Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

In the Shadow by the Sea collection

Series

Yasui family photographs series

Description Level

Series

Physical Description

11 photographs (tiffs)

Scope and Content

Series consists of copies of photographs pertaining to the Yasui family while Sukegoro (Shoyen) Yasui worked for the Nichols Chemical Company and the family lived on the site of Barnet. These photographs were published in the book "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village".

History

Sukegoro (Shoyen) Yasui (1884-1972) and his wife Tane (Hirata) Yasui (d.1987) emigrated from Japan to Canada in 1919. Sukegoro and Tane had two children Yasue Margaret (Matsumura) (1921-2019) and Harding Yasui (1923-2008). Sukegoro worked as a burner operator for the Nichols Chemical Company of Barnet B.C. The family lived on the site with five other families in a bunkhouse including the three Kokuryo brothers and their families and the Kojima family. The children attended Barnet School for three years before the family moved to Surrey in 1934 after purchasing farm land. Sukegoro and Tane Yasui grew strawberries and raised chickens on the farm and Sukegoro continued to work shift work at the Nichols plant. In 1942, the Yasui family were interned and sent to work on a sugar beet farm near Lethbridge, Alberta. While living in Picture Butte, Alberta,Yasue married Matsuo Matsumura. Following the war, the whole family moved to Kingston, Ontario where Harding completed his senior year of high school. A few years later, Harding moved to Montreal and his parents joined him. The Barnet Lumber Company also known as the Barnet mill was in operation between 1925 and 1932. The mill was located on Burrard Inlet in the neighbourhood of Barnet and was one of the most successful local employers in Burnaby until the 1930s when the Great Depression resulted in a strike at the mill. The City of Burnaby eventually assumed control of the site including all of the homes when the company failed to pay it's taxes. The city then dismantled the mill and sold the property in two parts - the eastern section would become the Kapoor Sawmills Limited and the western portion, the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company.

Accession Code

BV019.32

Date

[1923-1937] (date of originals), copied 2004

Media Type

Photograph

Related Material

See also, City of Burnaby Archives: Burnaby Historical Society fonds - "In the Shadow by the Sea subseries"

Notes

Title based on contents of series

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Repository

City of Burnaby Archives

Date

1990

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Mountain Preservation Society fonds

Physical Description

1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm

Description Level

Item

Record No.

629-101

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number

2006-13

Scope and Content

Photograph of yellow iris flowers.

Subjects

Plants - Flowers

Media Type

Photograph

Notes

Stamp on slide reads: "06-05-90"; handwritten note on slide reads: "Iris 13-2-15-2."

Geographic Access

Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area

Planning Study Area

Burnaby Mountain Area

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Repository

City of Burnaby Archives

Date

[between 1890 and 1910] (date of original), copied 1995

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series

Community Archives Collection series

Subseries

Byrne family subseries

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm print

Description Level

Item

Record No.

316-002

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

No known restrictions

Accession Number

BHS1995-04

Scope and Content

Photograph of a young girl taken in a photographic studio as she sits on a tall wooden chair with her arm resting on a table beside an open book. She has gerber daisies on her lap and her legs are crossed at the ankles. A potted plant has been placed to her right, in front of the table, and behind her is a sheer curtain.

Subjects

Documentary Artifacts - Portraits

Media Type

Photograph

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

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