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Byron Burns collection
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- Graphic material
- Textual record
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CA PCA Acc4173
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1911-1993 (Creation)
- Creator
- Burns, Byron
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Physical description
.01 m of textual records
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Name of creator
Burns, Byron
Biographical history
Arthur Byron Burns was born in 1914, the son of Arthur M. Burns and Eliza Campbell. His sister Thelma (1908-1914) played the piano at the movie theatre in Charlottetown.The family occupied the house at 199 Dorchester until April of 1919 when they moved to 168 Weymouth Street. Both houses are still standing although renovations have taken place. Arthur M. Burns worked for the railway in Prince Edward Island from 1897 to 1934. Byron was a prominent citizen of Charlottetown where he operated a jewellery store on Great George Street, now University Avenue. He maintained an avid interest in the social and cultural life of his Province and in the Charlottetown and Murray Harbour areas in particular, collecting photographs and other memorabilia related to business and social customs and events. He was especially fascinated by the railway about which he published a book entitled "The Narrow guage steam railroad on Prince Edward Island". Mr. Burns was married to Helen Costello and had two children, Suzanne and Arthur Robert. He died on 10 November 1996.
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Scope and content
This collection consists of both textual records and photographs. The textual documents consist of programs of various musical concerts by school church and private musical pupils in Charlottetown (1921-1931), a Travel Bureau pamphlet of Places to Stay in PEI, ca. 1930 and an essay by Byron Burns entitled "A look back at some Great George Street merchants and tenants in the past.
The photographs include images of both homes occupied by the Burns family and the Hornby residence as well as some businesses in of Charlottetown, the lobster factory at Campbell's Cove, Beach Point Lighthouse, and Murray Harbour. There are also two images of the PEI Little Theatre Group on the S. S. Charlottetown in 1937.
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- English
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Originals were returned to their owner
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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER
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Copy prints are located in the photographic binders in the Reading Room
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- Burns, Byron (Creator)
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- English