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brush hook

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91750
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.6
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.
Category
05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
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
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hat

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91751
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.7
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.7
Description
Conical straw or bamboo hat. The material is woven together and has a white nylon corded edge. There is an internal hat ring that would rest on the wearer's head. The ring is made out of plastic and is zap strapped to the inner structure of the woven hat. There is a black cord chin strap attached to the ring.
The top of the cone is damaged and missing.
There are three smudged marks evenly spaced around the outside of the hat, indicating some sort of design at one point.
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.
Used by family and farm workers until 2022.
Category
03. Personal Artifacts
Classification
Clothing - - Headwear
Object Term
Hat
Measurements
Diameter: 42 cm
Subjects
Persons - Chinese Canadians
Clothing - Headwear
Gardens
Gardens - Market Gardens
Names
Hop on Farms
Images
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seeding tray

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91752
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.8
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.8
Description
Shallow wooden tray. The tray has three slats along the bottom with a small gap between each slat.
The side of the tray are very worn and weathered with a white haze.
Included with the tray are 6 thin strips of wood, almost like wood veneer, that are scored at intervals in order to form a wood plant pot. The plant pots would fit inside the tray.
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.
Used before plastic trays were used more regularly in the 1970s. In the 1970s, the business shifted to selling wholesale bedding plants so the plastic trays were more practical to give away. The wooden trays and pots were taken out to fields for transplanting and cleaned and reused regularly. The donors recall repairing these wooden trays over the winter months. The used the broken pots as bottoms for repaired pots.
See BV017.36.9 on Heritage Burnaby for photograph of these in use on Hop On Farm.
Category
04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
Classification
Agricultural T&E
Measurements
Length: 51.5 cm
Width: 34.5 cm
Depth: 7.5 cm
Subjects
Persons - Chinese Canadians
Agricultural Tools and Equipment - Gardening Equipment
Gardens
Gardens - Market Gardens
Names
Hop on Farms
Images
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raffia bundle

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91753
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.9
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
Less detail

seed drying tray

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91757
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.12
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
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stool

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91758
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.13
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.14.13
Description
Wooden stool with rectangular seat. The legs of the stool are two boards attached to the bottom of the seat go straight down to the ground. There are triangle notches out of the bottom of each board.
In between the legs of the stool is a small board attached to the seat to provide support and structure to the legs.
The pieces are nailed together.
There are two blocks bolted to the under side of the seat.
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.
Stool made by Gay Tim Hong. Used regularly for 80 years around the family kitchen table for meals. The family often shared meals with the long time, close farm workers and had a table of 10-12 people for lunch everyday.
Category
02. Furnishings
Classification
Furniture - - Furniture Sets
Object Term
Stool
Measurements
Height: 50 cm
Width: 29 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Subjects
Persons - Chinese Canadians
Furniture
Gardens
Gardens - Market Gardens
Names
Hop on Farms
Hong, Gay Tim
Images
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