Photograph depicts a 10 ton Wallis & Stevens Ltd. #7985 steam roller. It was built at Basingstoke, England from about 1925 to 1927. It is located at 6110 Curtis St. in Burnaby, BC
Photograph depicts an auto special at New Westminster, travelling west to McPherson Ave. industrial estate in south Burnaby.
Photograph depicts the Central Park Branch in Burnaby. Taken just west of the Stride Avenue grade crossing. The spur visible in the background led to the Dominion Glass Company Ltd. bottle plant.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured on its inaugural day.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. It's headed by CPR locomotive #3716 that was built in 1912.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also displayed is a PGE business car that was now called the "Peace River" and was used to sleep and feed the museum train staff.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also displayed is a PGE business car that was now called the "Peace River" and was used to sleep and feed the museum train staff.
Photograph depicts the BC Provincial Museum train. Visible is a flat car, labelled "Caycuse River," that carried a climax geared locomotive.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also shown is a flat car, labelled "Caycuse River," that operated as a steam driven exhibit.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Image captures the view of the whole train. It included a locomotive, 4 freight cars, and 4 passenger cars.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. It's headed by CPR locomotive #3716. First spotted at McPherson and Watling in a vacant inudstrial yard.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also displayed is a PGE business car that was now called the "Peace River" and was used to sleep and feed the museum train staff.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also visible is locomotive #3716, a water car, 2 flat cars, labelled "Chemainus River" and "Caycuse River," as well as a box car that held an electric generator and various tools.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. It's headed by CPR locomotive #3716 that was built in 1912 by Montreal Locomotive Works.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. Also shown is a steam driven donkey engine.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. It's headed by CPR locomotive #3716 that was built in 1912 by Montreal Locomotive Works.
Photograph taken in Central Park, Burnaby, on BC Hydro Railway trackage. Visible is the B.C. Provinicial Museum train. Captured just after its inaugural ceremony. It's headed by CPR locomotive #3716 that was built in 1912.
Map depicts annotations of the freight-way routes throughout British Columbia. These routes include: the Garnet Enterprise Truck Haul from Vancouver to Terrace, the Canadian Freightways from Vancouver to Edmonton to Alaska; the Lindsay Transfer from Terrace to Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek; and the Northland Navigation roll-on and roll-off service.
Photograph depicts car #1223 on display in south Burnaby beside the RCMP headquarters in Kingsway and Edmonds St., on site of the former track.
Photograph depicts car #1223 on display in south Burnaby beside the RCMP headquarters in Kingsway and Edmonds St., on site of the former track. It is covered but in poor shape.
Handwritten annotation on verso: “age 48, BCIT commencement speech pl-ning (?)”
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Summer / 80, S.F.U. + new life, first Jeans -”
Map depicts the city of Vancouver, including the electoral districts of Comox-Powell River, Capilano, North Vancouver-Burnaby, Mission-Port Moody, Burnaby, Fraser Valley West, New Westminster-Coquitlam, Surrey-White Rock-North Delta, Richmond-South Delta, Vancouver South, Vancouver Kingsway, Vancouver Quadra, Vancouver Centre, and Vancouver East.
Photograph depicts Gary Runka in his Land Sense Ltd. office in Burnaby.
Map depicts the proposed electoral districts of British Columbia, including: Burnaby, Capilano, Cariboo-Chilcotin, Comox-Powell River, Cowichan-Malahat-The Islands, Esquimalt-Saanich, Fort Nelson-Peace River, Fraser Valley East, Fraser Valley West, Kamloops-Shuswap, Kootenay East, Kootenay West, Mission-Port Moody, Nanaimo-Alberni, New Westminster-Coquitlam, North Vancouver-Burnaby, Okanagan North, Okanagan-Similkameen, Prince George-Bulkley Valley, Richmond-South Delta, Skeena, Surrey-White Rock-North Delta, Vancouver Centre, Vancouver East, Vancouver Kingsway, Vancouver Quadra, Vancouver South, and Victoria.
Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Williston cutting an anniversary cake in front of some of their grandchildren in the West Burnaby United Church Hall in April 1979.
Photograph depicts renovated windsor kicthen chairs. The adult chair on the right was made in Owen Sound prior to 1923. Child's chair on the left was likely pre-1940. It came from Sunday school room of a church in Vancouver. Owned and renovated by David Davies.
Photograph depicts Royal Oak Apartments on Kingsway in Burnaby.
Photograph depicts "The Mall" at Simon Fraser University.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., 1 week after the official opening.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., one week after the official opening.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking northeast towards the northwest corner of the Academic Quadrangle.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking northwest from the science complex towards the gymnasium.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking southwest from the mall towards the gym and sports arena.
Photograph depicts Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The view is looking east towards the nearly completed water tower from the west inner face of the Academic Quadrangle.
Photograph depicts a small water proofed car, fitted with mops.
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts a wheelbarrow purchased in 1969, secondhand.
Photograph depicts Windsor School, an elementary school in south Burnaby.