Matchbook style blue and cream cardboard casewith red text. On the front "To Make it/ BETTER/ To Bake it/ BETTER/ Use/ FIVE ROSES/ MADE IN ENGLAND/ ALL PURPOSE FLOUR". On the back "DEPENDABLE/ FIVE/ ROSES/ FLOUR/ THE ALL PURPOSE FLOUR/ LAKE OF THE WOODS/ MILLING COMPANY/ CANADA/ IT'S OVEN TESTED". Inside is a black paper holding the eight needles.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and white dots along the top and bottom. The package has "FIL CLUNY 80 MADE IN FRANCE 45 YARDS" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and white dots along the top and bottom. The package has "FIL CLUNY 80 MADE IN FRANCE 45 YARDS" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and white dots along the top and bottom. The package has "FIL CLUNY 80 MADE IN FRANCE 45 YARDS" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and white dots along the top and bottom. The package has "FIL CLUNY 100 MADE IN FRANCE 45 YARDS" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and small drawings of mills around the side. The package has "AU PETIT MOULIN MADE IN FRANCE 150" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and small drawings of mills around the side. The package has "AU PETIT MOULIN MADE IN FRANCE/ 50 YARDS 300" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and small drawings of mills around the side. The package has "AU PETIT MOULIN MADE IN FRANCE/ 50 YARDS 150" writted around it.
Roll of off white thread wrapped in blue paper with black and gold detail, and small gold dots around the top and bottom. The package has "MADE IN FRANCE/ 50 YARDS/ 200/ BATTENBERG/ REGISTERED" written around it.
Heritage Village Museum brochure; trifold; yellow paper with brown, green and red print and illustrations; title on cover reads "Heritage Village / Burnaby, British Columbia" with illustration of buildings on Hill Street inside Heritage Village; interior of brochure includes a site map of Heritage Village; inside fold of brochure provides history of Heritage Village as well as hours of operation, contact information and admision rates.
Object History
Heritage Village Museum was officially opened in November 1971 as Burnaby's commemorative project to mark the centennial of British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation in 1871. Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) was governed by the Century Park Museum Association which formed in October 1971. The association continued to govern the village museum until the end of 1989. In 1990, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby assumed the operation and management of Burnaby Village Museum and the Burnaby Village Museum Association was dissolved.
Heritage Village Museum brochure; trifold; yellow paper with green and brown ink on cover; title on cover reads "Heritage Village / Burnaby, British Columbia" with screened photographic image of buildings on the Hill Street inside Heritage Village; interior of brochure includes background information about Heritage Village, a photograph montage of images with an inset map identifying the location of Heritage Village; orange rectangular piece of paper attached over top of outdated information on inside fold of brochure includes hours of operation and admission rates,
Object History
Heritage Village Museum was officially opened in November 1971 as Burnaby's commemorative project to mark the centennial of British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation in 1871. Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) was governed by the Century Park Museum Association which formed in October 1971. The association continued to govern the village museum until the end of 1989. In 1990, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby assumed the operation and management of Burnaby Village Museum and the Burnaby Village Museum Association was dissolved.
Heritage Village Museum brochure; trifold; yellow paper with brown, green and red print and illustrations; tilte on cover reads "Heritage Village / Burnaby, British Columbia" with illustration of buildings on Hill Street inside Heritage Village; interior of brochure includes a site map of Heritage Village; inside fold of brochure provides history of Heritage Village as well as hours of operation, contact information and admission rates.
Object History
Heritage Village Museum was officially opened in November 1971 as Burnaby's commemorative project to mark the centennial of British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation in 1871. Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) was governed by the Century Park Museum Association which formed in October 1971. The association continued to govern the village museum until the end of 1989. In 1990, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby assumed the operation and management of Burnaby Village Museum and the Burnaby Village Museum Association was dissolved.
Heritage Village brochure; trifold; yellow paper with green and brown ink on cover; title on cover reads "Heritage Village / Burnaby, British Columbia" with screened photographic image of buildings on the Hill Street inside Heritage Village; interior of Brochure includes information with headings "Enter / Heritage Village"; "Spend an Afternoon" with list of what's available; location information and a photograph montage of images with an inset Map identifying the location of Heritage Village in Burnaby; inset text box in lower left corner of cover image includes background information about Heritage Village.
Object History
Heritage Village Museum was officially opened in November 1971 as Burnaby's commemorative project to mark the centennial of British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation in 1871. Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum) was governed by the Century Park Museum Association which formed in October 1971. The association continued to govern the village museum until the end of 1989. In 1990, the Corporation of the District of Burnaby assumed the operation and management of Burnaby Village Museum and the Burnaby Village Museum Association was dissolved.
Photographic postcard of a labourer grappling with a large log on the log chute at the Barnet mill. The caption to the card reads: "A Good Size Log / Barnet B.C." The Barnet Mill was called the North Pacific Lumber Company from 1889 to 1914.
Photographic postcard of a labourer grappling with a large log on the log chute at the Barnet mill. The caption to the card reads: "A Good Size Log / Barnet B.C." The Barnet Mill was called the North Pacific Lumber Company from 1889 to 1914.
air mail envelope; white paper with triangular blue and red pattern along edges of exterior of envelope; return address printed in upper left corner of front of envelope: "WESTERN COMMODITIES LTD. / P.O. BOX 3042 / VANCOUVER, B.C. V6b 3X5; text half way down on right front of envelope: "VIA AIR MAIL / PAR AVION"; blue herring bone pattern with airplane sillhoette and text "Air Mail" on interior of envelope; text centred at bottom of back of envelope "DESIGN RD. 1929 B.E. LTD."
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
This portion of the interview pertains to John Burton's description of the Linotype machine, as well as the history of his grandfather, John Foley, founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper.
This portion of the interview pertains to John Burton's description of the Linotype machine, as well as the history of his grandfather, John Foley, founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper.
Recording is of an interview with John Burton at his residence in Surrey by Lynda Mauve Orr, August 24, 1989. This interview focuses on the history of newspaper and printing presses in Canada.
Biographical Notes
John Burton was born in 1912 in New Westminster. He went to Second Street School, then Edmonds, then Saint Anne's Convent, and St. Louis College and Connaught before graduating from Burnaby South School in 1930.
While at High School, John worked at Cowan's Music Store at 716 Columbia Street in New Westminster on Saturdays and after school.
John Burton's grandfather John Foley was the founder of the Orangeville Sun newspaper in Orangeville, Ontario, established in 1861. He ran the paper until his death in 1882, when his son, John Foley Jr. took over as editor and publisher at the age of sixteen. Two of his daughters were involved in the newspaper; Margaret Foley was a regular contributor to the paper, and John Burton's mother was a typesetter.
When John Burton was a teenager, he went to Orangeville to learn the trade from his uncle. Unfortunately, he was only there eighteen months when his uncle died December 21, 1932. The family was unable to hold on to the business and the paper amalgamated with the Orangeville Banner newspaper in 1933.
Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
Images
Audio Tracks
Track five of interview with John Burton by Lynda Maeve Orr
Track five of interview with John Burton by Lynda Maeve Orr
Wooden box with a hinged lid and base with slats for rules and holes for lettering tips. The box contains lettering materials, including white rulers,ink pens in green cardboard cylindrical tubes, guiding stencils for lettering in different fonts, metal tool to hold ink nibs.
Object History
This lettering guide was used in the City of Burnaby's Planning Department, in the late 1950s.
A lettering guide template is a special type of template used to write uniform characters. It consists of a sheet of plastic or other material with cut-outs of letters, numbers, and other shapes used especially for creating technical drawings. For decades they have been essential for lettering a drawing nameplate so text and other designs could be made quickly and uniformly.
Although they have been superseded by the use of computers, during the greater part of the last century they were used to relatively ease the lettering process in the creation of technical drawings. They were an indispensable tool for architects and technical illustrators.