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repaid by the repuration gained among knowing people for the general neat appearance ofits property. As in most Pacific lumber plants, the North Pacific burns all wood refuse in its fur- naces practically allowing no fuel expense. Most ofthis fuel is sawdust from the mill which is conveyed directly

at a salary of $50.00 per month and remained for ten years until 1904. She was a very stern person whose punishment for misbehaving students included going out to the back and chopping wood for the schoolroom stove. She came to school in a two wheeled buggy pulled by a pony which probably impressed the pupils

in the finishes and materials, including imported English materials such as Medmenham tiles in the fireplace surrounds, one of the earliest documented use of these tiles outside the United Kingdom. Detailed features of the interior woodwork were carved by Scottish-born master wood carver George Selkirk Gibson

built between 1853-56. After church they set about searching for lodgings and found a room which they could share for $5.00 a month or $4.00 a month each if bedding was supplied. On December 29 they “called on Begbie [Matthew Begbie] and we stuck on our revolvers and started forth into the back wood

more comfortable for her. Then as the wood arrived in nice twenty foot lengths of beams and boards, he decided that he should put a roof on because sometimes it rained in the summer. This was going so well that he decided to put on walls, and so it ended up being a completely closed-in building, I think his mother

closely with Burnaby’s Chinese Canadian farmers. BV017.24.2, COURTESY OF CECIL LEE. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WORK IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY? Chinese lumber workers harvested and processed wood in a variety of workplaces in Burnaby. Chinese labour contractor Lee Deen recruited Chinese woodcutters to supply

. In 2001, the tram was moved from the Village to a large City-owned warehouse at 2857 Royal Oak in Burnaby. A call for volunteers drew responses from over 60 people offering their various skills. Not even 1223’s rotting wood and rusting metal deterred those who could visualize bringing the sad old tram back

Canadian farmers in Burnaby and the Fraser Valley. BV019.6.1. COURTESY OF CECIL LEE. 由梁己酉经营的均 安菜园使用木板和 玻璃建造的御寒温 室。 这些迷你温室 用来帮助植物过冬， 并提早中式蔬菜的 种植季节， 1970年 代。 梁氏家族提供。 Cold frames constructed using wood planks and glass at Quin On Farm, operated by Leong See Quin. These mini green- houses were used