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greeting card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact27258
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV974.90.2
- Description
- greeting card; Congratulations and Best Wishes -- 1926. The card is white with silver branches at left, with red, pink and white blossoms, gold and blue bar across top, yellow and black butterflies. There is a short verse "This merry little greeting...". Written in ink on the top right corner is "1926". Signature in black ink in lower right corner reads: "Mother".
- Object History
- Card received by Edna Caroline Corner (nee Bateman) from her mother, Mrs. E.W. Bateman, likely on the occasson of her daughter, Catherine Levins' birth. Item donated by Cathy Levins, grand-daughter of Elwin W. Bateman. Elwin W. Bateman and his second wife, Mary (Dale) Bateman moved into a landmark home built in the Deer Lake Crescent subdivision of Burnaby in 1922. The home is now a heritage landmark in Burnaby, and is located at the Burnaby Village Museum.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Correspondence
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greeting card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact34908
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV993.11.3
- Description
- Easter Greetings - Card. Easter greeting card to "Mother and Dad". The front of the card has an illustration of a bouquet of flowers and a small blue bird holding a note. There is a border of purple flowers and yellow ribbon. Inside the card is a poem and a handwritten note stating "Much Love and/ a happy easter./ Joanie". The card measures 12.5cm x 14.5cm when closed.
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memorial card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact5599
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV986.17.21
- Description
- For his country's sake - Memorial Card -- [1917]. Memorial card for Lieutenant Lawrence Labell Davidson of the 5th Battalion C.E.F. The front of the card has a silver and black border. In the centre is a cross with a wreath below it and two Union Jack flags at half mast on either side with the flag poles crossing at the top of the cross. Below this is "For his country's sake." Inside the card are the same borders. On the left side is the 5th Battalion crest for Western Cavalry. On the right side is information in silver text about Lawrence Davidson. He was wounded at Passchendaele on November 11th 1917 and died in hospital on November 25th in No.14 General Hospital, France at age 21. The bottom of the card says "Regina 1917".
- Object History
- Donor inherited object from the estate of her mother, Lilian Jean Reche (Morrison) (Peterson) Sauer. of Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan.
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military memorial stained glass window
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact36930
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV995.21.5
- Description
- stained glass memorial window; red, blue, orange, purple and gold stained glass; lead cames and solder joints; depicts a crown with a cross at the top and an eagle in middle; "ARDVA <> AD ASTRA: [see shape drawn in register] PER - TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ROB ROY AND GORDON F. MACGREGOR. ERECTED BY FATHER, MOTHER AND IAN".
- Object History
- Flying Officer Roy MacGregor and Pilot Officer Gordon MacGregor were the only members of the congregation of the Vancouver Heights Presbyterian Church to be killed in service during World War II. In memory of the brothers, the church and family sponsored two stained glass windows that were installed in the church in 1947. The windows feature the symbol of the Royal Air Force (also used by other Commonwealth air forces) and the motto per ardua ad astra which means "through adversity to the stars."
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Art
- Object Term
- Glass, Stained
- Subjects
- Communication Artifacts
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