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Date(s)
- c. 1934 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 photograph (copy) and 1 Hand-written Poem
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Biographical history
Heather McPherson was the estate executor for Leigh Burpee Robinson and donated a image of the Robinson's home at 445 Admirals Road along with a hand-written poem by Leigh Burpee Robinson.
Leigh Burpee Robinson (L.B. Robinson) was an author and historian who wrote a history of Esquimalt (Esquimalt: Place of Shoaling Waters, 1948). She was born Leila Ada Burpee in New Brunswick in September 1882. She married Bertram Digby Robinson in Esquimalt in 1927. The couple lived in Esquimalt where Bertram Robinson was private secretary to Norman Yarrow of Yarrows Shipyard. Bertram Robinson died in 1953 and Leigh Burpee Robinson died in 1974. (Source - BC Archives)
Repository
Archival history
Gift of Heather McPherson; 1 accession donated in 1997
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of a photograph and a hand-written poem
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