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Medicine boat grinder
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9543
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 cm x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of wooden medicine boat grinder inside room of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The medicine boat grinder appears to have a circular, flat, wooden wheel or disc, with two spokes attached to each side. It is placed in a wooden boat like structure, where it …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 cm x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of wooden medicine boat grinder inside room of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. The medicine boat grinder appears to have a circular, flat, wooden wheel or disc, with two spokes attached to each side. It is placed in a wooden boat like structure, where it can be used to roll and grind. It is situated on a wooden board floor among stacked wooden boxes and tin can, a wooden stool chair and some woven, natural material. Some of the boxes and tin can around the grinder have labels on them with Chinese characters.
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.353
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 3-Jul-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Knight family subseries
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription64497
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- 1938-1982
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Knight family subseries
- Physical Description
- Textual records and photgraphs
- Description Level
- Subseries
- Accession Number
- BHS1992-53
- Scope and Content
- Subseries consists of newspaper clippings, manuals on health and training of talking birds, correspondence and photographs pertaining to "Bird Doctor" Virginia Knight and her husband Milton, the owners of Lakeview Aviaries in Burnaby.
- History
- Milton "Milt" Waller Knight was born in Canada circa 1904. His wife Virginia Harrington was born in Duluth, Minnesota circa 1905 and lived most of her life in Canada. Virginia was the first person in British Columbia to breed budgies when she began in 1932 and by 1939 she and her husband created the first crested budgie in the world. By 1942, Virginia was also housing two-hundred and fifty birds at the home of her mother, Mrs. N.M. Herington, which was located at 1775 West 13th Avenue in Burnaby. Milton and Virginia Knight moved into their own home during the war years but, as they could not get their large aviary moved, they were forced to sell their crested birds. When they started up in their birds again, they obtained some of their crested back. By 1948 they had created two types of crested: those with a miniature cockatiel crest and those with a crest like a crested canary. By 1950 they had created the crested in over twelve colours of budgie, including cobalt and yellow-wing greens. The Knights lived together at 3718 Sperling Avenue (later renumbered 5255 Sperling Avenue) and opened Lakeview Aviaries on their one acre property at Deer Lake where Virginia specialized in budgies (Budgerigars) and bred the first albino in Canada and the first crested variety in the world. She kept Java rice birds, button quail, red factor canaries, cockatiels, finches, love birds and twelve varieties of budgerigar. She was a member of the British Columbia Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society. The facilities at Lakeview Aviaries included two heated aviary cages and three outdoor flight cages constructed by Milton. Lakeview housed the only "hospital" facilities in the city for cage birds, which featured an electrically heated, thermostatically controlled hospital cage. Virginia, known in the community as “the Bird Doctor” nursed many sick birds back to health free of charge for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or SPCA. The Knights often donated their trained birds to sick and injured children, for Virginia believed, “Budgies do wonders for the kiddies. They make them forget their troubles and of course a happy mental outlook is a definite aid to better physical health.” The couple’s personal pets included eight different types of parrot, three talking budgies, a dancing bare-eyes cockatoo, three talking cockatiel, and “Hoppy” her pet owl. By 1952, they had a toucan and a macaw as pets. In later years, they added two small dogs. By 1965, Milton had over 25 years of service as a truck driver at the Vancouver Service Department. He was also an avid collector of antique watches and clocks. He reconditioned the timepieces, systematically restoring them to their original condition. He was a member of the National Association of Clock and Watch Collectors. Milt also treasured old music boxes and restored their large metal discs and rolls to “as new” condition. Milton Knight died March 7, 1966 at 62 years of age. Virginia Knight lived alone at 5755 Sperling Avenue after her husband’s death and continued her work at the Lakeview Aviary where she “doctored 700-800 [birds] a year free of charge (except medicine) and gave SPCA donations up to $1000 a year.” Virginia Knight passed away November 10, 1987 at 82 years of age.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Photograph
- Creator
- Knight, Milton
- Knight, Virginia
- Notes
- MSS117, PC510
- Title based on contents and creator of subseries
Rosemary Brown admonishes heckler
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription45151
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 4, 1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 19 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Rosemary Brown admonishing a heckler during one of her speeches. Ms. Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1930, and moved to Canada in 1950 to study at McGill University in Montreal. She served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the British Columbia legislature from 19…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- May 4, 1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 19 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-047
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Rosemary Brown admonishing a heckler during one of her speeches. Ms. Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1930, and moved to Canada in 1950 to study at McGill University in Montreal. She served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the British Columbia legislature from 1972 to 1986, (her seat was the Vancouver-Burrard riding and later the Burnaby-Edmonds riding) making her the first Black Canadian woman to be elected to a Canadian provincial legislature. She was a leadership candidate for the New Democratic Party in 1975 and came in second with 41% of the vote.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Hodge, Craig
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "Rosemary Brown... gives heckler a dose of his own medicine."
Images
The Table Top chopper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9535
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 cm x 9 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a table top chopper or medicine trimmer on a table with a small front drawer inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large cleaver is screwed at the top to hold it down on the table. It has a wooden handle with a side guide or stopper on the left side. …
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.5 cm x 9 cm
- Material Details
- On the lower front border of the photograph, the word "DRUG […]" and the number "26" is written with a faded, fine, purple felt marker. The back side of the photograph have a lightly, stamped set of numbers "03[…]]1" and "10.5.7[…]".
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a table top chopper or medicine trimmer on a table with a small front drawer inside Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co., 1620 Government Street, Victoria. Large cleaver is screwed at the top to hold it down on the table. It has a wooden handle with a side guide or stopper on the left side. Above the item is a handwritten sign all in caps taped to the wall, "PLEASE LEAVE HANDLE DOWN THANK YOU."
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.345
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 3-Jul-2018
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- This photograph is an itemized copy of the items in photograph BV017.7.341.
Images
Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. Store front.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription9381
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the store front of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co in Victoria, B.C. There is a red entrance door with two display windows on either side. The left window is smaller than the right side. There are materia medica and patent medicines in the window displays.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : col. ; 9 x 12.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the store front of Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co in Victoria, B.C. There is a red entrance door with two display windows on either side. The left window is smaller than the right side. There are materia medica and patent medicines in the window displays.
- Geographic Access
- Victoria
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.191
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- 1975
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 29-Jul-2018
- Scale
- 96
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
Images
