Chapel Of Peace
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Church building.
- Associated Dates
- 1936
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Other Names
- First United Spiritualist Church
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- First United Spiritualist Church
- Geographic Access
- Kincaid Street
- Associated Dates
- 1936
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 13162
- Enactment Date
- 28/01/2013
- Description
- Church building.
- Heritage Value
- This church was built in 1936 as the Chapel of Peace for the Forest Lawn Cemetery. It was located outside the main entrance of the cemetery at the triangular parcel of land bounded by Sprott, Royal Oak and Canada Way. It served as the location for many memorial services, local community worship and weddings. The Anglican Church purchased and relocated the building to its present site in 1955. The church has been altered with the addition of wings and stucco, but retains its steep front gabled roof and some of its arched windows. It is now used as the First United Spiritualist Church.
- Locality
- Burnaby Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 5584 Kincaid Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Douglas Road School
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Other Names
- Douglas Road Elementary School
- Geographic Access
- Canada Way
- Associated Dates
- 1928
- Description
- School building.
- Heritage Value
- The Douglas Road School was originally established as a two-room school in 1908 on this site, and later expanded to four classrooms. Anticipating rapid settlement of this district, the School Board purchased two acres adjoining the old building. Two of the four rooms were designed to become one large auditorium suitable for special events and public gatherings, with seating for two hundred people. The classically-influenced school has been altered with new windows and extended with additional wings, but has retained its original red-brick veneer, tan-brick quoins and bellcast octagonal roof ventilator. Designed by McCarter & Nairne, the school was built by contractor A.S. Perry. McCarter & Nairne, who also designed the Second Street School, were the Burnaby School Board architects at this time. John Y. McCarter (1886-1981) and George Nairne (1884-1953) formed their partnership in 1921 after serving overseas during the First World War. The partners began designing houses and small apartment buildings, and their commissions included Vancouver’s first skyscraper, the Marine Building (1928-30).
- Locality
- Burnaby Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Architect
- McCarter & Nairne
- Names
- McCarter & Nairne
- Douglas Road School
- Subjects
- Buildings - Heritage
- Buildings - Schools
- Street Address
- 4861 Canada Way
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Royal Oak Avenue
- Associated Dates
- 1935
- Description
- Cemetery site.
- Heritage Value
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park was founded and designed by Albert F. Arnold, who wanted to design a memorial park “which would be a place of perpetual beauty and which would banish the ‘graveyard’ taint from such places forever.” The 145 acres of Forest Lawn were designed as a garden, which overlooks Vancouver and has a magnificent view of the mountains. Called “God’s Acres,” with white-shelled walks and piped sacred music, the design allowed a natural setting to offer solace to grieve. Bronze memorial plaques were used rather than headstones, which would have marred the garden effect. Arnold acted as a consultant to memorial parks all over Canada and the United States and many of his innovations have become standard practice in North American cemeteries. Equipped with its own greenhouses, the park has more than a million plants of all types. The chapel, which sits on the lower southern slopes, is a sophisticated modernist structure that was designed by renowned local architects McCarter & Nairne.
- Locality
- Burnaby Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Architect
- Albert F. Arnold
McCarter & Nairne
- Area
- 449910.00
- Contributing Resource
- Landscape Feature
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 3789 Royal Oak Avenue
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Frederick & Edna Cunningham House
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- Set back from Douglas Road, the Frederick and Edna Cunningham House is a picturesque wood-frame one and one-half storey British Arts and Crafts-style residence, clad with rough-cast stucco and featuring half-timbering in the gable ends. Set far back on a large east-sloping site in a mature landscap…
- Associated Dates
- 1923
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Douglas Road
- Associated Dates
- 1923
- Formal Recognition
- Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
- Enactment Type
- Bylaw No. 10470
- Enactment Date
- 04/11/1996
- Description
- Set back from Douglas Road, the Frederick and Edna Cunningham House is a picturesque wood-frame one and one-half storey British Arts and Crafts-style residence, clad with rough-cast stucco and featuring half-timbering in the gable ends. Set far back on a large east-sloping site in a mature landscape setting, it is located in the Douglas Road neighbourhood located in the central valley of Burnaby.
- Heritage Value
- Considered a landmark in the Douglas Road neighbourhood, the Cunningham House is valued as a good example of a British Arts and Crafts-style residence. The house blends into its surroundings, which are extensively landscaped with rockeries, lawns, shrubs, trees and perennial beds. The two majestic copper beech trees, over 60 years old, are among the best specimens of their type to be found in Greater Vancouver and are protected under covenant.
The Cunningham property is significant as one of the last estate homes remaining on the old Douglas Road, at one time noted for its beautiful estates set within the rural character of Burnaby’s Central Valley. Insurance agent Frederick Woodman Cunningham (1882-1963) and his wife, Edna Elizabeth Cunningham (1884-1982), built this country residence in 1923. Fred was the only son of James Cunningham, a pioneer of New Westminster who arrived in 1862 and served as the City’s Mayor from 1872 to 1874. The landmark flagpole that once stood in the garden was moved to this site when Fred Cunningham's prestigious family home in New Westminster at Third Avenue and Seventh Street was demolished in 1938. Kept within the family until 1982 and largely maintained in its original condition, the Cunningham House is an excellent example of one of Burnaby's best estate homes from the 1920s and was designated by the City of Burnaby in 1996.
- Defining Elements
- Key elements that define the heritage character of the Cunningham House include its:
- location on Douglas Road, in Burnaby’s Central Valley
- views from the property to the east and towards the North Shore
- residential form, scale and massing as exemplified by its one and one-half storey height and rectangular plan
- side gabled roof with front gabled dormer and cedar shingle cladding
- British Arts and Crafts elements such as its rough-cast stucco, tapered porch columns, large eave brackets, exposed purlins and half-timbering
- irregular fenestration including double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows, multi-pane wooden-sash casement windows and multiple-assembly windows in the gable ends
- front entrance porch with shed roof
- two internal red brick chimneys
- early cedar-shingled garage at side of house
- associated landscape features, including two landmark Copper beech trees and landscaped rockeries at the front of the property
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Function
- Primary Historic--Single Dwelling
- Primary Current--Single Dwelling
- Community
- Burnaby
- Cadastral Identifier
- 003-118-746
- Boundaries
- The Cunningham House is comprised of a single residential lot located at 3555 Douglas Road, Burnaby.
- Area
- 4446.5
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Names
- Cunningham, Fred
- Cunningham, Edna
- Street Address
- 3555 Douglas Road
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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William & Edith Blott Residence
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Laurel Street
- Associated Dates
- 1923
- Description
- Residential building.
- Heritage Value
- This elegant house is a prominent local landmark, with a bellcast hipped roof, deep bracketed eaves and Doric porch columns. The use of the various Colonial Revival styles had gained new popularity during the 1920s at the time of the American Sesquicentennial, as is evident in the symmetrical façade composition and detailing. It was the home of William Alexander Blott (1878-1962), a shipper at the Broder Canning Company and later a real estate agent, and his wife Edith Carruthers Blott (née Shaw, 1890-1972), who were married in 1913. It is one of the few remaining larger estate homes along the formerly rural Douglas Road.
- Locality
- Burnaby Lake
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
- Area
- 1023.73
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Ownership
- Private
- Street Address
- 5558 Laurel Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
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Albert and Elsie Dawkins
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1923] (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 5.0 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of siblings Albert Dawkins (age 9) and Elsie Dawkins (age 5) at their Balfour Avenue home (later renamed Atlee Avenue). Albert is holding a cat, and Elsie is standing beside a dog.
Anne Peers on the steps
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1933]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 4.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted on album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers and three dolls sitting on the step of an unidentified home.This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's house on Deer Lake Avenue.
Anne Peers with a dog
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1933]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers, with a dog, seated on the front step of an unidentified home. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
Anne Peers with a puppy
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1933]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.3 x 7.8 cm on page 17 x 24.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Anne Peers posing on the front steps of an unidentified house with a puppy and three dolls. This may be her grandmother, Annie Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue.
Annie Hill and her grandson Robert
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1929]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8.7 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Annie Hill sitting on a bench, holding her grandson Robert Peers The bench is next to an unidentified house, although it may be the home of Robert's parents (and Annie's daughter, Kitty) on Deer Lake Avenue.
Audrey, Barbara and Basil Pontifex
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.3 x 2.8 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of siblings (back to front) Audrey, Barbara and Basil Pontifex at their house at 4006 Douglas Road (old numbering) and Gilpin Street.
Babs in a baby carriage
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1935
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.5 x 14.5 cm on page 12 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Babs Peers in her pram. Photograph was taken at a location identified as 3812 Deer Lake Avenue (old numbering system). This was the home grandparents, Claude and Annie Hill.
Barbara Martin
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1933 and 1940] (date of original), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- William Martin family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Barbara Martin (later Punnett) standing outside, at the side of the family's Spruce Street home at 3240 Spruce Street (renumbered 5420 Spruce Street).
Barbara Martin
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1933 and 1940] (date of original), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- William Martin family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Barbara Martin (later Punnett) standing outside on her family's property.
Basil Pontifex
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1935 and 1939] (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.7 x 3.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.7 x 26.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Basil Pontifex at the back of 4006 Douglas Road (old numbering) and Gilpin Street.
Basil Pontifex
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1924 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.2 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.5 x 26.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Basil Pontifex at 4006 Douglas Road (old numbering) and Gilpin Street. An unidentified boy is in the background on the left.
Bernard Hill family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Hill family members taken at the Bernard Hill farm. Identified: Bernard R. Hill (on right).
Bill and Jackie Martin
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1933 and 1940] (date of original), copied 2011
- Collection/Fonds
- William Martin family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (jpeg)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Bill and his younger brother Jackie Martin, each pushing their own wheelbarrow.
Bob and Robert Peers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6 x 9 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Bob Peers and his son, Robert outside a home identified as being at Burnaby Lake. This is likely Bob and Kitty Hill's home on Deer Lake Avenue in the Burnaby Lake neighbourhood.
Bob and Robert Peers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1928
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 8 cm on page 13.5 x 18.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Bob Peers with his son, Robert, twelve months old. The photograph appears to have been taken in front of the home of Bob and his wife Kitty Peers, on Deer Lake Avenue.