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bar pin
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91233
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV021.23.1
- Description
- Lapel pin name badge from Australian Pacific touring company. The pin is gold coloured with a horizontal bar for a name label to be affixed. Below the bar is the shape of Australia outlined in gold, filled in with red. In the centre is a gold coloured kangaroo witht he company name on either side.
- The name portion has been filled in with a red embossed label with the name "HARRY".
- Object History
- Possible that the pin was made for guests of Australian Pacific tours.
- Category
- 03. Personal Artifacts
- Classification
- Clothing - - Clothing Accessories
- Object Term
- Pin, Bar
- Marks/Labels
- "HARRY"
- "AUSTRALIAN PACIFIC"
- "A P"
- Maker
- Evan Evans
- Subjects
- Travel
Images
bar pin
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91234
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV021.23.2
- Description
- Lapel pin name badge from Australian Pacific touring company. The pin is gold coloured with a horizontal bar for a name label to be affixed. Below the bar is the shape of Australia outlined in gold, filled in with red. In the centre is a gold coloured kangaroo witht he company name on either side.
- The name portion has been filled in with a black embossed label with the name "DOREEN".
- Object History
- Possible that the pin was made for guests of Australian Pacific tours.
- Category
- 03. Personal Artifacts
- Classification
- Clothing - - Clothing Accessories
- Object Term
- Pin, Bar
- Marks/Labels
- "HARRY"
- "AUSTRALIAN PACIFIC"
- "A P"
- Maker
- Evan Evans
- Subjects
- Travel
Images
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.