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Margaret Norton fonds

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[1917-1979], predominant [193-]
Collection/Fonds
Margaret Norton fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
28 photographs + 5 textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs of members of the Knight-Roberts family and their home at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby along with a baptismal certificate for Margaret Knight; a marriage certificate for Margaret Knight and John Leonard Norton and school certificates for Margaret Knight.
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Margaret Norton fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
28 photographs + 5 textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs of members of the Knight-Roberts family and their home at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby along with a baptismal certificate for Margaret Knight; a marriage certificate for Margaret Knight and John Leonard Norton and school certificates for Margaret Knight.
History
Margaret “Margie” Norton (nee Knight) (1912-2010) is a daughter of Ernest Richard Knight (born 1877 in Burstow, Surrey, England) and Louise Augusta Knight (nee Ellis) (born in 1882 in South Horsham, England). Ernest Knight and Louise Ellis married in Vancouver in May 1908 at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. Ernest and Louise had five children; Naida (Hansen), Margaret (Norton), Frederick "Fred", Lila (McKinley) and Dolly (Walker-Kirkwood). Margaret and Frederick were twins. Sometime in the 1920s, Ernest Knight left his wife and family and moved to Australia. After Ernest left, Louise Knight lived common law with her partner Charles Roberts. Louise and Charles had one son, Charles Thomas "Bob" Roberts. The Knight-Roberts family home was located at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby. The house was relocated to this address from the forty hundred block of Georgia Street sometime in the mid 1920s. Louise Knight-Roberts (nee Ellis) lived at 931 Gilmore Avenue in Burnaby until her death in 1950. Charles Roberts died in 1956. Margaret and her siblings attended Gilmore Avenue School until Kitchener School was completed. She was the first May Queen at Kitchener School. Margaret Knight and her twin brother Fred were among the first graduating class of Kitchener School in 1925. Margaret married John Leonard “Jack” Norton in 1947 at Vancouver Heights United Church. Margaret worked at a factory making bags for Bonar and Bemis until she married Jack. Jack worked as a stationery engineer for Nelson's Laundry. Margaret and Jack lived at the former Knight-Roberts home at 931 Gilmore Avenue. Margaret and Jack had two children, Darlene and Rey. Margaret Knight was a lifetime Burnaby resident residing at 931 Gilmore Avenue until her death at 98 yrs in 2010. Her husband Jack died in 1990.
Responsibility
Norton, John Leonard "Jack"
Norton, Margaret Knight
Accession Code
BV020.34
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Date
[1917-1979], predominant [193-]
Media Type
Photograph
Textual Record
Arrangement
Arrangement of records is based on the arrangement by donor.
Notes
Title based on contents of fonds
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The Chinese cookbook : covering the entire field of Chinese cookery in the Chinese order of serving, from nuts to soup

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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Author
Au, M. Sing, 1906-
Publication Date
c1936
Call Number
641.5951 AU
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection
Special Collection
Material Type
Book
Accession Code
BV009.22.6
Call Number
641.5951 AU
Author
Au, M. Sing, 1906-
Contributor
Troutman, Warren G.
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa.
Publisher
Culinary Arts Press
Publication Date
c1936
Physical Description
47 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Library Subject (LOC)
Cooking, Chinese
Cookbooks--1930-1939
Object History
The recipe book was owned by Julia Olea Kolot (nee Melland) born June 6, 1906. She was born in North Dakota and moved to Saskatchewan when she was about 20, met and married Harold Kolot and had three children, before moving to Vancouver for her health in 1944. Her parents came from Norway long before she was born, and she was one of 13 children. They ran a café in Vancouver (possibly the Copenhagan) and worked the kitchen of a small restaurant at Clear Water Lake in Saskatchewan in the summers for a number of years. She was also the cook at the North Shore Winter Club for a number of years. Her grand-daughter recalls that later in life she didn't use many recipes; she mostly cooked from memory. Her books contain many notes and other recipes that she (or someone else) added.
Notes
Includes index
"Compiled and edited for the American cook by Mr. M. Sing Au."
With Decorations by Warren G. Troutman.
"A dissertation on roast pig," by Charles Lamb: p. [4]-6.
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