Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning - By the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and the Early Childhood Educators of BC
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume eight
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume five
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume four
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume nine
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume one
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume seven
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume six
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume ten
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume three
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The world book : organized knowledge... in story and picture, assisted by one hundred fifty distinguished scientists, educators, artists and leaders of thought in the United States and Canada, volume two
Contributors: "Editor-in Chief: M. V. O'Shea."
"Editor for Canada: George H. Locke."
"Editor: Ellsworth D. Foster."
Contributors' full names and dates: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932
Locke, George H. (George Herbert), 1870-1937
Foster, Ellsworth Decatur, 1869-1936.
The Kingsway East School is a two-storey wood-frame Arts and Crafts styled building. The school, and the adjacent cenotaph and memorial tennis courts, comprise Burnaby South Memorial Park.
The Kingsway East School is a two-storey wood-frame Arts and Crafts styled building. The school, and the adjacent cenotaph and memorial tennis courts, comprise Burnaby South Memorial Park.
Heritage Value
This school structure completed in 1913, the oldest surviving public education building in the city, was intended to be the auditorium and gymnasium for Burnaby’s first high school. However, because of the 1913 recession and the outbreak of the First World War, it was utilized as the Kingsway East Elementary School for the Edmonds District until 1921. Burnaby South High School opened here in 1922, and after it relocated this building was used for a variety of school purposes until it became redundant. The school was rehabilitated for community purposes in 2002-03 and renamed the Alan Emmott Centre to honor a former Mayor of Burnaby.
The impressive scale of the Kingsway East School is indicative of the relative size of the community and its growing demand for schooling at the time of construction, illustrating the value that early community residents placed on education. Built to plans of the Burnaby School Board architect, Joseph Henry Bowman (1864-1943), it also indicates the individual values and design control exercised by the school board during this era.
It is also significant for its Arts and Crafts style, allied to the typical Craftsman residential vocabulary, which was employed locally for school buildings of the Edwardian era. By using a common architectural vocabulary, this allowed the institution to reflect the values and aspirations of the local community. The Arts and Crafts style also demonstrated an allegiance to British educational antecedents and a demonstration of loyalty to the Mother Country.
"The Salvation Army / Elmwood Corps / Presented to Mabel White for good conduct.., 42 marks out of a possible 52, from G. James Capt. C.G., Mrs. Varty Y.P. Sergt.-Major, Feb.28 1927" -- stickerd and handwritten in ink on endpaper (front).
The BC Vocational School was established in 1960 at Willingdon and Canada Way. By 1964, the British Columbia Insitute of Technology had opened and had 498 students enrolled. In the 1970s, the BC Vocational School had been renamed the Pacific Vocational Institute and in 1986 the two institutions merged. The school is a public post-secondary institution that is governed by a Board of Governors, under the authority of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology. By 2004, the annual enrolment of part-time and full-time students reached 48,000.
Burnaby North and Burnaby South were the first high schools built in the City. Before the high school opened, Burnaby students had to travel to Vancouver if they wished to pursue education beyond an elementary level. In 1921, arrangements were made to use the basement of the Presbyterian Church for instruction of local students. By 1922 the Burnaby North High School opened at its first permanent location (4375 Pandora Street - which is now Rosser Elementary). In 1945, the Willingdon Avenue site was built and was used until a new building was constructed in 1961 on Hammarskjold Drive. From 1962, the school was used as Burnaby Heights Junior High school, but it closed in 1982 and the junior high students went to the new Burnaby North on Hammarskjold.
Burnaby South and Burnaby North were Burnaby's first high schools. The first rooms of the school were built in 1922 on the same grounds as the Kingsway East Elementary School. In 1940, a two-storey building was erected and additions were made in 1963, 1967 and 1972. Kingsway East closed in 1925 and its buildings were used by the high school for Industrial Arts and Home Economics. In the early 1990s, a new "urban education centre" (Burnaby South/B.C. School for the Deaf) was opened, replacing the old Burnaby South High School.
The Douglas-Gilpin Neighbourhood developed into a diverse area incorporating residential, business, educational and park districts in the period after 1955. The BCIT site was built in the early 1960s, shortly after the Burnaby Municipal Hall was located on Canada Way near Deer Lake in 1956. The construction of the Municipal Hall at this location fostered the creation of an administrative and business centre adjacent to the park, while the northern and central areas of the neighbourhood retained their primarily residential character.
This landmark school was designed by the architectural firm of Bowman & Cullerne, specialists in the design of educational facilities. After Harold Cullerne (1890-1976) returned from service during the First World War, he joined J.H. Bowman (1864-1943) in a partnership that lasted from 1919 to 1934. The firm’s projects include the Seaforth School (1922, now relocated to Burnaby Village Museum), Burnaby North High School (1923), and the Nelson Avenue School (1927). This was originally designed as a two-storey, four-room building in 1925, with two-storey four-room wings added two years later. The building has been altered with the addition of stucco cladding over the original siding and replacement windows, but has retained its original form and massing, as well as its domed roof ventilator.
Subsequent work at Ocean View was designed by local architects Sharp & Thompson through the 1950s, including the stone-faced Garden Chapel, built in 1936 as a replica of a Norman church. Prominent stone gates also replaced the original gates at the corner entrance. George Sharp (1880-1974) and Charles Thompson (1878-1961) formed Vancouver’s longest surviving architectural firm in 1908. They were born, educated and articled in London, before arriving in Vancouver via different routes. In 1912, the firm won the competition for the new University of British Columbia.
The Seaforth Schoolhouse is a one-storey wood-frame rectangular plan building with a projecting entry porch, located in the Burnaby Village Museum.
Heritage Value
The heritage value of the Seaforth Schoolhouse lies in its representation of a one-room school once located in one of the city’s rural districts. The school was constructed due to the demand of increasing population after the First World War, in what was then known as the Lozells District, so isolated at the time that parents were concerned about the danger to their children from wild bears and cougars that roamed the area. The school was named after its sponsor, the Seaforth Chapter of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire. Bowman and Cullerne, the architects for the Burnaby School Board, designed the one room schoolhouse. It was constructed by local contractor, Alphonse J. Toebaert, following the standards of British Columbia public school architecture, which specified the plan and orientation of the building. It indicates the values and the design control of school boards of the time, and the central role of the provincial government in setting educational standards.
The heritage value of this school also lies in its interpretive value within the Burnaby Village Museum. The site is an important cultural feature for the interpretation of Burnaby’s heritage to the public, illustrating the changes in the local school system over time. The school was moved to Burnaby Village Museum in 1983, and was opened to the public after extensive restoration in 1987. Both the interior and exterior have been restored and interpreted to the date of original construction. The North Vancouver School Board donated most of the early desks, and the remainder of the interior artifacts are from the museum’s own collection.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Seaforth Schoolhouse include its:
- rectangular plan
- hipped roof with cedar shingle cladding
- hipped-roof entry porch
- typical school fenestration of the era, with a bank of double-hung 6-over-6 wooden-sash windows on one facade
- cedar shingle cladding
- original and authentic interior elements such as interior mouldings, blackboards and desks