Item consists of a handwritten air mail letter from Sergeant Colin Rhodes Fox of the Royal Canadian Artillery Service to Marianne "May" Bateman while serving overseas during World War II. Colin Fox served in the 13th Canadian Field Regiment, 44th Canadian Field Battery.
Colin is writing from hospit…
Item consists of a handwritten air mail letter from Sergeant Colin Rhodes Fox of the Royal Canadian Artillery Service to Marianne "May" Bateman while serving overseas during World War II. Colin Fox served in the 13th Canadian Field Regiment, 44th Canadian Field Battery.
Colin is writing from hospital after being wounded while laying communication cable on the Normandy beachhead on June 8, 1944 (two days after D-Day). Colin thanks May for her letters; tells of how he's been convalescing in bed for twenty days with damage to one of his lungs and how he and others in the ward have been listening to radio shows on a Red Cross radio.
Photograph of Burnaby Citizen's Associaton Alderman James H. Edwards, served on the Burnaby Council from 1959 to 1962 and again from 1964 to 1965. He worked as a lawyer and was the Red Cross Campaign Chairman for Burnaby, and ran in the 1956 provincial election as a Liberal Party candidate before …
Photograph of Burnaby Citizen's Associaton Alderman James H. Edwards, served on the Burnaby Council from 1959 to 1962 and again from 1964 to 1965. He worked as a lawyer and was the Red Cross Campaign Chairman for Burnaby, and ran in the 1956 provincial election as a Liberal Party candidate before joining the Burnaby Council.
badge sash, Girl Guides; Copen blue poly-cotton rectangle with triangular ends. Worn over the right shoulder.
Decorated with the following earned Girl Guide badges: Wings (Brownie), Challenge Emblem (laurel wreath), Citizen (green maple leaf), Little House Emblem (Queen Elizabeth II’s doll house), Baker (orange loaf), Hostess (green cup & saucer), Cook (mixing bowl & milk bottle), Thrift (gold bee), Be Prepared Emblem (flaming cattail torch), First Aid (red cross), Home Nurse (white cross), Fire Safety (red firefighter's helmet), Rescuer (white stretcher), Health (green serpent) and Hiking (yellow hiking figure).
Physical Fitness Emblem (figure doing the splits in blue, over a red maple leaf), Sport (crossed racquets), Team Sport (three sports balls & a curling stone), Swimming (white dolphin), Skating (white ice skate & roller skate), Camping Emblem (triangular badge, white tent with orange fire), Music Fan (blue treble clef), Camp Leader (white tents around red fire), Outdoor Cook (cooking pot suspended over fire), Pet Lover (white seated dog), Writing (red quill & scroll), Junior Camper (white tent with white flowers), Backyard Cook (crossed roasting forks), Camp-Out (green bedroll), Campfire Leading (brown log campfire), Outdoor Adventures (yellow figure climbing), Creative Drama (pink comedy & tragedy masks), Child Care (red & white blocks), Lifesaver Helper (orange & white lifesaver), Ecology (sprouting bean seed), Emergency Helper (red glowing lantern) and Heritage (red map of Canada).
Object History
Note from donor: Girl Guides badge sash (1970's to 1990's). Would be worn with Girl Guides uniform, a blue beret, brown leather belt, a tie/scarf from the appropriate era and a badge sash.
Box, metal, hinged lid; green, gold, brown, ivory, black; on front and back, padlock and chain heart-shaped design, leaves either side; "Fine Teas" "Lock Brand" "Blackwoods Ltd., Winnipeg"; on two sides, "The Dyson Co. Direct Importers and Blenders of Lock Brand Teas and Manufacturers of Red Cross Brand" "Trade Mark Registered" "Coffee and Spices" "Baking Powder..." "Winnipeg"; rust, metal deterioration
Object History
Donor purchased objects from various collectors and antique retailers.
First aid kit box, wooden, dovetailed corners; brass handle on hinged lid; red cross painted on front near bottom; two brass? hinged snap closures on front; on inside of lid is 1.5cm strip of leather held in place by screw nails 4cm apart; `707 081 352' is scratched into varnish on top of lid; on lid front in white letters with black and gold outlines, "MUST NOT BE OPENED EXCEPT IN CASE"; on box front is "OF EMERGENCY"; inside is unvarnished; out- side is scuffed, scratched, varnish worn in places
Object History
Donor states that he obtained the kit in 1949 after it became obsolete at his work, the Shell Marine Gas Station in New Westminster.
Photograph of three students at Burnaby South Secondary counting change and bills as part of a fundraising effort. They each wear a sign that reads: "Tsunami Relief Fund / Give Generously."
Photograph of three students at Burnaby South Secondary counting change and bills as part of a fundraising effort. They each wear a sign that reads: "Tsunami Relief Fund / Give Generously."
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Wendy Diao, Monica Bhandari and Amardeet Powar help sort and count some of the money raised by the student council and Interact Club at Burnaby South Secondary to help tsunami victims in Southeast Asia in a two-day collection blitz of students and staff. The school hopes to raise $10,000, to be donated to the Red Cross."
Photograph of volunteer Peter Malacarne in the Burnaby Canadian Red Cross' call centre. Malacarne stands in the foreground, wearing a Red Cross vest, while other volunteers are seated behind him at desks, taking calls.
Photograph of volunteer Peter Malacarne in the Burnaby Canadian Red Cross' call centre. Malacarne stands in the foreground, wearing a Red Cross vest, while other volunteers are seated behind him at desks, taking calls.
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Peter Malacarne, of New Westminster, is a volunteer at the Canadian Red Cross in Burnaby, supervising their call centre as they take donations to help the victims of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia."
Photograph of C.D. Reekie, a longtime resident of South Burnaby, whose father was among the first patients of the Red Cross. He has his right hand on one of the two medals that his father received during the Crimean campaign along with a shoebrush and a sewing kit that was given to his father by Fl…
Photograph of C.D. Reekie, a longtime resident of South Burnaby, whose father was among the first patients of the Red Cross. He has his right hand on one of the two medals that his father received during the Crimean campaign along with a shoebrush and a sewing kit that was given to his father by Florence Nightingale. (He is refered to as an "old-timer" in the accompanying article).
File consists of proposals put forward from various groups in hopes that their event be included in Burnaby's Centennial Celebrations. Included in the file are proposals from the Red Cross, the Vancouver 86ers Soccer Club and the Burnaby Cactus and Succulent Club as well as a planting plan for the …
File consists of proposals put forward from various groups in hopes that their event be included in Burnaby's Centennial Celebrations. Included in the file are proposals from the Red Cross, the Vancouver 86ers Soccer Club and the Burnaby Cactus and Succulent Club as well as a planting plan for the Burnaby Mountain Centennial Rose Garden from the Parks and Recreation Department.
Photograph is a portrait of Charlotte Vidal at far right with unidentified woman and man. Sign behind them reads: "Davies Druggist / wants your trade / Red Cross Pharmacy / C S Davies ... N Westminster / 52 sixth st"
Photograph is a portrait of Charlotte Vidal at far right with unidentified woman and man. Sign behind them reads: "Davies Druggist / wants your trade / Red Cross Pharmacy / C S Davies ... N Westminster / 52 sixth st"
Photograph of a class sitting at their desks. The desks are attached to the backs of the chairs. The name of the class and school is unknown. An earlier catalogue record conjectures it is probably a Burnaby school, possibly Gilmore Avenue School. The inscription in pencil of the date 1920 is of unk…
Photograph of a class sitting at their desks. The desks are attached to the backs of the chairs. The name of the class and school is unknown. An earlier catalogue record conjectures it is probably a Burnaby school, possibly Gilmore Avenue School. The inscription in pencil of the date 1920 is of unknown origin, but the clothing styles of the students indicate this date is probably close to being correct. There are 10 girls and 22 boys in the class, unsegregated in seating arrangement. The boys are wearing dark turtle neck sweaters, some with a dark sports jacket over the sweater. The boys' hair is moppish, some parted, most not. The girls are wearing dresses (little detail visible) and long hair, some with a ribbon on top and pulled back. A black board on the right side of the students has a large map of South America drawn on it. A Red Cross Nurse's picture is above this board. The alphabet is written in large block capitals in chalk across the top of the rear blackboard. Queen Mary's picture is above this board. A female teacher is standing beneath Queen Mary. The dangling lights have conical shades. Inscribed on the negative, lower left of the print: "267." Annotations in pencil read, "1920" (front of photo, upper right) and "Mr. Tom Browning" (back of photo).
File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Joint Disaster Services Committee, South Burnaby Branch, Canadian Red Cross (for which Dr Violet and Blythe Eagles were members) and meeting minutes. Also included in the file is correspondence (with reports) pertaining to the Advisory Planning Comm…
File consists of correspondence pertaining to the Joint Disaster Services Committee, South Burnaby Branch, Canadian Red Cross (for which Dr Violet and Blythe Eagles were members) and meeting minutes. Also included in the file is correspondence (with reports) pertaining to the Advisory Planning Commission.
Subseries consists of textual records and photographs that were collected by Lillian Evelyn Salisbury during her lifetime as a citizen of Burnaby. Records document historical sites and events in and related to Burnaby, as well as various heritage groups and events in British Columbia. Included in t…
Subseries consists of textual records and photographs that were collected by Lillian Evelyn Salisbury during her lifetime as a citizen of Burnaby. Records document historical sites and events in and related to Burnaby, as well as various heritage groups and events in British Columbia. Included in this subseries are the publication and papers related to "Metrotown - Burnaby Heritage Resource Inventory."
History
Lillian Evelyn "Evelyn" Salisbury was born in 1915 and moved to Burnaby in 1945. She had three children with her husband Fred: Gordon, Lorne, and Karen. While living in Burnaby, she worked with the Red Cross blood donor clinic and the Burnaby Health Unit. In 1958, she participated in the Greater Vancouver Health League’s campaign for fluoridation as the Health Chairman of the Burnaby Parent-Teacher Council.
Evelyn Salisbury served two-year terms as secretary, vice-president and president of the Burnaby Historical Society and spearheaded a 1985 project to record Burnaby’s historical inventory of churches, schools, industries, homes and other pre-1930 buildings. When the building of Metrotown shopping centre threatened to clear historic homes in Central Park area, the Society produced a record of the historic buildings in the area. In 1988, as president of the Burnaby Historical Society, she convinced City of Burnaby aldermen to set up a heritage advisory committee. She was appointed to the Burnaby Centennial Committee the next year and in 1990 she was named Citizen of the Year by the Burnaby City Council. During her lifetime, Evelyn Salisbury endeavoured to collect papers of historical significance. She died in 1991.
Photograph of Mrs. Florence Jackson in her nurse uniform in front of the family home at 2706 Cassie Avenue (later 6457 Cassie Avenue). She worked for the Red Cross in Vancouver during the Second World War.
Photograph of Mrs. Florence Jackson in her nurse uniform in front of the family home at 2706 Cassie Avenue (later 6457 Cassie Avenue). She worked for the Red Cross in Vancouver during the Second World War.