Photograph of baking and cooking tools and equipment on a table at the Lougheed Drive-in swap meet in the summer of 1978. Two unidentified vendors are sitting on either side of the table, smiling up a the camera.
Photograph of baking and cooking tools and equipment on a table at the Lougheed Drive-in swap meet in the summer of 1978. Two unidentified vendors are sitting on either side of the table, smiling up a the camera.
Photograph of a group of three unidentified Girl Guides cooking over a stove at the Pioneer camp. The girls are standing at a metal barrel stove in a clearing in the woods.
Photograph of a group of three unidentified Girl Guides cooking over a stove at the Pioneer camp. The girls are standing at a metal barrel stove in a clearing in the woods.
Photograph of Natasha Gardner (right), cooking instructor Kathryn Hunter-Tate (centre), Julie Little (left) and Moira McGregor (background) participating in a Flavourful Cooking Party.
Photograph of Natasha Gardner (right), cooking instructor Kathryn Hunter-Tate (centre), Julie Little (left) and Moira McGregor (background) participating in a Flavourful Cooking Party.
Caption on sticker on verso of photograph reads: "Flavourful Cooking Parties: right - Natasha Gardner / center - Kathyrn Hunter-Tate (instructor) / left - Julie Little / background - Moira McGregor"
Meat for health : a discussion of the food value and healthfulness of meat, with suggestions for the selection, preparation and cooking of the various cuts, and more than eighty recipes for appetizing and economical meat dishes.
From the family home of Thomas Seaborn McNair and Mary Vida (nee McMillan) McNair who lived on West 33rd Avenue in Vancouver. Thomas McNair ran Edwards, McNair and Russell, an established estate agent business.
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"A liberal proportion of meat in the diet tends to make a physically and mentally well-balanced race, as well as a well-balanced agriculture." -- Cover.
This Craftsman bungalow was built for the Neville family. Richard Neville (1884-1950) served as a Burnaby councillor in 1924 and is remembered as the man who gave the CCF party (now the NDP) land on Maple Avenue on which to build Jubilee Labour Hall. He worked as a tile layer for the O’Neill Company and was married to Ada Neville (née Cook, 1885-1970). Ada Neville still lived in this house at the time of her death. Typical of the Craftsman style, the house has a side gabled roof with large front gable dormer, triangular eave brackets, an open arched front verandah and a textural mix of siding including cedar shingle on the main floor and lapped siding at the foundation.
Located on Rumble Street in the Alta Vista neighbourhood, the Roy and Catherine Cummins House is a one and one-half storey, front-gabled rustic Arts and Crafts house, distinguished by the use of log construction and fieldstone verandah columns.
Located on Rumble Street in the Alta Vista neighbourhood, the Roy and Catherine Cummins House is a one and one-half storey, front-gabled rustic Arts and Crafts house, distinguished by the use of log construction and fieldstone verandah columns.
Heritage Value
The Roy and Catherine Cummins House is valued for its association with the early settlement of Burnaby. Its construction is linked to the opening of the Burnaby Lake Interurban line, which ran through the central part of Burnaby, providing access between Vancouver and New Westminster. The accessibility of the area, combined with spectacular views of the Fraser River, made Alta Vista a desirable Edwardian era middle-class neighbourhood. The house was built in 1912 for Roy Franklin Cummins and his wife, Catherine Emma Cummins (née Cook), shortly after their marriage. Roy Cummins was a lineman with the B.C. Electric Railway Company, an economic driving force in Burnaby.
The Roy and Catherine Cummins House is a unique and sophisticated local example of a rustic Arts and Crafts structure. Roy Cummins constructed the house from logs cleared for the construction of Rumble Street; the house is also unique for its use of local fieldstone for its verandah columns and chimney. Reminiscent of park lodge architecture, it exemplifies the semi-wild nature of the area as it was being opened for subdivision. It is also an indication of how far Burnaby was removed from the more urban lifestyles and attitudes of Vancouver and New Westminster.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Roy and Catherine Cummins House include its:
- location on a steeply sloping site in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Burnaby
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey height plus full basement, front-gabled roof and shed dormer, full open front verandah and partial rear verandah
- peeled log construction including notched corner posts, log verandah roof framing and log balustrades
- masonry elements including fieldstone verandah columns and internal chimney, and board-formed concrete foundations with fieldstone aggregate
- rustic Arts and Crafts features such as the use of natural materials, tapered columns, front door with sidelights and exposed eave purlins
- original windows, including wooden sash casement windows in multiple assembly with continuous transoms
- interior features including fir-panelled walls, wooden mouldings and fieldstone fireplace
- associated landscape features including terraced stone walls
500 delicious dishes from leftovers : use your leftover bread, cakes, crackers and crumbs, eggs, cheese, meats, poultry, fish, sour milk and cream, fruits and vegetables, jams, jellies and preserves, coffee, cocoa, miscellaneous
Elmer Wilson Martin was a professional engineer who lived much of his life in Burnaby. He married Ellen Renetta "Reta" (Boyd) Martin in approx. 1930 and the couple moved to Burnaby in 1931 for him to attend UBC. He later enlisted in the RCAF during WWII where he served as a pilot and wing commander. Elmer ran Martin's Auto Villa at 6604 East Hastings Street (later 6574 East Hastings Street) and was heavily involved in local Burnaby politics and with the North Burnaby Board of Trade. The donor states that he ran for Burnaby mayor in 1959 and also donated land to S.F.U. in the late 1960's. He had many businesses throughout his life including Paneloc Buildings, a pre-fab building manufacturing company. His last position was as Director with the construction company Webb & Knapp Canada Ltd.
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"Edited by one of Canada's foremost home cooking experts" -- cover
"Sales agents for Canada's finer fresh fruits