Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [1915]-[1928] (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
9 photographs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Annie Robinson was born Annie Bull in 1901 in a house off Cherry Tree Bend in Saanich. In 1907, she moved with her family to the Manor House, a fieldstone house on Quadra and Beckwith, where her father Josiah Bull had a dairy farm. She attended the old Royal Oak School and later the Quadra Street School. In October 1917 she began working for the District of Saanich, as a "scribe" for the Tax Department at a salary of $65 per month. After 9 years she left to get married. In 1949, at the request of the Assessor Stan Green, she returned to work in the Waterworks Department and in Accounting. Annie Bull Robinson was employed by Saanich for over 21 years. She died in 1990.
Repository
Archival history
Donated by Annie Robinson ca. 1981.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fonds consists of photographs of Saanich employees taken at the employees’ picnic and outside the municipal hall, ca.1915-1921.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
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Conditions governing access
No restrictions on access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Associated material: Heritage inventory file for the Manor House, 4201 Quadra Street
Notes area
Note
Accession number: 1981-026