Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1993
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. Photographs depict students participating in various classroom activities and field trips.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1953-1993
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- Tinkerbell Kindergarten subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photographs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1990-12
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of records and photographs created by the Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten. Photographs depict students participating in various classroom activities and field trips.
- History
- Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten was established in 1955. The school was spearheaded by a group of mothers who felt that four and five year olds would benefit from a preschool. In February of that year, they met with the President of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and two members from the Helper's Committee of the Cooperative Play Group Association. They began meeting weekly to plan the opening of a local play group.
On March 26, the group held a salvage drive to raise funds for equipment, and, with the help of the fathers, raised $142.00. They continued to raise funds though bingo, teas, and dances. Fathers made a stove, kitchen cabinets, easels, hand carved animals, screens, shelves and a wash stand.
The Cooperative Kindergarten opened April 18, 1955 with an enrollment of 23 children. Lucy Emma Brown is considered the founder of the school, teaching kindergarten from the school's beginning in 1955 until it closed in 1968.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten
- Notes
- PC246, MSS050
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
Less detail
Lucy Brown
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- November 13, 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten's founder and first teacher Lucy Brown and others at a celebratory dinner (believed to be the one held to commemorate "Tinkerbell Corner"). Lucy Brown is standing in the center holding a bouquet of yellow and pink flowers.
Tinkerbell Corner dedication
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten's founder and first teacher, Lucy Brown walking up with a friend to the plaque that dedicates the corner of Howard and Capitol Drive as "Tinkerbell Corner".
Lucy Brown papers
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1991-1993
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 1 file of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a newspaper clipping of the Tinkerbell Corner dedication and a memorial card for Lucy Emma Brown, Tinkerbell Cooperative Kindergarten's founder and teacher for almost two generations of school children on Capitol Hill.