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#2720
Date:
c.1890
Source: Isabel Macmillan Latta, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Interior of the Ewen house. The house was on the site of the Russell
Hotel at 740 Carnarvon (at Begbie). For other photographs of this
house see photos no. 2719, 2720. The Ewen's 2nd house was also
in this location and was added on and embellished to create their
3rd house. See photo no. 2718. For a view of their first house
see photo no. 2710. Alexander Ewen was born in 1832. He had a
cannery on Columbia Street at the site of the C.P.R. station.
As the city expanded there were objections to the smell of the
salmon cannery. Ewen moved his operations to Lion Island. In exchange
for building a road to his cannery (Ewen Avenue), he was given
substantial land holdings in Queensborough. The donor of this
photograph - Isabel Macmillan Latta - is the daughter of Isabella
Ewen Macmillan, one of Alexander's three daughters. The house
in this photo was burned in the fire of 1898. This is the interior
of the house. The doll in the chair now resides at Irving House,
according to the donor of the photo. The case at the back of the
room was glass and filled with stuffed birds. On the mantle of
the fireplace are French bronzes. The doll belonged to Lexy -
one of the Ewen's daughters.
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#855
Date:
c.1910
Source: Lelsie Hill, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Lounge & dining room of "Idlewild" - Albert J. Hill's house on
400 block 4th street. Mantels made of curly maple by Wintemute
Bros.; fireplaces supplied by Campbell and Anderson.
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#856
Date:
c.1910
Source: Lelsie Hill, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Hallway of residence of Albert J. Hill, civil engineer, 400 block
of 4th Street.
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#1893
Date:
c.1912
Source: Joe Plaskett, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Dining room in the old vicarage of St. Mary's Church, Sapperton.
History - Between 1892 and 1895 Archdeacon Woods built a home
just north of St. Mary's Mount which later was used as a rectory.
Due to the sale of Woods' property, in 1907 a new vicarage was
built at 115 Cemetery Street. This is a photograph of the 1907
rectory, the donor's father, Rev. Canon. Frank Plaskett was rector
of St. Mary's from 1912 -1944. In 1925 Woods' property was bought
back and another vicarage was built. This is a print from a post
card.
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#1721
Date:
c.1920
Source: Beatrice Cave-Brown-Cave, donor
Photographer: The Stride Studios, New Westminster, BC
Information:
114 First Street, New Westminster. Photo taken between 1911-1935,
when the house was "Stretton Academy", the music school and family
home of the Cave-Brown-Cave family. Miss Beatrice and Miss Mabel
Cave-Brown-Cave played dual piano pieces. The house was originally
built in 1892 for G.A. Stoess, architects Richard Sharp and Samuel
Maclure.
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