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pamphlet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact6576
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.83.3
- Description
- Official Handbook of the Panama Canal - Booklet -- [1915]. Booklet created by the Washington Government Printing Office. The booklet provides information about shipping facilities, distance saved, cost saving of the canal, tolls, traffic routes, and the Navy's use of the canal. The cover of the booklet is light green with a photograph of a ship passing through the calan. The title of the booklet is printed in red. The cover has been stamped by The Panama Canal Exhibit in San Francisco.
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- District of Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Washington
- Title
- Official Handbook of the Panama Canal
- Publication Date
- 1915
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booklet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact36711
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV995.9.30
- Description
- Infant Care - Booklet -- [1914]. Booklet from the U.S. Department of Labor Children's Bureau, called Infant Care by Mrs. Max West. The booklet is Number 2 of the Care of Children Series and Bureau Publication Number 8. The booklet was printed in Washington by the Government Pringting office in 1914. The booklet measures 15cm x 23cm.
- Object History
- Donor inherited object from the estate of his father, Dr. Stanley H. Sievenpiper.
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Title
- Infant Care
- Publication Date
- 1914
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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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