box of packages
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact24159
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.654
- Description
- Cardboard box, red and beige in geometric pattern; partially filled with 23 small paper-wrapped packages; label is black with red Chinese characters and a star design; plus one empty wrapper.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: "send out/emit", "cold", "pill", and "made by Hengan alternative shop". When adjusted for English comprehension, product is a pill that is mix of Western medicine (quinine sulfate), Chinese herbs, and licorice powder. It is used to treat malaria. The product is made by "Liang Pei Ji", who graduated from "Guangzhou Boji medical school in China".
- Measurements
- 12 cm height x 29 cm width x 1 cm depth
- Country Made
- China
Images
brass wire bundle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact89785
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV018.37.22
- Description
- brass wire bundle; paper wrapped bundle of nine lengths of brass wire; all lengths are approx. 0.2 cm in diameter; tubular, brown paper wrapper; ink stamped pattern and text in blue reading: "BRASS WIRE 12 to 14".
- Measurements
- L: 15.2 cm
Images
Correspondence re Spanish Lemons, Moroccan Valencia Oranges
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription14809
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- 1979
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 3 p.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of letter from Branson Produce to Curt Pettinger further to a telephone conversation regarding Spanish Lemons, Moroccan Valencia Oranges and includes two colourful printed fruit wrappers.
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- Physical Description
- 3 p.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of letter from Branson Produce to Curt Pettinger further to a telephone conversation regarding Spanish Lemons, Moroccan Valencia Oranges and includes two colourful printed fruit wrappers.
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.39
- Access Restriction
- Restricted access
- Reproduction Restriction
- Reproductions subject to FIPPA
- Date
- 1979
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- January 25, 2021
- Scale
- 100
- Notes
- Title based on content of file
- Item is part of a scrapbook album created by Cecil Lee
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Inkwells to Internet: A History of Burnaby Schools
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary7551
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-0-9781979-2-6
- Call Number
- 371 CAR
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- vii, 35 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby (B.C.)--History
- Schools--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Subjects
- Education
- Notes
- "Includes index"
- A history of the Burnaby school district and individual school buildings in Burnaby, BC, between 1893 and 2013.
- The “First Nations cemetery” described on page 109 in Mary Johnson’s recollections was originally written as “Indian” and may refer to the Khalsa Diwan Society’s Sikh cremations at the Vancouver Cemetery.
Images
Digital Books
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…
- 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.
- 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
medicinal bottle
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact2304
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.147.11
- Description
- Glass bottle, wrapped in red paper, slightly torn at the top. Label on front. Bottle is concealed by wrapper. Bottle has rectangular shape with flat back and slightly rounded front.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- "Reid's / COMPOUND SYRUP / OF / HYPOPHOSPHITES / Each drachm or teaspoonful contains 1-150 gr. of Strychinine. / A Valuable Tonic and Reliable Remdy / in the treatment of / Coughs, Colds, Bronchial affections / and Debilitated Conditions / of the System. / Contains the Tonic and Nurtitive Properties / of the Hypophosphites of Lime, Soda, Potash, / Manganese, Strychnine, Iron and Quinine. It is / pleasing to the taste and easily digested. Com- / pound Syrup of Hypophosphites has long been / prescribed and recommened by the medical pro- / fession" Direction on us below, also Makers name. Label printed on red wrapping with black letters.
- Measurements
- 23 cm height x 5 cm width x 8 cm length
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Vancouver
Images
medicinal box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact29758
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.68.24
- Description
- shallow rectangular box with commercially printed paper labelling in red and blue ink. "Johnson's / Red Chain / Kidney Plaster". Box contains four kidney plasters, three paper wrappers and a warning slip.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Commercially printed paper labelling in red and blue ink. "ONE DOZEN PLASTERS / Johnson's / Red Chain / Kidney Plaster / Johnson & Johnson Limited / MONTREAL CANADA".
- Measurements
- Approx. H: 20.0 cm x L: 35.0 cm
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Quebec
- Site/City Made
- Montreal
Images
medicinal tube with box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact29744
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.68.6
- Description
- Sealed cardboard box containing medicinal tube. Box is sealed in white paper wrapper with printed label on top.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Label is marked "BAUME BENGUÉ (ANALÉSIQUE)/THE ORIGINAL FRENCH PRODUCT/MENTHOL*Salicylate of Methyl*Ianolin/FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN IN/Rheumatism Gout Neuralgia." Product info. included. Dark brown text on white label.
- Measurements
- 2.5 cm height x 11.5 cm width x 4.5 cm length
- Maker
- Leeming Miles Company
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Quebec
- Site/City Made
- Montreal
needle package
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact79101
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- X2891
- Description
- Folded paper package containing 10 sewing needles. "Abel Morrall's / Thyra Needle Wrapper / Sharps 5/9 / Over a Century's Reputation / Made in England / " is printed on the outside. Package is made of light blue card with dark navy blue writing
- Country Made
- England
Images
New Margene recipes
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3785
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV002.65.6
- Call Number
- 641.6 CAN
- Place of Publication
- [Toronto]
- Publisher
- [Canada Packers Ltd.]
- Publication Date
- 1949
- Physical Description
- 40 p. : ill. ; 13 x 22cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cooking, Canadian
- Margarine
- Cookbooks--1940-1949
- Notes
- Endpaper is Margene gold colour foil wrapper
New Margene recipes
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5015
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- X2910
- Call Number
- 641.6 CAN
- Place of Publication
- [Toronto]
- Publisher
- [Canada Packers Ltd.]
- Publication Date
- 1949
- Physical Description
- 40 p. : ill. ; 13 x 22cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Cooking, Canadian
- Margarine
- Cookbooks--1940-1949
- Notes
- Endpaper is Margene gold colour foil wrapper
![Newspaper, [196_] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Artifacts/1975/197500050976_001.jpg?width=280)
Newspaper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription7361
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [196_]
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record : rolled newspaper
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of one rolled newspaper with brown wrapper around the middle. Chinese characters are written on the side of the wrapper with a white paper label reading: "Mr. Nai Kong Lum, 1620 Government St., Victoria, B.C." This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Ke…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co. fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- Textual record : rolled newspaper
- Scope and Content
- Item consists of one rolled newspaper with brown wrapper around the middle. Chinese characters are written on the side of the wrapper with a white paper label reading: "Mr. Nai Kong Lum, 1620 Government St., Victoria, B.C." This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria, B.C.
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.976
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Date
- [196_]
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Notes
- Transcribed title
Images
![Newspaper, [196_] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_BVM_Artifacts/1975/197500050976_001.jpg)
Pioneer tales of Burnaby
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5860
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 096928280x
- Call Number
- 971.133 SON COPY 4
- Contributor
- Sone, Michael
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- Corporation of the District of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c1987
- Physical Description
- 495 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Inscription
- "TR687 - Bryburgh" / handprinted in pencil on frontend page
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Pioneers--British Columbia--Burnaby
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Biography
- Object History
- Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
- Notes
- "Editor Michael Sone".
- Includes index.
- 4 copies held: copy 4
Images
Digital Books
wrapper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90877
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.15
- Description
- wrapper ; white tissue paper with print in turquoise blue ink; text in blue ink at top in Chinese characters; text in blue ink beneath reads: "THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA"; illustration in blue ink beneath of three snow covered mountains inside circle; text in blue ink beneath with Chinese characters; text in blue ink beneath reads: "SNOW MOUNTAIN MANDARIN ORANGE"; label in two pieces - top left triangular segment of wrapper is torn away
- Object History
- Item was part of a scrapbook created by Cecil Chue Kan Lee documenting the time he was employed as a Prodcue Buyer for Kelly Douglas and Company Limited and Western Commodities Limited in the 1970s and early 1980s. As a produce buyer for Kelly Douglas, Cecil Lee worked closely with local farmers along Marine Drive and in the Fraser Valley. The Burnaby company was one of the largest food distributors in Canada. In the mid-1970s, Lee was asked to oversee the import of Chinese mandarin oranges into Canada. Until that time, mandarin oranges had come from Japan and were sold in the winter, especially at Christmas. When the Japanese market could no longer keep up with demand, Kelly Douglas looked to China. The company relied on Lee’s cultural knowledge to build this very profitable part of their business.
- Reference
- For other records in this collection see: Business records series of Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Classification
- Container
- Object Term
- Wrapper
- Colour
- White
- Blue
- Measurements
- 14 cm height x 16 cm width
- Country Made
- China
- Title
- Snow Mountain Mandarin Orange
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
Images
wrapper
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90880
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.16
- Description
- wrapper ; white tissue paper with print in cobalt blue ink; image of three snow covered mountains inside blue circle with two rectangular extensions on either side containing writing in Chinese characters; smaller Chinese characters below in blue ink; handwritten annotation in black ink on bottom right reads: "1973 SEASON"
- Object History
- Item was part of a scrapbook created by Cecil Chue Kan Lee documenting the time he was employed as a Prodcue Buyer for Kelly Douglas and Company Limited and Western Commodities Limited in the 1970s and early 1980s. As a produce buyer for Kelly Douglas, Cecil Lee worked closely with local farmers along Marine Drive and in the Fraser Valley. The Burnaby company was one of the largest food distributors in Canada. In the mid-1970s, Lee was asked to oversee the import of Chinese mandarin oranges into Canada. Until that time, mandarin oranges had come from Japan and were sold in the winter, especially at Christmas. When the Japanese market could no longer keep up with demand, Kelly Douglas looked to China. The company relied on Lee’s cultural knowledge to build this very profitable part of their business.
- Reference
- For other records in this collection see: Business records series of Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Classification
- Container
- Object Term
- Wrapper
- Colour
- White
- Blue
- Measurements
- 12.5 cm height x 17.2 cm width
- Country Made
- China
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
Images
