Photograph of Mary Ada Bingham standing in front of a giant tree stump in Willingdon Heights which was to be cleared for a veterans' housing project in 1948. According to an accompanying note prepared by Burnaby Village Museum, and supported by the inscription on the photograph, Ada Bingham came to…
Inscribed in black ballpoint pen, on the back of the photo: "Ada and Big Stump / Clearing time on Willingdon Heights / 1948. / Burnaby 2. B. C" and in blue ballpoint pen: "Mrs. Mary Ada Bingham / 1 Real Pioneer Wife; she helped me clear the land. Build our home, dig out well and worked for the community for nearly 50 years. She died August 9, 1969 / Alf Bingham."
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Photograph of Mary Ada Bingham standing in front of a giant tree stump in Willingdon Heights which was to be cleared for a veterans' housing project in 1948. According to an accompanying note prepared by Burnaby Village Museum, and supported by the inscription on the photograph, Ada Bingham came to Burnaby to homestead with her husband, Alfred "Alf" Bingham, in 1919. They settled in the Lochdale district of North Burnaby but later moved to Parker Street.
Photograph of a man operating a bulldozer clearing a forested hill. There appears to be a backhoe on the other side of the hill of fallen and upturned trees. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photograph: "342X."
Photograph of a man operating a bulldozer clearing a forested hill. There appears to be a backhoe on the other side of the hill of fallen and upturned trees. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photograph: "342X."
Photograph of an unidentified man operating a bulldozer and clearing the lot. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photograph: "345L."
Photograph of an unidentified man operating a bulldozer and clearing the lot. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photograph: "345L."
Camera, black box type, textured; leather handle; no lens; back comes off; film spool holder attached to front part with lens, "No.2A BROWNIE CAMERA MODEL 8" "EASTMAN KODAK CO." "MANUFACTURED BY CANADIAN KODAK CO."; patent dates from 1897 to 1909; large
Object History
Object belonged to Alfred Bingham, an early Burnaby resident and activist.
Photograph of a large cleared lot with two houses built apart from each other. Catalogue information from 1976 indicates that the photograph depicts the development of one of Burnaby's streets, ca. 1948. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photo: "657X."
Photograph of a large cleared lot with two houses built apart from each other. Catalogue information from 1976 indicates that the photograph depicts the development of one of Burnaby's streets, ca. 1948. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photo: "657X."
Photograph of a clearing in the foreground and houses under construction in the background. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photographs: "021X."
Photograph of a clearing in the foreground and houses under construction in the background. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of photographs: "021X."
Photograph of the Division One class at Gilmore Avenue School (this information is written on a blackboard at the rear of the classroom). A male teacher is standing beside the blackboard and the class is seated at their desks (each desk is attached to the back of the chair in the front). There are …
Photograph of the Division One class at Gilmore Avenue School (this information is written on a blackboard at the rear of the classroom). A male teacher is standing beside the blackboard and the class is seated at their desks (each desk is attached to the back of the chair in the front). There are 21 girls and 14 boys. The boys are dressed in sweaters or rough sports jackets, baggy trousers, and open-necked shirts. Their hair is generally moppish, or parted. The girls are generally wearing sweaters and wide skirts, with several wearing necklaces. Most have long hair, pulled back and tied, or parted and hanging. Identified: (3rd row of desks, 5th from left) Mary Warren; (1st row of desks, 4th from left) Lena Horne (later Lena McManus). Mary Warren was the daughter of John H. Warren and Mary W. Warren (nee Slaven) who settled in Burnaby and built a house on Union Street in 1912. Mary Warren later became Mary Anthony when she married Bill Anthony. The teacher may be Stanley Griffiths. A blackboard on the left of the picture has math problems written on it. Above, a row of prints hang, among the ones identifiable are Shakespeare and the Fathers of Confederation. The room is lit by dangling electric bulbs. Inscribed on the negative, lower left of the print: "272." An annotation in pencil on the back of the photograph reads, "Mr. Tom Browning." In 1912 Gilmore Ave. School was only a tent as blasting and clearing was being carried out. Later that year, a four-room building was completed and pupils moved in. By 1914, another four rooms were added to meet increased enrolment. Four rooms were added again in 1922, and four rooms and an auditorium were added in 1929. The school was renovated in 1954 and 1955. A library was added in 1964 and six more rooms were built in 1967. The school was named after Hugh B. Gilmour, but an error by a municipal clerk in 1912 changed the spelling to Gilmore.
11 plans on 8 sheets : col. lithographic print ; 64 x 54 cm
Scope and Content
Item consists of fire insurance plans titled "Greater Vancouver / Volume XV / Municipality / of Burnaby" surveyed May 1927 and revised October 1940. Volume XV includes a two page Key Plan (A and B) identifying associated plan numbers and district lots and nine numbered fire insurance plans identifi…
11 plans on 8 sheets : col. lithographic print ; 64 x 54 cm
Material Details
Scales between [1:600] and [1:6000]
Scope and Content
Item consists of fire insurance plans titled "Greater Vancouver / Volume XV / Municipality / of Burnaby" surveyed May 1927 and revised October 1940. Volume XV includes a two page Key Plan (A and B) identifying associated plan numbers and district lots and nine numbered fire insurance plans identified as; 1507; 1508 ; 1517; 1518; 1519; 1520;1521; 1531and 1532.
These plans are contained within a bound book with labels on cover page reading: "Plan No. 90 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / of / Vancouver VOLUME "8" / IN THE PROPERTY OF THE / British Columbia Insurance Underwriter's Association / Vancouver B.C. / AND IS LOANED / MELVILLE F. THOMSON CO. .../ Date May 26th, 1934"; / "Plan No. 74 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / OF / VANCOUVER VOLUME "9"" / Plan No. 11 / THIS INSURANCE PLAN / OF / BURNABY VOLUMES 15-19" / "THIS PLAN IS THE PROPERTY OF / THE / BRITISH LAW INSURANCE COMPANY / LIMITED"
Fire insurance plans cover various district lots in Burnaby including: District Lot 116,121, 186 and 187.
Sticker adhered to Key Plan B reads: "
Contact Burnaby Village Museum to view fire insurance plans that are part of Volume XV
Photograph of the first class at Kitchener Street School. The students' ages vary, with few adults mixed in the group. They form six rows on the front steps of the school building. Dolly Knight is identified in the front row, first on left, her sister Margaret Norton (nee Knight) is in the front ro…
Photograph of the first class at Kitchener Street School. The students' ages vary, with few adults mixed in the group. They form six rows on the front steps of the school building. Dolly Knight is identified in the front row, first on left, her sister Margaret Norton (nee Knight) is in the front row, third from left and Margaret's twin brother Fred Knight is in the second row from the top.
1 photograph : sepia hand-tinted col. ; 6 x 8.5 cm
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Photograph of twins, Fred Knight and Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together in an empty lot near their home on Gilmore Avenue. They are both dressed in trousers and wearing caps on their heads. Fred is standing behind Margaret with his arms around her. Trash is littering the ground around t…
1 photograph : sepia hand-tinted col. ; 6 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of twins, Fred Knight and Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together in an empty lot near their home on Gilmore Avenue. They are both dressed in trousers and wearing caps on their heads. Fred is standing behind Margaret with his arms around her. Trash is littering the ground around them and houses are visible in the distance.
Photograph of students in a classroom at Gilmore Avenue School seated on their chair with their hands behind their backs. Their teacher is standing at the back of the classroom in front of a black board. Most girls are wearing bows in their hair and almost all of the students are wearing sweaters (…
Photograph of students in a classroom at Gilmore Avenue School seated on their chair with their hands behind their backs. Their teacher is standing at the back of the classroom in front of a black board. Most girls are wearing bows in their hair and almost all of the students are wearing sweaters (bare light bulbs and empty light sockets are hanging from the ceiling).
Photograph of students in a classroom at Gilmore Avenue School seated on their chair with their hands behind their backs. Their teacher is standing at the back of the classroom in front of a black board. Most girls are wearing bows in their hair and almost all of the students are wearing sweaters (…
Photograph of students in a classroom at Gilmore Avenue School seated on their chair with their hands behind their backs. Their teacher is standing at the back of the classroom in front of a black board. Most girls are wearing bows in their hair and almost all of the students are wearing sweaters (bare light bulbs and empty light sockets are hanging from the ceiling).
Photograph of a group of students standing in front of Gilmore Avenue School with their teacher. There are five rows of boys and girls aged about twelve years old. The girls are all wearing knee length dresses or skirts with a low waist band and stockings. The boys are mostly wearing button up shir…
Photograph of a group of students standing in front of Gilmore Avenue School with their teacher. There are five rows of boys and girls aged about twelve years old. The girls are all wearing knee length dresses or skirts with a low waist band and stockings. The boys are mostly wearing button up shirts. Many of the students are also wearing neckties.
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."
Glass crystal, with cut pattern around base of alternating squares of diagonal lines and translucent cross-hatching; upper part of glass has design of flower with leaves, one on each side.
Object History
Object belonged to Alfred Bingham, an early Burnaby resident and activist.
Photograph of Louisa Ellis sitting on the stoop of her house with her grandson, Charles "Bob" Roberts and family dog. The house is located at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby.
Photograph of Louisa Ellis sitting on the stoop of her house with her grandson, Charles "Bob" Roberts and family dog. The house is located at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby.