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at a salary of $50.00 per month and remained for ten years until 1904. She was a very stern person whose punishment for misbehaving students included going out to the back and chopping wood for the schoolroom stove. She came to school in a two wheeled buggy pulled by a pony which probably impressed the pupils

in the finishes and materials, including imported English materials such as Medmenham tiles in the fireplace surrounds, one of the earliest documented use of these tiles outside the United Kingdom. Detailed features of the interior woodwork were carved by Scottish-born master wood carver George Selkirk Gibson

covered with cedar, hemlock and maple trees. Hand mauls—woodworking tools used with chisels for splitting wood planks—are among the tools that have been found in gardens and during basement excavations near Royal Oak Avenue. Further south, in what is now the Big Bend neighborhood, the landscape was once

closely with Burnaby’s Chinese Canadian farmers. BV017.24.2, COURTESY OF CECIL LEE. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WORK IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY? Chinese lumber workers harvested and processed wood in a variety of workplaces in Burnaby. Chinese labour contractor Lee Deen recruited Chinese woodcutters to supply

jobs and were unable to pay taxes on their homes. Burnaby Council made arrangements for the male property owners to work off their taxes. Some worked by cutting down the huge stumps left after logging. The men would split the stumps, cut them into 4 foot lengths and then take the wood to Burnaby

Canadian farmers in Burnaby and the Fraser Valley. BV019.6.1. COURTESY OF CECIL LEE. 由梁己酉经营的均 安菜园使用木板和 玻璃建造的御寒温 室。 这些迷你温室 用来帮助植物过冬， 并提早中式蔬菜的 种植季节， 1970年 代。 梁氏家族提供。 Cold frames constructed using wood planks and glass at Quin On Farm, operated by Leong See Quin. These mini green- houses were used