City of Burnaby Archives photograph collection
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-[1979]
- Collection/Fonds
- City of Burnaby Archives photograph collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 43 photographs (39 tiffs ; 2 jpegs ; 3 col. prints, 9 x 9 cm) and 3 p. of textual records
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of photographs that were selected for preservation because of their relevance to documenting the heritage and development of the City of Burnaby. The items in this collection depict Burnaby citizens, locations, businesses, residences, geography, and events throughout the history…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920]-[1979]
- Collection/Fonds
- City of Burnaby Archives photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 43 photographs (39 tiffs ; 2 jpegs ; 3 col. prints, 9 x 9 cm) and 3 p. of textual records
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2010-01
- 2013-31
- 2016-24
- 2021-10
- Scope and Content
- Collection consists of photographs that were selected for preservation because of their relevance to documenting the heritage and development of the City of Burnaby. The items in this collection depict Burnaby citizens, locations, businesses, residences, geography, and events throughout the history of the City of Burnaby. The items in this collection are acquisitions of discrete items or small sets of items that do not form a discrete fonds or collection.
- History
- Burnaby’s first municipal archive officially opened on November 10, 2001, and is located in the McGill Branch Public Library at 4595 Albert Street. The City Archives functions as a branch of the Office of the City Clerk and operates as the official repository of Burnaby’s municipal records, containing records dating back to Burnaby’s incorporation in 1892. In 2007, the City of Burnaby Archives expanded its collection mandate to include private as well as public records. Types of records held at the Archives include City Records (Council minutes and reports, bylaws, departmental records and photographs) and records from private individuals and community organizations (correspondence, reports, minutes, photographs, moving images and sound recordings). The Archives storage area is equipped with the sophisticated environmental controls necessary to preserve Burnaby’s unique archival material into the future.
The mandate of the City of Burnaby Archives is to identify, acquire, preserve and make accessible archival material in the form of civic and private records documenting the history of the City of Burnaby.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Notes
- Title based on contents of collection.
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Columbian Newspaper subseries
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1865]-1983
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Photographs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of photographs from the Columbian Newspaper collected by the Burnaby Historical Society.
Disney Family collection
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1914-1963]
- Collection/Fonds
- Disney Family collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 6 architectural drawings : pencil and ink on paper ; 52 cm x 77 cm and smaller + 1 p. of textual records (40 cm. x 31 cm.) + 1 plan : col. ; 55 cm x 75 cm folded to 28 cm x 10 cm + 1 map : diazo print ; 39 cm x 28 cm.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of maps and plans created and collected by Jack Disney.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1914-1963]
- Collection/Fonds
- Disney Family collection
- Physical Description
- 6 architectural drawings : pencil and ink on paper ; 52 cm x 77 cm and smaller + 1 p. of textual records (40 cm. x 31 cm.) + 1 plan : col. ; 55 cm x 75 cm folded to 28 cm x 10 cm + 1 map : diazo print ; 39 cm x 28 cm.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2016-03
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of maps and plans created and collected by Jack Disney.
- History
- John Howard "Jack" Disney served as Burnaby Surveyor from 1911 to 1919.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of collection
- MSS199
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Alan Fish collection
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920-1929]
- Collection/Fonds
- Alan Fish collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of one photographic postcard of the North Pacific Lumber Co. Mill at Barnet Village in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920-1929]
- Collection/Fonds
- Alan Fish collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 13 cm
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of one photographic postcard of the North Pacific Lumber Co. Mill at Barnet Village in Burnaby.
- History
- John Lawrence Fish was born in 1904 at Oldham, Lancashire, England. His father, Samuel, first immigrated to Canada 1909, eventually bringing his family to Davie Street, Vancouver in 1919.
In 1924, John started working for the Barnet Lumber Company. After working six months at Hanbury Lumber Company in Vancouver in 1926, he came back to the Barnet Mill. In 1927 he began working for the Nichols Chemical plant.
Lucy Isabelle Currie was born in Vancouver in 1911 to Harvey and Jane May “Jennie” (Laidlaw) Currie. After graduating from Magee High School, she studied teaching at the Normal School, then went to work at the Compensation Board.
In 1942 John and Lucy married at Ryerson Church in Kerrisdale, Vancouver and moved to an apartment at 4095 East Hastings Street in Burnaby. Their daughter, Rosemary Ann Fish, was born in 1943 and their son, Alan John Fish, was born in 1945. In 1947 or 1948 the family of four moved to an apartment at Barnet, followed by a move to a house at Nichols Road. By 1956, they were living in house number 28 on the Nichols property.
Alan and Rosemary grew up at Barnet, roaming freely with the other Barnet children around the area of Nichols and the beaches west of the plant. The Fish siblings were taken to school on the Barnet school bus; they attended Rosser Elementary School, Westridge Elementary School, Sperling Elementary School, Kensington Junior High School and Burnaby North High School. As a young adult, Alan worked weekends as a boiler house fireman at the Bestwood shingle mill from 1963 to 1966. He worked at the Nichols Chemical plant from 1966 to 1967.
John worked for the Nichol Chemical plant for over 40 years. On November 3, 1968 he was in an accident at the plant from which he suffered first, second and third degree burns. He succumbed to his injuries in hospital on December 16, 1968.
Rosemary married Larry Meech. They were living together at Barnet while finishing college when John died. The Meeches then bought a house in Capitol Hill. Alan and Lucy moved to an apartment at Westridge.
Lucy passed away in 1974.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Fish, Alan
- Other Title Information
- Title was changed from Alan Fish fonds to Alan Fish collection to better reflect the nature of the materials.
- Notes
- Photo catalogue 539
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Ellenor Murray's brother
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Collection/Fonds
- Murray family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia (cabinet card) ; 9 x 6 cm, mounted on card 10 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a family of three taken at a photographic studio in Newcastle-On-Tyne. Either the man or the child in the photograph has been identified as Ellenor Murray's brother.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Collection/Fonds
- Murray family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia (cabinet card) ; 9 x 6 cm, mounted on card 10 x 6 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 548-002
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-31
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a family of three taken at a photographic studio in Newcastle-On-Tyne. Either the man or the child in the photograph has been identified as Ellenor Murray's brother.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Dickson, Jas.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Mother's Brother"
- Photographer's studio markings on recto of cabinet card read: "Jas. Dickinson / Newcastle-On-Tyne"
- Photographers studio markings on verso of cabinet card read: "The Portrait / City Gallery / Photographic Artist / Jas Dickinson / Grainger Street Newcastle-On-Tyne / Negatives Kept / Additional Copies Can Always Be Obtained / Portraits of Every Description Enlarged / Portrait Clubs."
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Brothers Earl and Norman Wild
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] - 1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Murray family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of brothers Earl and Norman Wild in Idaho, in the United States of America (USA). Norman is holding an unidentified toddler on one arm, and has his other arm around his brother.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1925] - 1990
- Collection/Fonds
- Murray family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 7 x 7 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 548-003
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2012-31
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of brothers Earl and Norman Wild in Idaho, in the United States of America (USA). Norman is holding an unidentified toddler on one arm, and has his other arm around his brother.
- Names
- Wild, Norman
- Wild, Earl
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "Norman's brother Earl + Norman. Idaho USA"
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Matriculation Caesar : bell. Gall., b. IV, chapters 20-38 and bell. Gall., b. V. chapters 1-23
The new world atlas and gazetteer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.120.16
- Call Number
- 912 COL 1922 OS
- Edition
- 1922 ed.
- Author
- P.F. Collier & Son Corporation
- Contributor
- Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1867-1937
- Ward, Adam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Publication Date
- c1922
- Physical Description
- 272 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 39 cm.
- Inscription
- "W15" [phrase crossed out and written in black ink on front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Geography--Dictionaries
- Atlases
- Notes
- "New population statistics of federal census of 1920 of all states and territories, of all cities and towns of the United States"--title page
- "World maps revised to 1922--new maps showing new boundaries of all foreign states and their dependencies--new maps of each state of the United States, including their newly organized counties and other boundary changes to 1922--new Canadian maps--physical and commercial analysis of United States and Canada--analysis of all countries of the world--illustrated gazetteer of cities and towns of the world"--t.p.
- "Profusely illustrated"--title page
- "Edited by Francis J. Reynolds"--title page
- "Revised to date by Adam Ward"--title page
- Editor's given name and dates: Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1867-1937
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Que fait Gaston? : a reader for young beginners
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.120.30
- Call Number
- 448.6 PER
- Author
- Perley, Fannie
- Contributor
- Fitts, Clara Atwood
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Publisher
- D. C. Heath & Co.
- Publication Date
- c1922
- Series
- Heath's Modern Language Series
- Physical Description
- iii-vii , 134 p. : ill., music ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- Front cover: "Tom "MacDonald" [printed in ink]
Front end paper:
"Peggy McKay
409-18 Ave East Vancouver BC"
"K.L.H.S." [handwritten in ink]
"Peggy McKay
Vancouver
BC" [handwritten in pencil]
"Some of these Days"
" Hello Melody goodbye"
"jazz...." [handwritten in ink]
Opposite of front end paper:
"w15" [printed in ink, crossed out]
"Patricia Quinn" [handwritten in ink, unique signature]
"Bill Williams" [handwritten vertically in pencil]
sketch of a female, in pencil and ink, signed "Peggy".
next 2 blank pages covered in personal notes, handwritten in pencil
back end paper:
"Ireland & Allan Ltd.
Books & Stationery
649 Granville St.
Vancouver, B.C." [ ink stamp in purple maybe faded blue?]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- French language--Readers
- French language--Study and teaching
- Notes
- "Illustrated by Clara Atwood Fitts".
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Library of health : complete guide to prevention and cure of disease, containing practical information on anatomy, physiology and preventive medicine ; curative medicine, first aid measures, diagnosis, nursing, sexology, simple home remedies, care of teeth, occupational diseases, garden plant remedies, alcohol and narcotics, treatment by fifteen schools of medicine, beauty culture, physical culture, the science of breathing and the dictionary of drugs; twenty books - one volume
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.136.95
- Call Number
- 603 SCH
- Edition
- 1920 ed.
- Contributor
- Scholl, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin), 1860-1933
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Historical Publishing Co.
- Publication Date
- 1920, c1916
- Physical Description
- xvi, 1774 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
- Inscription
- "W27" [handwritten and crossed out in black ink on front pastedown]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Medicine, Popular
- Medicine
- Notes
- "Edited by B. Frank Scholl, Ph.G., M.D." -- title page
- Author's full given name and dates: Scholl, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin), 1860-1933
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The homestead on the hillside
Peggy by request: the love story of Noel and Peggy from "the keeper of the door" written by request of some of my readers
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.136.122
- Call Number
- 823.9 DEL
- Author
- Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May), 1881-1939
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Ryerson press
- Publication Date
- c1928
- Physical Description
- vii, 397 p.
- Inscription
- "W25", in black ink inside front cover, crossed out in pencil
"Mary Lambert. / 2350 4 Ave D E / Vancouver", handwritten in black ink
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Fiction--20th century
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The Mary Brooks Picken method of modern dressmaking
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV990.1.2
- Call Number
- 646.43 PIC
- Author
- Picken, Mary Brooks, 1886-1981
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- The Pictorial Review Co.
- Publication Date
- c1925
- Physical Description
- 96 p. : ill. : 29 cm.
- Inscription
- "Helen Blair" [Handwritten twice in black ink on front endpaper]
"Helen Blair
Class II" [Handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
"Helen Blair
Fernie, B. C.
1929" [Handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
Scribbles on front endpaper.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Dressmaking
- Textiles
- Sewing
- Object History
- Object purchased, along with a sign stand, from Jim Wolf. No information gathered as to where Jim obtained the items.
- Notes
- Includes index.
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Algebra : instruction paper, part II
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.170.11
- Call Number
- 512 RIS v.2
- Author
- Risley, Walter J.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- American School of Correspondence
- Publication Date
- c1920
- Physical Description
- 2 v. ; 22 cm.
- Inscription
- "S16 [crossed out]" - handwritten in ink on cover page.
"35", - handwritten in ink on cover page.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Algebra
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Physiology and hygiene for public schools
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.170.12
- Call Number
- 612 RIT 1927
- Author
- Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside), 1871-1943
- Caldwell, Joseph S.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Educational Book Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date
- 1927
- c1925
- Series
- Canadian Health Series
- Physical Description
- vi, 302 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "Clarence Rhead, J.B. St. S., Dec. 1st, Class 13" written in pencil, inside cover
"516" written in pen, inside cover page (crossed out)
"15c" (cents), written in pen, inside cover page
"This book belongs to Clarence Rhead, Cl. 13." written in pencil, inside cover page
Stamped: "Premium Stores, 4543 Kingsway, Burnaby 1, B.C. , Canada", inside cover page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Physiology--Textbooks
- Hygiene--Textbooks
- Notes
- Includes index, height and weight tables, and glossary.
- "Authorized by the Minister of Education for use in the public schools of Alberta."
- Author's given name and dates : Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside), 1871-1943.
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The story of world progress
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.174.1
- Call Number
- 940 WES
- Edition
- Canadian ed.
- Author
- West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), 1857-1931
- Contributor
- Eastman, Mack, 1882-
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Publisher
- Allyn and Bacon
- Publication Date
- c1924
- Series
- Allyn and Bacon's series of school histories
- Printer
- L. H. Jenkins, Inc.
- Physical Description
- xix, 749, 53 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "Laurence Barber / 1006 12th Ave W. / Vancouver B.C. / Phone Bayview 7541R" [handwritten inside front cover]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Europe--History
- Notes
- "Canadian edition prepared by Mack Eastman" -- t.p.
- Author's full given name and dates : West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), 1857-1931.
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The beginners book in religion
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.175.8
- Call Number
- 377 BAK
- Author
- Baker, Edna Dean, 1883-1956
- Contributor
- Betts, George Herbert, 1868-1934
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Abingdon Press
- Publication Date
- c1921
- Physical Description
- 271 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Inscription
- Pocket inside front cover from Religious Education Council of B.C.
"Religious Education Council of B.C. / 410 Dominion Bank Building, Vancouver, ...B.C." -- stamped on pocket inside cover.
"Premium Stores / 4543 Kingsway Burnaby 1 B.C. Canada" -- stamped on endpaper (front).
"1.75", "25 cent" -- handwritten in pencil and pen on endpaper (front).
"W 29" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front).
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Religious education--Teaching methods
- Religious education of children
- Sunday schools
- Notes
- Edited by George Herbert Betts.
- Pt.1 The young child and his religion -- Pt. 2 Lessons in religion
- pocket inside front cover from Religious Education Council of B.C.
- Includes index.
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Physiography: an introduction to the study of nature
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.175.9
- Call Number
- 551 HUX
- Author
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
- Gregory, Richard, Sir, 1864-1952
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co., Limited
- Publication Date
- 1920
- c1904
- Printer
- Richard Clay & Sons
- Physical Description
- v-xi; 423 p. : ill. , maps ; 15 cm.
- Inscription
- inside, "5/6" "75" "RE"
- crossed out "W 29" "150"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Physical geography
- Notes
- "Revised and partly rewritten by Sir Richard Gregory."
- "With 301 illustrations."
- Includes index.
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Direct healing
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV971.175.10
- Call Number
- 131 ELL
- Author
- Ellsworth, Paul
- Place of Publication
- Holyoke, Mass.
- Publisher
- The Elizabeth Towne Co.
- Publication Date
- 1920
- c1914
- Physical Description
- 173 p. : 20 cm.
- Inscription
- "S.L. Murphy" [Handwritten in black ink on front flyleaf]
"PREMIUM STORES
4543 KINGSWAY
BURNABY 1, B.C., CANADA" [Stamped in black ink on front flyleaf]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- New Thought
- Spiritual healing
- Mental healing
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