Capitol Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.0 x 15.2 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a logging road on the north face of Capitol Hill. Burrard Inlet can be seen in the background. An annotation in the photograph register describes it as a "road cut to take timber on side hill for destitute family's heat and cooking."
Dog on Elgin Avenue
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1939] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Elgin Avenue looking north. A dog is sitting in the middle of the road.
Elgin Avenue
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Elgin Avenue looking North from a farm at 6389 Elgin Avenue. Trees and brush line the road.
The Green Timbers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 7.5 cm on page 23.5 x 17.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken looking down a tree-lined road, and is labelled "The Green Timbers". An automobile is parked along the side of the road. The Green Timbers was a famous roadway that went through Surrey and by the 1920s it was known as the only remaining stretch of virgin forest all the way from Ca…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1923
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Peers family subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 7.5 cm on page 23.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 020-006
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Photograph taken looking down a tree-lined road, and is labelled "The Green Timbers". An automobile is parked along the side of the road. The Green Timbers was a famous roadway that went through Surrey and by the 1920s it was known as the only remaining stretch of virgin forest all the way from California to British Columbia. In more recent years, this area in Surrey has been declared an urban forest park.
- Subjects
- Geographic Features - Roads
- Plants - Trees
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Less detail
Jackson family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1936 or 1937] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.4 x 12.2 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Mrs. Florence Jackson, her children, Vera and Ron and their dog Dinty Moore who was part Alsatian and part Airedale, in the snow. This photograph was taken on Trafalgar Street (now Maywood) looking west toward Central Park from between Telford Avenue and McKay Avenue.
Jackson family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Mrs. Florence Jackson, her son Ron, and their dog Dinty Moore who was part Alsatian and part Airedale, in the snow.
Jackson family
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.1 x 12.0 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of sister and brother, Vera and Ron Jackson, in the snow.
Kingsway 1939
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1939
- Collection/Fonds
- John Shaw fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large crowd gathered outside the Municipal Hall on Kingsway. This photograph was taken during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. A large group of spectators can be seen standing on either side of the street.
Royal Oak Avenue
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.2 x 12.2 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Royal Oak Avenue looking north from the Price's property near Dover Street.
Rumble Street
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1932
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Rumble Street looking east toward Patterson Avenue, located where the house on the left can be seen.
Snowplough on Barkerville Highway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1938]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.9 x 18.9 cm on page 17.5 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph has the following caption: "First rotary snowplough working on Barkerville Highway, Devil's Canyon."
Sperling and Broadway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-?] (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of flowers beside the road at Sperling Avenue and Broadway.
Streetcar snowplough
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.9 x 4.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.2 x 25.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a streetcar fitted with a snowplough at the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Hastings Street in the snow.