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pruner

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91748
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.12.3
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Accession Code
BV023.12.3
Description
Tree pruner or pruning tool with a hook and restractable blade. There is a metal spring action lever one quarter of the way up the shaft attached to a metal rod that runs the remaining length of the shaft up to the blade. The rod is anchored to the shaft in two places. Pulling the lever engages the blade and exposes
The lever is wrapped in black electrical tape. The metal parts of the pruner are 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
05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
Classification
Maintenance T&E - - Groundskeeping Equipment
Object Term
Pruner, Tree
Measurements
Length: 194 cm
Subjects
Agricultural Tools and Equipment - Gardening Equipment
Names
Law, Yee "Herbert"
Geographic Access
Marine Drive
Street Address
4930 Marine Drive
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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