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Description: Burnaby Municipal Police shoulder bar for jacket. Cast in one piece in metal. Letters are connected by integral bars. Secured by mounting posts and cotter pin.

Object History: Jacket shoulder bars issued to Constable George Jeffery. George Jeffery served as a Constable on the Burnaby Police Force from 1912 - 1935. His patrolled the large Central Park District by foot, stretching from Boundary to Royal Oak and Marine Drive to Moscrop. Over the coarse of his duties, Constable Jeffery saw the need for recreational activities in the area. He founded the Burnaby Athletic Association which featured a competitive boxing ring and gym. In 1935, when the Burnaby Police became the British Columbia Provincial Police, rather than leave the community he chose to leave the force. George Jeffery than worked at the nearby Oakalla Prison Farm until retiring in 1945.

Marks/Labels: "B M P", letters on cross bars

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing; Adornment

Names: Jeffery, George; Burnaby Municipal Police; Oakalla Prison Farm

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handcuffs

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact209

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.5.47

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.5.47

Description: Burnaby Municipal Police issue handcuffs. The cuffs are secured by three links of chain. There is no key.

Object History: These handcuffs were used by Constable George Jeffery. George Jeffery served as a Constable on the Burnaby Police Force from 1912 - 1935. His patrolled the large Central Park District by foot, stretching from Boundary to Royal Oak and Marine Drive to Moscrop. Over the coarse of his duties, Constable Jeffery saw the need for recreational activities in the area. He founded the Burnaby Athletic Association which featured a competitive boxing ring and gym. In 1935, when the Burnaby Police became the British Columbia Provincial Police, rather than leave the community he chose to leave the force. George Jeffery than worked at the nearby Oakalla Prison Farm until retiring in 1945.

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing; Regulative and Protective Tools and Equipment

Names: Jeffery, George; Burnaby Municipal Police; Oakalla Prison Farm

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name plate

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact210

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.5.48

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV971.5.48

Description: Name plate "GEO. JEFFERY" made for Burnaby Municipal Police officer George Jeffery by schoolchildren. Rectangular copper plate with letters and border raised by hammering on the reverse side. Background is darkened by acid treatment.

Object History: Made for Burnaby Municipal Police officer George Jeffery by schoolchildren. George Jeffery served as a Constable on the Burnaby Police Force from 1912 - 1935. His patrolled the large Central Park District by foot, stretching from Boundary to Royal Oak and Marine Drive to Moscrop. Over the coarse of his duties, Constable Jeffery saw the need for recreational activities in the area. He founded the Burnaby Athletic Association which featured a competitive boxing ring and gym. In 1935, when the Burnaby Police became the British Columbia Provincial Police, rather than leave the community he chose to leave the force. George Jeffery then worked at the nearby Oakalla Prison Farm until retiring in 1945.

Marks/Labels: "GEO. JEFFERY", letters raised by hammering.

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing

Names: Jeffery, George; Burnaby Municipal Police; Oakalla Prison Farm

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bodice and skirt

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3347

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV989.38.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV989.38.1

Description: Bodice and skirt, c.1864-1870. Brown silk taffeta with white checked pattern. Small standing collar, sloping shoulders, long sleeves with ruffle, black buttons down centre front, polonaise attachment at the back. Skirt has elastic waistband, and equal volume all around. Ruffle trim around hem. Hand sewn.

Object History: The dress is reported to have been worn by the donor's aunt, Sarah Ellen Thompson, who was born in 1872 which would suggest this is an 1880s bustle dress. However, the short straight waist, sloping shoulders, wide sleeves, piped seams and light boning placed in the darts suggest an earlier date of 1860s or early 1870s. The polonaise is tacked on to the back, instead of a continuation of the bodice, and the skirt does not look like the late bustle period. Likely made in early bustle period of the late 1860s-early 1870s. Elsewhere in the file, it is reported the donor got the dress from a friend, not from her aunt.

Subjects: Clothing; Clothing - Costumes

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wedding dress

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3348

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV989.39.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV989.39.1

Description: Wedding dress, 1917. Cream silk, jacket and skirt. Sailor collar, long sleeves, loose cut with fitting, beaded brooch, pleats and button trim on both pieces. The V neck has a large square sailor style collar, with two self covered ball buttons on either side just below the collar ends. At the V point there is a beaded floral brooch with tassels. The sleeves are loose fitting, trimmed with eight buttons at the forearm and gathered to half a cuff. The centre front of the bodice has a bust dart on either side, and cuts off at the waist. Here a belt attaches around the sides, trimmed with four buttons at either side front and back. The bodice's ivory silk lining is not pleated, and it is not attached at the bottom. It closes at centre front with two slide snaps. On the back of the jacket, there is a large pleat on either side. Centre back is fully pleated, and the pleats are sewn down from the neckline to underarm level. At the waistline, there is a narrower band of fabric that joins the side belts together and holds the pleats in place. The back of the jacket extends to the hips, and the sides extend several inches further and each end in a point. The skirt, made with six gores, falls smoothly over the hips. It has a pleated ruffle at the top and a waistband reinforced with a large grosgrain ribbon on the inside. The centre back and centre front are pleated from the waist to hem, the pleats sewn down to the end of the hips. Each side is trimmed with buttons spaced evenly from the waist to hem. The skirt closes at the right side back with slide snaps and hooks and eyes on the grosgrain.

Object History: Photocopy of the original wedding photo is in the acquisition file. Worn by the donor's mother, Mary Edith Pearl Collum (nee Dillabough). She married Eli Wilbert Collum on June 20, 1917, in Winnipeg (she was 25 years old). They moved to Vancouver in 1936, then to Burnaby in 1938. Edith gave the dress to her son first for safe keeping, and then as an inheritance. She passed away February 1, 1989 at age 97 (born 1892).

Subjects: Clothing; Clothing - Costumes

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hat badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3554

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.1

Description: Burnaby Police shield; silver colour; geometic shapes in centre of shield surrounded by engraved lettering.

Marks/Labels: "BURNABY / SPECIAL / POLICE", stamped into front of badge

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing; Personal Symbols; Personal Symbols - Badges

Names: Burnaby Municipal Police

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hat badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3555

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.2

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.2

Description: Burnaby Police shield; silver colour; fastener missing.

Marks/Labels: "Burnaby Police, Special", stamped into the front of the badge

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing; Personal Symbols; Personal Symbols - Badges

Names: Burnaby Municipal Police

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hat badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3556

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.3

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.3

Description: Burnany Police shield; silver colour; small geometic shape in centre of shield surrounded by engraved lettering

Marks/Labels: "BURNABY / SPECIAL / POLICE", engraved "55", stamped on front of badge

Subjects: Public Services; Public Services - Policing; Personal Symbols; Personal Symbols - Badges

Names: Burnaby Municipal Police

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hat badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact3558

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.5

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV988.11.5

Description: Burnaby Municipal Police hat badge; silver colour; crown at top, seven pointed sun burst motif; in centre coat of arms with lettering