"Chinese Market Gardens" found 4 records

Scope and Content: Photograph is an aerial view looking south over the Chinese Market Gardens along Marine Drive. The farm on the south side of Marine Drive, second from the east, is 4930 Marine Drive.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1949

Collection/Fonds: Gail Yip fonds

Physical Description: 1 photograph (jpeg) : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 529-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only

Accession Number: 2012-04

Scope and Content: Photograph is an aerial view looking south over the Chinese Market Gardens along Marine Drive. The farm on the south side of Marine Drive, second from the east, is 4930 Marine Drive.

Subjects: Agriculture - Crops; Agriculture - Farms

Names: Chinese Market Gardens

Media Type: Photograph

Geographic Access: Marine Drive

Street Address: 4930 Marine Drive

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

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Herbert Yee Law family fonds

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1938-1959] (date of originals), 2017-2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 4 photographs (tiffs + jpgs)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 4 photographs (tiffs + jpgs)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.

History: Herbert (Yee) Law was born in New Westminster British Columbia in 1916. Between 1938 and 1945, Yee Law worked for the United Fraser Growers Limited in Vancouver. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers. In 1948 Yee Law purchased land from another Chinese family along Marine Drive in the Big Bend Area of Burnaby. From this location, Yee Law operated a Chinese market garden. Yee Law and his wife Jean had five daughters who attended schools in the area including Riverway West School, McPherson Park School and Burnaby South High School. In 1954, Yee Law continued to live in the area but left his farm to work for a plastic bag company on Annacis Island. Herbert (Yee) Law died in 2003.

Creator: Law, Yee "Herbert"

Accession Code: BV017.40; BV019.11

Date: [1938-1959] (date of originals), 2017-2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph; Cartographic Material

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Fraser Arm Neighbourhood

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

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Repository: Burnaby Heritage Planning

Associated Dates: 1925-1954

Heritage Value: By the late 1920s, the Fraser Arm Neighbourhood in Burnaby was developing into an industrial and manufacturing district. In 1931, the Canadian National Railway built a bridge over the Fraser River from Burnaby to Lulu Island and advertised that over 30 industries were currently operating along the North Fraser. Along with industries, this district remained an important agricultural area for the Lower Mainland. Chinese market gardens continued to develop and thrive and in 1926, the Vancouver Sun estimated that that Chinese farms in the Lower Fraser Valley then supplied 90 per cent of all green vegetables consumed in the Vancouver market area.

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

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