Photograph of Assistant Scout Master Jack Allen of the 1st New Westminster Boy Scout Troop and Scoutmaster William Mundy of the 2nd Deptford Troop in a row boat in the Fraser River near Sunbury. The 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop went on a hike on Easter weekend down the Fraser River from New Westmins…
Photograph of Assistant Scout Master Jack Allen of the 1st New Westminster Boy Scout Troop and Scoutmaster William Mundy of the 2nd Deptford Troop in a row boat in the Fraser River near Sunbury. The 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop went on a hike on Easter weekend down the Fraser River from New Westminster to Sunbury (North Delta). The troop was accompanied by Assistant Scout Master Jack Allen of the 1st New Westminster Troop and Scoutmaster William Mundy of the 2nd Deptford Troop, London, England.
Photograph of two boys scouts holding signaling flags from the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop. One of the boy's faces is blocked by the sunlight. Photograph was taken during the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop hike from New Westminster to Sunbury on Easter weekend.
Photograph of two boys scouts holding signaling flags from the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop. One of the boy's faces is blocked by the sunlight. Photograph was taken during the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop hike from New Westminster to Sunbury on Easter weekend.
1 album (151 photographs + ephemera + textual records)
Scope and Content
File consists of a sixty page photograph album titled "2nd Burnaby Troop Boy Scouts" with photographs and ephemera pasted onto fourty one pages. The album includes photographs of the Burnaby Boy Scouts at various events, camps and hikes, the Burnaby Girl Guides and May Day events in Burnaby and New…
1 album (151 photographs + ephemera + textual records)
Material Details
41 pages of album have pasted content
19 pages at the back of the album are blank
Scope and Content
File consists of a sixty page photograph album titled "2nd Burnaby Troop Boy Scouts" with photographs and ephemera pasted onto fourty one pages. The album includes photographs of the Burnaby Boy Scouts at various events, camps and hikes, the Burnaby Girl Guides and May Day events in Burnaby and New Westminster.
Photograph of "5th Burnaby Guide Co." gathered for a group photograph outside. All guides are in uniform but unidentified. The number of the "5th Burnaby Guide Co." was changed to the "4th Vancouver" in 1951 and in 1956 it was changed to the "4th Burnaby".
Note in blue ink on verso of photograph reads: "NORTH BURNABY / 5TH COMPANY"
Scope and Content
Photograph of "5th Burnaby Guide Co." gathered for a group photograph outside. All guides are in uniform but unidentified. The number of the "5th Burnaby Guide Co." was changed to the "4th Vancouver" in 1951 and in 1956 it was changed to the "4th Burnaby".
Photograph of the 14th Avenue neighbourhood friends. Back row, left to right: Pearl Scott, Frances Bryson, Alice Salt, and Dorothy Hutchins (holding baby). Middle row, left to right: Hazel Butler, Doris Bamber, Frances Salt, and Jessica Scott. Front row, left to right: Evelyn Salt, Gladys Butler, a…
Photograph of the 14th Avenue neighbourhood friends. Back row, left to right: Pearl Scott, Frances Bryson, Alice Salt, and Dorothy Hutchins (holding baby). Middle row, left to right: Hazel Butler, Doris Bamber, Frances Salt, and Jessica Scott. Front row, left to right: Evelyn Salt, Gladys Butler, and Isabel Scott.
20th century bookkeeping and accounting : a treatise on modern bookkeeping, accounting, and business customs, as illustrated in the "business transactions" which accompany this text...for use in all schools that teach bookkeeping and accounting
"Pendygrasse" [Handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
"To Pendygrasse"
"George Pendygrasse"
"_ _"
"George Pendygrasse" [Handwritten in blue ink on back endpaper]
Author assisted by: Commercial Teachers and Practicing Accountants
"Granted a medal of award by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915"
Author's given name and dates: Baker, James Williams, 1873-1938.
20th century bookkeeping and accounting : a treatise on the principles of accounting and bookkeeping practice applied by modern bookkeepers and accountants
"Alma Stanley"
"165" [handwritten in pencil on front flyleaf]
"Alma Stanley"
"Burnaby South High School" [handwritten in blue ink on front flyleaf]
"Dol_ _ _"
"Assets ... cash Acct. Receivable MA dsl. Inventory"
"lost purch. : _ _ pense"
"Credit"
"Liabl. ... Acct. payable Capital acct."
"Income ... Sales"
"The capital acct. is a liability of the business to an outsider" [handwritten in pencil on back endpaper]
File consists of a scrapbook with a handpainted wood cover titled "50th Anniversary / G.G.C". The scrapbook documents events and ceremonies of the 4th Guide Company with the first half of the scrapbook containing photographs and documents regarding the 50th Anniversary of Girl Guides which was cele…
File consists of a scrapbook with a handpainted wood cover titled "50th Anniversary / G.G.C". The scrapbook documents events and ceremonies of the 4th Guide Company with the first half of the scrapbook containing photographs and documents regarding the 50th Anniversary of Girl Guides which was celebrated at St. Nicholas Church in 1960 while the second half documents earlier events from 1926, as well as other events in the 1960s such as; "Year of the Golden Jubilee", a parade in North Burnaby as well as Thinking Day 1976-1978, banquets, a disco contest, camping on Hollyburn mountain and a visit to Victoria in 1979. On November 3rd, 1926 the company was registered as the 5th Burnaby Guide company, in 1951 the number was changed to the 4th Vancouver Guide Company and in 1956 the number was changed to the 4th Burnaby Company.
Photograph of (left to right) Bill Anthony and Jim Warren, with a 1923 Ford touring car, Jim's first car. They became brothers-in-law when Bill married Mary Warren. The pair are about to leave on motor tour of Oregon.
Photograph of (left to right) Bill Anthony and Jim Warren, with a 1923 Ford touring car, Jim's first car. They became brothers-in-law when Bill married Mary Warren. The pair are about to leave on motor tour of Oregon.
Photograph of a 1927 Buick with a cross sign on top of the windshield and "AMBULANCE" written at the bottom of the windshield and identified as the "third" ambulance (the Wagner family operated this ambulance service as well as Dexter Cabs).
inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, verso, t., stamped, u.l. "678"
Scope and Content
Photograph of a 1927 Buick with a cross sign on top of the windshield and "AMBULANCE" written at the bottom of the windshield and identified as the "third" ambulance (the Wagner family operated this ambulance service as well as Dexter Cabs).
Photograph of George L. Donovan's company's 1928 Ford. Beside the car is Alice Donovan, daughter of George L. Donovan. George L. Donovan and his son, George, drove all over B.C. selling Sundstrand oil burners; they also sold typewriters from same car, bought new in 1928. Note the spare wheel co…
Photograph of George L. Donovan's company's 1928 Ford. Beside the car is Alice Donovan, daughter of George L. Donovan. George L. Donovan and his son, George, drove all over B.C. selling Sundstrand oil burners; they also sold typewriters from same car, bought new in 1928. Note the spare wheel cover advertising Sunstrand oil burners.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of neighbours of the Murley family on the 2700 block of Willingdon Avenue (later renumbered as the 6300 block of Willingdon Avenue). A woman and two children are standing in front of a house.
1 photograph : b&w ; 4.5 x 2.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
370-105
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
BHS1999-03
Scope and Content
Photograph of neighbours of the Murley family on the 2700 block of Willingdon Avenue (later renumbered as the 6300 block of Willingdon Avenue). A woman and two children are standing in front of a house.
Front endpaper:
"Department of Education
Text-Book Branch" [sticker adhered to book]
"1934" [written on sticker in blue ink]
"A 30" [written in pencil]
Throughout book:
Study notes and markings highlighting passages of text, written in pencil.
"Department of Education
Text-Book Branch" [label pasted onto front pastedown]
"W-2d" [handwritten in black ink on "Department of Education" label on front pastedown]
"218-227 supplement
as regards your ____" [handwritten in black ink on front pastedown]
"Canada 1932" [handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
"F94" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
"In case of fire
Throw this in" [handwritten in pencil on back of front endpaper]
"Patricia Jeffery" [stamped in black ink on supplement title page]
"Class 4
P. N. S." [handwritten in black ink on supplement title page]
"Patricia Jeffery" [handwritten in black ink on title page verso]
"Ethel Anderson,
9387 Fullerton Ave.,
Victoria, B.C." [handwritten in black ink on front endpaper]
"Ethel Anderson" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
Provinces and their capitals handwritten in pencil on back pastedown.
"WOODWARDS LTD.
BOOK DEPT.
90¢" [stamped in purple in on front endpaper]
"Vera Morrow" [handwritten in red ink on front endpaper]
"Section
Page" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
"Vera Morrow" [handwritten in green ink on other side of front endpaper]
"[All rights reserved] to
Vera Morrow" [handwritten in red ink on page before t.p.]
"Vera Morrow
Kitchener St. school
Geography Book (text)" [handwritten in pencil on back endpaper]
Study notes handwritten in pencil in margins throughout the book
Accounting reports in business management : use of financial and operating statements, together with a system of standards and performance records, in maintaining efficient management and control
1 photograph : b&w ; 1.5 x 2.5 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Scope and Content
Photograph of A. Claude Hill, son of Bernard Hill. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
1 photograph : b&w ; 1.5 x 2.5 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-492
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of A. Claude Hill, son of Bernard Hill. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
Photograph of Ada Stanley, Mary Conquest Stanley and Mary Stanley. The group of three women are seated on a railing of a bridge or dock with body of water behind them.
Photograph of Ada Stanley, Mary Conquest Stanley and Mary Stanley. The group of three women are seated on a railing of a bridge or dock with body of water behind them.
Photograph of (right) Ada Smith and an unidentified friend. Ada was the daughter of James Smith and Agnes Smith, and lived in one of the first homes built at 6186 Royal Oak Road. This photograph was probably taken in the back yard of the family home.
Photograph of (right) Ada Smith and an unidentified friend. Ada was the daughter of James Smith and Agnes Smith, and lived in one of the first homes built at 6186 Royal Oak Road. This photograph was probably taken in the back yard of the family home.
Photograph of the exterior of the Adley Substation, beside the Great Northern Railway tracks near Willingdon Avenue. Signs on the building read: "Western Canada Power Co. Ltd." and "Use Stave Lake Power."
Photograph of the exterior of the Adley Substation, beside the Great Northern Railway tracks near Willingdon Avenue. Signs on the building read: "Western Canada Power Co. Ltd." and "Use Stave Lake Power."
Front endpaper:
"Alan Macdonald
Locker No." [written in black ink]
"R. W____ [Wertz?]
574" [written in blue ink]
"Alan Macdonald
Arts '28
Locker 544" [written and crossed out in black ink]
"Alan Macdonald
Locker no __" [written in black ink, locker number has been covered up with pencil]
1 photograph : b&w ; 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.D. Severs, seated. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
1 photograph : b&w ; 1.5 x 3 cm cut to size on page 24.5 x 32.5 cm (pasted in album)
Description Level
Item
Record No.
477-511
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Accession Number
2007-12
Scope and Content
Photograph of A.D. Severs, seated. The photograph has been cut to shape around his outline and pasted on an album page with similar pictures collectively titled "Heads and Tales."
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 …
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 B.C.".
Photograph of the May Queen, Ruth Bearn (right) in her crown of flowers, and Miss Burnaby, Miss Agnes Kilgour (left), sitting on chairs on a stage at the First May Day celebration in Burnaby in 1925.
Photograph of the May Queen, Ruth Bearn (right) in her crown of flowers, and Miss Burnaby, Miss Agnes Kilgour (left), sitting on chairs on a stage at the First May Day celebration in Burnaby in 1925.
1 photograph : sepia ; 15 x 10 cm in oval window mat 14 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph portrait of Agnes Smith. Agnes was Flossie Parons' (nee Smith) only sister who died in 1936. Agnes is wearing a white off the shoulder gown, pearl neckace and is holding a floral bouquet.
1 photograph : sepia ; 15 x 10 cm in oval window mat 14 x 9 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph portrait of Agnes Smith. Agnes was Flossie Parons' (nee Smith) only sister who died in 1936. Agnes is wearing a white off the shoulder gown, pearl neckace and is holding a floral bouquet.
History
Flossie Maude Parsons (nee Smith) was born to George Henry Smith, a farm labourer, and Harriet Ann Savage on February 13, 1896 in Ealing, England. She immigrated to Canada with some of her family members in the early 1920s. They lived in Winnipeg for a few years as an older brother had settled there in 1912. She married Herbert Russell Parsons on June 23, 1928. They first lived in Vancouver and finally bought a home at 7091 Jubilee Avenue, South Burnaby in the early 1930s. In 1943, Flossie was certified in Home Nursing. Herbert Parsons was active during the Second World War as a volunteer for Civil Defence in Burnaby and worked as a salesman for Woodwards. The couple had no children. Herbert passed away on May 23rd, 1957 (age 84) and Flossie passed away on April 6, 1996 (age 100).
1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 cm x 8 cm
Scope and Content
File consists of miscellaneous promotional materials and certificates pertaining to agricultural and floral societies in British Columbia, including the Burnaby Rhododendron Society. File also contains one photograph a display at an agricultural fair.
1 file of textual records and 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.5 cm x 8 cm
Description Level
File
Record No.
MSS030-001
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Accession Number
BHS1986-44
Scope and Content
File consists of miscellaneous promotional materials and certificates pertaining to agricultural and floral societies in British Columbia, including the Burnaby Rhododendron Society. File also contains one photograph a display at an agricultural fair.
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, plants, flowers, and trees are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign on the right is shaped like an arch and reads, "Welcome to Burnaby." A mural showing Burnaby Lake is behind the dis…
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, plants, flowers, and trees are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign on the right is shaped like an arch and reads, "Welcome to Burnaby." A mural showing Burnaby Lake is behind the display.
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, preserves, flowers, and plants are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign above the display reads, "Burnaby." A sign above a container on the lower left reads, "Ginseng / Grown in Lozel…
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Vegetables, fruit, preserves, flowers, and plants are on display inside a building. There is electric lighting. A sign above the display reads, "Burnaby." A sign above a container on the lower left reads, "Ginseng / Grown in Lozells District by Mr. Romer."
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Tables with fruit, vegetables and flowers are displayed. Greenery and photographs (mainly of people) are on the walls, including a portrait of former Reeve Nicolai C. Schou (second portrait from right). A sign in the corner reads, …
Photograph of Burnaby's Agricultural Exhibit at New Westminster. Tables with fruit, vegetables and flowers are displayed. Greenery and photographs (mainly of people) are on the walls, including a portrait of former Reeve Nicolai C. Schou (second portrait from right). A sign in the corner reads, "Burnaby's Exhibit," and a mural hangs on the walls above the exhibit. A woman and man are standing behind a table at the back left.
Photograph of members of the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop standing together with leaders during their hike to Sunbury from New Westminster on Easter weekend. The troop was accompanied by Assistant Scout Master Jack Allen of the 1st New Westminster Troop and Scoutmaster William Mundy of the 2nd Deptf…
Photograph of members of the 2nd Burnaby Boy Scout troop standing together with leaders during their hike to Sunbury from New Westminster on Easter weekend. The troop was accompanied by Assistant Scout Master Jack Allen of the 1st New Westminster Troop and Scoutmaster William Mundy of the 2nd Deptford Troop, London, England.