One of the prominent buildings along Vancouver Height’s early commercial strip, this block has continuously served its original commercial/retail use, with apartments on the second floor. Alterations over the years have included a coat of stucco over the original lapped wooden siding, and the alteration of the roofline cornice. Notably, the building has retained its distinctive second storey bay windows and three ground floor commercial spaces with recessed entrances. It was financed and built by Arthur Wall, a director of Hill, Wall & Company Ltd. Real Estate, which was based in the Pacific Block in Vancouver.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 3.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Spraggon family home and another house on the 3900 block of Union Street (formerly named Barnard Street). There is a child at play in the snow in the foreground.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.4 x 3.4 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
370-772
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1999-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Spraggon family home and another house on the 3900 block of Union Street (formerly named Barnard Street). There is a child at play in the snow in the foreground.
Photograph taken in Vancouver on Hastings Street looking east toward Burnaby and Boundary Road. The Hastings Street British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) cars can be seen labouring up the hill.
Photograph taken in Vancouver on Hastings Street looking east toward Burnaby and Boundary Road. The Hastings Street British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) cars can be seen labouring up the hill.
Photograph of the Clark family at their property at 4055 Union Street. Back, left to right: Baby Bessie, Annie and Robert. Front, left to right: Mary and Robert.
Photograph of the Clark family at their property at 4055 Union Street. Back, left to right: Baby Bessie, Annie and Robert. Front, left to right: Mary and Robert.
Photograph of Clark family members and Mrs. King at 3800 Venables Street. Back, left to right: Mrs. Annie Clark and Mrs. King. Front, left to right: Mary and Robert Clark.
Photograph of Clark family members and Mrs. King at 3800 Venables Street. Back, left to right: Mrs. Annie Clark and Mrs. King. Front, left to right: Mary and Robert Clark.
Photograph of the Arthur Wall Block (right), 3722 Hastings Street, at the corner of Hastings Street and Boundary Road, and the Matheson Block (left), 3730 Hastings Street. The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) Hastings car can be seen.
Photograph of the Arthur Wall Block (right), 3722 Hastings Street, at the corner of Hastings Street and Boundary Road, and the Matheson Block (left), 3730 Hastings Street. The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) Hastings car can be seen.
Survey plan of Gilmore Avenue School site. Title on plan reads: "Gilmour Avenue School Site / Burnaby Municipality / Being Lots 1-10 inc. & Lots 27-36 inc. of Block 9 / of Subdivision of a Portion of Lot 187, GP.1 / New Westminster District". "Note. School site is as shown below, the original...am…
Survey plan of Gilmore Avenue School site. Title on plan reads: "Gilmour Avenue School Site / Burnaby Municipality / Being Lots 1-10 inc. & Lots 27-36 inc. of Block 9 / of Subdivision of a Portion of Lot 187, GP.1 / New Westminster District". "Note. School site is as shown below, the original...amended" "by cancelling Lots 1-10 & 27-30 inc....order of court filed No.4938".
History
The school was named after Hugh B. Gilmour, but an error by a municipal clerk in the Street Naming Bylaw in 1912 (Bylaw Number 135) changed the spelling to "Gilmore" Avenue and the school name was spelled "Gilmore" Avenue School hereafter.
Oath in bottom left corner reads: "I, D.J. McGugan...did superintend the survey", "...completed on the 27th day of May 1915" and noterized by Walter Edmonds" "sworn...29th Day of May 1915"; "Burnett and McGugan. B.C. Land Surveyors Etc. New Westminster. B.C."
This portion of the recording pertains to the Brown-Johns first settling in Burnaby. Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell discusses land clearing for the family home, each of her parents and her brothers.
This portion of the recording pertains to the Brown-Johns first settling in Burnaby. Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell discusses land clearing for the family home, each of her parents and her brothers.
Date Range
1910-1946
Photo Info
Elsie Brown-John (bottom, far right) with her class at Kitchener Street School, [1936]. Item no. 549-001.
Recording is an interview with early Burnaby resident Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, September 18, 2012. Major themes discussed are: settling in Burnaby and the early years of the Brown-John family.
Biographical Notes
Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell’s father, a trained carpenter and cabinet maker, Victor Brown-John came to Canada from Wales in 1910. He cleared three lots at Napier and Gilmore Streets and built a two-roomed house. In 1912, he was joined by his wife and two eldest sons, Victor and Archie. Twin boys, Frank and Roy, were born in 1914 in the Burnaby home and their fifth son, Clive, was born in 1915.
From 1916 to 1919 Victor John-Brown left Burnaby to serve overseas. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) was born in 1921. Her younger brother, Gwyn "Jerry" was born in 1923.
In 1925 Victor Brown-John suffered a fatal accident while working as a longshoreman in Northern British Columbia.
Elsie attended Kitchener Elementary and North Burnaby High School. She married during the Second World War and moved to South Burnaby to raise her family whilst continuing to work in various department stores both in Vancouver and Burnaby.
Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.3 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.4 x 26.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Mrs. I.R. King (nee Spraggon) as a young girl, taking a baby for a walk on the 4000 block of Georgia Street (formerly named Harris Street).
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.3 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.4 x 26.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
370-775
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1999-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of Mrs. I.R. King (nee Spraggon) as a young girl, taking a baby for a walk on the 4000 block of Georgia Street (formerly named Harris Street).
Photograph of the Smedley family in front of their home, 4247 Venables Street, Vancouver Heights, North Burnaby. Identified (back) Bill Smedley (brother); (3rd row, right) William Smedley (father); (2nd row, far left) Emily "Grandma" Smedley (mother); (front, from left) Grace Smedley (sister), Ann…
Photograph of the Smedley family in front of their home, 4247 Venables Street, Vancouver Heights, North Burnaby. Identified (back) Bill Smedley (brother); (3rd row, right) William Smedley (father); (2nd row, far left) Emily "Grandma" Smedley (mother); (front, from left) Grace Smedley (sister), Annie Smedley (sister, head turned).
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.2 x 3.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Spraggon family home at 3900 Union Street (formerly named Barnard Street). The back of the house and the garden are shown. There is a man digging in garden, possibley Mr. Spraggon.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.2 x 3.2 cm print on contact sheet 20.6 x 26.5 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
370-774
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1999-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of the Spraggon family home at 3900 Union Street (formerly named Barnard Street). The back of the house and the garden are shown. There is a man digging in garden, possibley Mr. Spraggon.