Comments on: Metro Vancouver Park Series: Burnaby Lake Park http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html Vancouver Blog Miss604 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Spring Break Activities 2009 » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html#comment-7408 Spring Break Activities 2009 » Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:04:08 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1953#comment-7408 [...] inexpensive yet fun and nature-filled options for a great day out (such as Lynn Headwaters, Burnaby Lake Park, and Blackie Spit). Tweet This Digg it Add to del.icio.us Stumble it Add to Technorati What are [...] [...] inexpensive yet fun and nature-filled options for a great day out (such as Lynn Headwaters, Burnaby Lake Park, and Blackie Spit). Tweet This Digg it Add to del.icio.us Stumble it Add to Technorati What are [...]

]]> By: Jacqui Phillips http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html#comment-7407 Jacqui Phillips Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:39:39 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1953#comment-7407 Excuse the glaring error in my first post...I wrote 1870...they hadn't even arrived in Canada until 1890! I should have written 1900ish onwards! If anyone knows any more about them, I'd love some help! Excuse the glaring error in my first post…I wrote 1870…they hadn’t even arrived in Canada until 1890! I should have written 1900ish onwards!

If anyone knows any more about them, I’d love some help!

]]> By: Jacqui Phillips http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html#comment-7406 Jacqui Phillips Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:25:52 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1953#comment-7406 I would love to know more about the lake and love to see any photos. I don't ever have a hope of seeing the area as I live in England. (Cost being the main factor, of course). My interest is because my gt gt uncle had a sawmill there from around 1870, Piper's Mill. He was Charles Thomas Wood Piper and his son was Charles James Piper (wife Florence and daughter Violet Ellen). Apparently CJ Piper lodged lots of photographs with Burnaby City Hall Archives when he left Vancouver in the 30's. I presume Piper Avenue came from their name...what about Piper Spit? Is that near where the mill was? I would love to know more about the lake and love to see any photos. I don’t ever have a hope of seeing the area as I live in England. (Cost being the main factor, of course).

My interest is because my gt gt uncle had a sawmill there from around 1870, Piper’s Mill. He was Charles Thomas Wood Piper and his son was Charles James Piper (wife Florence and daughter Violet Ellen). Apparently CJ Piper lodged lots of photographs with Burnaby City Hall Archives when he left Vancouver in the 30′s.

I presume Piper Avenue came from their name…what about Piper Spit? Is that near where the mill was?

]]> By: Derek K. Miller http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html#comment-7405 Derek K. Miller Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:52:53 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1953#comment-7405 Vancouver blogging couple trivia: my wife Air and I were working as park naturalists for the GVRD when we first met 20 years ago. Our job HQ was the Burnaby Lake Nature House at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/tags/burnabylake" rel="nofollow">Piper Spit</a>, and even back then the city was talking about re-dredging the lake, so I'll believe it when it actually happens. That summer of 1988 we led kids' day camps and also ran evening canoe tours around the lake to look for frogs, herons, beavers, and the like. It took another six years before we started going out, and more than a year after that before we were married, but it all started at Burnaby Lake. We still live nearby. Vancouver blogging couple trivia: my wife Air and I were working as park naturalists for the GVRD when we first met 20 years ago. Our job HQ was the Burnaby Lake Nature House at Piper Spit, and even back then the city was talking about re-dredging the lake, so I’ll believe it when it actually happens.

That summer of 1988 we led kids’ day camps and also ran evening canoe tours around the lake to look for frogs, herons, beavers, and the like. It took another six years before we started going out, and more than a year after that before we were married, but it all started at Burnaby Lake. We still live nearby.

]]> By: Raul http://www.miss604.com/2008/06/metro-vancouver-park-series-burnaby-lake-park.html#comment-7404 Raul Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:31:46 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=1953#comment-7404 Hey Rebecca - do you and John (and whomever wants to join) go to Burnaby Lake for the afternoon, maybe over the weekend? I have *never* been there (hangs head in shame) in 12 years in Canada. I know, someone should just rescind my Vancouverite card right now :( Hey Rebecca – do you and John (and whomever wants to join) go to Burnaby Lake for the afternoon, maybe over the weekend? I have *never* been there (hangs head in shame) in 12 years in Canada. I know, someone should just rescind my Vancouverite card right now :(

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