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lapel pin

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.97.3

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.97.3

Description: Pin, round, enamelled brass. Wide blue border around outside with thin gold edges and gold lettering "INTERNATIONAL. BOWLING. TEAM. / VISIT. 1927. TO. CANADA". Inner part of pin is cruciform, with round centre connected to outer edge with four arms, open cut-out areas between. Each arm shows a coloured enamel floral symbol. At top is the rose, at right are shamrocks, at bottom is the lily, at left is the thistle. At the centre of the pin is the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom in red and blue with gold. Locking pin back on reverse, open loop. "R. SCOTT / GLASGOW" in raised letters near bottom edge. Some discolouration on back, very slight wear on front.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Documentary Artifacts - - Memorabilia

Object Term: Commemorative

Marks/Labels: "INTERNATIONAL BOWLING TEAM", embossed gold lettering in half circle along top of pin "VISIT 1927 TO CANADA", embossed gold lettering in half circle along bottom of pin

Measurements: Dia: 2.9 cm

Country Made: Scotland

Site/City Made: Glasgow

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Advertising Medium; Events - Competitions; Organizations - Athletic Associations; Sports - Bowling

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact41405

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV001.1.183

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV001.1.183

Description: Button pin, round, buff ground with wide brownish red border and green print. Around edge from left, "JULY / AUG / SEPT". Logo below 'AUG', illegible, "LI--HA" ?, then "1920". At bottom is brownish red dot at centre of "U.B.M.W.E.R.S.L." in circle. Pin is paper formed over a metal back and held in place by pressure. Clear coating over front. Back is dark metal with remains of pin clasp closure ?, coil of wire one side, lighter-coloured patch of metal around opening other side. Back is hollow. Manufacturer's stamp, mostly illegible, "--- CO" "--H.N.Y." and hallmark ?. Metal of back is tarnished, some scratches and wear on front.

Object History: Union dues button for the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railroad Shop Laborers which was affiliated with the American Federation of Labour. Railroad way workers oversaw the maintenace of railroad tracks. (For more information see http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_186.html)

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: "JULY / AUG / SEPT", green letters printed around top "1920", larger green numbers printed in centre "U.B.M.W.E.R.S.L.", green letters printed around dot and surrounded by a green circle

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Industries; Occupations - Railroad Labourers; Organizations - Unions; Transportation - Rail

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47429

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.41

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.41

Description: Pin; red, white, gold, blue; Lions Club logo, maple leaf, building motifs; "We Serve" "Burquitlam, B.C."

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: We Serve / Burquitlam, B.C.

Subjects: Adornment - Lapel Pins; Adornment; Organizations

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47438

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.50

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.85.50

Description: Pin; blue, white, and gold; "B.C." "Temperance" "League"

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: B.C. / Temperance / League

Subjects: Adornment; Organizations; Adornment - Lapel Pins

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lapel pin with card

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact22065

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.73.2

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV976.73.2

Description: Lapel pin and card. Pin is round, gold-plated sterling silver. Wide white enamel border has gold "WOMENS WAR WORK" in upper part, "C.R.C.S." at bottom, and thin gold inner and outer borders. Centre of pin is pebbled gold ground with red enamelled cross, gold border. Reverse of pin has locking pin back, and raised lettering "STERLING", 'S' in oval beside it. Back is tarnished, gold-coloured. Front has some soiling and wear.

Object History: Donation on behalf of South Burnaby United Church Women. Likely from their thrift shop.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: "WOMENS WAR WORK / C.R.C.S.", in raised letters in white border or pin. "STERLING" with a sideways "S" in an oval, in raised letters on the back of the pin.

Measurements: Dia: 1.8 cm

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Occupations - War Worker; Organizations; Wars; Wars - World War, 1939-1945

Names: Canadian Red Cross

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90999

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.7

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.7

Description: Metal pin on a white folded card; gold pin with a bend straight pin. The logo is "the symbol for the Centennial of Canadian Confederation: eleven equalteral triangles prepresenting the ten provinces and Canadian North, arranged to form a stylized maple leaf" as written in the interior in English and French. Also logo inside with "1867/1967" Card is white with a red square on front and red border on interior.

Object History: Produced as part of Canada's Centennial of Confederation celebrations

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Documentary Artifacts

Object Term: Souvenir

Marks/Labels: "Centennial Commission,/219 Laurier Avenue West/ P.O. Box 1967/ Ottawa, Canada / John Fisher/ Comission / Gilles Bergeron / Associate Commission"

Measurements: 8cm x 8cm card; 1.5cm pin

Subjects: Events - Anniversaries; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Advertising Medium; Organizations; Souvenirs; Celebrations - Centennials

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91008

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.11

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV021.11.11

Description: Lapel pin; plastic British Columbia Centennial '71 logo with three 'C's' in gold with a white dogwood flower in the middle on a straight pin.

Object History: Produced as part of British Columbia Centennial '71. The offical emblem is a stylized grouping of the three "C's" representing Canada, Confederation, Centennial, with the provincial floral emblem, the dogwood, in the centre."

Category: 03. Personal Artifacts

Classification: Clothing - - Clothing Accessories

Object Term: Pin, Clothing

Measurements: 3cm long x 1.5 cm wide

Subjects: Events - Anniversaries; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Advertising Medium; Organizations; Souvenirs; Celebrations - Centennials

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armband

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact35017

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV993.17.79

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV993.17.79

Description: Armband; navy blue, green, red, yellow; six badges, clockwise from top: cross, leaf, Scout logo, squiggly lines, hand, centre: crown

Object History: Sea Scouts

Marks/Labels: "BE PREPARED", stitched, white in banner on badge on bottom

Subjects: Organizations; Organizations - Boys' Societies and Clubs; Personal Symbols

Names: Boy Scouts of Canada

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armband

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact35018

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV993.17.80

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV993.17.80

Description: Armband; navy blue, green, red, yellow; eight badges, clockwise from top: cross, sign, three pronged motif, flower, man, sun, two oars, bent arrow.

Subjects: Organizations; Organizations - Boys' Societies and Clubs; Personal Symbols

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badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact41592

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV001.6.15

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV001.6.15

Description: Hat badge and plume, "Be Prepared"; purple plume for District Commissioner; c. 1960 - 1975; split pin fastening

Subjects: Organizations; Organizations - Boys' Societies and Clubs; Personal Symbols - Badges

Names: Boy Scouts of Canada

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badge

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91810

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV020.31.49

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV020.31.49

Description: Pin or badge for Royal Canadian Air Force - Operations Badge. the badge is gold in colour in the shape of a set of feathered wings with an "O" in the middle.; The back has two threaded posts and a back plate.

Object History: Item belonged to Joseph “Joe” Hardcastle Cumberland Corsbie who served as a Navigator for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) between 1942 and 1945. He went on to be a BC Provincial MLA and later a Burnaby Municipal Council Member along with various other pursuits. See Joseph H.C. Corsbie fonds for full biography.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols - - Status Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Subjects: Personal Symbols; Personal Symbols - Badges; Personal Symbols - Pins

Names: Corsbie, Joseph Hardcastle-Cumberland "Joe"; Royal Canadian Air Force

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button pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact25560

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV975.61.194

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV975.61.194

Description: Lapel pin, button type, round. White ground with blue border and blue "SUBSCRIBER" at top, "1918 / VICTORY LOAN" at bottom. Red-bordered flag is at centre of image, flying from pole, rope visible. Five blue diagonal stripes are at upper left of flag, blue-bordered shield is at lower right, divided into three columns by thin blue lines. Shield also has horizontal red and yellow marks. Flag is shaded and edges curved to suggest movement. "TRADE MARK REG." in white in blue border at bottom. Pin front is formed over a metal back and held by pressure. Spring clasp back doesn't lock closed as pin extends .6 cm beyond edge of button and there is no clasp. Reverse of pin is silver-coloured metal with stamping, "B CO / UNION / -H N Y" ?, symbols ? in circle. Metal of back is tarnished, white on front is yellowing. Image is poorly stamped, making border wider at right and colours in shield are blurred and extend outside its border.

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Advertising Media

Object Term: Button, Promotional

Marks/Labels: "SUBSCRIBER / 1918 / VICTORY LOAN", in blue paint "TRADE MARK REG", in smaller white paint on bottom edge

Measurements: Dia: 2.1 cm

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins; Advertising Medium; Wars; Wars - World War, 1914-1918; Occupations - War Worker

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button pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact32894

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV972.142.22

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: HV972.142.22

Description: Badge, button, small. White background with dark brown maple leaf and photograph portraits of George V and Mary. Small piece of blue, white, and red ribbon attached to the back of the button's pin.

Marks/Labels: In brown; "WELCOME" "DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK" under photograph portraits of George V and Mary.

Subjects: Persons - Royalty; Souvenirs; Souvenirs - Royalty; Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact11367

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.3298.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.3298.1

Description: Pin; green, cream, blue, yellow; cream pin in tringular banner shape has blue writing embossed reading "VANCOUVER". It is attached to a green velvet bow; Five embroidered cream flowers with yellow centres (like daisies) hang from the bow, each attached to bow with greeen cord.

Marks/Labels: "VANCOUVER", embossed in blue in banner at top

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Geographic Access: Vancouver

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact11405

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.3319.1

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV985.3319.1

Description: Pin; brass, yellow; brass frame of pin in oval shaped and has decorative, twisting motif at top centre and bottom centre; inside frame is drawing of mountains, water clouds and shining sun; lettering reading "VANCOUVER" is reflected in water

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Documentary Artifacts

Object Term: Souvenir

Marks/Labels: "VANCOUVER", half white and half black lettering printed along pin "THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO / NEWARK, N.J.", engraved on rear

Measurements: L: 5.1 cm x W: 2.9 cm

Maker: Whitehead & Hoag Company

Country Made: United States of America

Province Made: New Jersey

Site/City Made: Newark

Subjects: Adornment; Adornment - Lapel Pins

Geographic Access: Vancouver

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47178

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.43.22

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.43.22

Description: Pin, blue and gold; "Canada"; "CD" monogram [Civil Defense]

Category: 08. Communication Artifacts

Classification: Personal Symbols

Object Term: Insignia

Marks/Labels: Canada / CD

Subjects: Adornment - Lapel Pins; Adornment; Emergency Measures - Civil Defence; Advertising Medium

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lapel pin

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact47231

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.50.37

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code: BV004.50.37

Description: Pin; green, gold, black, yellow; "Burnaby 1984"; flying bee holding a torch, "B.C. Summer Games"

Object History: The B.C. Games were established in 1977, and the first summer games were held in 1978. In 1984 the B.C. Summer Games was held in Burnaby. Premier W.R. Bennett's vision for this organization was "an opportunity to bring all parts of BC together, large and small communities, in the spirit of sport and friendship". Commemorative pin for the 1984 B.C. Summer Games held in Burnaby.