belt
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact87416
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.36.65
- Description
- belt, Girl Guides; brown leather belt with silver metal G.C.G. trefoil buckle; size 30; buckle is adjustable; one strap with silver metal leash hook holding a small, blue Girl Guide branded pencil. Handwritten text in ink is illegible.
- Object History
- Salvation Army Guide uniform dress belonging to Virginia Blake, early 1960s. From the 6th Vancouver Salvation Army Guides on Hastings Street. Salvation Army was affiliated with Girl Guides (1937) of Canada until 1998. Worn with brown leather belt, beret, folded triangular company tie. The three white stripes on the right breast pocket indicate that wearer was a company leader. The more stripes you had, the higher your rank. A single white stripe, sewn down the center of the pocket, would have indicated that she was a patrol seconder. Two stripes would indicate that she was a patrol leader. White adhesive tape was used so that the guider didn’t have to unstitch and re-sew the stripes as they gained rank.
- Category
- 03. Personal Artifacts
- Classification
- Clothing
- Clothing - - Clothing Accessories
- Names
- Girl Guides of Canada