Yanko family fonds
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1917-2010
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 albums (1272 photographs : b&w and col.) and other material
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four photographic albums, two scrapbooks, one guestbook, one recipe notebook, 19 loose photographs, and 1 cm of other textual records pertaining to the Yanko family. Included are photographs depicting the building of the Yanko family home at 7391 Broadway, Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1917-2010
- Collection/Fonds
- Yanko family fonds
- Physical Description
- 4 albums (1272 photographs : b&w and col.) and other material
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2012-09
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of four photographic albums, two scrapbooks, one guestbook, one recipe notebook, 19 loose photographs, and 1 cm of other textual records pertaining to the Yanko family. Included are photographs depicting the building of the Yanko family home at 7391 Broadway, Burnaby.
- History
- Annie D. Basiuk (later Yanko) was born on February 25, 1902, in Sheho, Saskatchewan (formerly Sheho, North West Territories). Daniel "Dan" Yanko was born in Kobyl'nya, Ukraine, in 1887, and immigrated to Canada in May or June of 1905. Dan married Annie D. Basiuk and they had 13 children together. Their son, John Ivan Yanko, was born on the family farm, near Kelliher, Saskatchewan, on June 27, 1923. In grade six, John was pulled out of school to help support the family.
Eugenia “Jenny” Haresomovych (later Carman) was born August 8, 1904, in Galecia, Austria. She came to Canada in 1928, when her parents sent her to live with the Austrian consular in Halifax. A year later, she was in The Pas with Albert Edward Carman, with whom she would have three children. Their daughter, Leida Doria "Lillian Doris" Carman, was born in The Pas, Manitoba, on March 24, 1929.
Jenny later re-married Joseph Nagy who was born in Hungary in October 3, 1900. Jenny, Joseph, and the children moved to Nelson, British Columbia, where Joseph worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
At the age of 20, John Ivan Yanko met his future wife, Lillian Doris, while visiting relatives in Burnaby. Lillian received a rail pass because of her dad’s employment with the CPR and, at 14, had gone to visit her godmother in Burnaby. John and Lillian Doris were married on October 16, 1948, in Nelson, British Columbia, and moved into the basement of John’s sister’s house on Union Street. Lillian began working at the downtown Woodward’s store as a cashier in 1948.
In 1950, the young couple bought property at 7385 (later renumbered 7391) Broadway in Burnaby and began constructing a house as they could afford it. Knowing she’d be let go if she was pregnant, when Lillian was expecting her first child, Jenny sewed her several versions of the same outfit; they all used the same material, but each was a little bit larger than the last to accommodate her expanding girth. Rhonda, born in 1953, and Charmaine, born in 1955, grew up in the Broadway home. They attended school at Sperling Elementary, and later at Burnaby North High School. Lillian left her job to be a stay-at-home mom when Rhonda was born, but that changed in 1963 when John and Charmaine were in a car accident that left John temporarily unable to work.
Joseph Nagy died on April 20, 1962; his wife Jenny passed away on August 14, 1985.
Dan died in 1976; his wife Annie died in 1997.
John later returned to work, establishing his own tile-setting business and working until age 82. John and Lillian lived out the rest of their married lives on the Broadway property.
John passed away in 2010; his wife Lillian Doris passed away in 2011.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Yanko family
- Notes
- Title based on contents of fonds
- MSS170, photo catalogue 545
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Yasue and Harding Yasui
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1924] (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 Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) and her brother Harding Yasui on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant. Yasue is standing next to her brother who is seated on the grass beside her. A fence is visible behind them.
Yasue Yasui
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1923] (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 young Yasue "Margaret" Yasui (Matsumura) standing on a wooden bridge on the site of the Nichols Chemical Company plant.
Yasui family photographs series
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1923-1937] (date of originals), copied 2004
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs (tiffs)
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of copies of photographs pertaining to the Yasui family while Sukegoro (Shoyen) Yasui worked for the Nichols Chemical Company and the family lived on the site of Barnet. These photographs were published in the book "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- In the Shadow by the Sea collection
- Series
- Yasui family photographs series
- Description Level
- Series
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs (tiffs)
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of copies of photographs pertaining to the Yasui family while Sukegoro (Shoyen) Yasui worked for the Nichols Chemical Company and the family lived on the site of Barnet. These photographs were published in the book "In the Shadow by the Sea: Recollections of Burnaby's Barnet Village".
- History
- Sukegoro (Shoyen) Yasui (1884-1972) and his wife Tane (Hirata) Yasui (d.1987) emigrated from Japan to Canada in 1919. Sukegoro and Tane had two children Yasue Margaret (Matsumura) (1921-2019) and Harding Yasui (1923-2008). Sukegoro worked as a burner operator for the Nichols Chemical Company of Barnet B.C. The family lived on the site with five other families in a bunkhouse including the three Kokuryo brothers and their families and the Kojima family. The children attended Barnet School for three years before the family moved to Surrey in 1934 after purchasing farm land. Sukegoro and Tane Yasui grew strawberries and raised chickens on the farm and Sukegoro continued to work shift work at the Nichols plant. In 1942, the Yasui family were interned and sent to work on a sugar beet farm near Lethbridge, Alberta. While living in Picture Butte, Alberta,Yasue married Matsuo Matsumura. Following the war, the whole family moved to Kingston, Ontario where Harding completed his senior year of high school. A few years later, Harding moved to Montreal and his parents joined him.
The Barnet Lumber Company also known as the Barnet mill was in operation between 1925 and 1932. The mill was located on Burrard Inlet in the neighbourhood of Barnet and was one of the most successful local employers in Burnaby until the 1930s when the Great Depression resulted in a strike at the mill. The City of Burnaby eventually assumed control of the site including all of the homes when the company failed to pay it's taxes. The city then dismantled the mill and sold the property in two parts - the eastern section would become the Kapoor Sawmills Limited and the western portion, the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company.
- Accession Code
- BV019.32
- Date
- [1923-1937] (date of originals), copied 2004
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Related Material
- See also, City of Burnaby Archives: Burnaby Historical Society fonds - "In the Shadow by the Sea subseries"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of series
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Yellow Point
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1925 and 1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph shows three women and a man, all unidentified, standing in front of the three oaks at Yellow Point.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1925 and 1940]
- Collection/Fonds
- Hill family and Vidal family fonds
- Series
- Hill family and Vidal family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 9 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 550-171
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2013-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph shows three women and a man, all unidentified, standing in front of the three oaks at Yellow Point.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on note accompanying photograph
- Note in pencil on album page reads: "in front of Three Oaks"
- Note in blue pen on verso reads: "Y P T in front of 3 oaks"
Less detail
Yellow Point Camp
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1922
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w ; 6.9 x 10.2 cm on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album and joined to form panorama)
- Scope and Content
- Photographs form a panoramic view of the campsite used by the Hill and Peers families at Yellow Point.
The young fur traders : snowflakes and sunbeams
Young girl
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 1.5 x 3 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a girl identified only by the initials E.D.H. The photograph has been cut to shape around her outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 1.5 x 3 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-499
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a girl identified only by the initials E.D.H. The photograph has been cut to shape around her outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Young girl
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 1 x 2 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a girl identified only by the initials M.T. The photograph has been cut to shape around her outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]
- Collection/Fonds
- Peers Family and Hill Family fonds
- Series
- Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 1 x 2 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 477-500
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2007-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a girl identified only by the initials M.T. The photograph has been cut to shape around her outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Young girl in a garden
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1929 (date of original), copied 1992
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.7 x 12.6 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a young girl, Erice, sitting on a rock in a garden with a house in the background. Jean Kurtz babysat her.
Young goat
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1926 or 1927] (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 2.6 x 4.5 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 26.6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a a young goat (a kid) at the back of the Ellis home at 6926 Nelson Avenue. Neighbours' houses are visible in the background.
Young man paddling a canoe
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- Aug. 1925
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a young man paddling a canoe. Photograph was taken during a New Westminster District Boy Scout camp at Grantham's Landing.
Young men with automobile
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-]
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of four young men seated on the front bumper of an automobile on a gravel road.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- David Geoffrey Llewellyn collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a group of four young men seated on the front bumper of an automobile on a gravel road.
- Accession Code
- BV995.8.66
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [192-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Photograph is part of photograph album BV995.8.1, pasted to page 22
Less detail
Young woman wearing a pendant
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1923]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.0 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of an unidentified young woman with short dark hair taken in a photographic studio. She is wearing a dress with vertical stripes, and has a pendant around her neck. There appears to be a faint outline of a face depicted in the pendant. An annotation on the back of the photogr…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 13.0 x 8.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photographic postcard of an unidentified young woman with short dark hair taken in a photographic studio. She is wearing a dress with vertical stripes, and has a pendant around her neck. There appears to be a faint outline of a face depicted in the pendant. An annotation on the back of the photograph reads: "2/23."
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Postcards
- Adornment - Jewelry
- Accession Code
- HV984.51.47
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1923]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-10-10
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Less detail
Yue Shan Society
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [192-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : 17 x 27 cm mounted on matt in frame 22 x 37.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Yue Shan Society gathered together in front of building on Fisgard Strett, Victoria, B.C. Society members are arranged together into four rows in front of building with a large banner with Chinese characters hanging above. A group of ten children are seated on the curb …
Zoning and Rezoning series
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926-2013
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Description Level
- Series
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records pertaining to the zoning and rezoning of property and buildings in Burnaby. Includes records pertaining to each zoning or rezoning, and the accompanying public hearings. Series also includes correspondence, agendas and minutes of the Board of Variance. The Board of V…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1926-2013
- Collection/Fonds
- City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds
- Series
- Zoning and Rezoning series
- Description Level
- Series
- Scope and Content
- Series consists of records pertaining to the zoning and rezoning of property and buildings in Burnaby. Includes records pertaining to each zoning or rezoning, and the accompanying public hearings. Series also includes correspondence, agendas and minutes of the Board of Variance. The Board of Variance is an independent body that considers requests for minor variances to the Burnaby Zoning Bylaw regarding the site, size and dimensions of buildings. The Board originally consisted of five members, including two members of the public appointed by Council, two members appointed by the Provincial Government, and one member appointed by the other four. In March, 2003, the Local Government Act s.899(1) was amended and the manner of appointments to the Board of Variance was changed, resulting in all members being Council appointees. The Board of Variance remained an independent body with complete discretion in its decisions, only the manner of appointments was altered. The Board of Variance was formerly called Burnaby Zoning Board of Appeal from ca. 1960 until May 1968.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
Less detail
Zurika programme
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- January 1925 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 programme
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photocopied programme for the Burnaby South High School production of the operetta "'Zurika' / The Gypsy Maid" performed at both the Public Hall, Edmonds and the Henderson Church Hall, West Burnaby.