Our home and its surroundings : a first book of modern geography
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3874.1
- Call Number
- 917.1 MOR
- Publisher
- Morang Educational Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1910
- c1904
- Series
- Morang's modern text-books
- Tarr and McMurry geographies
- Physical Description
- iii-vii, 152 p. : ill. , maps (some col.) ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Do not steal this book for fear of shame. For in it is the owners name.
If this book should chance to roam, box its ears and send it home."
"Lillian Keyes Dawson School Room 201 1333 Howe St. Vanc. B.C."
label "The Book Shop"
"C.S. Forsyth & Co." "Booksellers & Stationers, Vancouver, B.C."
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Geography
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- Morang's Modern Geography, Part I.
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Sunday school hymns No. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3891.1
- Call Number
- 782.22 MER
- Author
- Meredith, I. H.
- Place of Publication
- [Chicago, Ill.]
- Publisher
- Tullar-Meredith Co.
- Publication Date
- c1903
- Physical Description
- [ca. 256 p.] : music ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Hymns, English
- Sunday schools
- Notes
- [Edited by I. H. Meredith, Grant Colfax Tullar and J. W. Lerman]
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Studies in the scriptures, series ii : the plan of the ages
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3916.1
- Call Number
- 289.92 RUS v.2
- Edition
- 784,000 ed.
- Place of Publication
- Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
- Publication Date
- 1909
- c1891
- Series
- A helping hand for Bible students
- Physical Description
- 371 p. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Volume 2 of 2
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Studies in the scriptures, series 1 : the plan of the ages
Every man a king, or, might in mind-mastery
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4019.1
- Call Number
- 177 MAR
- Author
- Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
- Contributor
- Holmes, Ernest, 1887-1960
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company
- Publication Date
- c1906
- Physical Description
- vi, 240 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Let us therefore resolutely determine to turn thought to good use, to the best use & then stiffen our will to carry out that determination" -- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (front).
"N.M. Clarke" with drowing of seashore-- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (front).
"1915 / Mrs. M. Dekers" -- handwritten in pen behind of part b (portrait)
"E66-277 / mi / ry" -- handwritten in pencil on endpaper (back).
- Library Subject (LOC)
- New Thought
- Notes
- by Orison-Swett-Marden, with the assistance of Ernest Raymond Holmes.
- Includes index.
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Peace, power and plenty
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4035.1
- Call Number
- 615.85 MAR
- Author
- Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company
- Publication Date
- c1909
- Physical Description
- xii, 323 p. : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "4 books / South Burnaby United Church / Grey & Rumble / Rev. George Morrison." -- handwritten in pen on a blue piece of paper.
"God's beauty and richness, God's Power & God's glory cover your life as the waters cover the seas / -----s, Baltes" -- handwritten in pencil on front cover paper.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- New Thought
- Notes
- Includes index.
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Wait and hope: or Ben Bradford's motto
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.4038.1
- Call Number
- 813.4 ALG
- Author
- Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- John C. Winston
- Publication Date
- c1877
- Series
- Brave and Bold Series
- Physical Description
- 242 p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "To Lewis / From Rod / Xmas 1912", handwritten in ink on front end page
"ALLAN EARLE / ALLAN L. EARLE / 1024 5TH AVE", stamped in purple on front page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--19th century
- Juvenile fiction
- Notes
- frontispiece only
- list of other series written by author on title page verso.
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Medicology or home encyclopedia of health : a complete family guide, abounding in practical household information on the structure and functions of the human body, the laws of hygiene, diet, accidents and emergencies
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV984.21.47
- Call Number
- 610.3 RIC 1907
- Author
- Richardson, Joseph Gibbons, 1836-1886
- Ford, William H. (William Henry), 1839-1897
- Vanderbeck, Cornelius C.
- Contributor
- Wood, James P.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- University Medical Society
- Publication Date
- 1907
- c1903
- Printer
- Allied Printing
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 1432 p. : col. plates, ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Physiology--Popular works
- Anatomy
- Health--Popular works
- Medicine--Popular Works
- Notes
- "..., accessory treatments and remedies, air and exercise, sanitary house-building, duties of mothers, care of children, art and science of nursing and cooking, home administration of medicines."
- Includes index.
- Includes detailed anatomical flap figure illustrations.
- "Ten Books -- One Volume."
- "Assisted by a large corps of medical practitioners, lecturers, and teachers."
- "Illustrated with colored and monotone plates."
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Bill Nye's comic history of England
The American cyclopedia of the automobile or, Motor cars and motoring self-taught : a work of reference & self instruction
Lord Jim : a romance
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV983.76.6
- Call Number
- 823.9 CON
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1922
- c1900
- Printer
- Country Life Press
- Physical Description
- xxi, 392 p. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "Jean Auld
Arts '48
U. B. C." [handwritten in pencil on page opposing front pastedown]
"Jean Auld
U. B. C.
Arts '48" [handwritten in blue ink on prepages]
"$2.75" [handwritten in pencil on prepages]
"1 Manhattan Transfer
2 Winesburg Ohio" [handwritten in pencil on prepages]
Owner's notations throughout book
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--20th century
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Among ourselves : a schoolmaster with his friends at the round table
Ready money
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.49
- Call Number
- 174 KNO
- Author
- Knox, George H.
- Publisher
- Personal Help Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- 1910
- c1905
- Series
- Personal help library
- Physical Description
- 317 p. : [15] ports, frontispiece ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Success
- Notes
- First 15 pages are recommendations for this book by various persons along with black and white photographs.
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Thoughts that inspire : vol. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.51
- Call Number
- 808.88 KNO
- Author
- Knox, George H.
- Place of Publication
- Des Moines, Ia.
- Publisher
- Personal Help Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- 1910
- c1905
- Series
- Personal help library
- Inscription
- Signed name on first page in pencil (illegible)
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Maxims
- Notes
- 307 p. : fronts. (ports) ; 20 cm.
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Apples of gold, or, daily watchwords for 1908
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.56
- Call Number
- 242.2 PAR
- Edition
- 7th
- Contributor
- Parsons, Charles R. (Charles Richard), active 1885-1892
- Place of Publication
- Bristol, Eng.
- Publisher
- Charles R. Parsons
- Publication Date
- [1907]
- Printer
- A. Jenkins & Co.
- Physical Description
- 99 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "E__ / with love from / M__ Wyatt + Slate / Christmas ___" [handwritten opposite title page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Devotional calendars
- Christian life
- Notes
- "Edited by Charles R. Parsons" -- t.p.
- Contributor's full name is Parsons, Charles R. (Charles Richard)
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A book of toasts
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.58
- Call Number
- 808.51 RAM
- Author
- Ramsay, William
- Contributor
- Schroedter, Gerta
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Dodge Publishing Company
- Publication Date
- c1906
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (unpaged) ; 16 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Public speaking
- Notes
- "With decorations by Gerta Schroedter"--title page.
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Lincoln & other poems
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV982.24.92
- Call Number
- 811.52 MAR
- Author
- Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page
- Publication Date
- 1916
- c1901
- Printer
- The Country Life Press
- Physical Description
- 125 p. : front. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Front endpaper:
"The poet in a golden clime
was born,
With golden stars above
Dowered with the hate of hate
The scorn of scorn
The love of love
To by best friend
R.A. Wobb
Xmas 1920" [written in green ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Poetry
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The renewing of friendship
Progressive arithmetic : third book
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.9
- Call Number
- 513 MIL Copy 1
- Author
- Milne, William J. (William James), 1843-1914
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Morang Educational
- Publication Date
- 1919
- c1906
- c1907
- c1908
- Series
- Milne's progressive arithmetics
- Physical Description
- 366 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "FREE TEXT-BOOK / THE PROPERTY OF / May Morgan / (Pupil's name) / SCHOOL McDonald / DIVISION I / Number of Book / CONDITION OF GIVING / No second copy of the same kind of book will be issued free of charge to any pupil in case of loss or destruction of the first. By Order of the EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF B. C. / DATE OF ISSUE TO PUPIL / Day Month Year / 8 9 1919" - printed and handwritten on inside of front cover.
"Mr. Edward Alfred Hemsworth" - handwritten in pencil on cover page.
Various mathematical notes handwritten in pencil on cover pages.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Arithmetic
- Mathematics--Textbooks
- Notes
- "Authorized by the Minister of Education for use in British Columbia." - title page.
- Includes index.
- 2 copies held: copy 1.
- Author's given name and dates: Milne, William J. (William James), 1843-1914.
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Half a rogue
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV980.2.30
- Call Number
- 813.4 MAC
- Author
- MacGrath, Harold, 1871-1932
- Contributor
- Fisher, Harrison, 1875-1934
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Publication Date
- c1906
- Physical Description
- 446, [6] p. : ill.
- Inscription
- "Don / Merry Xmas.", handwritten in pencil on front endpaper
"Hyman Yewdall", handwritten in pencil on back endpaper
"-- --- Boy", handwritten in pencil on back endpaper
"HYeW / DAL", printed in pencil on back endpaper
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--20th century
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