Designed in a vernacular architectural style, the New Haven Barn is a large gambrel-roofed barn located on the Edwardian era McGregor Estate 'Glen-Lyon,' overlooking the rich farmland of the Fraser River floodplain and near a ravine and forested area adjacent to Marine Drive in South Burnaby.
Associated Dates
1939
Formal Recognition
Heritage Designation, Community Heritage Register
Other Names
Home of the Friendless, New Haven Borstal Home for Boys and Youthful Offenders, New Haven Correction Centre
Designed in a vernacular architectural style, the New Haven Barn is a large gambrel-roofed barn located on the Edwardian era McGregor Estate 'Glen-Lyon,' overlooking the rich farmland of the Fraser River floodplain and near a ravine and forested area adjacent to Marine Drive in South Burnaby.
Heritage Value
The site is historically significant for its association with early social welfare and correctional reform. The estate was sold in 1926 to an inter-denominational religious organization called the Home of the Friendless, which used it as their B.C. headquarters. The organization was charged with several cases of abuse and neglect in 1937, after which a Royal Commission was formed that led to new legislation to regulate and license all private welfare institutions. 'Glen-Lyon' was sold to the provincial government, and was dedicated in 1939 by the Lt.-Gov. E.W. Hamber for use as the New Haven Borstal Home for Boys and Youthful Offenders (later renamed the New Haven Correction Centre). The Borstal movement originated in England in the late nineteenth century, as an alternative to sending young offenders and runaways to prisons by providing reformatories that focused on discipline and vocational skill. This site’s role as the first North American institution devoted to the Borstal School philosophy was historic, and influenced corrections programs across Canada. The New Haven Barn is a significant feature from its development in 1939 as the Borstal School, designed by Chief Provincial Architect Henry Whittaker of the Department of Public Works, and is the only remaining structure of its kind in Burnaby.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the New Haven Barn include its:
- gambrel-roofed barn with roof vent with finial, sliding hay loft and access doors, small multi-pane windows, and lapped wooden siding
Burnaby’s landmark Ocean View Burial Park was British Columbia’s first non-sectarian cemetery created as a for-profit business enterprise. Organized by a group of local investors headed by Lieut. Col. G.H. Dorrell, the Ocean View Cemetery Company offered a place for burials that was not owned or associated with a civic government, religious or fraternal organization. The cemetery’s design was the vision of Albert F. Arnold, an officer of the Canadian Financiers Trust Company, who was “...always depressed by the lack of beauty in so many places of internment and inevitable neglect that finally reduced them to long-grassed places of unhappy memories.” One local newspaper described the landscape of the cemetery: "The design includes ornamental trees and shrubs, beautiful flower beds and smooth winding walks and drives, with a total absence of the usual somewhat ostentatious reminders of the harvest garnered by the grim reaper."
The planning, design concept, design coordination, site development and landscaping for the original part of the campus were all under the control of Erickson/Massey. The complex was conceived as one building, with future growth occurring at the periphery. Tall buildings would have been out of scal…
The planning, design concept, design coordination, site development and landscaping for the original part of the campus were all under the control of Erickson/Massey. The complex was conceived as one building, with future growth occurring at the periphery. Tall buildings would have been out of scale with the massive mountaintop ridge, so a series of horizontal terraced structures were designed that hugged the ridge and dissolve into the landscape. Following the linear peak of the mountain, the scheme organized various parts of the campus along an east/west line. The concept of a central academic quadrangle was conceived within the tradition of Oxford and Cambridge, and to enhance the sense of contemplative quiet, it was designed as a perfect square raised on massive pilotis, allowing stunning views through a landscaped courtyard. The connecting link was a gigantic space frame-developed in conjunction with Jeffrey Lindsay, a one-time associate of Buckminster Fuller-that provided shelter and a gathering-place for the students. Other architects who had placed among the top five in the competition were retained to design the individual components of the original plan: the Academic Quadrangle by Zoltan S. Kiss; the Theatre, Gymnasium & Swimming Pool by Duncan McNab & Associates; the Science Complex by Rhone & Iredale; and the Library by Robert F. Harrison.
Heritage Value
Following the end of the Second World War, there was unprecedented growth throughout the Lower Mainland. Many returning veterans had settled on the coast, and the loosening of wartime restrictions led to the creation of many new suburban developments throughout the region. The growing population strained existing facilities, and there was a recognition that new educational facilities had to be constructed to meet these growing demands. For many years, the only university in the province was the University of British Columbia. In the 1960s, new universities were planned for both Victoria and Burnaby to serve the wave of baby boomers just then going through high school. The dramatic site chosen for the Burnaby university was the top of Burnaby Mountain, with expansive views over mountain ranges and water. An architectural competition was held for a campus of 7,000 students that could eventually be expanded to 18,000.
Of the many submissions, the judges reached unanimity on the winner, an outstanding scheme submitted by the firm of Erickson/Massey. The judges went even further, and recommended that every effort be made to ensure that the winning design be built as submitted. The new Chancellor, Gordon Shrum, agreed. The realization of this scheme won extensive recognition for the work of Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey, and launched Erickson’s international career. In Erickson’s words: "Unlike any previous university, Simon Fraser is a direct translation into architecture of the expanding fields of knowledge that defy traditional boundaries, of the vital role of the university as both challenger and conservor of human culture, and of the university community as one in constant intellectual, spiritual and social interchange."
The new school opened for classes in September 1965, nicknamed the “instant university,” and quickly gained a radical reputation. The startling futuristic architecture and open layout suited the explosive nature of the mid-1960s, when political and social traditions of all types were being questioned and student protests were common. Many of SFU’s programs were considered experimental, even controversial, and unrest and conflict on the campus continued for a number of years.
Since this auspicious beginning 40 years ago, SFU has grown to house 25,000 students on three campuses. The core of the original campus, recognized world-wide as a profound work of architecture, remains essentially intact today.
The Woodward House is a two-storey plus basement, wood-framed house with British Arts and Crafts influences. It is set in a wooded landscape on a lakefront property, on Sperling Avenue within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct of Burnaby, with expansive views of the lake.
The Woodward House is a two-storey plus basement, wood-framed house with British Arts and Crafts influences. It is set in a wooded landscape on a lakefront property, on Sperling Avenue within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct of Burnaby, with expansive views of the lake.
Heritage Value
Maud Sarah Woodward (1865-1958), a pioneer nurse originally from England, and her sister Harriet Julia Woodward (1879-1969), one of Burnaby’s first teachers, had this large house built in 1912 to replace the smaller cottage they owned nearby at 5141 Sperling Avenue. Farmer, builder and longtime Deer Lake resident, Bernard R. Hill (1858-1939), was hired as the contractor.
The Woodward House played an important role in the Deer Lake community. The Woodward sisters were tireless community organizers and volunteers. This house served a number of functions, and in addition to being the sisters’ home was the local post office until 1949 and also a private kindergarten/school until 1935. Originally designed in the British Arts and Crafts style with a simple rustic exterior of cedar shingles, it is an excellent example of the type of residence constructed by middle-class citizens in the Deer Lake neighbourhood. The B.C. Electric Railway's Burnaby Lake Interurban line, which opened June 12, 1911, fostered the development of Deer Lake as well as other Edwardian era neighbourhoods in Burnaby.
Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Woodward House include its:
- lakefront location, within the Deer Lake Park Heritage Precinct
- residential form, scale and massing as exhibited by its two-storey height, full basement, square floor plan and side-gabled roof
- internal red-brick chimneys
- British Arts and Crafts features such as cedar shingle siding, extant under later plywood
- associated landscape features such as mature coniferous trees
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1951]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 1, Number 4 of the Second Series, March 1951. The front cover features a picture of the front entrance of the Association's building. This issue has articles on:
Our Business Premises
Autobiography of a Great Anthropologist
The Pleistocene Age of British Columbia
The Tuatara
The Flora of Fairmont Hot Springs
The Passenger Pigeon
Reverend Jonathan Green
The Burnaby Lodestone
The Totem Poles in Stanley Park - Booklet -- [194-?]. Created by The Art, Historical and Scientific Association in Vancouver BC. The booklet was created by John C. Goodfellow. The cover is brown with and illustration of a totem pole on the left side.
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1949]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 1, Number 1 of the Second Series, September 1949. The front cover features a picture of the Dimorphodon Macronyx model made by Madam Erna C. von Engel-Baiersdorf. This issue has articles on:
The Method of Reconstructiong Human and Animal Remains in Sculpture and in Paintings
Early History of the Burnaby Family
Indian Native Art
Sundews
The Aleuts of Attu
The Trumpeter Swan
Achatina Fulica, The Great African Snail
Some Field Work of the Curator
Palomar's Giant Eye, the Hale Telescope
The Directors, Life and Honorary Members of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association.
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1951]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 2, Number 1 of the Second Series, November 1951. The front cover features a picture of the "Melanope" ship and the "Empress of Russia" ship in Vancouver 1930. This issue has articles on:
"Melanope," The Ship of Tragedy
Time, and the Indian
Panechates, Son of Hatres
The Pleistocene, or Ice Age of South West British Columbia
Birds in the Cariboo
The Fine Arts
The Museum is a School of Visual Education
The Cinder Cone Buried Forest
Pioneer Wesleyan Missionaries in British Columbia
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1950]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 1, Number 2 of the Second Series, March 1950. The front cover features a picture of Clematis Douglasii Hook. This issue has articles on:
Some Rare Plants of British Columbia
Early Electric Light on This Coast
The Early Story of North Vancouver
Production by the Billion
The Irish Deer
Camels in the Cariboo
Acorn and Beechnut
The Single Tusk of the Narwhal
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1949]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 1, Number 1 of the Second Series, September 1949. The front cover features a picture of the Dimorphodon Macronyx model made by Madam Erna C. von Engel-Baiersdorf. This issue has articles on:
The Method of Reconstructiong Human and Animal Remains in Sculpture and in Paintings
Early History of the Burnaby Family
Indian Native Art
Sundews
The Aleuts of Attu
The Trumpeter Swan
Achatina Fulica, The Great African Snail
Some Field Work of the Curator
Palomar's Giant Eye, the Hale Telescope
The Directors, Life and Honorary Members of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association.
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1931]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 6, Number 4, December 1931. The front cover features a picture of Skidegat Lake Beaver bowl from the Queen Charlotte Islands, the work of Chief Edensaw of the Haida Indians. This issue has articles on:
President's Address
Secretary and Curator's Annual Report
Flora of British Columbia
A Kwantlum Battle
How Mountaineers Can Use Their Photographs for Mapping
The Queerest Newspaper in the World
Ecology of Sproat Lake, B.C.
Membership, January 31st, 1932
Museum & Art Notes - Booklet -- [1952]. The Art Historical and Scientific Association publication of Museum & Art Notes. This is Volume 2, Number 2 of the Second Series, April 1952. The front cover features a picture of a Relic of the Ice Age, Mountain Region, Lynn Creek, B.C. This issue has articles on:
The Pleistocene, or Ice Age of South-West British Columbia, Part III, Vashon Glaciation
In The Service of Man
Placochelys Placodonta, Jaekel
Costal Wanderings
A Derelict Fort in Northern British Columbia
Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia
The Burrard Inlet Cattle Trail from Lillooet
What Has Caused the Return of the Glaciers in British Columbia
Vancouver City Museum Golden Jubilee - Booklet --[1944]. Booklet made for the City Museum of Vancouver BC by The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver BC in celebration of their Golden Jubilee 1894 to 1944. The front cover has an illustration of Captain George Vancouver.
Fort Langley 1827-1927 - Booklet -- [194-?]. Booklet produced by the Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver BC. The front cover features the Cairn and Commemorative Tablet in Fort Langley, BC.
The Great Fraser Midden - Booklet -- [1938]. Booklet created by The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver BC. The front cover features "The Watcher", a sketch of a Native man beside a tree by Amy E.C. Campbell-Johnston. The booklet commemorates the presentation of a cairn at Marpole Gardens, Vancouver, May 7 1938.
The Great Fraser Midden - Booklet -- [1953]. Booklet created by the Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver BC. The front cover features a photograph by P.T. Timms of the Great Fraser Midden.
Photograph of members of the Southwest Scouts Club rolling a wire spool from Byrne Creek across the street, as a part of British Columbia Rivers Day cleanup.
Photograph of members of the Southwest Scouts Club rolling a wire spool from Byrne Creek across the street, as a part of British Columbia Rivers Day cleanup.
Note in black ink on recto of photograph reads: "Bby - 1937 - Brian"
Trim marks and/or reproduction instructions on recto (scan is cropped)
Accompanying caption reads: "Oct 11, 1998 1937: / The 2nd and 3rd Southwest Scouts Club retrieves a wire spool from Bryne Creek as part of BC Rivers Day cleanup."
Item is a digitized copy of a silent colour film segment with footage of the annual Sports Day events held at Burnaby Central Park. The film opens with an unidentified dedication ceremony and tree planting in an unknown location and switches to students marching into Central Park. Hundreds of child…
Item is a digitized copy of a silent colour film segment with footage of the annual Sports Day events held at Burnaby Central Park. The film opens with an unidentified dedication ceremony and tree planting in an unknown location and switches to students marching into Central Park. Hundreds of children and Youth are showcased in sporting field events and competitions such as track and field sports, acrobatics, gymnastics, dancing, leap frog, skipping, rugby.
Film clip originates from digitized version of original 16 mm film footage (item 562-002). This segment was part of digitized portion titled 'May Day Events'