pruner
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.12.3
- Description
- Tree pruner or pruning tool with a hook and restractable blade. There is a metal spring action lever one quarter of the way up the shaft attached to a metal rod that runs the remaining length of the shaft up to the blade. The rod is anchored to the shaft in two places. Pulling the lever engages the blade and exposes
- The lever is wrapped in black electrical tape. The metal parts of the pruner are rusted.
- Object History
- These tools belonged to donor's father who had a market garden at his home on 4930 Marine Drive from 1971-79. Her father's name was Yee Law (or Herbert Law). After Yee stopped farming for a living in 1980, he gave these tools to the his daughter Gail and her family (the Yips). They presume that he no longer needed them. He maintained a 1 acre garden on his property until he couldn't anymore.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Maintenance T&E - - Groundskeeping Equipment
- Object Term
- Pruner, Tree
- Measurements
- Length: 194 cm
- Subjects
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment - Gardening Equipment
- Names
- Law, Yee "Herbert"
- Geographic Access
- Marine Drive
- Street Address
- 4930 Marine Drive
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seeding tray
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.8
- Description
- Shallow wooden tray. The tray has three slats along the bottom with a small gap between each slat.
- The side of the tray are very worn and weathered with a white haze.
- Included with the tray are 6 thin strips of wood, almost like wood veneer, that are scored at intervals in order to form a wood plant pot. The plant pots would fit inside the tray.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Used before plastic trays were used more regularly in the 1970s. In the 1970s, the business shifted to selling wholesale bedding plants so the plastic trays were more practical to give away. The wooden trays and pots were taken out to fields for transplanting and cleaned and reused regularly. The donors recall repairing these wooden trays over the winter months. The used the broken pots as bottoms for repaired pots.
- See BV017.36.9 on Heritage Burnaby for photograph of these in use on Hop On Farm.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E
- Measurements
- Length: 51.5 cm
- Width: 34.5 cm
- Depth: 7.5 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment - Gardening Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
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raffia bundle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.9
- Description
- Bundle of raffia strands twisted into a bundle. The bundle is held together at the top by a strip of raffia and is knotted around itself at the bottom.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Raffia bundle, used for tying vegetables in the fields. *We have a photo of raffia ties in use at Hop On Farm: BV017.36.7
- Measurements
- Length: 138 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
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seed drying tray
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.14.12
- Description
- Large wooden hoop frame with thin slats of wood woven across it. This creates a shallow tray on one side of the hoop. The hoop is held together by ties around the hoop itself. Some of the ties have broken causing the hoop to come apart.
- The hoop and weave are very brittle.
- Object History
- These items belonged to the Hong family - who founded Hop On Farms in Burnaby. Heritage Burnaby has a number of photos and an oral history about the family.
- Seed drying tray, used when the family saved their own seed. They saved their seed to have a reliable supply of vegetable seeds difficult to find through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s: choi sum, gai lan, bok choi. The seed heads were clipped and placed on the tray, and stored in the greenhouses to dry down. A finer sieve would have been used to separate the seeds from the chaff.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E
- Measurements
- Diameter: 86 cm
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Gardens
- Gardens - Market Gardens
- Names
- Hop on Farms
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shovel
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV023.12.1
- Description
- Rounded digging style shovel. the shovel has a long wooden shaft or handle with a metal rounded mouth blade.
- Imprinted in the collar of the blade is "HEAT / TREATED / 2"
- The blade of the shovel is rusted.
- Object History
- These tools belonged to donor's father who had a market garden at his home on 4930 Marine Drive from 1971-79. Her father's name was Yee Law (or Herbert Law). After Yee stopped farming for a living in 1980, he gave these tools to the his daughter Gail and her family (the Yips). They presume that he no longer needed them. He maintained a 1 acre garden on his property until he couldn't anymore.
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Agricultural T&E
- Object Term
- Shovel
- Measurements
- Length: 146.5 cm
- Subjects
- Agricultural Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Law, Yee "Herbert"
- Geographic Access
- Marine Drive
- Street Address
- 4930 Marine Drive
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sign
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.33.1
- Description
- Weathered wood sign in two parts; informs readers of the penalty for attaching any raft, vessel, boat, etc., to wooden bridges in the province of British Columbia in 1902.
- Category
- 06.Tools & Equipment for Communication
- Classification
- Written Communication T&E
- Object Term
- Sign
- Marks/Labels
- "The attention of Steamers and of any person in charge of any vessel, barge, boat, raft, or any floating body is directed to Clause 12 "Chapter 25" Bridges Act of the Revised Statutes of British Columbia.
Any person that shall moor, make or last or in any other way "Attach" any raft, vessel, boat, barge or any other floating body to any wooden or other bridge... shall be.. not exceeding fifty dollars.
Department of Land and Works, Victoria, BC 23rd June 1902.
- Subjects
- Recreational Activities - Boating
- Regulative and Protective Tools and Equipment
- Transportation - Boats
- Written Communication Tools and Equipment
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Box
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV019.6.1
- Description
- box; to ship and sell mandarin oranges; rectangular, corrugated cardboard box; single piece of cardboard, folded to form box; locking tab lid; oval cut outs in sides and lid for air circulation and for carrying; interior is plain brown cardboard; exterior has white, orange, and green text and illustrations beneath a wax coating.
Colourful illustrations of mandarin oranges on sides and lid of box; text on front, back, and lid reads: "CHINESE / MANDARIN / ORANGES"; text on one side in French and other side in English reads: "THE ORIGINAL CHINESE / MANDARIN / CHINA NATIONAL CEREALS, OILS & FOODSTUFFS IMPORT & EXPORT CORPORATION / PRODUCT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA / [text in Chinese] / MINIMUM 31 PCS. PER BOX"."
- Object History
- 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.
Lee designed the cardboard Chinese mandarin orange box to replace wooden containers. The iconic design required no glue or staples, making it possible for farmers to assemble and pack the boxes as they picked the oranges.
- Reference
- For other records in this collection see: Business records series of Julie Lee and Cecil Lee family fonds
- Category
- 04.Tools & Equipment for Materials
- Classification
- Food Processing & Preparation T&E - - Food Storage Equipment
- Object Term
- Box, Food Storage
- Subjects
- Agriculture - Fruit and Berries
- Container - Box
- Occupations - Agricultural Labourers
- Occupations - Grocers
- Names
- Lee, Julie Cho Chan
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Maywood Area
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violet ray generator kit
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV986.20.2
- Description
- Violet ray generator; box is black, silver corners, hinged lid, two hinged snap closures, black handle; inside lid is brown velvet with silver holders for glass tube attachments; plaque "CHAS.A.BRANSTON LIMITED"; in box left side is voltage dial, three black control knobs; right side is compartment for two cords, one with plug end, other with hollow brown bakelite? handle; with two discs on handles, two metal tubes, one roller with handle, metal rectangle, and red instruction booklet "THE BRANSTON VIOLET RAY HIGH FREQUENCY GENERATOR", illustrated; c. 1928
- Object History
- This is a Branston Violet Ray Generator. Branston’s claims were similar to those of other Violet Ray makers. Treatments are given for over a hundred ailments, ranging from abscess through appendicitis, colitis, diabetes, glaucoma, gonorrhoea, haemmorrhoids, impotence, laryngitis, mumps, pyorrhea, tuberculosis, ulcers, wrinkles and even writer’s cramp.
Electrical medical devices like this one were popular for decades among physicians, irregular practitioners, and home users, who could purchase them through catalogs and drugstores. The machine plugs into an electrical wall outlet. A glass electrode plugs into the wand, produces a violet glow, and delivers a spark when touched to the skin. The strength of the spark, controlled by the voltage selector, ranges from mild to quite intense. Attachments could stimulate many body parts.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Energy Production T&E - - Other Energy Production T&E
- Object Term
- Generator
- Maker
- Chas. A. Branston Limited
- Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation
- Subjects
- Electrical and Magnetic Tools and Equipment
- Occupations - Pharmacists
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
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