Photograph of (left to right) C. Norton, Gladys Killip, P. A. Glover, V. Brenner taken near the Parlour Display. Gladys Killip at the Burnaby Council of Women event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and feature…
Photograph of (left to right) C. Norton, Gladys Killip, P. A. Glover, V. Brenner taken near the Parlour Display. Gladys Killip at the Burnaby Council of Women event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and featured "Burnaby Treasures" at James Cowan Hall during the second week of April 1967. This was a non competitive exhibition of "Burnaby Treasures" old and new, combined with demonstrations of skills of yesterday and today. Burnaby Council of Women members and exhibitors dressed in period costumes for the event.
Photograph of (left to right) C. Norton, Dr. Violet Eagles, K. McAulay, C. Turner, and Gladys Killip at the Burnaby Council of Women event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and featured "Burnaby Treasures" at J…
Photograph of (left to right) C. Norton, Dr. Violet Eagles, K. McAulay, C. Turner, and Gladys Killip at the Burnaby Council of Women event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and featured "Burnaby Treasures" at James Cowan Hall during the second week of April 1967. This was a non competitive exhibition of "Burnaby Treasures" old and new, combined with demonstrations of skills of yesterday and today. Burnaby Council of Women members and exhibitors dressed in period costumes for the event.
Photograph of M. McCarthy and P.A. Glover near the Scandinavian Display at the Burnaby Council of Women's event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and featured "Burnaby Treasures" at James Cowan Hall during the …
Photograph of M. McCarthy and P.A. Glover near the Scandinavian Display at the Burnaby Council of Women's event "100 Years of Progress in Women's Activities, Arts and Crafts" that was held in recognition of the Centennial Celebration and featured "Burnaby Treasures" at James Cowan Hall during the second week of April 1967. This was a non competitive exhibition of "Burnaby Treasures" old and new, combined with demonstrations of skills of yesterday and today. Burnaby Council of Women members and exhibitors dressed in period costumes for the event.
Built after the end of the First World War, this house features an eclectic blend of Arts and Crafts elements. Constructed for A.E. Brown and a full two storeys in height, it has a front jerkin-headed roof with a jerkin-headed side projection, and a corner wraparound verandah with tapered columns. The house has been maintained in near original condition, with original lapped wooden siding, multi-paned windows and square balusters.
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.2 x 10.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of a large crowd gathering around an airship in a clearing in New Westminster. The craft bears a banner reading "Motor Boats Built by Hinton Electric Ltd. At Victoria." The airship was piloted by Harry Ginter and made twice daily flights over the 1909 exhibition.
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.2 x 10.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-887
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of a large crowd gathering around an airship in a clearing in New Westminster. The craft bears a banner reading "Motor Boats Built by Hinton Electric Ltd. At Victoria." The airship was piloted by Harry Ginter and made twice daily flights over the 1909 exhibition.
Located atop a hill on the southern shore of picturesque Deer Lake, the Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage is a one and one-half storey, wood-frame, rustic Arts and Crafts-style bungalow. The cottage is well-maintained, but has been altered through the enclosure of much of its original wraparound vera…
Located atop a hill on the southern shore of picturesque Deer Lake, the Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage is a one and one-half storey, wood-frame, rustic Arts and Crafts-style bungalow. The cottage is well-maintained, but has been altered through the enclosure of much of its original wraparound verandah. Its sits on the brow of a steep slope, with panoramic views north to Deer Lake.
Heritage Value
The Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage is valued as a significant example of the early development of summer estates in Burnaby, specifically in the Deer Lake neighbourhood, that attracted residents from the burgeoning cities of New Westminster and Vancouver. Access to the area was facilitated by the construction of the Burnaby Lake Interurban tramline, which opened in June 1911. This modest, rustic cottage illustrates the desire for a simple country lifestyle and retreat into nature of those who settled on the south shore of Deer Lake. While the grand mansions on the north shore of Deer Lake are set in formally landscaped gardens, the informality of this cottage demonstrates reverence for its natural, wooded surroundings, oriented towards views of Deer Lake.
The Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage is important for its connection with prominent New Westminster insurance and real estate broker, Alfred W. MacLeod, and his wife, Ruth. The MacLeods had recently constructed a large city home, and built this cottage as a summer residence in 1913. In 2005, the Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage was purchased by the City of Burnaby and today constitutes part of the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct, which is Burnaby's most significant collection of historic sites.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Alfred and Ruth MacLeod Cottage include its:
- secluded setting on the brow of a steep hill on the southern shore of Deer Lake, with expansive views of Deer Lake to the north
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its one and one-half storey rectangular plan, side-gabled roof, hipped roof over original verandah and two shed dormers
- associated landscape features such as mature coniferous and deciduous trees surrounding the property
The Andy Johnson House is a large, one and one-half storey plus above-ground basement wood-frame mansion on a rubble-stone granite foundation with a red terra cotta pantile roof and an octagonal corner turret. The building stands in a prominent location on a corner lot on Kingsway, one of Burnaby’s…
The Andy Johnson House is a large, one and one-half storey plus above-ground basement wood-frame mansion on a rubble-stone granite foundation with a red terra cotta pantile roof and an octagonal corner turret. The building stands in a prominent location on a corner lot on Kingsway, one of Burnaby’s main transportation and commercial corridors, and stands adjacent to the Burlington Square Development.
Heritage Value
The Andy Johnson House 'Glenedward' is a valued representation of a prominent upper middle-class family dwelling from the pre-First World War era. Andrew M. Johnson (1861-1934), an early Vancouver pioneer, and his wife Margaret built this house in 1912, in an imposing style favoured by the newly wealthy of the prewar boom period. Born in Norway, Andrew Johnson arrived in Vancouver just months after the Great Fire of 1886 and went into partnership with J. (Ollie) Atkins in a transportation company that became the Mainland Transfer Company, eventually the largest of its kind in Vancouver. Johnson also operated Burnaby's historic Royal Oak Hotel, once located on the opposite corner from his estate.
Additionally, the Andy Johnson House is significant for the high-quality design and construction of both the house and its landscaped setting. Designed in the British Arts and Crafts style, the house exhibits a rare degree of opulence in building materials, including imported terra cotta roof tiles, oak and walnut interior millwork, and stained glass manufactured by the Royal City Glass Company. The rubble-stone foundations and perimeter walls were obtained from two massive granite glacial erratic boulders found on the property. The house has been relocated closer to the corner, but the encircling stone walls, the gate posts and gates manufactured by the Westminster Iron Works and some of the original plantings have been retained. A grouping of three giant Sequoias, other mature deciduous trees and massings of shrubbery indicate the type of landscape setting considered appropriate for an estate house in the early years of the twentieth century.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Andy Johnson House include its:
- corner location on Kingsway at Royal Oak Avenue
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by the one and one-half storey height, above-ground basement, octagonal corner turret and rectangular plan
- British Arts and Crafts details such as the use of natural indigenous materials, half-timbering in the gables and dormers, picturesque roofline, cedar shingle siding, extended eaves, native granite rubble-stone foundation with red-coloured mortar, and granite piers and chimneys
- additional exterior features such as the central front entrance, elaborate wrap-around verandah, porte-cochere and balcony at second storey lighted with original cast iron electric lanterns
- red terra cotta pantile roof cladding
- fenestration, such as double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows with stained glass and leaded lights in the upper sash
- original interior features such as fireplaces, wainscoting finished with oak and walnut millwork, and three-quarter sawn oak flooring
- associated landscape features including three giant Sequoias. granite walls, granite gate posts and wrought iron gates
Built for Annie Barrett-Lennard, this British Arts and Crafts residence has retained many of its original features, such as its stucco and half-timbering exterior with a cat’s slide roof over the front entrance. The steeply-pitched gables, asymmetrical half-massing, leaded windows and pegged joinery are all references to traditional British antecedents.
Arthur Long, of the Water Rights Office of Victoria, purchased this land from neighbour Henry Ramsay, and built this beautiful Arts and Crafts styled home. The house appears to have many similarities to the neighbouring Ramsay House, which was designed by Vancouver architect R. Mackay Fripp. The house has retained its original complex gabled roof, triangular eave brackets and horizontal siding.
Photograph of women doing arts and crafts at Edmonds House. Marion Olson and Verda Joynt are at a table glazing pottery, while May Clark sits behind them, throwing something on the wheel as Doris Albright stands, painting at an easel. This most likely the site of what is now Edmonds Centre.
Photograph of women doing arts and crafts at Edmonds House. Marion Olson and Verda Joynt are at a table glazing pottery, while May Clark sits behind them, throwing something on the wheel as Doris Albright stands, painting at an easel. This most likely the site of what is now Edmonds Centre.