File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including Annual Country Fair programmes, schedules and financial reports.
File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including Annual Country Fair programmes, schedules and financial reports.
Item is a ten page programme for the Fifth Annual Burnaby Lake County Fair held on Dominion Day, July 1, 1948. It was held at the Valley View Community Centre and sponsored by Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club.
Item is a ten page programme for the Fifth Annual Burnaby Lake County Fair held on Dominion Day, July 1, 1948. It was held at the Valley View Community Centre and sponsored by Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club.
File consists of reports and banker's signing resolutions from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club, as well as the Club's certificate of incorporation. Also included in the file is the Valley View Community Council Societies Act.
File consists of reports and banker's signing resolutions from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club, as well as the Club's certificate of incorporation. Also included in the file is the Valley View Community Council Societies Act.
File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including city permits and handwritten notes. Also included in the file is information from the National Recreation Association and a Burnaby Valley View Gazette from 1947.
File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including city permits and handwritten notes. Also included in the file is information from the National Recreation Association and a Burnaby Valley View Gazette from 1947.
File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including presidents' reports, financial records, and correspondence.
File consists of papers pertaining to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club including presidents' reports, financial records, and correspondence.
Subseries consists of meeting minutes, incorporation documents, correspondence and pamphlets from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club. Also included in the subseries is one large framed photograph of the Valleyview Community Centre.
Subseries consists of meeting minutes, incorporation documents, correspondence and pamphlets from the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club. Also included in the subseries is one large framed photograph of the Valleyview Community Centre.
History
The Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club was incorporated on March 26, 1946. The aims of the club were to: cultivate a desire in our members to be of the greatest service to their community; elevate and reinforce the standards of good citizenship; foster friendship and broaden human sympathy and express them in terms of social helpfulness; and provide for wholesome recreation, education, civic and other leisure-time activities of the community. ccording to a membership drive handout produced in 1951, yearly membership was $1 and in order to be a member you had to: have been a former member; be present active member; be of the male species; or be t least mildly interested in the betterment of the social activities of your community and the promotion of good fellowship.
Director of the Department of Education, Henry Hill, was the first president of the Club. Hill was also instrumental in the creation of the Valley View Community Council, which was originally made up of two appointed delegates from the Central Burnaby Ratepayers & Citizen’s Association, the Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club and the Women’s Community Club. The Valley View Community Council became a Society on February 10, 1948.
In 1943 Burnaby City Council pledged to help fund at least one Community Centre in each Ward of the Municipality by 50% (up to $2,500 per building). The Club had a plan to provide a Community Centre for the Central Burnaby area as early as 1945 when they visited the site allotted to the cause by the Council of Burnaby on Douglas Road at Ledger Street (later renamed and numbered 4050 Grandview Highway and later called Canada Way). They organized Annual Country Fairs, with the first held in 1944, to raise funds from community members and by November 30, 1946, they had $3,750 “held for the purpose of building a Community Centre.” The building was erected and by December of 1949 it was used for the purpose of holding a Municipal Election.
File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Eagles family. Much of the correspondence pertains to the Deer Lake Community Association, as Dr Violet Eagles was their secretary (and treasurer) and wrote letters to the Municipality of Burnaby on the Association's behalf. Deer Lake Community Asso…
File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Eagles family. Much of the correspondence pertains to the Deer Lake Community Association, as Dr Violet Eagles was their secretary (and treasurer) and wrote letters to the Municipality of Burnaby on the Association's behalf. Deer Lake Community Association's meeting minutes, financial records and the Constitution are also included, as well as a year-end balance sheet for the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club from 1945.
File consists of pamphlets pertaining to the creation of Recreation Centres that were used by the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club as reference guides (most of which were produced by the National Recreation Association based in New York).
File consists of pamphlets pertaining to the creation of Recreation Centres that were used by the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club as reference guides (most of which were produced by the National Recreation Association based in New York).
Resolution Authorizing Expenditure to the Burnaby Lake Men's Community Service Club for Carrying Out Capital Works on Buildings and Grounds in the Valleyview Park
Fonds consists of records of the Valleyview Community Council including minutes of meetings, constitution, reports, adminstrative records, general correspondence and newsletters.
Fonds consists of records of the Valleyview Community Council including minutes of meetings, constitution, reports, adminstrative records, general correspondence and newsletters.
History
The Valley View Community Council formed as a society on February 10, 1948. The society was made up of two appointed delegates from the Central Burnaby Ratepayers & Citizen’s Association; the Burnaby Lake Men’s Community Service Club and the Women’s Community Club with the intention to build a community centre in central Burnaby. Founding members included: Orpha Laurie Nicol; Vernon Andrew Fines; Henry Hill; Herbert Frederick Salisbury; Alice Euphemia Peel and Blythe Alfred Eagles.
The objects of the society:
a) To coordinate the activities of public spirited organizations in the erection, equipping, maintenance, operation and administration of a community centre to be erected on Grandview Highway at Ledger Street.
b)To provide opportunities in such centre and elsewhere in the community for wholesome recreation, education, and civic and other leisure-time activities of the community.
c)To encourage cooperation in considered community undertakings.
A site for the community centre was leased to the Valley View Community Council by the Corporation of the District of Burnaby on a portion of Lot 9 in District Lot 79 on Douglas Road and Ledger Street (offices located at 4443 East Grandview-Douglas Hwy; Community Centre located at 4050 Grandview-Douglas Hwy). The community centre served as a meeting place for various community groups and community events, including the Valley View Kindergarten which used it as a home between 1948 and 1967. On January 29, 1968, the Valley View Community Council was dissolved after their lease on the land expired with the Corporation of the District of Burnaby in the 1967. In the fall of 1968, the community centre building was taken over by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles who relocated the building to 1791 Douglas Road. The remaining funds of the Valley View Community Council society were donated to the Burnaby General Hospital for an incubator in the intensive care unit.