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- Adornment 83
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Barrel
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90555
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV020.22.1
- Description
- Cylindrical veneer mushroom spawning barrel. The wood has been shaped to make the barrel. There is a base and rim around the top and bottom of the barrel, stapled to hold it together. There are a number of stains, discolourations, ink, and evidence of past mold. There is also a lid with a metal ring afixed to it. The lid has the name "Stiglish" handwritten with a circled number "2". In black ink, a stamp reads: Fraser Valley Mush Grow.Co-op Assn.265 E. Georgia St. Vancouver, B.C. Canada"
- Object History
- Used on the Stiglish family mushroom farm
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E - - Cultivation Equipment
- Object Term
- Barrel
- Marks/Labels
- Railway Express Agency Incorporated / Printed in U. / This Export Shipment Must Be Routed Via
- Colour
- Brown
- Gray
- Black
- Measurements
- 14" in diameter and 17" high
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burquitlam (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Book of birds
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary4819
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.6170.1
- Call Number
- 598 BOO
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Ernest Nister
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. : 27 cm.
- Inscription
- "Ma___ Burd from Nancy Bompa Xmas 1914" [Handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Birds
- Juvenile literature
- Children's literature
- Animals
- Subjects
- Animals - Birds
- Animals
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brush hook
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91750
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.6
- Description
- Tool with a hooked blade attached to a long wooden handle used for land clearing - cut heavy brush, shrubs, or small trees.
- The blade is made of iron and is heavily rusted. The handle is damaged in several spots and cracked where the blade is attached.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Classification
- Maintenance T&E - - Groundskeeping Equipment
- Object Term
- Hook, Brush
- Measurements
- Length: 92 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
Images
journal
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact15164
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV984.63.1
- Description
- Journal; hand bound journal tied together with three ribbons along the left edge. Green coloured cardstock cover of journal includes hand drawn art nouveau style border illustration and title in black and gold; title in centre reads: "Observations / from / NATURE". Original water-soluable ink drawings of flora and fauna throughout. Nine black and white photographs of Deer Lake and "Class VI Boys" and "Farmerettes of Class VI" working in school garden are glued onto the last seven pages. Preface on page 3 of journal indicates that the content includes personal observations of the woods around Deer Lake made by the author, S. Herbert Price and is dated May 8, 1923. Content on pages within journal document the creator's observations with texts and illustrations between January 1923 and May 1923.
- Object History
- Sydney Herbert Price was born on December 18 1903 in England to Frank Price (1872-1952) and Ruth Parlour (1875-1941). He was a school teacher for the Burnaby School Board and lived at 6050 Clinton Street, Burnaby. He died in 1969. The family lived at 3113 Royal Oak in Burnaby (later renumbered to 6290). In 1906, his uncle (Herbert Price) purchased the land on which Oakalla Prison Farm was to be built on. The Price family farm grew strawberries and then raspberry canes. The business grew so big that the family hired up to 100 berry pickers to help out.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Book
- Colour
- Green
- Gold
- Black
- Blue
- Yellow
- Measurements
- Height: 9.8 cm
- Width: 7.7 cm
- Depth: 2 cm
- Subjects
- Plants - Flowers
- Animals - Birds
- Names
- Price, Sydney Herbert
Images
raffia bundle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91753
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.9
- Description
- Bundle of raffia strands twisted into a bundle. The bundle is held together at the top by a strip of raffia and is knotted around itself at the bottom.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Raffia bundle, used for tying vegetables in the fields. *We have a photo of raffia ties in use at Hop On Farm: BV017.36.7
- Measurements
- Length: 138 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
Images
seed drying tray
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91757
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.12
- Description
- Large wooden hoop frame with thin slats of wood woven across it. This creates a shallow tray on one side of the hoop. The hoop is held together by ties around the hoop itself. Some of the ties have broken causing the hoop to come apart.
- The hoop and weave are very brittle.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Seed drying tray, used when the family saved their own seed. They saved their seed to have a reliable supply of vegetable seeds difficult to find through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: choi sum, gai lan, bok choi. The seed heads were clipped and placed on the tray, and stored in the greenhouses to dry down. A finer sieve would have been used to separate the seeds from the chaff.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E
- Measurements
- Diameter: 86 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
Images
shovel
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91746
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.12.1
- Description
- Rounded digging style shovel. the shovel has a long wooden shaft or handle with a metal rounded mouth blade.
- Imprinted in the collar of the blade is "HEAT / TREATED / 2"
- The blade of the shovel is rusted.
- Object History
- These tools belonged to donor's father who had a market garden at his home on 4930 Marine Drive from 1971-79. Her father's name was Yee Law (or Herbert Law). After Yee stopped farming for a living in 1980, he gave these tools to the his daughter Gail and her family (the Yips). They presume that he no longer needed them. He maintained a 1 acre garden on his property until he couldn't anymore.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E
- Object Term
- Shovel
- Measurements
- Length: 146.5 cm
- Subjects
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Law, Yee "Herbert"
- Geographic Access
- Marine Drive
- Street Address
- 4930 Marine Drive
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