Frederick Thrussell and Peter Byrne by a fallen tree
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1893]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 10 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Frederick Thrussell, unidentified, and Peter Byrne standing in front of a large fallen tree. A crosscut saw is propped up vertically against the end of the felled tree. Peter Byrne was Reeve of Burnaby from 1906 to 1910. Earlier, he also served as a member of Council from 1894 to 1895…
Clearing land with a team of oxen
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1890
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 15.6 x 23.8 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a team of oxen being used to clear land and haul logs on skid road. Five unidentified lumberjacks can be seen standing alongside the animals.
Gilley Brothers logging operation
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1895]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 15 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gilley Brothers logging operation. A donkey engine is visible on the right, and seven men are standing on a felled tree as it is pulled along the track by the power of the donkey engine.
Locomotive at Granite Bay
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [191-] (date of original), copied June 1987
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 10.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of locomotive no. 5 travelling along the tracks at Granite Bay hauling large logs. A logging crew is travelling with the locomotive; some lumberjacks are riding in the car and some are seated on the logs.
Old Curly with a logging crew
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1912 and 1914] (date of original), copied June 1987
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 x 11 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the locomotive known as "Old Curly" at Vancouver Island with a logging crew standing on around the engine. Old Curly was barged over to Vancouver Island just before World War I for use by the British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company.
Old Curly with a logging crew
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [between 1912 and 1914] (date of original), copied June 1987
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 11.5 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the locomotive known as "Old Curly" at Vancouver Island with a logging crew standing and leaning against the engine. Old Curly was barged over to Vancouver Island just before World War I for use by the British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company.
Shull Lumber and Shingle Company
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.1 x 24.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Shull Lumber and Shingle Company at the foot of Boundary Road. A log slip can be seen on the left and there are logs in the river.
double bit axe head
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV003.28.3
- Description
- This split, double bitted, utility axe head was found on Burnaby Mountain by Alfred Bingham in 1920. Mr Bingham bought property on the West side of the mountain in 1920.
The axe head is double bladed. The head is very rusty and has been cracked across one side. The remains of the handle are still in the axe eye.
- Object History
- The axe head was found on the site of Simon Fraser University (SFU), an area logged in the early years of the 20th Century by Gilley Logging. The axe may have been broken by one of their loggers.
- Reference
- Note from Alfred Bingham, original in accession file.
"THIS AXE HEAD WAS FOUND IN 1920 / BY ALFRED BINGHAM ON THE PRESENT SITE / OF THE SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. IT PROBABLY / WAS USED BY AN EARLY LOGGER. WHO CUT DOWN / SOME OF THE GREAT TREES THAT GREW ON / BURNABY MOUNTAIN. HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. MANY OF THESE TREES WERE OVER 800 YEARS OLD / Alfred Bingham " hand written in ink on one face of note.
"I bought 5 acres of stump land on the / corner of Sherlock, Duthie, & Kitchener Streets in / 1920. & cleared 2 acres & bilt small home, (store?) / my wife and I have lived in Burnaby continually since then / AB" hand written in ink on the reverse face of the note.
- Marks/Labels
- "1920 FOUND ON BURNABY MTN SITE S.F.U.", written in yellow chalk on one face of the axe head
- Subjects
- Industries - Forestry
- Woodworking Tools and Equipment
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Names
- Gilley Brothers Logging Company
- Simon Fraser University
- Bingham, Alfred "Alf"
- Geographic Access
- Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Mountain Area
Less detail
Gilley Brothers Logging, Burnaby
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1905]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 28 x 35.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a steam engine being used by the Gilley Brothers logging team. The photograph is captioned "Gilley Bros Logging Burnaby."
Loading Skids and Burner
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [191-]
- Collection/Fonds
- LaFavor Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of the loading skids and burner at the North Pacific Lumber Company in Barnet Village, BC.
Gilley Brothers Logging Camp
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1900]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w : 28 x 35.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a large group of workmen posing for a picture outside the Gilley Bros. logging camp at Imperial and Colborne. All are unidentified.
Lumber Camp and Mill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1906 and 1908]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.8 x 17 cm on 17.7 x 22.7 cm backing
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Nicholson lumber camp and mill in the Broadview area of Burnaby. Approximately 12 men and women can be seen standing in front of the cabins and piles of planks (all are unidentified).
Logging camp
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1900]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 24 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of lumberjacks gathered together at the 'Second Camp East of Sperling' with residences visible in the background.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 20 x 24 cm, mounted on card 25 x 30 cm
- Material Details
- Brush strokes (from application of emulsion) are visible
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of lumberjacks gathered together at the 'Second Camp East of Sperling' with residences visible in the background.
- Subjects
- Occupations - Lumberjacks
- Industries - Forestry
- Animals - Dogs
- Geographic Access
- Sperling Avenue
- Accession Code
- HV977.140.2
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1900]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/7/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in pencil on verso of card mount reads: "Second Camp East of Sperling"
Index card found at BVM describes this image as "Logging camp, Gilley operations, east of Sperling" and dates it as 1904.
Less detail
Bill Price and his steam donkey
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1935 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.7 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of William "Bill" Price and the steam donkey engine he operated for logging.
Falling Trees at Burnaby, BC
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [190-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.3 x 8.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of three unidentified men standing in front of a very large tree stump. The man in the centre of the picture is holding an axe. Two axes are in the tree. A large two-man saw lies on the ground in front of the tree. An caption in blue ink on a separate label below the photograph reads…
delegate's ribbon
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV972.161.27
- Description
- The delegate's ribbon is for the Pacific Logging Congress held in Vancouver, BC, October 6 to 9, 1920. The ribbon is blue-grey with orange text on top half, a circular logo in the middle and text on the bottom half
- Marks/Labels
- "Eleventh Session / PACIFIC LOGGING CONGRESS", orange printing on top half
"OREGON WASH IDAHO MONT CAL BC 1909", orange printing around circle on bottom half
"P L C", large orange printing in centre of circle located on bottom half
"VANCOUVER, B.C. / OCT 6-7-8-9 / 1920", orange printing along bottom
- Subjects
- Industries - Logging/lumber
- Industries
- Industries - Forestry
- Personal Symbols
- Personal Symbols - Ribbons
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
Less detail
Aeroplane view of the Barnet Lumber Co.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1927
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8.9 x 13.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Aerial photographic postcard of Barnet Lumber Company's Mill. The handwritten caption on the lower left corner of the postcard reads: "Aeroplane view of the Barnet Lumber Co. Ltd./ Barnet BC." The handwritten caption on the lower right corner reads: "Copyright 1927/ Pacific Airway Ltd./ Vancouver …
Barnet, B.C. from the Hill
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1907]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the village of Barnet at the mill. The caption stamped at the top of the card reads: "Barnet, B.C. from the Hill." The Barnet Mill was called the North Pacific Lumber Company from 1889 to 1914.
Barnet Lumber mill
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-] (date of original), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Barnet Lumber Company mill in operation. C.P.R. railroad tracks are visible in the foreground and trees on the north shore of Burrard Inlet are visible in the distance. Plumes of smoke are rising from the mill chimneys.
Barnet Mill
- 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 Barnet Mill, at one point the largest lumber mill in the British Empire. It closed in 1929. The Barnet Mill was called the North Pacific Lumber Company from 1889 to 1914.