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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.

Administrative History: Herbert (Yee) Law was born in New Westminster British Columbia in 1916. Between 1938 and 1945, Yee Law worked for the United Fraser Growers Limited in Vancouver. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers. In 1948 Yee Law purchased land from another Chinese family alon…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Physical Description: 4 photographs (tiffs + jpgs)

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.

Administrative History: Herbert (Yee) Law was born in New Westminster British Columbia in 1916. Between 1938 and 1945, Yee Law worked for the United Fraser Growers Limited in Vancouver. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers. In 1948 Yee Law purchased land from another Chinese family along Marine Drive in the Big Bend Area of Burnaby. From this location, Yee Law operated a Chinese market garden. Yee Law and his wife Jean had five daughters who attended schools in the area including Riverway West School, McPherson Park School and Burnaby South High School. In 1954, Yee Law continued to live in the area but left his farm to work for a plastic bag company on Annacis Island. Herbert (Yee) Law died in 2003.

Accession Code: BV017.40; BV019.11

Date: [1938-1959] (date of originals), 2017-2019 (date of duplication)

Media Type: Photograph; Cartographic Material

Notes: Title based on contents of fonds

Planning Map of Chinese Market Gardens on Marine Drive

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumcartographicmaterial4297

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1950 and 1959] (date of original), 2017 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 300 dpi

Scope and Content: Scanned copy of a survey plan of district lots 163, 162, 157, 158, and 165, near the Chinese Market Gardens along Marine Drive.

Administrative History: Survey plan of district lots 163, 162, 157, 158, and 165, which is primarily the area farmed by Chinese and Chinese-Canadian market gardeners around Marine Drive between Royal Oak and Mandeville (present-day Nelson). Two Chinese/Chinese Canadian land owners can be seen on the map: N.G. Wah Sing (or…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Date: [between 1950 and 1959] (date of original), 2017 (date of duplication)

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : col. ; 300 dpi

Accession Code: BV017.40.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Scope and Content: Scanned copy of a survey plan of district lots 163, 162, 157, 158, and 165, near the Chinese Market Gardens along Marine Drive.

Administrative History: Survey plan of district lots 163, 162, 157, 158, and 165, which is primarily the area farmed by Chinese and Chinese-Canadian market gardeners around Marine Drive between Royal Oak and Mandeville (present-day Nelson). Two Chinese/Chinese Canadian land owners can be seen on the map: N.G. Wah Sing (or Ng Wah Sing) and Yee Law (or Herbert Law).

Subjects: Agriculture - Crops; Agriculture - Farms; Persons - Chinese Canadians

Names: Law, Yee "Herbert"; Chinese Market Gardens

Geographic Access: Burnaby - Marine Drive

Media Type: Cartographic Material

Historic Neighbourhood: Fraser Arm (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Big Bend Area

Scan Resolution: 300

Scan Date: 11/19/2017

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of copy scan of map; Herbert Yee Law was donor's father and this map may have originally been his copy of the city planning/engineering documents.

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Planning Map of Chinese Market Gardens on Marine Drive, [between 1950 and 1959] (date of original), 2017 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumphoto10550

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

Administrative History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Accession Code: BV019.11.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing near their trucks out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location.

Administrative History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Names: United Fraser Growers Limited

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Images

Workers and their trucks outside of United Fraser Growers, [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication) thumbnail

Workers outside of United Fraser Growers

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumphoto10549

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

Administrative History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Herbert Yee Law family fonds

Date: [between 1938 and 1945] (date of original), 2019 (date of duplication)

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff)

Accession Code: BV019.11.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Scope and Content: Photograph of workers standing out front of the United Fraser Growers Ltd store, at its Keefer Street location. Herbert Law (Yee Law) is standing fourth from left. Law later purchased farmland in Burnaby.

Administrative History: The United Fraser Growers Co-operative operated from 1934 until 1957. The head office was at 256 East Georgia in the 1930s and 341 Keefer Street in the 1940s and 1950s. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers.

Subjects: Persons - Chinese Canadians

Names: Law, Yee "Herbert"; United Fraser Growers Limited

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 08-Feb-2019

Scale: 96

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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