Ada Bingham by a tree stump
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.3 x 6.8 cm
- Scope and Content
- 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…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.3 x 6.8 cm
- Material Details
- 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."
- Scope and Content
- 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.
- Subjects
- Land Clearing
- Plants - Trees
- Names
- Bingham, Mary Ada "Ada"
- Accession Code
- HV976.46.5
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1948]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Willingdon Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-06-20
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Bulldozer clearing a Forested Hill
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- 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."
Bulldozer clearing a lot
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.8 x 11.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- 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."
Burnaby South High School basketball team
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1945 (date of original), copied 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Burnaby South Highschool basketball team. Members of the team are gathered around a basketball net in the school gymnasium. Team manager, Lavergne "Vern" Hurley is standing in the back row (left) next to coach, Terry Julian (right). Basketball players are identified as: Ken Swalwe…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Burnaby South Highschool basketball team. Members of the team are gathered around a basketball net in the school gymnasium. Team manager, Lavergne "Vern" Hurley is standing in the back row (left) next to coach, Terry Julian (right). Basketball players are identified as: Ken Swalwell (#35- holding basketball); Bill Popowich (#10-third from right); David Cordis (#8-fourth from right) and Fred Forshaw (far right), other players are unidentified. The photograph has been taken from above the basketball court.
- Subjects
- Buildings - Schools
- Sports - Basketball
- Persons - Students
- Names
- Burnaby South High School
- Hurley, Lavergne "Vern"
- Julian, Terry
- Swalwell, Ken
- Popowich, Bill
- Cordis, Dave
- Forshaw, Fred
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Street Address
- 4375 Pandora Street
- Accession Code
- BV020.39.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1945 (date of original), copied 2020
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- March 25, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Photographer
- Henderson, Norman "Norm"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Stamp on verso of photograph reads: "Photograph by / Norman M. Henderson"
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Burnaby South High School rugby team
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1945 (date of original), copied 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby South Highschool Junior Boys English Rugby Team. Players identified in the back row include (left to right): Alan Scott, Dave Amundsen, ?, Ernie Stevens, ?. Players identified in the middle row include: Stan Bishop (far left) and Lavergne "Vern" Hurley (center).
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby South Highschool Junior Boys English Rugby Team. Players identified in the back row include (left to right): Alan Scott, Dave Amundsen, ?, Ernie Stevens, ?. Players identified in the middle row include: Stan Bishop (far left) and Lavergne "Vern" Hurley (center).
- Subjects
- Buildings - Schools
- Persons - Students
- Sports - Rugby
- Names
- Burnaby South High School
- Hurley, Lavergne "Vern"
- Amundsen, Dave
- Scott, Alan
- Stevens, Ernie
- Bishop, Stanley "Stan"
- Geographic Access
- Pandora Street
- Street Address
- 4375 Pandora Street
- Accession Code
- BV020.39.3
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1945 (date of original), copied 2020
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- March 25, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on verso of original photograph reads: "1945-46 / From LaVergne / Juniior English Rugby 1945-46"
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Burnaby South High School students
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1945 (date of original), copied 2020
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w ; 1200 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of students at Burnaby South Highschool. Students in front row include; Shirley Garett, Jean (Ranger) Penzer, Rae Milton and Margaret Farrand [sic] and Jean Wellsby (far right). Students in the second row include: Rogers and Bigham. Lavergne "Vern" Hurley is identified in back row (fourt…
Cleared lot
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 11.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- 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."
Clearing
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.1 cm
- Scope and Content
- 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."
Firefighters Albert Killer, Gordon Monk and Wendell Walyer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1942] (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 14 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a Ford triple combination fire truck stationed outside the former Fire hall no. 1 on Carleton Avenue near Eton Street. Firefighters Albert Killer, Gordon Monk and Wendell Walyer (not in uniform) are standing at the truck, looking towards the camera.
Firefighters Harry Anderson, Leo Fraser, Fred Blake and Henry Chapman
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Firefighters Harry Anderson, Leo Fraser, Fred Blake and Henry Chapman lying down on their beds in the dormitory at No. 1 Burnaby Fire Hall at Carleton Avenue and Eton Street. This photograph was taken by Fred Blake using a box camera with a five minute exposure (so that he was able to…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 10.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Firefighters Harry Anderson, Leo Fraser, Fred Blake and Henry Chapman lying down on their beds in the dormitory at No. 1 Burnaby Fire Hall at Carleton Avenue and Eton Street. This photograph was taken by Fred Blake using a box camera with a five minute exposure (so that he was able to run and put himself into the shot before the shutter closed).
- Subjects
- Occupations - Fire Fighters
- Clothing - Uniforms
- Buildings - Civic - Fire Halls
- Names
- Burnaby Fire Department
- Blake, Frederick "Fred"
- Anderson, Harry
- Chapman, Henry H.
- Fraser, Leo
- Geographic Access
- Carleton Avenue
- Eton Street
- Accession Code
- BV002.75.6
- Access Restriction
- Restricted access
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1940
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 1/12/2010
- Scale
- 100
- Photographer
- Blake, Frederick "Fred"
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Quote from letter of Aug. 15, 2002 from Fred Blake (letter in accession file): "With reference to the enclosed picture where I am stretched out on the bed. All my early pictures were taken with a box camera that I still have. With the slow film and poor room lighting I knew it would have to be a five minute time exposure. There was no automatic timer on the box camera. You had to press the shutter button to open the lens and again to close it. With this length of exposure I knew that if I moved quickly I could be in the picture. I had the others propped up and opened the lens and ran across and took my place on the bed. When I fell back I realized that I had forgotten a back rest for myself. I stayed that way for five minutes as I didn't want to take a chance of spoiling the picture. When the time was up I ran across the room and closed the lens. I was pleased that the picture tuned out alright, but a little disappointed about me."
- Handwritten note on verso of photograph reads: "I had to hang on to FRASER so that I wouldn't fall off the bed. / 658X / 1940 No.1 HALL 290 N. CARLETON / HARRY ANDERSON LEO FRASER FRED BLAKE HENRY CHAPMAN / L TO R"
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Fire hall no. 1
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1947 (date of original)
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 10 x 15 cm print
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby Fire Hall No. 1 at Willingdon and Hastings, the first purpose built fire hall in Burnaby. The hall is a two storey modern concrete building with three large bays. Fire trucks are parked in front of the hall, along with two cars.
Fire insurance plans - Greater Vancouver - Volume XV - Municipality of Burnaby
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1927-1940
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 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…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Map collection
- Series
- Fire Insurance plans of Greater Vancouver and Burnaby series
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 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.
- Creator
- British Columbia Underwriters' Association
- Publisher
- Plan Department of Fire Branch of British Columbia Underwriters' Association
- Accession Code
- BV987.1.70
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Date
- 1927-1940
- Media Type
- Cartographic Material
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Willingdon Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 400
- Notes
- Title based on contents of item
- 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
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Gilmore School Staff
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1943]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gilmore School. The people are identified as follows (left to right). Front row: Miss Marion Williamson, Miss J. McKenzie, Miss Evelyn Sinclair, Mr. Stanley Griffiths (Principal), Miss Ina Dearing, Miss Peggy Prior, and Miss Georgina Busch. Back row: Mr. T. Chalmers (Vice Princip…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Gilmore School. The people are identified as follows (left to right). Front row: Miss Marion Williamson, Miss J. McKenzie, Miss Evelyn Sinclair, Mr. Stanley Griffiths (Principal), Miss Ina Dearing, Miss Peggy Prior, and Miss Georgina Busch. Back row: Mr. T. Chalmers (Vice Principal / donor), Mr. W. McKenzie (no kin to Miss J. McKenzie), Miss Edith Osborne, unidentified man, and Mr. W. Mitchell. It is noted in the signed donation form that Mr. Chalmers (the donor) served at the Gilmore school from 1940 to 1950, and the photograph was taken with his personal camera. An annotation on the back of the photo reads: "School Staff 1943, Gilmore School (Burnaby) / from Mr. Chalmers." Stamped on the back of the photo: "4860."
- Subjects
- Occupations - Teachers
- Names
- Busch, Georgina
- Chalmers, Thomas "Tom"
- Dearing, Ina
- Gilmore Avenue School
- Griffiths, Stanley
- McKenzie, J.
- McKenzie, W.
- Mitchell, W.
- Osborne, Edith
- Prior, Peggy
- Sinclair, Evelyn
- Williamson, Marion
- Geographic Access
- Gilmore Avenue
- Street Address
- 50 Gilmore Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV985.92.1
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1943]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Burnaby Heights Area
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-12-19
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Houses under construction
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1948]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.7 x 11.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a row of houses being built along a road lined with electric posts. Catalogue information from 1976 indicates that it is a street scene from Burnaby, ca. 1948. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision.
Louise Knight and her five children
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Louise Knight (nee Ellis) together with her five grown children under a willow tree in the yard of the Knight-Roberts family home located at 931 Gilmore Avenue. From left to right (back row): Naida Hansen (nee Knight), Fred Knight, Lila McKinley (nee Knight). From left to right (front…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 8.5 x 6 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Louise Knight (nee Ellis) together with her five grown children under a willow tree in the yard of the Knight-Roberts family home located at 931 Gilmore Avenue. From left to right (back row): Naida Hansen (nee Knight), Fred Knight, Lila McKinley (nee Knight). From left to right (front row): Dolly Dolly Walker-Kirkwood (nee Knight) , Louise Knight (nee Ellis) and Margaret Norton (nee Knight).
- Names
- Norton, Margaret Knight
- Hansen, Naida Knight
- McKinley, Lila Knight
- Walker-Kirkwood, Dolly Knight
- Knight, Frederick "Fred"
- Knight, Louise Ellis
- Geographic Access
- Gilmore Avenue
- Street Address
- 931 Gilmore Avenue
- Accession Code
- BV020.34.25
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [194-]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- March 22, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
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Man on a bulldozer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.4 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified man, possibly the operator, is standing on a bulldozer belonging to "Holmes & Wilson Trucking". Lumber stacks are nearby, and the bulldozer is on a clearing for a house lot. This may be related to the construction of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on bac…
Man on a bulldozer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified man standing on a bulldozer belonging to "Wm. Edstrom" as written on the machine. The bulldozer is on a clearing nearby houses. This may be related to the construction of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on back of the photograph: "342X."
Man on a bulldozer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6.8 x 11.3 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of an unidentified man standing on a bulldozer. The bulldozer is on a cleared lot, behind which houses and electric posts along a road can be seen. This may be the site of the Willingdon Heights subdivision. Stamped on the back of the photograph: "345L."
Margaret Norton and Fred Knight
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 18 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Margaret Norton (nee Knight) standing together with her twin brother Fred Knight. They each have one arm wrapped around each other's backs and are standing in front of a willow tree.
Members of the Knight family under tree
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [194-]
- Collection/Fonds
- Margaret Norton fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 6.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of members of the Knight family (left to right) Naida Hansen (nee Knight), Dolly Walker-Kirkwood (nee Knight), Fred Knight and Lila McKinley (nee Knight) and Margaret Norton (nee Knight) (cut off). The group have their arms around each other and are standing under a willow tree in the ya…