Reconstructed Central Park Bandstand
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the reconstructed Central Park Bandstand used to promote its official opening taking place May 29, 1996 (to be described).
Reconstructed Central Park Bandstand
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the reconstructed Central Park Bandstand used to promote its official opening taking place May 29, 1996.
Burnaby Village Museum, Heritage Village
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1990]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of Heritage Village. Groups of costumed people are gathered beside a flagpole. There is a pennyfarthing bicycle.
Municipal Hall, Edmonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.6 x 13.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the exterior of Burnaby's Municipal Hall at Edmonds Street and Kingsway. This was the second Municipal Hall built. Annotation at bottom of photograph reads, "Municipal Hall, Edmonds / Hurndall Photo"
Sophie A. Long
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1918]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.7 x 8.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of Sophie A. Long writing a letter at a table. There is drapery in the back and velvet covered upholstery in the background. Written on the back of the postcard: "For Reg & [Lolo?], with much love from their aged Mother Sophie A. Long / July 21st. 1918. / Rock Mount: / Miss R…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.7 x 8.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of Sophie A. Long writing a letter at a table. There is drapery in the back and velvet covered upholstery in the background. Written on the back of the postcard: "For Reg & [Lolo?], with much love from their aged Mother Sophie A. Long / July 21st. 1918. / Rock Mount: / Miss Rolls made me a present of these before I left [Caterhaur?]. Taken without my knowing at the moment. / Germans retreating across the Marne [in northeast France] today. We had a nice hot dinner 7.30 PM. It was cooked in the Hay box."
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Names
- Long, Sophie A.
- Accession Code
- HV976.36.34
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1918]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-13
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Gilmore Avenue School
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1916]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the Gilmore Avenue School building with a few children standing on the front step (all unidentified). Written on the bottom right of the postcard is; "Gilmore Avenue School, Vancouver Heights, Vancouver BC." At the bottom left, the photographer is identified as J.M. Henton…
Stride family home
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1915 and 1920]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the exterior of the Stride family home located at Kingsway and 18th Avenue. Two people are traveling in a Model T Ford (with the top down) along the street in front of the house.
Home of Arthur Lobley and his wife
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1915]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 9.0 x 13.9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a large three storey house with brick chimney and front balcony, with steps leading up to it. There are vegetable gardens around the house and a small tool shed on the left. There is an "x" marked on the left side of the photograph, with an annotation on the back reading: "…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 9.0 x 13.9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a large three storey house with brick chimney and front balcony, with steps leading up to it. There are vegetable gardens around the house and a small tool shed on the left. There is an "x" marked on the left side of the photograph, with an annotation on the back reading: "This is one side of house; x where front baclony is." Another annotation on the back of the photograph reads: "Home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lobley on Marlborough Ave. S. Burnaby (just off Kingsway). Lobley Park named after Mr. Lobley." Arthur Lobley is credited for opening the Royal Oak Road to the tram station at Royal Oak in 1897, in George Green's book, "History of Burnaby," pg. 134.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Names
- Lobley, Arthur
- Lobley, Mrs. Arthur "Dolly"
- Geographic Access
- Marlborough Avenue
- Kingsway
- Accession Code
- HV976.236.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1915]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Marlborough Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-27
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Class on the front steps of Gilmore Avenue School
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1915]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.8 x 13.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of students from about age eight to ten lined up on the front steps of a school in three rows. The school in the background appears to be the Gilmore Avenue School There are eighteen girls, mostly in knee length dresses or skirts with dark stockings or knee high socks, and se…
Gilmore Avenue School
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1915]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.9 x 13.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the front of the Gilmore Avenue School ca. 1915. Children are visible in and around the school. Annotations on the back of the postcard reads: :"Mr. Geoge Smith" and "Gilmore School. / 1915." Stamped on the back of the postcard: "Gilmore Avenue School / 50 Gilmore Avenue /…
Central Park Entrance
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1914
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the entrance arch at Central Park. The postcard was sent to R.M. Harding of Everett, Washington and bears a New Westminster postmark and is dated August 6, 1922. The note written on the reverse of the card reads: " Dear Ross, This is were [sic] we made camp tonight. Wish…
Soldier with a rifle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- April 5, 1914
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified solider standing with a rifle in his hand at a military camp. Another soldier can be seen in the background.
The Dry Kilns
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- LaFavor Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the dry kilns at the North Pacific Lumber Company in Barnet Village, BC.
Greyfriars
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.8 x 13.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of "Greyfriars," the F.J. Peers House in the Burnaby Lake area. Standing in front of the home are two children and a man who may be Francis J. Peers. The children are unidentified.
Inauguration of the water system at Burnaby
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- July 16, 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of Reeve Weart addressing a crowd gathered around the bandstand in Central Park for the inauguration of Burnaby Water Works. The Reeve is standing as he looks towards the crowd. Other men are seated in a semi-circle inside the bandstand. This was known as "Splash Day."
Crowd at Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a crowd gathered near a tram car at Edmonds and Kingsway during Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught's visit to Burnaby. A Union Jack is hanging from one of the windows of the triangular Edmonds Block, which is visible in the background. The Duke of Connaught was Governor G…
Burnaby Welcomes You
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the welcome arch erected at Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. A large crowd is milling around the decorated arch which reads, "Burnaby Welcomes You." Prince Arthur was Governor General of Canada at this time.
St. Albans the Martyr Church
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the St. Albans the Martyr Church at Canada Way and 19th Avenue.
Some of Our Homes, Barnet
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 13.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph on a postcard shows row of houses along a street at Barnet Village. The postcard is postmarked July 30, 1912, Barnet, from Evelyn, who had travelled to Barnet, to her mother, Mrs. John Laity in Port Hammond, BC.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Photographs subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.5 x 13.8 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 015-014
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph on a postcard shows row of houses along a street at Barnet Village. The postcard is postmarked July 30, 1912, Barnet, from Evelyn, who had travelled to Barnet, to her mother, Mrs. John Laity in Port Hammond, BC.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Residential - Houses
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Geographic Features - Roads
- Names
- Barnet Mill
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Caption at bottom of photograph reads, "Some of our homes, Barnet, B.C."
- Geographic Access
- Barnet Village
- Texaco Drive
- Street Address
- 8059 Texaco Drive
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Barnet (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
Less detail
Miss Muir's class
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1912]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of students about age seven sitting and standing in three rows in front of the doors of a school. There are sixteen girls and eleven boys. Their female teacher stands by them to the right side of the photograph. Annotations on the back of the postcard read: "Miss Muir?" and "G…