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nametag
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90990
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV021.4.25
- Description
- Nametag from the 11984 B.C. Summer Games in Burnaby. The name tag is printed in green ink on white cardstock "BRITISH COLUMBIA SUMMER GAMES / BURNABY 1984" includes the name "Maryanne Chakowski" and "Committee_ACCOMODATION"; The card is enclosed within a plastic sleeve with a pin on back; name tag is fastened by the pin to the top of a white satin ribbon printed with green ink; top of ribbon includes circular logo of flame and dogwood flower with text outside "B.C.SUMMER GAMES / 1984 / BURNABY . JULY 19- 22" with vertical lettering underneath "ACCOMODATION" and horitizontal lettering at bottom "BURNABY / 1984".
- Object History
- Name tag and ribbon is from the B.C. Summer Games that Burnaby hosted in 1984.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Personal Symbols - - Personal Identification
- Object Term
- Nametag
- Measurements
- 5 cm x 9 cm + 25 cm x 5 cm
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medal
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact39914
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV999.24.24
- Description
- Medal, silver-coloured; Queen Victoria Jubilee 1897; front -design of Queen Victoria showing head, shoulders and two laurel sprigs; centre - coat-of-arms, surrounded by 5 circles, each with symbol at centre; hangs from decorative brass bar with blue grosgrain ribbon connecting it to similar bar at top; partial fastener on back; ribbon is hand-sewn on to the brass bars.
- Object History
- Part of a donation pertaining to Frederick Homer Cassels, a WWI Veterinary service army veteran.
- Frederick Homer Cassels was born June 25th 1870 or 1872 in Paisley, Ontario. He moved to BC in 1914 and settled in Vancouver. Cassels was a veterinary surgeon in the 103rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
- Prior to that, Cassels worked in Washington State. He married Emily Frances McMullen in England in 1919. They came back to Canada and settled in Burnaby the same year.
- He later worked as a marble worker, sticker and polisher at Continental Marble Works until 1932. The family settled in Burnaby's "Skunk Hollow" area, an area off Boundary Road at 13th Avenue and Clydesdale. Their children attended Schou St. School.
- He passed away July 31 1948.
- Marks/Labels
- "VICTORIA REGINA" around image; on reverse, around edge, is stamped "VICTORIA, QUEEN AND EMPRESS, 1837 - 1897, THE LONGEST AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS REIGN ON RECORD"; hand sewn to the front of the ribbon are gold metal initials "VR" and leaf motif
- Names
- Cassels, Frederick Homer
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