Edison Road Power House
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1893 (date of original), copied November 26, 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 14 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Edison Road Power House, of the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Co. Ltd., the first electric interurban street railway in North America. This power house stood between Vancouver Road (Kingsway) and the line to Vancouver. (Edison Road is now Griffiths Avenue).
Loading Strawberries, BCERy, Douglas Road, Burnaby BC
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1894
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on cardboard 22 x 27.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of farmers loading their crates onto a railway car. Identified (left to right), Bernard R. Hill, Louis Claude Hill, Charles Frederick Sprott, George E. Clayton, and Louis "Edgar" Sprott, who are loading up their strawberries on a street car.
The farmers are lined up in a row,…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1894
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm on cardboard 22 x 27.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-938
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of farmers loading their crates onto a railway car. Identified (left to right), Bernard R. Hill, Louis Claude Hill, Charles Frederick Sprott, George E. Clayton, and Louis "Edgar" Sprott, who are loading up their strawberries on a street car.
The farmers are lined up in a row, each sitting in their own horse and cart as they bring their strawberries to the station.
- Subjects
- Agriculture - Fruit and Berries
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Transportation - Horses
- Transportation - Carts
- Occupations - Farmers
- Transportation - Wagons
- Officials - Mayors and Reeves
- Names
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"
- Hill, Bernard R.
- Every-Clayton, George
- Sprott, Louis "Edgar"
- Sprott, Charles Frederick
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Caption on recto of photograph reads: "Loading Strawberries, B.C.E.Ry., Douglas Rd., Burnaby, B.C."
- Geographic Access
- Douglas Road
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Less detail
Westminster Branch employees
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1905
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia composite ; 19 x 24 cm on board 27 x 32.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Composite photograph of the employees of the Westminster Branch of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company. A name has been written in pen under many of the photographs: starting at the top left; Neelands, McNel, Wilson, Stuart, Blair, unidentified, Healy, Innes, Rawlison. One row down, five …
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1905
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Series
- Community Archives Collection series
- Subseries
- John DeForest subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia composite ; 19 x 24 cm on board 27 x 32.5 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 293-007
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-30
- Scope and Content
- Composite photograph of the employees of the Westminster Branch of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company. A name has been written in pen under many of the photographs: starting at the top left; Neelands, McNel, Wilson, Stuart, Blair, unidentified, Healy, Innes, Rawlison. One row down, five together to the left are; Marsh, Grimmison, Huston, Gregory, Stewart. Four in the center are; Shiles, unidentified, Whitmore, McQuarrie. Five together to the right are; Dickinson, Routley, Thorburn, Monterth, unidentified. Second row down, five together on the left are; Butterfield, Rainey, Alcock, WIlliams, Feeney. Three together in the center are; Glover, Buntzen, Sperling. Four together on the right are; Dunlop and three unidentified.Three rows down, four together on the left are; Reid, Grimmer, McArthur, Brown. Center is unidentified except for Wilson, who is three from the right. Four together on the right are; unidentified, Harris, Ellis, unidentified. Four rows down, three together on the left are; Miller, Featherstone, Williams. The rest of the center are unidentified, and the last three on the right are; McAurthur, Holland, and Hudson. Also included in the composite are two photographs of electric railroad cars, one of the New Westminster shoreline and one of a train station.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Engineers
- Occupations - Railroad Conductors
- Transportation - Electric Railroads
- Names
- British Columbia Electric Railway Company
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Okamura, P.L.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note on recto of composite photograph reads: "~1905~/ PRESENTED TO / J. BUNTZEN ESQ./ BY / THE EMPLOYEES, WESTMINISTER BRANCH B.C.E.RY.CO.LTD."
- Photographer's stamp on recto of board reads: "P. L. OKAMURA NEW WESTMINISTER, B.C."
Less detail
Grace McGhee
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1909] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Grace McGhee (nee George) at McKay station along the Central Park Interurban line.
Central Park Interurban tram interior
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1910
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8.4 x 11.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the interior of a Central Park Interurban tram, including passengers, the majority of whom are women.
Central Park interurban interior
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1910
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the interior of a Central Park interurban while it is in service in Vancouver.
Vancouver Terminus of tramway to New Westminster
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1910]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 10 x 12 cm on 12 x 14.5 cm backing
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of four people and a few teams of horses standing in the street next to an interurban car. A caption with the photograph reads: "Vancouver terminus of tramway to New Westminster."
Burnaby Lake Interurban
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [before 1954]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the snow. The house in the background is 2231 Fareham Street, a short street that ran behind Elwell and the tram tracks about midway between the Cumberland Road and Hill Street Stations. This rail line route is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby.…
First Burnaby Lake tram through Burnaby Deer Lake station
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1911]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 5.7 x 8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the first Interurban tram going though the Deer Lake station in the Burnaby Lake area.
Edmonds Interurban station
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912] (date of original), copied [between 1975 and 1985]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8.2 x 10.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an automobile at the Edmonds Interurban Station. A man appears to be changing the car tires, and three men are on the station platform.
Tram car no. 10
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 x 8.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the remains of an old Vancouver street car beside the Gilley Powerhouse, with an unidentified person leaning out the window of the car. "10" is written on the front of the tram.
Welcome arch at Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 14.7 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the welcome arch erected at Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. People are lined up on either end of the arch, dressed in their finery. The interurban tracks can be seen in the foreground and the Edmonds station can be seen at …
Tram 1309
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1912] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the exterior of British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) line Tram no. 1309.
Crowd at Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 14.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of a crowd gathered near a tram car at Edmonds and Kingsway during Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught's visit to Burnaby. A Union Jack is hanging from one of the windows of the triangular Edmonds Block, which is visible in the background. The Duke of Connaught was Governor G…
Boundary Road and Park Avenue station
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.1 x 14.9 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Boundary Road, Park Avenue Interurban station, and the surrounding area, looking north from Kingsway. The Coburn house, built in 1906, is at the top of the hill on the right, current address 5170 Boundary Road.
Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied [1997]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the area near the Edmonds and Kingsway intersection. A British Columbia Electric Railway Company tram is visible in the centre and the station can be seen to the left.
Large crowd at Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1912 (date of original), copied [1997]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 12 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large crowd gathered near Edmonds and Kingsway to welcome the Duke of Connaught during his visit to Burnaby. Two interurban cars can be seen in the background. The Duke of Connaught was Governor General of Canada at this time.
Streetcar
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913 (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the extension from Boundary Road to Ellesmere Avenue on the BC Electric Railway Co. streetcar line. It operated on a single track and was inaugurated in 1913.
Railroad conductors
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1913] (date of original), copied 1986
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.7 x 17.8 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of (left) No. 1 motorman Adam Taylor, and John William "Jack" Holmes. The streetcar travelled from Boundary Road to Ellesmere Avenue along Hastings Street.
Edmonds and Kingsway
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1913
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 7 x 12 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the railway junction and hydro poles at Edmonds and Kingsway, and the "triangle block" on the far right. A touring car is visible moving though the backgound.