Alta Vista, named for its high views of the Fraser Valley, rapidly grew during the period 1910-1912, seeing its settlement jump from about a dozen buildings in 1910 to about four hundred by the end of 1912. Home-seekers were attracted to its location just a short walk from the B.C.E.R. line at Royal Oak and Highland Park and easily accessible to both New Westminster and Vancouver.
The O.G. Naud House is a south facing, two-storey house with a bellcast hipped roof, set on a high basement. It features a double-height front verandah supported by classical columns. It is located on Victory Street in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of South Burnaby, and is one of the oldest houses i…
The O.G. Naud House is a south facing, two-storey house with a bellcast hipped roof, set on a high basement. It features a double-height front verandah supported by classical columns. It is located on Victory Street in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of South Burnaby, and is one of the oldest houses in the area.
Heritage Value
Built in 1908, the O.G. Naud House is valued as one of the first houses to be built in the Alta Vista neighbourhood and is a direct link to the first settlement of the area. Close proximity to the B.C. Electric Railway streetcar line, at Royal Oak and Highland Park, permitted easy access to New Westminster and Vancouver. These transportation links, combined with spectacular views of the Fraser Valley, encouraged the early development of this South Burnaby neighbourhood.
The O.G. Naud House is architecturally significant as an example of the influence of the Classical Revival style that had been popularized in Eastern Canada. The basic form of the house is a Foursquare, with a double-height verandah that dominates the symmetrically balanced façade, supported on lathe-turned columns. A central entry and regular fenestration further unify the façade composition. Construction employed locally available materials. The rough-cut foundation stone was harvested from boulders from the G. Ledingham property on the south side of Victory Street. The builder and first owner, Onezime George Naud (1858-1951), was originally from St. Albans, Quebec. He worked on railway construction in Alabama, where he met his wife, Charlsie Elizabeth Sims (1869-1974). He later took part in the 1898 Gold Rush in Atlin, then worked as a stonemason on CPR culverts and bridges across B.C. An accomplished stonemason, Naud also worked on the original Vancouver and New Westminster post offices, the Parliament buildings in Victoria, and the Capitol building in Olympia, Washington.
Defining Elements
The key characteristics that define the heritage character of the O.G. Naud House include its:
- south-facing location, with generous set back from the street, in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of South Burnaby
- residential form, scale and massing as expressed by its two-storey height plus full basement, bellcast hipped roof, rectangular plan and front projecting double-height verandah
- masonry construction materials such as the rough-cut granite foundation
- wood-frame construction, including lapped wooden siding and shingle siding extant under later cladding
- Edwardian era features including lathe-turned columns, balustrades of dimensional lumber, scroll-cut bargeboards in front gable, and scroll-cut eave brackets
- associated landscape features including lane access to the east, large cedar trees and perimeter plantings
The Sussex-Nelson Neighbourhood is located just south of Metrotown and in 1980 was characterised as the most populated of all of Burnaby's Planning Study areas. The area immediately south of Metrotown was initially developed as post-war 1950s housing stock, while the sector south of Rumble was developed after the 1960s and 1970s as single-family housing.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Al MacInnes helps set up trees at the Aunt Leah's Society Tree Lot, next to the All Saint's Anglican Church, on Royal Ave. in Burnaby. Proceeds from sales at the lot go to support life skills programs for youth."
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Dr. Jim Grant is the chair of St. Michael's capital campaign to raise funds for a new 16-bed hospice unit, Burnaby's first, to be built at the Seniors' care centre."
Photograph of Gerry Herkel, the Executive Director of St. Michael's Centre, hugging the Shoppers Drug Mart mascot "Life Bear" outside of St. Michael's Centre as a promotion for their fundraising event.
Photograph of Gerry Herkel, the Executive Director of St. Michael's Centre, hugging the Shoppers Drug Mart mascot "Life Bear" outside of St. Michael's Centre as a promotion for their fundraising event.
Collected by editorial for use in an April 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Gerry Herkel, the Executive Director of St. Michael's Centre Hospice, has a big hug for the Shoppers Drug Mart "Life Bear." Until May 18, the Shoppers Drug Mart stores in Burnaby and New Westminster will donate 10 cents to the Hospice for every Life Brand and Rialto product sold."
Recording is of an interview with former Mayor William “Bill” Lewarne, conducted by Rod Fowler. Bill Lewarne was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is mainly about Bill Lewarne’s business and political careers, and memories of growing up in South Burnaby in the 1930s. Bill Lewarne talks about his parent’s origins, his family and community struggles during the Depression, the interurban, his education, war service, and joining his father's business. He describes the start, operation and expansion of the family ice cream business, and how business life compared to political life. The interview explores the role of politics in community affairs, his political activities, the history of the BVA, and his involvement in various community organizations. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track, expand this description and see “Notes”.
Biographical Notes
William Alfred “Bill” Lewarne was born in Burnaby in 1926 to Ethel Cecilia Leer (1899- ) and Alfred Lewarne (1893-1962). The family, Ethel, Alfred and their three children Patricia, Beverley and William, moved to a house on Nelson Avenue in Alta Vista in 1931. Ethel still lived in the family home in 1990. Bill Lewarne attended Nelson Avenue School and South Burnaby High School (1932-1944). His father Alfred worked at Colony Farms as a dairy inspector and then for the Port of Vancouver Dairy before being laid off early in the Depression. The family struggled until in 1936 Alfred started his own ice cream business. After graduation Bill was in the army for two years, taking a refrigeration course under the veteran’s training benefit, before joining his father’s business. Three generations of the family operated the successful company, expanding from wholesale, retail and distribution of ice cream products into refrigerated warehouses and the wholesale ice business, until the business was sold to its competitor Dairyland in 1989. Bill Lewarne entered politics in 1965, first with the Nonpartisan Association (NPA) and then as a founder of the Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA). He served as an alderman on Burnaby Council 1973-1975 and 1977-1981 and as Mayor 1981-1987. In 1979 he ran for provincial office for the Social Credit Party against Rosemary Brown but lost.
Bill Lewarne married June Lawrence and they had three children Robert, Leslie and Janice. He was active in many organizations: Burnaby/Willingdon Liberal Association, Seton Villa, Irish Fusileers of Canada, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, and the Burnaby Hospital Foundation, and continued to be active on the Board of the BCA. Bill Lewarne died in 1995.
Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and business computerization in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.
Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.
Photograph of Ian Macdonald, the minister of the South Burnaby United Church, holding a dog that is licking his nose as promotion for the church's first blessing of pets.
Photograph of Ian Macdonald, the minister of the South Burnaby United Church, holding a dog that is licking his nose as promotion for the church's first blessing of pets.
Collected by editorial for use in an August 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Ian Macdonald, the Minister of South Burnaby United Church, gets a kiss from Molly as he prepares for the church's first blessing of pets, to be held Sept. 15 as part of their South Slope Fall Festival. The festival, located at 7591 Gray Ave., will also include a gigantic garage sale, entertainment, food and other activities."
Photograph of Reba, a basset hound, and Randolf Bruce, the minister at All Saints Anglican Church, posing together on a lawn with the church partially visible in the background.
Photograph of Reba, a basset hound, and Randolf Bruce, the minister at All Saints Anglican Church, posing together on a lawn with the church partially visible in the background.
Collected by editorial for use in a September 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Randolf Bruce, the minister at All Saints Anglican Church, tries, in vain, to get the attention of Reba, the Bassett Hound. The church is hosting a special blessing for pets and their owners on Sunday."
Photograph is the left side of a three-part panorama (photos 172-002a to 172-002c) of the land beside the house of Onezime G. Naud, 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A garden and a fence with a woman standing beside it can be seen.
Photograph is the left side of a three-part panorama (photos 172-002a to 172-002c) of the land beside the house of Onezime G. Naud, 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A garden and a fence with a woman standing beside it can be seen.
Photograph is the centre of a three-part panorama (items no. 172-002a to 172-002c) of the house of Onezime G. Naud at 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A house and garden with a number of adults and children standing outside can be seen.
Photograph is the centre of a three-part panorama (items no. 172-002a to 172-002c) of the house of Onezime G. Naud at 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A house and garden with a number of adults and children standing outside can be seen.
Photograph is the right side of a three-part panorama (photos 172-002a to 172-002c) showing the land beside the house of Onezime G. Naud at 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A number of adults and children are seen standing in a field.
Photograph is the right side of a three-part panorama (photos 172-002a to 172-002c) showing the land beside the house of Onezime G. Naud at 4737 Victory Road (later renamed Victory Street). A number of adults and children are seen standing in a field.
Photograph of Shelley Morten signing to wrestler Pier Morten, as a crowd of South Slope Elementary School students applaud in American Sign Language behind them.
Photograph of Shelley Morten signing to wrestler Pier Morten, as a crowd of South Slope Elementary School students applaud in American Sign Language behind them.
Collected by editorial for use in a December 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Shelley Morten signs to her husband, Pier, what is happening behind them, as volleyball players at South Slope Elementary School applaud the blind and deaf wrestler, also using sign language. Pier was honored by the school as an inspiration to its own athletes, some of whom are also deaf."
Collected by editorial for use in a September 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata: "Reverand Ian Macdonald cleans up after being one of the featured targets in the pie-throwing event at the Second Annual South Burnaby Fall Festival, on Gray Avenue. Other events included a pancake breakfast, a children's bike parade, and a chance for pet owners to have their animals blessed by Reverand Macdonald."
File contains photographs of Bill and Julia Giuriato and Sam and Angelina Ciotti in their south Burnaby neighbourhood, near the South Slope area. Photographs depict Bill and Julia Guiriato leaning against a pole outside of the L'Arche Greater Vancouver at 7401 Sussex Avenue; Sam and Angelina Ciotti…
File contains photographs of Bill and Julia Giuriato and Sam and Angelina Ciotti in their south Burnaby neighbourhood, near the South Slope area. Photographs depict Bill and Julia Guiriato leaning against a pole outside of the L'Arche Greater Vancouver at 7401 Sussex Avenue; Sam and Angelina Ciotti working in the garden of their home; and the two couples leaning over the back fence between their homes.
Collected by editorial for use in a July 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2605-1: "Bill and Julia Giuriato in their south Burnaby neighbourhood."
Caption from metadata for 535-2605-2: "Sam and Angelina Ciotti and Bill and Julia Giuriato over their back fence in their south Burnaby neighbourhood."
Caption from metadata for 535-2605-3: "Sam and Angelina Ciotti, pick from their huge garden in their back yard. The Ciotti's share their harvest with their neighbours."
File contains photographs of students at a science fair at South Slope Elementary School. Photographs depict student grade 5 Yvonne Fang creating a tornado in soft drink bottles and grade 6 Lory Liu listening to a glass.
File contains photographs of students at a science fair at South Slope Elementary School. Photographs depict student grade 5 Yvonne Fang creating a tornado in soft drink bottles and grade 6 Lory Liu listening to a glass.
Collected by editorial for use in a January 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-3083-1: "Yvonne Fang, 10, a Grade 5 student at South Slope Elementary, creates her own tornado at the school's annual science fair."
Caption from metadata for 535-3083-2: "Lory Liu, 11, a Grade 6 student at South Slope Elementary, tests the musical quality of glasses filled with different levels of water, at the school's annual science fair."
File contains photographs of the new hospice facility at St. Michael's Centre just before its opening. Photographs depict: workers finishing the quiet room and a shower; Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team; and Gerry Herkel with a new compressed air and oxygen system and…
File contains photographs of the new hospice facility at St. Michael's Centre just before its opening. Photographs depict: workers finishing the quiet room and a shower; Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team; and Gerry Herkel with a new compressed air and oxygen system and posing in the sun room.
Collected by editorial for use in a May 2002 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-1: "Leanne Baird, a social worker on Burnaby's palliative care team, says the new hospice at St. Michael's will allow her to focus more on the emotional support for families with a dying loved one."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-2: "With an eye to future needs for acute care, St. Michael's has already installed a self-contained compressed air and oxygen system."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-3: "Painters put the finishing touches on the "quiet room," for families of patients at the hospice. Gerry Herkel, of St. Michael's, says they're striving for a peaceful color scheme throughout the facility."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-4: "Workers continue last-minute preparations for the opening of the St. Michael's Hospice."
Caption from metadata for 535-2352-5: "Gerry Herkel takes in the view from the sun room at the new St. Michael's Hospice."