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prize ribbon
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91452
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.5.2149
- Description
- Prize ribbon; purple satin with gold lettering. British Columbia Centennial logo at top with dogwood flower in centre. Horizontal text reads: "1871-1971 / Centennial Easter Parade / PARTICIPANT / Vintage / Car Club / of / Canada".
- Object History
- Ribbon was presented to participants during the Easter Parade and sod turning for Heritage Village on April 11, 1971. Participation ribbons were created by the Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee's Publicity Committee and awarded to parade participants. The parade was part of the Burnaby festivities in recognizing British Columbia's Centennial in 1971.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Personal Symbols - - Status Symbols
- Object Term
- Prize
- Colour
- Purple
- Gold
- Measurements
- Length: 24 cm x Width: 5 cm
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
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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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