label
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact90876
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.14
- Description
- label;paper label taken from orange crate; on white paper with photograph of mandarin orange in white sunburst in bottom right corner; text at top in black ink at top reads: "The Original Japanese"; text beneath in red ink reads:"Mandarin / Oranges"; smaller text beneath reads: "NOT LESS THAN 30 ORANGES / GROWN IN JAPAN"; blacked out tex beneath reads: "43-52 ORANGES"; text in red ink "PACKED BY"; text in black ink reads: "JAPAN FRUIT GROWERS / COOP ASS'N"; circular stamp in bottom left reads: "JAPANESE GOVERMENT FANCY S-2"; text at bottom in black ink reads: "SHED S16/ JAPANESE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS / EXPORTERS ASSOCIATION"
- 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
- Merchandising T&E
- Object Term
- Label, Product
- Colour
- Orange
- Black
- Measurements
- 13 cm height x 19 cm width
- Country Made
- Japan
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts - Labels