Photograph of the front exterior of Burnaby Fire Hall No. 6, located at 3620 Brighton Avenue, at the corner of Brighton Avenue and Government Street. The photograph is taken from across Brighton Avenue, facing east. One of the fire hall's garage doors is open and a person and car are inside. The Fu…
Photograph of the front exterior of Burnaby Fire Hall No. 6, located at 3620 Brighton Avenue, at the corner of Brighton Avenue and Government Street. The photograph is taken from across Brighton Avenue, facing east. One of the fire hall's garage doors is open and a person and car are inside. The Furniture Fair warehouse is visible behind the fire hall.
(a) Government Street
(b) Lougheed Highway
(c) Scott Street between Greenall Avenue and Boundary Road
(d) Willingdon Avenue
(e) Halifax-Cliff-Curtis Route
Photograph of a woman standing in a doorway inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Behind the woman is a staircase as part of another room. Some boxes and wooden poles and shovels are resting against a wall to the right of the lady. Some crumpled paper are lying on…
Photograph of a woman standing in a doorway inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Behind the woman is a staircase as part of another room. Some boxes and wooden poles and shovels are resting against a wall to the right of the lady. Some crumpled paper are lying on the floor. Some light exposure on the left side of the photograph is noticeable.
Subseries consists of photographs of the opening of the Burnaby Historical Society Archives' Fraser Wilson Room on November 15, 1990.
History
Annie Urbanovits Boulanger’s parents emigrated from Hungary to Toronto: Louis in 1925 and Irene in 1930. The couple married in Toronto and later moved to Vancouver. During WWII, Louis worked in the Vancouver Shipyards, followed by Nichols Chemical Company in Barnet for 15 years. While the Urbanovits family lived in Cloverdale, Louis commuted to Kask’s Camp in Barnet until they moved to Burnaby in 1951 to an old farm on Napier Street.
Between 1951 and 1956 Annie completed her BA degree, majoring in chemistry and english with a minor in physical education, and obtained her teaching diploma at UBC. She taught for four years in various locations in BC before marrying and moving to Manitoba and Ottawa. She and her husband and five children returned to Burnaby in 1964 to a home on Government Street to be close to family. The couple later had another two children.
Annie Boulanger became involved in the community first through her children’s school, initiating and teaching french classes in Seaforth School in 1969, and supporting the development of gymnastics in school and as a municipal program. Her interest in Archives lead to doing oral histories for John Adams, curator of Heritage Village (later Burnaby Village Museum), and for SFU Archives. She became a long time member of the Burnaby Writers’ Club in the 1970s, taking a course in writing non-fiction from Chris Potter.
In 1983 Annie Boulanger joined the Burnaby Arts Council, becoming President in 1985. She was involved in lobbying the municipality for better monetary support and facilities for the arts and for the creation of a Municipal Arts Policy. She continued to promote the arts in Burnaby through her appointment to Burnaby’s Visual Arts Advisory Board in 1997, her arts journalism, writing regular book and theatre reviews for the local newspaper, and other activities. She was a member of the Burnaby Centennial Committee and was one of the editors of the book “Burnaby Centennial Anthology”. She is also the author of "A Carousel is Magic: The Saving of Parker # 119".
(a) Piper Avenue from Government Street to the North Property Line of Lot 54, DL 40, Plan 28091
(b) Lozells Avenue from Government Street to the North Property Line of Lot 46, DL 42, Plan 23102
Application for Assistance - 1998/1999 BC Hydro Beautification Program - Proposed Priority Project for 1998 - Government Street (Carrigan Court to Government Street)
Application from Polaris Construction Ltd. To Rezone Land in the Lougheed-Government Street Area from A2 Small Holdings and R1 Residential to CD Comprehensive Development, to Permit the Construction of a Comprehensive Housing Project
Appropriations for Trunk Roads Allocated to Riverway, Hastings Barnet Road, North Road, Douglas Road, Boundary Road - 13th Avenue to 22nd Avenue, Sperling Avenue, Government Street, Bainbridge Avenue and Broadway