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https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact17843
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV978.17.12
- Description
- Inspection Card - Immigration form -- [1909]. Inspection card for T. McNair when he immigrated to Canada from England in 1909. He sailed on the S.S. Corsican from Liverpool England. The inspection card was started on January 8, 1909. There are two stamps on the form, one for passing the Medical Inspection. The other stamp is from the Dominion Immigration Agency in St. John, New Brunswick stating that McNair passed inspection on January 17th, 1909. The back of the card advises that the card be kept for three years in case it is wanted by the Government. The phrase was translated in to eleven other languages.
- Object History
- Receipt belonging to Thomas Seaborn McNair, who was born on May 15 1888 to Francis McNair and Elizabeth Taylor at sea off New Zealand. He immigrated to Canada in 1909. He worked as an accountant and estate agent. He married Mary Vida McMillan in 1917. Thomas ran Edwards, McNair and Russell in Vancouver (presumably an accounting firm). Thomas McNair died in 1982.
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https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97950
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the Jaworski family at home and waiting for news of their son, who is on a Rotary exchange in Quito, Ecuador.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- File
- Record No.
- 535-3076
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- File contains photographs of the Jaworski family at home and waiting for news of their son, who is on a Rotary exchange in Quito, Ecuador.
- Subjects
- Persons - Families
- Persons - Students
- Travel
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a January 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata for 535-3076-1: "The Jaworski family, Barbara, Mark and Filip, 7, devour all the news of Ecuador they can get, as their son, Simon, is on a Rotary exchange in Quito, where the government was deposed by a coup."
- Caption from metadata for 535-3076-2: "Filip Jaworski, 7, colors in a map for his older brother, Simon, who is Quito, Ecuador, on a Rotary exchange, where he's already lived through a volcanic erruption and a coup."