Red and Yellow button with a metal backing and pin fastener. A yellow image of a closed medival knight's helmet is in the centre of the button with "Kensington" (top) "Prefect" (bottom) around the image of the helmet.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary SChool in the mid-1970s.
Yellow and red button with a metal backing and pin fastener. A red image of a closed medival knight's helmet is in the centre of the button with "Kensington" (top) "Crusaders" (bottom) around the image of the helmet.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School in the mid-1970s.
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.
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.
4 plans on 4 sheets : col. lithographic prints ; 63.5 x 53.5 cm folded to 53 x 31.5 cm
Scope and Content
File consists of four pages of plans removed from a bound book containing a series of fire insurance plans of the Municipality of Burnaby. The first two pages are numbered "A" and "B" and are key plans from "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XV / Surveyed _ May 1927 / MUNICIPALITY OF / BURNABY", "PLA…
4 plans on 4 sheets : col. lithographic prints ; 63.5 x 53.5 cm folded to 53 x 31.5 cm
Material Details
Scales [1:1200] and [1:6000]
Scope and Content
File consists of four pages of plans removed from a bound book containing a series of fire insurance plans of the Municipality of Burnaby. The first two pages are numbered "A" and "B" and are key plans from "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XV / Surveyed _ May 1927 / MUNICIPALITY OF / BURNABY", "PLAN DEPT. FIRE BRANCH _ B.C. INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS ASSN.". Key Plan "B" covers plans: 1505; 1506; 1512 to 1516; 1540 to 1544; 1550 to 1557 and District Lots: 129 to 132; 135 to 138; 205 to 208 and 215 to 218. Key Plan "A" covers plans: 1501 to 1504; 1507 to 1511; 1517 to 1525; 1531 to 1539; 1545 to 1550 and District Lots: 116 to 127 and 186 to 189. Plan "1806" is part of "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XVIII / Municipality of Burnaby / May, 1927" and covers District Lot 153. Plan "1807" is from "GREATER VANCOUVER B.C. / VOLUME XVIII / Municipality of Burnaby / May, 1927" and covers District Lots: 99,149 and 152.
Harbinger Short Circuit, school newsletter from Kensington Junior Secondary School - [196-]. Two pages of mimiographed legal sized cartridge paper; typewritten title on front page reads: HARBINGER / SHORT_CIRCUIT"; pages printed with black text on both sides.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in the late 1960s.
Volume I, "Harbinger" school newsletter from Kensington Junior Secondary School - November 10 [196-]. Seven pages of mimiographed legal sized cartridge paper; printed both sides; front page printed on light blue cartridge paper with text at top "Harbinger and illustrations beneath; head of man wearing a tam and scarf and hand holding a coin with the word above "SAVE"; boy holding a circular balloon floating overhead with the words "ATTENTION / ALL / STUDENTS" and boy holding a newspaper with words "EXTRA" out in front while walking, text at bottom of front page reads:"VOLUME I NOVEMBER 10".
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in the late 1960s.
Volume XII No. 3, "Harbinger" school newsletter from Kensington Junior Secondary School - March 14 [196-]. Seven pages of mimiographed letter sized cartridge paper; printed both sides; one page oversized paper; front page printed on light pink cartridge paper with text at top "March 14_Volume XII_No.3" and illustration of a side view of young man and woman standing together and bordered by flowing lines of spirals on either side and flower above, outlined graphic vertical text to the left of the couple reads "STUD/ENT/PRI/NTS" and "BEWARE THE IDES and exams!". Pink cartridge paper for back cover and white cartridge paper within. Front cover has been coloured in with red pencil crayon and pencil. Sixth page folds out and reveals a montage of photographs of students.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in the late 1960s.
Harbinger school newsletter from Kensington Junior Secondary School - [196-]. Six pages of mimiographed cartridge paper; five pages printed both sides; one page oversized paper; front cover page printed on light green cartridge paper with illustration of a woman with long hair and bell bottom pants holding a book and standing with her right foot on the letter "T" in the title "The / Harbinger" with rays of sunshine projected diagonally from the top left corner of the page.
Yellow cartridge paper back cover and white cartridge paper within numbered 1 to 10. Paper between pages 6 and 7 folds out and reveals a montage of photographs of students.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in the late 1960s.
Harbinger school newsletter from Kensington Junior Secondary School - March [196-]. Nine pages of mimiographed cartridge paper; seven pages printed both sides; one page oversized paper; front cover page printed on light blue cartridge paper with illustration of a man's head with an afro and mustache and woman's head with long flowing hair nestled in a stylized sunburst that radiates to the top of the page with the stylized word "HARBINGER!" at the bottom. Blue cartridge paper back cover and white cartridge paper within numbered 1 to 14. Paper between pages 8 and 9 folds out and reveals a montage of photographs of students. Water staining on front cover page.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in the late 1960s.
Kensington Junior Secondary School newsletter - June 11, 1968. Sixteen pages of mimiographed cartridge paper; fifteen pages printed both sides; one page oversized paper; pages numbered 1-29; pages 12-13 and 28-29 printed on light pink cartridge paper. Front cover page printed on light green cartridge paper with typewritten text in upper right corner "KENSINGTON JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL / VOL. XIII : June 11, 1968 : No. 4" and illustration of a roman column to the left with words at base of column "LOOK .IN" and stylized vertical lettering to the right "STUDENT / PRINTS" and horizontal lettering "WITH (arrow to right) . JOKES . / . PICTURES. / . POEMS . / . STORIES . / FOR . THE / LITERARY / CONTEST . / and / CORNU- / COPIUS / CR [sic]". Front cover has been coloured with blue and red pen. Oversized page between pages 25 and 26 folds out and reveals a montage of photographs of students and teachers.
Object History
From Kensington Junior Secondary School, Burnaby in 1968.
A navy blue felt sew-on patch with the Alpha Junior High School logo. A large blue "A" is in the centre of the patch with a white outline. The words "Junior" and "High" are on either side of the "A" in blue with a yellow outline. Behind these two words are three yellow bars.
Object History
This patch belonged to the donor who attended Alpha Junior High School in the 1950s.
Red and yellow felt pennant. The narrow end of the pennant has two points. The name "Kensington" is outlined in red colouring. There are two red strips used to to attach the pennant. A homemade ribbon is sewn to the pennant with similar red and yellow colours.
Object History
From Kensington Junior High School in the early 1970s.
This is a hand-held metal punch with a spring between the handles. The name "H. Likeness" is engraved into both sides of the punch. It has an accompanying leather holster with a brass snap.
Object History
This transfer punch belonged to Harold Likeness. Harold's parents lived in Burnaby, and Harold also lived in Burnaby throughout his life. He drove a bus in Burnaby from about 1955 until 1988.
Harold worked at Kensington Depot when it opened in Burnaby in the 1970s. He drove buses around Burnaby, and a regular route he has was up to SFU.He was later moved to the Kitchener bus depot and retired from that location.
The punch was from his time as a bus driver.
Purse, brown alligator; brass clasp and two fittings for handle (missing); middle piece is from tail; scalloped pieces below clasp flatten out; hole in leather to left of first scallop-shaped fin; with feet, cut off approximately 3" above claws; brown; outside left claw missing; glue? residue on both feet at upper back; feet stuffed with paper
One pair of metal roller skates with four wheels that strap onto shoes. The main part of the skate is designed to hold the ball of the foot and toes, and has two metal clips to hold the foot in place. There are four rectangular raised metal pieces, and two circular pieces on the skate. The circular pieces are loosed with a key to make the skate fit various sized shoes. The leather straps have a metal buckle to secure the foot.
Two metal skate keys are strung to a neon yelllow shoe lace, to adjust the skates. They also have a black metal wrench.
One pair of metal roller skates with four wheels that strap onto shoes. The main part of the skate is designed to hold the ball of the foot and toes, and has two metal clips to hold the foot in place. There are four rectangular raised metal pieces, and two circular pieces on the skate. The circular pieces are loosed with a key to make the skate fit various sized shoes. The leather straps have a metal buckle to secure the foot.