- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- 2019
Burnaby saw during the 1920s
was fragile and crumbled during the 1930s. Land
speculators failed in their development projects and
defaulted on taxes. Burnaby’s council saw tax revenue
decline even before the crash of the New York Stock
Market in October 1929. When boom economies
world-wide felt the impact