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lapel pin with card

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact22065

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.73.2

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.73.2

Description: Lapel pin and card. Pin is round, gold-plated sterling silver. Wide white enamel border has gold "WOMENS WAR WORK" in upper part, "C.R.C.S." at bottom, and thin gold inner and outer borders. Centre of pin is pebbled gold ground with red enamelled cross, gold border. Reverse of pin has locking pin back, and raised lettering "STERLING", 'S' in oval beside it. Back is tarnished, gold-coloured. Front has some soiling and wear.

Object History: Donation on behalf of South Burnaby United Church Women. Likely from their thrift shop.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: "WOMENS WAR WORK / C.R.C.S.", in raised letters in white border or pin. "STERLING" with a sideways "S" in an oval, in raised letters on the back of the pin.

Measurements: Dia: 1.8 cm

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Occupations - War Worker; Wars; Wars - World War, 1939-1945

Names: Canadian Red Cross

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Burnaby's heritage : an inventory of buildings and structures

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5437

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Author: Luxton, Donald, 1954-; Wolf, Jim

Edition: Rev.

Publication Date: 2011; c2007

Call Number: 971.133 LUX COPY 1

in North and South Burnaby. The location of Burnaby’s municipal hall at Edmonds was a result of South Burnaby’s early growth, larger population and political strength. Although the expansion of Burnaby was tempered by another economic recession and the outbreak of the First World War, by 1925 its

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