"Carnegie Library, New Westminster"
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"Carnegie Library, New Westminster"
"City Hall and Carnegie Library, Vancouver, BC"
City hall report, [1979?]-05-02 : [audio clips]
Part of Gary Marcuse fonds
SUMMARY: Topics covered are: Sunday closings; library hours; Gypsy moth spraying. Speakers are: Doug Little, George Puil, Anne Diano, speaker for Vancouver Public Library Staff Association; Doug Little, Warnett Kennedy; George Puil; Harry Rankin; Jack Volrich; and Mr. Fleischman, senior assistant deputy minister, Agriculture Canada.
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T1334:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beeman describes her family's arrival in Vancouver in 1889; early impressions; appearance of the city; Christ Church Cathedral; Dominion Day races; family history; her father's library ;position; Christmas parties; Vancouver's theatres; Sarah Bernhard; theatrical productions; Vancouver Little Theatre Association in 1921; "Belle of Burrard" and B.C. Hilliam. TRACK 2: Mrs. Beeman continues with her recollections of B.C. Hilliam; anecdotes about theatrical productions; Savoy Theatre; personalities; Kerrisdale; the first church in Kerrisdale; Alvo von Alvensleben; local characters; English Bay; origins of the Vancouver Public Library; and Andrew Carnegie.
CALL NUMBER: T1334:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beeman continues with her recollections about the early Vancouver library; Mr. Fred Dyke; and the local choral society. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Essondale; medical library at Crease Clinic
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert W. Hall, who took over control of the Bursill Institute in the 1920s, describes the activities of the institute and its founder, J. Francis Bursill. Colonel Hall ;speaks about Bursill's coming to Vancouver in 1909; the start of the Collingwood Library; Bursill's activities in Vancouver; the Shakespeare Society; anecdotes; Bursill's personal library; his character; eccentricities; lifestyle; physical description; and death. Colonel Hall also describes the Bursill Institute; the building; the library collection and the facility. TRACK 2: Colonel Hall continues with his discussion about the Bursill Institute; the building's history and activities.
Library Activities Kitsilano Junior Senior High School
Library Activities Kitsilano Junior Senior High School
Library Activities Kitsilano Junior Senior High School
Part of Frank Peters Boucher fonds
Living memory : Vancouver : J.F. Bursill, part 2
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
SUMMARY: "Vancouver: J.F. Bursill, part 2" is the eleventh episode in the series. The remarkable journalist and character J. Francis Bursill, who came to Vancouver in 1908, is recalled by Lt.-Col. Gilbert W. Hall, Noel Robinson and Russell Walker. [The first part of Bursill's story is heard in the previous episode.]
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T1330:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Noel Robinson; a newspaper reporter; recalls some early personalities of Vancouver including: Captain Alex MacLean, the inspiration for the characater of Wolf Larsen in Jack London's "Sea; Wolf"; sailors; captains and others associated with the sea; Hastings Mill; the Empress boats; E. Pauline Johnson; and Mary Capilano. TRACK 2: Mr. Robinson continues with recollections of Mary Capilano; the funeral of E. Pauline Johnson; the Little Theatre company; J. Francis Bursill, including the Vagabond's Club, pageants, and creating the Bursill Institute; B.C. Hilliam and "The Belle of Bur;rard"; and more about Captain Alex MacLean.
CALL NUMBER: T1330:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robinson recalls coming to Victoria and his work on the organ in the wooden cathedral; writing and producing his play the "Cat's Paw" in Victoria. He reminiscences about newspaper person;alities; his work and travels in the Boundary area, including Rock Creek and Midway; playing cricket; hunting in the Chilcotin area; Dog Creek Hill; Bob Piper; Williams Lake; George Murray and early newspapers in Lillooet; the Alaska Highway News; and early journalists Roy Brown, Ronald Kenvyn, and Bruce McKelvie. TRACK 2: This is a very short tape; Mr. Robinson talks about Captain Alex MacLean.
CALL NUMBER: T1330:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robinson recalls J. Francis Bursill, and reacts to comments made about him by his granddaughter, Thekla Bursill-Hall, in a interview. [See T1331:0001.] Robinson talks about Bursill's personality; the Collingwood Institute; the Bursill Library; aspects of why Bursill came to B.C.; the Bursill family; literary life in Vancouver; anecdotes; his pen name (Felix Penne); eccentricities; Hugh Savage; and the death of J.Francis Bursill. Mr. Robinson continues with recollections about his interview with the Bengali writer and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Sketch of the lobby of the UBC Library
Sketch of the west face of the UBC library.
The Carnegie Public Library and City Hall, Vancouver
University of British Columbia; architectural sketch of the library
Vancouver; at centre, the Carnegie Library and to the left, City Hall
Hastings and Main.
Chambers, Arthur Hyde, 1852-1935
Burrard Street location.
Carnegie Library at Hastings and Main.