booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.84
- Description
- booklet, songbook; type-written song sheets gathered into a booklet; 44 numbered pages, with one un-numbered page of handwritten lyrics in pencil; light brown thin card cover with three brass split pin fasteners; "Song-book" handwritten on front cover; black oil cloth cover; "Dorothy Pitman / 2766 Cassie Ave., Burnaby." handwritten inside front cover; "Return to Dorothy Howat / c/o G. Pitman" handwritten on back page.
- Object History
- Songbook belonged to Dorothy Pitman who was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Literary Works
- Object Term
- Composition, Musical
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Pitman, Dorothy
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.86
- Description
- booklet; "THE RANGER STAR / Vol. 1 JUNE, 1924 No. 2"; booklet of written submissions on topics of interest to Rangers, such as music, camping and first aid; "published quarterly at West Burnaby, B.C."; pale green thin card cover with illustration of girl looking up at a star; "D. Pitman" handwritten in blue ink on page one.
- Object History
- The Ranger Star was available be subscription and was published quarterly in West Burnaby B.C. Editor of quarterly was Joy Mennie and Associate editor, Bessie Carter. This volume belonged to Dorothy Pitman who was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Literary Works
- Object Term
- Anthology
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Publication Date
- June 1924
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Names
- Pitman, Dorothy
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Carter, Bessie
- Mennie, Joy
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Burnaby Brownies, Guides and Rangers
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of Burnaby Brownies, Guides and Rangers. The guides are dressed in uniforms and gathered together for a group portrait in front of a backdrop of palm trees. Dorothy Pitman is identified in the third row, first on right; Miss Amy Leigh is identified in the fourth row from the b…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Girl Guides fonds
- Series
- Burnaby Girl Guides scrapbooks and photographs series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 20 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of Burnaby Brownies, Guides and Rangers. The guides are dressed in uniforms and gathered together for a group portrait in front of a backdrop of palm trees. Dorothy Pitman is identified in the third row, first on right; Miss Amy Leigh is identified in the fourth row from the bottom, fourth from right; Joy Menzies is idenitifed in the back row, third from right and Bessie Carter is identified in the back row, first from right.
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Leigh, Amy
- Pitman, Dorothy
- Carter, Bessie
- Menzies, Joy
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.221
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [192-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Transcribed title
- Photograph is a part of scrapbook "Burnaby Girl Guides. -- [1914]-1969, predominant ca. 1920" (BV015.35.164)
- Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "FRANCES MORKILL / GIRL GUIDE LIBRARY"
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Early 1920s / Burnaby, Brownies, Guides & Rangers / 3 row L to R 10. Dorothy Pitman / 4th row from front L to R. 7. Miss Amy Leigh / Back row LtoR 7. Joy Menzies 9. Bessie Carter / 1927 [sic] ? / 1920"
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The Canadian Girl Guide : the official magazine for Canada, March 1926
The Canadian Girl Guide : the official magazine of the Canadian Girl Guides, June 1927
certificate
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.82
- Description
- certificate; buff paper with decorative border on front, with text reading: "This is to Certify that / Dorothy Pitman / has been Enrolled a B P Girl Guide..."; back has decorative border of knots, with enrollment details and information of badges earned; "B.-P. GIRL GUIDES ENROLMENT CARD. / Name.....Dorothy Pitman / Company....1st Burnaby / Date of Enrolment.....February 1919"; signed by Agnes Baden Powell.
- Object History
- Certificated belonged to Dorothy Pitman who was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Personal Symbols - - Achievement Symbols
- Object Term
- Certificate
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Certificates
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Pitman, Dorothy
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drawing book
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.89
- Description
- drawing book; brown paper book of sketches from nature; 27 pages; hand drawn and painted; botanical samples of pressed wildflowers are also adhered to pages inside book and identified; "EMERALD / DRAWING / BOOK." commerically printed on front cover in green ink along with illustrations; "Nellie Gosling" handwritten on front cover in black ink; "Nellie Gosling / 1st Blackrock Company (Ireland) / Naturalists 1916" handwritten inside front cover; hand drawn and coloured flag display "UNITED WE STAND" on last page of book; flags of World War I allies Italy, France, Belgium, Great Britain, the United States of America, Portugal, Russia and Japan.
- Object History
- Drawing book was created by Nellie Gosling, First Blackrock Company, Ireland. The book may have been created to earn a badge. The drawing book was donated with items belonging to Dorothy Pitman, but it is unknown how she acquired it since she doesn't appear to have done the drawings herself. Dorothy Pitman was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Painting T&E
- Object Term
- Sketchbook
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Names
- Pitman, Dorothy
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Gosling, Nellie
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map
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.83
- Description
- map; "SKETCH MAP OF CANADIAN GIRL GUIDE CAMP, WILSON CREEK"; hand-drawn map shows locations of campsites, trails, roads, bathing beach, chapel, playing field, etc.; back of map has text in brown ink reading: "Over the hill and / down the valley" and Over the ill & do"
- Object History
- Map belonged to Dorothy Pitman who was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Graphic Documents
- Object Term
- Cartograph, Map
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Maps
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Pitman, Dorothy
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Pitman children
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1916
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.3 x 10.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Pitman children on a lawn swing, at McKay Avenue. Identified (on the back of the photograph) are left to right, in the back row: Marjorie, Gwen and Dorothy. The boy, in front, is Cliff. An annotation on the back of the photograph reads; "On the swing at Mr. and Mrs. Ed Phillips j…