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Three women and man at picnic

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1524
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1930 and 1945]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 11 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in a suit, overcoat, and a hat, and three women. One of the women is in a polka dot dress, another wearing an overcoat over her dress with a hat, and the third woman is in a plain black dress with white collars and cuffs. There is food laid out on a picnic cover on the lawn, and…
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 11 cm
Material Details
stamped on verso, l.r. "B6"
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man in a suit, overcoat, and a hat, and three women. One of the women is in a polka dot dress, another wearing an overcoat over her dress with a hat, and the third woman is in a plain black dress with white collars and cuffs. There is food laid out on a picnic cover on the lawn, and a box of food resting on a chair in the centre. Note the large paper bag with the name "EDMUND FOOD CENTRE" printed on the front. The setting is in a park, with a tropical tree just behind the group.
Subjects
Recreational Activities - Picnics
Accession Code
BV985.5898.2
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[between 1930 and 1945]
Media Type
Photograph
Related Material
For another photograph of the same picnic, see BV985.5898.1
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2024-02-27
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
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Alfred Bingham with 1931 Model T Ford

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription738
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[1932]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Alfred "Alf" Bingham standing beside 1931 Model T Ford that was used by the C.G. Co-operative Association in Burnaby. The license plate reads: "101 547 31 / British Columbia." According to an accompanying note prepared by Burnaby Village Museum, both Mr. and Mrs. Bingham were active …
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.9 x 11.5 cm
Material Details
An annotation on the back of the photo reads: "Alf with Co-op Car 1931 Model T Ford / This car ran the roads of the lower mainland for two years without a liscence. [sic] Collecting food for hungry Burnaby families. (A Bingham, March 11 1971)."
Scope and Content
Photograph of Alfred "Alf" Bingham standing beside 1931 Model T Ford that was used by the C.G. Co-operative Association in Burnaby. The license plate reads: "101 547 31 / British Columbia." According to an accompanying note prepared by Burnaby Village Museum, both Mr. and Mrs. Bingham were active in the self-help group called "The Army of Common Good" during the Depression, and did a lot of work at one of the depots that was located at 4139 Parker Street. They continued to be active with the C.G. Co-operative Association which was formed when the "Army" dissolved in 1932. Mr. Bingham was employed in mill work.
Subjects
Transportation - Automobiles
Names
Bingham, Alfred "Alf"
Accession Code
HV976.46.4
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[1932]
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2023-06-20
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
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A man and woman seated together on a wooden beam

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4405
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1920 and 1930]
Collection/Fonds
Rhoda Jeffers fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of an unidentified man sitting on a wooden beam with a woman who appears to be Rhoda Mae Jeffers seated on his lap. The man is holding a thermos bottle and the woman has a cigarette in her mouth. Behind them is an open lunch box and more thermoses and food. They are looking at each other…
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Rhoda Jeffers fonds
Series
Jeffers family photographs series
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 7 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of an unidentified man sitting on a wooden beam with a woman who appears to be Rhoda Mae Jeffers seated on his lap. The man is holding a thermos bottle and the woman has a cigarette in her mouth. Behind them is an open lunch box and more thermoses and food. They are looking at each other. Behind them is a wooden fence and some woods. She has a short bobbed hair cut and is wearing glasses.
Names
Jeffers, Rhoda Mae
Accession Code
BV007.20.28
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
May be restricted by third party rights
Date
[between 1920 and 1930]
Media Type
Photograph
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
13/05/2018
Images
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Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription14764
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
1920-2006, predominant 1920-1979
Collection/Fonds
Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
6 photographs : col. + 1 photograph : b&w + 1 photograph : sepia + 41 photographs (tiffs) + 4 photographs (jpgs) + 12 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs of the Jung, Chan and Lee families as well as business records collected and created by Cecil Lee in the nineteen seventies, while he was employed as a Produce Buyer for Kelly Douglas Limited and Western Commodities Limited and responsible for the import of Chin…
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
Description Level
Fonds
Physical Description
6 photographs : col. + 1 photograph : b&w + 1 photograph : sepia + 41 photographs (tiffs) + 4 photographs (jpgs) + 12 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of family photographs of the Jung, Chan and Lee families as well as business records collected and created by Cecil Lee in the nineteen seventies, while he was employed as a Produce Buyer for Kelly Douglas Limited and Western Commodities Limited and responsible for the import of Chinese mandarin oranges. Fonds is arranged into the following series: 1) Lee family photographs series 3) Cecil Lee business records series
History
Julie Cho Chan Lee is the daughter of Suey Ying Jung (Laura) (1912-2006) and Puy Yuen Chan (1903-1978). Suey Ying "Laura" and Puy Yuen Chan were married in New Westminster in November 1942 followed by a fourteen year residency in the “minority town site” of Fraser Mills where their daughters Julie and June were born. Julie's mother Suey Ying "Laura" Jung was born in Burnaby in 1912 to Chung Chong Jung (1875-1956) and Gee Shee Jung (1879-1952). The family had six children (five of which lived to adulthood); Suey Fong "Maida" (1909-1997) (married Quinn Wong) ; Suey Kin "Annie" (1911-1962) (married George Jong); Suey Ying "Laura"; Suey Cheung "Harry" (1916-1991) and "; Suey Yook "Gordon" (1919-1998). The family owned and operated a five acre market garden and piggery at 5460 Douglas Road near Still Creek (address was changed to 5286 Douglas Road in 1958). This was conveniently located directly across the street from Douglas Road Interurban Station. The children attended Edmonds Elementary School and while the girls only completed their elementary school years, the boys continued their education at the Vancouver Technical School. Chung Chong and Gee Shee Jung sold the farm on Douglas Road around 1949 and moved to East Vancouver. Julie's mother, Suey Ying "Laura" Jung continued to live and work on the Jung family farm until she was married in 1942 when she moved to live with her husband, Puy Yuen at Fraser Mills. Suey Ying "Laura"'s sister Maida and her husband Quinn Wong also lived at Fraser Mills with their nine children. Julie's father, Puy Yuen Chan joined his father, Chin Yip Hong in Canada at the tender age of 12, worked as a shingle packer and plywood plant handler at Fraser Mills for forty years and retired without ever learning to speak English. In 1972, Julie Cho Chan married Cecil Lee and lived in Surrey where their two boys, Rodney and Darin were born. Just prior to the start of school for Rodney, the family relocated to Coquitlam where Julie had lived since 1956. Julie worked as a teacher and later as a teacher-librarian in the Coquitlam School District. Cecil Chue Kan Lee was born in Queensborough to Sui Seo Ngen and Ding Quai Lee. Cecil is the youngest of eight children; Chue Ngan "Gladys"; Chue Fay "Walter"; Chue Quon "Charlie"; Chue Jan "Pearl"; Chue Moi "Rose"; Chue Duck "Dick" and Chue Kwong "Ken". Cecil’s father, Ding Quai Lee was a jack of all trades including a labour contractor as a well as a millwright for G.W. Beach’s three mills, Keystone, Sapperton and Harrison Mills.In 1931, with the arrival of the Depression, the family made the difficult decision to return to their homeland of Guangzhou province, eventually returning to Canada in 1939. With this decision, Ding Quai wrestled with the burden of the repayment of the loans for two way steamship fares to and from China. Upon their return to Canada, the family lived a short time on Union Street in Vancouver before relocating to Queensborough (New Westminster). Cecil and his siblings were schooled at Queen Elizabeth Elementary School followed by varying stints at FW Howay and Duke of Connaught High Schools. In 1951, Cecil Lee joined Kelly Douglas & Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the George Weston Empire, as a produce warehouseman, followed by several years as a foreman and then in the early seventies until his 1991 retirement after forty years of service, he served as one of the KD produce buyers. In this capacity, he worked closely with local farmers along Marine Drive and in the Fraser Valley. Kelly Douglas and Company Limited was founded in 1896 as a wholesale grocery business and became one of the largest food distributors in Canada. In 1946, its headquarters moved from Vancouver to Burnaby and a manufacturing plant and warehouse were built on the site at 4700 Kingsway. In the mid-1970s, Lee along with the associates at Western Commodities, the head office for produce imports, was asked to oversee the import of Chinese mandarin oranges into western Canada. Until that time, mandarin oranges had come only from Japan and were sold in the winter, especially at Christmas. When the Japanese market could no longer keep up with the popular demand, Kelly Douglas and Company Limited looked to China. The company relied on Lee’s cultural knowledge to build this very profitable part of their business. Moreover, Cecil Lee designed, though not patented, the cardboard Chinese mandarin orange box to replace wooden containers. The iconic design required no glue or staples, making it possible for farmers to assemble and pack the boxes as they picked the oranges. In 1986, the Kelly Douglas and Company building was demolished and the produce department of Kelly Douglas was relocated to 6451 Telford Burnaby and the head office to 808 Nelson Street, Vancouver.
Creator
Lee, Julie Cho Chan
Lee, Chue Kan "Cecil"
Accession Code
BV017.24; BV019.6; BV019.33; BV020.38; BV021.19
Date
1920-2006, predominant 1920-1979
Media Type
Photograph
Textual Record
Arrangement
Records within fonds are composed of business records and family photographs arranged by the Lee family.
Notes
Title based on contents of fonds
See also: Interview with Julie Lee by Denise Fong February 6, 2020. -- [1920-1992] (interview content), interviewed Feb. 6, 2020 BV020.6.2
See also artifact descriptions under accession BV019.6 including BV019.6.1 - for description of original box to ship and sell mandarin oranges; BV019.6.15 and BV019.6.16 for Chinese mandarin orange wrappers "Snow Mountain Mandarin Orange"
Many of the "Business records" are closed and subject to FIPPA, contact Burnaby Village Museum regarding access
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Turret Cigarettes billboard

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1399
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
July 26, [1936]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8.5 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a grassy area in front of a large commercial building with various advertising signs for food, and a large billboard advertising Turret Cigarettes. In front of the restaurant building, there is a pillar with a circular top and Red Ensigns and Union Jacks hanging from it.
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 5.5 x 8.5 cm
Material Details
inscribed in pencil, verso, c. [written upside down] "July 26"
Faint circular stamp mark of "Vancouver Drug Co." on verso, and gummed paper on each corner.
The stamp reads, "Come to Vancouver's Golden [illegible]/ 50 Years of Progress" outside its circular seal for "Vancouver Drug/ Co. Ltd./ Nu-Gloss/ PHOTO FINISH"
Scope and Content
Photograph of a grassy area in front of a large commercial building with various advertising signs for food, and a large billboard advertising Turret Cigarettes. In front of the restaurant building, there is a pillar with a circular top and Red Ensigns and Union Jacks hanging from it.
Subjects
Symbols - Flags
Advertising Medium - Signs and Signboards
Accession Code
BV985.5773.1
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
July 26, [1936]
Media Type
Photograph
Related Material
For a photograph of a similar/ same pillar, see BV985.5770.1 For a wider angle view of the restaurant building with the Turret Cigarettes billboard, see BV985.5771.1
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2024-02-02
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
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Two men and a woman at picnic

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1523
Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Date
[between 1930 and 1945]
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 11 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of two unidentified men in suits and hats, and an unidentified woman in a polka dot dress at a picnic. There is a box of food resting on a lawn chair in the centre. The area appears to be a park with a tropical tree just behind the group.
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Repository
Burnaby Village Museum
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 6.5 x 11 cm
Material Details
stamped on verso, l.r. "B6"
Scope and Content
Photograph of two unidentified men in suits and hats, and an unidentified woman in a polka dot dress at a picnic. There is a box of food resting on a lawn chair in the centre. The area appears to be a park with a tropical tree just behind the group.
Subjects
Recreational Activities - Picnics
Accession Code
BV985.5898.1
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No known restrictions
Date
[between 1930 and 1945]
Media Type
Photograph
Related Material
For another photograph of the same picnic, see BV985.5898.2
Scan Resolution
600
Scan Date
2024-02-27
Images
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