ruler; advertisement
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.5865.1
- Description
- The Farrand Rapid Rule - Advertisement -- [192-]. Advertisement for the Farrand Rapid Rule from the Hiram A. Farrand Inc. in Berlin. The ruler being advertised is made from steel and is said to bend easily and measure curves. Along both sides of the page are four illustrations of the different uses of the ruler. The advert provides a six inch ruler as an example of its flexibility. The sample ruler was made in the USA and patented in Canada in 1928. The advertisement measures 28cm x 25.5cm.
- Subjects
- Advertising Medium
- Advertising Medium - Flyer
- Weights and Measurements Tools and Equipment
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picture; thermometer
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV995.31.221
- Description
- Picture, framed; watercolour print of King George VI in uniform; cut-out at right shows thermometer mounted on gold background; frame silver metal, corroded, raised key design; Cardboard on reverse side.
- Object History
- Donor purchased objects from various collectors and antique retailers.
- Marks/Labels
- At upper left of picture is "Arthur A. Freeze "Super-Lastic Tires" PHONE 90-3 SUSSEX, N.B.", "MADE IN U.S.A." in black on the gold background of the thermometer; by "Chas W" (cut off)
- Subjects
- Persons - Royalty
- Souvenirs
- Souvenirs - Royalty
- Thermal Tools and Equipment
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thermometer in frame
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV003.78.2
- Description
- This is a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, seated in room with pictures on sideboard in the background. Pictures are of Queen Mary, King George VI, and Princess Elizabeth. There is a picture of Balmoral Castle hanging on the wall. There is a cut-out at lower right for thermometer on gold background. The frame is silver metal with raised key design. Cardboard on reverse has two holes with cord between for hanging.
- Marks/Labels
- "HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH", printed in white at the bottom of picture.
"BLOOD HEAT / SUMMER HEAT / TEMPERATE / FREEZING / ZERO", printed in black lettering on gold background, around thermometer in cut-out at lower right.
"Remember / C. & H. GENERAL STORE / For Quality Merchandise / PHONE 2 LILLOOET, B.C.", printed on silver bar across bottom of picture,
- Subjects
- Persons - Royalty
- Souvenirs
- Souvenirs - Royalty
- Thermal Tools and Equipment
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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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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.67
- Description
- Bottle, clear, with bubble-like pattern on upper and lower edges; brick-colored residue stuck to the inside; metal colored screw-cap lid; yellow paper label with red border and label 3 Chinese characters.
Article is third (middle) from the left in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Yellow paper label with red border and label 3 Chinese characters which literally translate to "however/correct," "same/similar" and "powder". English translation adjusted to Pyritum.
Pyritum or iron pyrite is an iron sulfide mainly containing FeS2. It is used to treat traumatic injuries, broken tendons and bone fracture, soft tissue injuries, swelling, blood stasis, pain, carbuncles, sores, and burns. It alleviates pain and dissolves stasis.
- Measurements
- 11 cm in height x 4.5 cm in width (diameter)
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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Bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.125
- Description
- Clear glass round-based bottle with cork and printed paper label.
Artifact is fifth from left in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Yellow label with black text.
Label contains Chinese characters that are literally translated to: "Watson's" and "home" and "made" and "top" and "up" and "Quinine" and "powder". When adjusted for English comprehension, product is " Watson's Quinine powder". Quinine is a treatment for malaria. It is also used to treat lupus and arthritis. Quinine was also frequently prescribed as an off-label treatment for leg cramps at night, but this has become less common due to a Food and Drug Administration warning that this practice is associated with life-threatening side effects. Brand name "Watsons" is for A.S. Watson Group, which started as the Canton Dispensary and Soda Water Establishment in 1828 as a small dispensary, with the mission to provide free medical services to the poor people of the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong (also known as Canton). It moved to Hong Kong and re-emerged as the Hong Kong Dispensary in 1843. The company began trading under the name A.S. Watson & Company in 1871. Now, the A.S. Watson Group (or A.S. Watson or ASW) with headquarters located in Hong Kong, is the world's largest health and beauty retail group, with over 13,900 stores in 24 markets worldwide serving over 28 million customers per week, and over 3 billion customers and members throughout.
- Measurements
- 10 cm height x 2 cm legth x 2 cm width
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.132
- Description
- Amber or brown glass, rectangular with short neck and black plastic screw-cap. Rectangular paper label with handwritten text in black ink and red border. 1/4 filled with light-coloured powder.
Object is first on left in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company," Victoria, B.C.
- Marks/Labels
- The label contains Chinese characters that are literally translated to [indistinguishable], means "autumn," means "stone," [indistinguishable].
- Measurements
- 14 cm height x 5 cm width x 5 cm depth
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.149
- Description
- Clear, irregularly cylindrical bottle with cork. Filled with white substance or parchment. The rectangular label is off white with a double red border. The chinese characters are oriented in a verticle manner down the label. The area surrounding the top character shows mild water damage that does not impede reading.
Artifact is third from the left in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Chinese characters on label, which literally translate to: "flower"; "powder"; "end"; "fine powder or powder". When adjusted for English comprehension, item is "pollen powder" or "flower powder".
Possible uses could be complimentary to Mongolian Snakegourd Root or Snakegourd Root. This is used to treat fever, thirst, jaundice, dry cough, coughing blood, carbuncles, hemorrhoids, and for reducing pus and swelling.
- Measurements
- 20 cm height x 8 cm width.
- Subjects
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.402
- Description
- Medicinal wine bottle; transparent green glass, sealed lid wrapped in metallic foil. Around the upper portion of neck an off-white label with light teal Chinese characters. On the main body of the bottle is an orange rectangular label with printed Chinese characters.
Second from right in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "nourish"; "hygiene"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine).
When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Health tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of caterpillar fungus and turtle shell to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
Circular sticker translates to: "The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article."
- Measurements
- 30 cm height x 9cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangdong
- Site/City Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.405
- Description
- Green tinted bottle with a tapering neck; red label with silver characters; label with company logo on the neck; yellow seal with green characters at the mouth which is covered with a silver-coloured seal.
Object is second from left in photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 07. Distribution & Transportation Artifacts
- Classification
- Container
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "ginseng"; "bear"; "palm of hand"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine).
When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Bear palm tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of bear paw to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the the kidney, increasing male libido, treating lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 23 cm in height x 6 cm in width (diameter)
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Site/City Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.406
- Description
- Green glass bottle with metal cap. Red paper label around body of bottle. Beige paper label around top near cap, at the neck, and on the front of bottle.
Bottle is first from the left in the photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.", Victoria, B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Chemical T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Chinese characters on labels literally translate to: a brand name; "prolong life"; "hundred years"; "medicine"; and "wine / liquor".
When adjusted for English comprehension product is: "Hundred year old tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of turtle shell and deer sinew to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 22 cm height x 5 cm width
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.410
- Description
- Green bottle with red label with Chinese characters on body. Yellow label with Chinese characters on upper neck of bottle. Yellow round label on middle of bottle.
Bottle is third from left in photo.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company", Victoria, B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Food Service T&E - - Drinking Vessels
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "to expel wind"; "tiger"; "bone"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine).
When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "tincture of tiger bone". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of tiger bone and papaya to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the the kidney, increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 23 cm height x 4 cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.412
- Description
- Green bottle with red label with Chinese characters on body. Yellow label with Chinese characters on upper neck of bottle. Yellow label with three stars on middle of bottle.
Bottle is furthest from left in photo.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store "Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company", Victoria, B.C.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Food Service T&E - - Drinking Vessels
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "to expel wind"; "tiger"; "bone"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine).
When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "tincture of tiger bone". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of tiger bone and papaya to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the the kidney, increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 23 cm height x 4 cm width
- Maker
- ZiBao Tang
- Country Made
- China
- Province Made
- Guangzhou Xiguan
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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bottle
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV975.5.413
- Description
- Green glass bottle with two labels and silver covered, beer-bottle style cap. Two commercially made labels: one rectangular red with Chinese characters in black on the bottle front; one round gold with English characters in black on bottle shoulder.
Artifact is first from left in the photograph.
- Object History
- This item originates from the Chinese Herbalist Store “Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Co.”, Victoria B.C.
- Category
- 07. Distribution & Transportation Artifacts
- Classification
- Container
- Marks/Labels
- Label contains characters that are literally translated to: a brand name; "to invigorate the yang" (aphrodisiac)"; "three"; "whip"; "medicine"; "wine"; and "tincture" (medical alcohol/wine).
When adjusted for English comprehension, product is "Three whip tincture". The tincture includes a mixture of Chinese medicinal herbs with the addition of tiger penis and deer penis to replenish energy. It has the function of replenishing qi and invigorating qi, replenishing blood, nourshing the the kidney,increasing male libido, treating the lack of appetite, refreshing the mind, getting rid of wind in the body, and improving circulation.
The sale of all secret formulae non-pharmaceutical medicinal preparations in Canada is regulated by The proprietary or patent Medicine Act. This law legalizes the sale of such remedies only upon condition that the quantities of the potent drugs used in their manufacture are within the limitations set by an Advisory Board, and that these quantities are printed on the labels and wrappers used in connection with the medicine and, further, that no false, misleading or exaggerated claims or representations of a cure for any disease are made on the labels and wrappers, or in any other manner respecting this article.
- Measurements
- 24 cm height x 7 cm diameter
- Country Made
- China
- Subjects
- Science and Technology Tools and Equipment
- Persons - Chinese Canadians
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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