Columbian newspaper, Friday, February 9, 1968. Article on the front page with headline marked in pen "Hospital gets wind-up fund". Article refers to funds donated by the Valley View Community Centre to Burnaby General hospital for the purchase of an intensive care incubator. A cheque of $1291 was presented by Valley View charter members, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Little. The Valley View Community Centre closed in 1967 and the association was dissolved.