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Object History: Keith Watts served as the SFU men’s soccer head coach for 20 years from 1981 to 2001. Commemorative pin for the service of Keith Watts (presumably upon his retirement).

Reference: https://athletics.sfu.ca/hof.aspx?hof=43&mobile=skip

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Documentary Artifacts - - Memorabilia

Object Term: Commemorative

Marks/Labels: Simon Fraser University / KW / 1981.Keith.Watts 2001

Subjects: Adornment; Sports - Soccer; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Simon Fraser University

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47441

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.53

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.53

Description: Pin; white, gold, red, and blue; "Simon Fraser University"; coat of arms

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: Simon Fraser University

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Simon Fraser University

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47442

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.54

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.54

Description: Pin; white, gold, red, and blue; "Simon Fraser University"; coat of arms; motto on scroll, "Nous.Sommes.Prets"

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: Simon Fraser University / Nous.Sommes.Prets

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Simon Fraser University

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47444

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.56

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.56

Description: Pin; white, gold, red and blue; "Simon Fraser University" "Alumni"; coat of arms

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: Simon Fraser University

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Simon Fraser University

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47445

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.57

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.57

Description: Pin; white, gold, red and blue; "Simon Fraser University" "Honor Roll"; coat of arms, motto "Nous.Sommes.Prets"

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Commemorative

Marks/Labels: Simon Fraser University / Honor Roll / Nous.Sommes.Prets

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Simon Fraser University

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact48592

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV005.35.19

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV005.35.19

Description: Pin, high school; yellow, gold, maroon, black; writing in three black bars across front golden yellow panel; "HUGH M / FRASER / HIGH"; maroon and gold geometric shapes fan out behind it; screw fastener

Object History: Burnaby South High School was renamed Hugh M. Fraser High in 1941?, but was changed back to the original name a short time later. Hugh M. Fraser was appointed commissioner of the municipality of Burnaby when it was forced into receivership and at the end of 1932, after a dispute with the Provincial government about relief payments for the unemployed. A Provincial Commission stepped in to take over the governance of the city, under Hugh M. Fraser.

Marks/Labels: "HUGH M. / FRASER / HIGH", gold letters in three black bars across front panel

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Names: Burnaby South High School

Geographic Access: Rumble Street

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49931

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.26

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.26

Description: Lapel pin, with pin back, is made of stamped brass and gold plated. The pin is shaped like a maple leaf with a ribbon across the centre. There is also a plant rising vertically across the centre of the maple leaf. The maple leaf is enamelled green with the ribbon in red. The plant is yellow. There is a small logo of crossed baseball bats in the lower left corner of the pin. The ribbon has "South Burnaby" on it and "Men's Club" appears on the leaf. "S.B.M.C. Baseball Tournament", surrounds the logo. The pin was issued by the South Burnaby Men's Club for a baseball tournament they sponsored.

Object History: This pin was part of Councillor Jim Young's collection. Jim Young was a Burnaby Councillor for 12 years, from 1987 until 1999. During his time in office he served on 19 boards and councils and was instrumental in major developments in transportation, policing and neighbourhood development.

Marks/Labels: "MEN'S / SOUTH BURNABY / CLUB", embossed "S.B.M.C BASEBALL TOURNEMENT" (in logo), embossed

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Sports; Sports - Baseball

Names: South Burnaby Metro Club

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49932

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.27

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.27

Description: Lapel pin, with a post back, made of plastic in the shape of a maple leaf. The plastic is yellow with the maple leaf in green and a soccer ball in white. There is a yellow ribbon across the middle of the leaf with, "SOUTH BURNABY" in raised letters. There is a second yellow ribbon at the bottom that says, "SOCCER" in raised letters Issued by the South Burnaby Men's (Metro) Club..

Object History: This pin was part of Councillor Jim Young's collection. Jim Young was a Burnaby Councillor for 12 years, from 1987 until 1999. During his time in office he served on 19 boards and councils and was instrumental in major developments in transportation, policing and neighbourhood development.

Marks/Labels: "SOUTH BURNABY", raised green letters on upper yellow ribbon "SOCCER", raised green letters on lower yellow ribbon

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Sports; Sports - Soccer

Names: South Burnaby Metro Club

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49937

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.32

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.32

Description: Lapel pin, with a post back and stamped out of brass the metal plated with gold. The pin is a soccer ball with a ribbon at the top and another ribbon at the bottom. The ribbons are enamelled green and the ball is white and black. There is a small maple leaf in the soccer ball. The upper ribbon says "SOUTH BURNABY" and the lower ribbon says, "SOCCER'. On the reverse side is the makers stamp. The pin was made by "Kelbert Trophies Ltd., Vancouver and Tiawan.." This pin was issued by the South Burnaby Men's (Metro) Club.

Object History: This pin was part of Councillor Jim Young's collection. Jim Young was a Burnaby Councillor for 12 years, from 1987 until 1999. During his time in office he served on 19 boards and councils and was instrumental in major developments in transportation, policing and neighbourhood development.

Marks/Labels: "SOUTH BURNABY / SOCCER", embossed "RELBERT / TROPHIES LYO / VANCOUVER / TAIWAN", embossed

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Sports; Sports - Soccer

Names: South Burnaby Metro Club

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49954

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.49

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.49

Description: Lapel pin, with a post back, stamped in brass and gold plated. The pin is circular with a ribbon at the bottom. It is enamelled green on the upper part of the circle and black at the bottom of the circle and on the ribbon.The word, "BASEBALL", is at the top with a gold maple leaf in the middle. There is a representation of a baseball diamond inside the leaf. Lettering on the ribbon is, "S.B.M.C.", which stands for South Burnaby Men's(or Metro) Club Issued by the South Burnaby Men's (Metro) Club.

Object History: This pin was part of Councillor Jim Young's collection. Jim Young was a Burnaby Councillor for 12 years, from 1987 until 1999. During his time in office he served on 19 boards and councils and was instrumental in major developments in transportation, policing and neighbourhood development.

Marks/Labels: "BASEBALL / S.B.M.C.", embossed "KELBERT TROPHIES LTD / VANCOUVER / TAIWAN", stamped on reverse

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Sports; Sports - Baseball

Names: South Burnaby Metro Club

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact49972

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.67

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV006.1.67

Description: Lapel pin, with a post back and stamped out of brass the metal plated with gold. The pin is a soccer ball with a ribbon at the top and another ribbon at the bottom. The ribbons are enamelled green and the ball is white and black. There is a small maple leaf in the soccer ball. The upper ribbon says "SOUTH BURNABY" and the lower ribbon says, "METRO CLUB'. On the reverse side is the makers stamp. The pin was made by "Kelbert Trophies Ltd., Vancouver and Tiawan.." This pin was issued by the South Burnaby Metro (Men's) Club.

Object History: This pin was part of Councillor Jim Young's collection. Jim Young was a Burnaby Councillor for 12 years, from 1987 until 1999. During his time in office he served on 19 boards and councils and was instrumental in major developments in transportation, policing and neighbourhood development.

Marks/Labels: "SOUTH BURNABY / METRO CLUB", embossed "KELBERT / TROPHIES LTD / VANCOUVER / TAIWAN", stamped on reverse

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Sports; Sports - Soccer

Names: South Burnaby Metro Club

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Interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription19349

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1957-2022] (interview content), interviewed 2 Dec. 2022

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (49 min., 21 sec.)

Scope and Content: Item consists of an oral history interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Assistant Curator, Kate Petrusa. Raj Chouhan shares his ancestral background and personal experiences immigrating to Canada from India in 1973 and living and working in Canada as an immigrant…

1 document 1 audio

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum fonds

Series: Museum Oral Histories series

Subseries: South Asian Canadian Interviews subseries

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 sound recording (wav) + 1 sound recording (mp3) (49 min., 21 sec.)

Material Details: Interviewer: Kate Petrusa Interviewee: Honourable Raj Chouhan Location of Interview: Residence of Honourable Raj Chouhan Interview Date: December 2, 2022 Total Number of tracks: 1 Total Length of all Tracks: (00:49:21) Digital master recording (wav) was converted to mp3 for access on Heritage Burnaby

Scope and Content: Item consists of an oral history interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan conducted by Burnaby Village Museum Assistant Curator, Kate Petrusa. Raj Chouhan shares his ancestral background and personal experiences immigrating to Canada from India in 1973 and living and working in Canada as an immigrant and the organizations that he became involved with. Honourable Raj Chouhan recalls how he arrived in Burnaby with his family in 1973 and that his family worked in farming. Chouhan imparts his first hand experiences as a new immigrant working as a labourer in the farming industry and describes the unsafe and unfair working conditions that he and migrant workers faced. Chouhan conveys how this experience lead him to become an activist for better working conditions for migrant workers. This lead Chouhan and others to form the Canadian Farm Workers Union in 1980. Chouhan recollects his experiences flying from India to Canada with his wife, his first impressions after arriving in Vancouver and driving to Burnaby and what he brought with him. Chouhan explains his connections to Burnaby. Members of Chouhan's wife's family immgrated to Canada in 1957 and his wife and her three brothers joined them in 1970. Chouhan's father in law, Hardial Singh Grewal immigrated in 1957 and became president of the Sikh temple in New Westminster. Hardial Singh Grewal worked in a lumber mill in Vancouver and eventually bought a house in Burnaby. Chouhan married to his wife at the Sikh temple in New Westminster and lived in Burnaby for a period before moving to New Westminster where they could find more affordable housing. Chouhan shares that he first worked as a farm labourer in Abbotsford and then found a job in the sawmill which paid more. Chouhan describes the extreme racism and discrimination that he and other immigrants faced which lead to the formation of the British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism under the leadership of Dr. Hari Prakash Sharma. Chouhan describes this organization that he was a part of and the Canadian Farm Workers Union that were both formed in Burnaby. Chouhan shares that he moved to Victoria in 1988 to serve on the Hospital Employee's Union and moved back to the mainland in 1993 and returned to Burnaby in 2001. Chouhan reflects on the history of South Asian immigration in Canada, how many of the migrants settled in the lower mainland including Burnaby, New Westminster and Vancouver establishing temples in Vancouver and New Westminster which became the centre for the South Asian community. He conveys how earlier occupations were limited to farming and millwork and how over time employment opportunities and education have broadened but there is still work to do. He imparts how second generation Canadians’ experiences differ from first generations providing examples of his own daughters’ and the occupations that they are working in. Chouhan provides his insights into the South Asian Canadian experience imparting “We make history every day and that history needs to be recorded and learned from.."... “People from different communities, different backgrounds who lived in Burnaby have contributed so much and South Asians are just like another community and participated in all aspects of social life, cultural, religious, economy. I'm so proud of our community, our forefathers who had that vision to fight for our rights. I'm inspired by people who struggled so much to gain basic rights, like the right to vote". Chouhan refers to these first immigrants as “Gadri Babbas” “revolutionary old people” who were also the main motivation that lead to India becoming a free country in 1947 and for fighting for basic rights here in Canada and how they made their contributions for future generations. Chouhan expresses what he imparts to students “Do not forget your past... if you remember your past then you are much more knowledgeable. Then we know what we need for the future. If we don't know the past, we don't know what the future is going to be like. To make a better future, you have to learn from the past and improve".

History: Interviewee biography: Honourable Raj Chouhan was born in the city of Ludhiana in the Province of Punjab in India and immigrated to Canada in 1973. After arriving in Canada, Raj's family settled in Burnaby. Raj grew up in Burnaby and attended schoool. Honourable Raj Chouhan was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds in 2005 and was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2020. He was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on December 7, 2020. Honourable Chouhan is the founding president of the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism and has served as a director of the Hospital Employees' Union, the Labour Relations Board of B.C. and the Arbitration Bureau of B.C. Honourable Chouhan has also served as the Vice President of B.C. Human Rights Defenders since 2003 and has taught courses in Human Rights, the B.C. Labour Code and Collective Bargaining since 1987. Interviewer biography: Kate Petrusa is the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Village Museum. In her role, she manages all aspects of the collection – including caring for physical artifacts and making their digital counterpart accessible. Before coming to Burnaby Village Museum in 2019, Kate has worked at several Museums around the Lower Mainland as a Curator and contractor since 2013.

Creator: Burnaby Village Museum

Subjects: Persons - South Asian Canadians; Social Issues; Social Issues - Racism; Occupations - Agricultural Labourers; Migration; Organizations - Unions; Rights; Rights - Human Rights; Agriculture; Agriculture - Farms; Government - Provincial Government; Government

Names: Chouhan, Raj; British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism; Sharma, Dr. Hari Prakash; Grewal, Hardial Singh; Canadian Farmworkers Union; Hospital Employees Union; Khalsa Diwan Society

Responsibility: Petrusa, Kate

Accession Code: BV022.29.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1957-2022] (interview content), interviewed 2 Dec. 2022

Media Type: Sound Recording

Notes: Title based on contents of item; Transcription available on Heritage Burnaby

Documents

2022_0029_0004_003

Audio Tracks

Interview with Honourable Raj Chouhan, [1957-2022] (interview content), interviewed 2 Dec. 2022

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Sound_Recordings/Oral_Histories/2022_0029_0004_002.mp3

button pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact45853

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV003.57.3

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV003.57.3

Description: The pin badge is a round, flat, plastic disc with pin fastener on back. The front is white with a black shield outline highlighted with yellow. Inside of this is black "BURNABY", then black hockey puck with yellow and black hockey stick behind it and yellow wings, then below, "WINTER CLUB". Below the shield, on a black bar, is a yellow "TOURNAMENT". Above the shield and partially covered by it is red maple leaf. The pin was issued by the Burnaby Winter Club. On the reverse in red is the manufacturers name.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Documentary Artifacts - - Memorabilia

Object Term: Commemorative

Marks/Labels: "BURNABY / WINTER CLUB", text printed on the shield. "TOURNAMENT", text printed on the bar below th shield "THE GOLD LEAF IMPRINTERS / 2603 - 41ST STREET PHONE 542-7831 / VERNON, B.C. / POSTAL CODE V1T 6K3", there is a logo at left of 'G' and 'L' in red maple leaf. all of this is printed on the reverse face of the badge.