card
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact17843
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV978.17.12
- Description
- Inspection Card - Immigration form -- [1909]. Inspection card for T. McNair when he immigrated to Canada from England in 1909. He sailed on the S.S. Corsican from Liverpool England. The inspection card was started on January 8, 1909. There are two stamps on the form, one for passing the Medical Inspection. The other stamp is from the Dominion Immigration Agency in St. John, New Brunswick stating that McNair passed inspection on January 17th, 1909. The back of the card advises that the card be kept for three years in case it is wanted by the Government. The phrase was translated in to eleven other languages.
- Object History
- Receipt belonging to Thomas Seaborn McNair, who was born on May 15 1888 to Francis McNair and Elizabeth Taylor at sea off New Zealand. He immigrated to Canada in 1909. He worked as an accountant and estate agent. He married Mary Vida McMillan in 1917. Thomas ran Edwards, McNair and Russell in Vancouver (presumably an accounting firm). Thomas McNair died in 1982.
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medicinal jar
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact8973
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.1409.1
- Description
- Small, clear glass medicinal jar with circular base and gold-coloured, metal screw lid. The jar is full of orange-yellow coloured contents. Two, commerically printed paper labels are attached to the front and back of the jar, with some discolouration and wear on the edges of the front label. The front label is red, black, and yellow. The back label is yellow with black text.
- Classification
- Animal Husbandry T&E - - Veterinary Equipment
- Marks/Labels
- "George Bell's / ECZEMA / OINMENT / Manufactured by BELL & SONS (NORTHERN) LTD. / LIVERPOOL ENGLAND" printed in yellow on red, red on yellow, and yellow on black on the front label. "DIRECTIONS FOR USE / To avoid infection use rubber floves, if possible / when applying. Otherwise wash hands with / maximum thoroughness after handling dog. / Apply nightly for two weeks, first to base patches / then to all skin, parting the hair fot the purpose. / Lard, Petroleum Jelly, Betanaphthol, Acid Salicylic." printed in black on back, yellow label. "BELL & SONS (CANADA) LTD. / MONTREAL, CANADA - Printed in England" printed in black at the bottom of the back, yellow label. Discoloured, worn paper label attached to metal screw lid with black, illegible text.
- Measurements
- 7 cm height x 4.9 cm diameter
- Country Made
- England
- Site/City Made
- Liverpool
- Subjects
- Animal Husbandry Tools and Equipment
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postcard set
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact46325
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.5158.64
- Description
- Three postcards in envelope; envelope is brown, "To COMRADES FROM OVERSEAS", "THE CUNARD STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.," "in wishing you...of the War." "Peace Year, 1919.", logo upper left of lion in circle, crown above, "THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED"; lion on front of envelope, holds globe, "CUNARD LINE"; sepia postcard "Cunard R.M.--. Mauretania", on reverse, "Lusitania and Mauretania" and sizes; black and white postcard "CUNARD R.M.S. CARMANIA LEAVING PLYMOUTH", "PRINTED IN ENGLAND" on back; black and white postcard "CUNARD R.M.S. AQUITANIA AT LIVERPOOL", "PRINTED IN ENGLAND" on back
- Object History
- Postcard set belonging to Roy Thomas Jacques, son of Ernest Charles Jacques and Zoe Grace Lucy Stack. Ernest Charles Jacques (1884-1966) worked as a millwright and labourer. His first wife was Zoe Grace Lucy Stack, with whom he had four children: Roy Thomas (b. 1910), Charles Ernest (b. 1911), Eileen Mary (b. 1913), Nancy Margaret (b. 1915). Zoe Stack later died and he remarried in 1920 to Dorothea Edna Baynes. The family lived at 715 Armstrong Avenue in Buena Vista.
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E - - Writing Media
- Object Term
- Postcard
- Marks/Labels
- "R.T.J." in pencil under envelope flap.
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