Kay North subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913-[1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Kay North subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-04
- BHS1991-38
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs of Riverway Mission Sunday school classes and the Cropley/Rorison family, as well as a 1914 Deed of Land and 1913 Agreement of Sale of Land for the Cropley family.
- History
- Kay Rorison North was one of the twin daughters of Burnaby carpenter William Rorison and Alma Cropley Rorison. Kay and her twin Evelyn were nine month old when her parents moved them and her two older brothers, Bill and Hugh, to Burnaby in 1922. Her younger brother, John, was not yet born.
Kay's grandmother, Matilda Louise Cropley, bought three acres of land on Marine Drive (then called River Road) in South Burnaby and William built two houses on the property: one for his family and, six years later, one for his wife's widowed mother. They built a barn and kept cows, goats and the occasional pig. Her father built wooden toys and board games for the children.
Kay went to Riverway West School with thirty-one other children, with grades one to four taught together in the one-room school house. She also attended Sunday school at Riverway mission for eight years and taught it there for another fifteen.
Kay and her husband Doug have two daughters.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- North, Kay Rorison
- Notes
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
- PC269, MSS051
Less detail
Child at the pond
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1934
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a child playing in a pond. This is believed to be one of the Rorison twins.
Children and their teacher
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children and what looks to be their teacher sitting and standing in rows outside on the grass, with windows of a building visible in the background. The Rorison twins are believed to be in this photograph.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1930]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Kay North subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 269-001
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-38
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children and what looks to be their teacher sitting and standing in rows outside on the grass, with windows of a building visible in the background. The Rorison twins are believed to be in this photograph.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Grandma Cropley
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of "Grandma" Cropley standing outside with her hands resting on a man's shoulders. The man is sitting on chair and wearing a three-piece suit. Flowering trees are partially surrounding them.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Kay North subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 269-008
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1991-38
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of "Grandma" Cropley standing outside with her hands resting on a man's shoulders. The man is sitting on chair and wearing a three-piece suit. Flowering trees are partially surrounding them.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
McGavin's truck
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a man standing outside in the snow in front of a white truck with "McGavin's" stenciled on it. The writing below that has been covered by a sticker that reads: "McGavin's Breads".
Riverway Mission
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1942
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of two women and a young girl standing in the snow outside, in front of the Riverway Mission.
Riverway Mission Sunday School
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1943
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an event put on by the Riverway Mission Sunday School. Children and adults are seated outside; the children are in rows behind, and the adults are seated at two tables on either side, forming a horseshoe.
Riverway Mission Sunday School
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of children in the back of a parked flat-bed truck from the Riverway Mission Sunday School. Three adults are standing along side the truck, dressed in their Sunday best.
Riverway West Baptist Mission
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1930 and 1958]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large group standing on the steps at the front entrance to the Riverway West Baptist Mission. A sign on the right advertises Sunday School and the times for morning worship.
Sled full of riders
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a sled full of riders coming through a trail, and look to be headed straight for a dog sitting in the snow. The dog's black and white body is only paritially visible.
Sunday School children
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [193-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Riverway Mission Sunday School bus parked outside of the Riverway Mission. The Sunday School children are all standing out in front of the truck, in the front yard.
Three young women on bicycles
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1942
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three young women in skirts, stopping on their bicycles in the center of a winding road.
William and Alma Rorison
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1937
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of William and Alma Cropley Rorison and their dog Buster sitting on the steps of their front walk in the snow.
Working on an Austin 7
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1933 and 1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w copy negative ; 35 mm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a man working on a Austin 7 (looks to be the 1933 model). He is standing in overalls with a cloth in his hand, holding the passenger side door open. There is a tire on the ground at his feet.