Item consists of a one page handwritten recipe for potato salad. The recipe is written on a blank invoice page from "Tho's Cassidy / 441 Powell Street _ Dealer in Groceries, Provisious etc." The name "Elwin V." is written over top of the name "Tho's".
Item consists of a one page handwritten recipe for potato salad. The recipe is written on a blank invoice page from "Tho's Cassidy / 441 Powell Street _ Dealer in Groceries, Provisious etc." The name "Elwin V." is written over top of the name "Tho's".
Photograph of the salad bar inside the Dragon Inn Restaurant during their grand-opening at the Hastings location at 4524 Hastings Street, Burnaby.. Waitress and man in background at left.
Photograph of the salad bar inside the Dragon Inn Restaurant during their grand-opening at the Hastings location at 4524 Hastings Street, Burnaby.. Waitress and man in background at left.
The set is made by "Johnson Bros / England". The company logo features an angular crown.
The decoration is a flower motif with a blue stem of red berries and flowers with green leaves in the centre of some of the dishes. There is a band of silver pattern with blue highlights and fruits in angular cartouches around the outside edges of the dishes.
The salad plate is 20.3 cm diameter. The band decoration is around the rim of the plate with the stem design in the centre of the plate.
Object History
The china was acquired by Charlotte Latham (possibly) in England. The china was used in Burnaby since at least the 1920's since that's when her and her husband settled in Burnaby. The china was gifted to me (Ivaz) by Charlotte's daughter Frances, a Burnaby-born resident her entire life. Frances passed away in 1998.
Early Burnaby as recalled by the settlers themselves who arrived from every corner of the world between 1888 and 1930, some witnessing incorporation of the district in 1892, all seeking a better life for themselves and especially for their children, all helping transform the wilderness into the modern municipality of today.
Fonds consists of textual records and photographs collected or created by Hugh H. Stewart in the course of his personal and professional life. Records include receipts relating to property sales and taxes, utilities, association memberships (Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Vancouver Heights Ratep…
Fonds consists of textual records and photographs collected or created by Hugh H. Stewart in the course of his personal and professional life. Records include receipts relating to property sales and taxes, utilities, association memberships (Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Vancouver Heights Ratepayers Association, Burnaby Lions Club and Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans), insurance, loans and healthcare along with an elections candidate card and documents from his business “Stewart’s Cartage and Fuel Supply”; minutes from the Ratepayers Association and a handwritten recipe for potato salad.
Records have been arranged into the following series:
1) Hugh H. Stewart photographs series
2) Hugh H. Stewart personal documents series
3) Stewart's Cartage and Fuel Supply business records series
4) Hugh H. Stewart associations and memberships series
History
Hugh Henry Stewart was born July 18 1887 to Duncan Hugh (1860-1935) and Henrietta Stewart (1860-1944) in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The couple moved to Nanaimo in 1888 with their four children, the oldest of which was Hugh Henry. The family moved to Vancouver in about 1908 and lived at 995 West 7th Avenue while Duncan Stewart worked as a carpenter. Hugh Henry found work as a hardware clerk at the “Forbes and Van Horne” hardware store located at 52 West Hastings, Vancouver. He worked at the store until WWI broke out and his wages were cut.
In 1910 Hugh Henry Stewart moved to Burnaby and purchased a house in District Lot 116, in the 3900 block of Albert Street between Ingleton Avenue and McDonald Avenue. This was the only house in this block at the time (3902 Albert Street) but the following year, five more houses were built. In 1911, Hugh married Patience (known as Bertha) Alberta Inglis of Vancouver and between 1911 and 1912, Hugh cleared land around the house. The couple raised three children at their home in Vancouver Heights (now named Burnaby Heights); Duncan Hugh, Daniel Melbourne and Audrey Pearl. In 1914, the Vancouver Heights Ratepayers Association was formed and Hugh Stewart joined. This association lobbied city council to establish land uses which they felt could benefit the citizens of North Burnaby.
Following his work at the hardware store, Hugh went to work as a longshoreman at the Hastings Mill in Vancouver and the Barnet Mill in Burnaby. In the 1920s, Stewart started up his own business delivering fuel to households in North Burnaby. His business was named “Stewart’s Cartage and Fuel Supply” which had an office located at 3870 East Hastings Street. Stewart moved his business office to their home in the 1950s which continued to operate at this location until the early 1960s.
In 1926, the Burnaby Board of Trade was formed with Hugh Stewart as one of the founding members. The organization changed its name to the North Burnaby Board of Trade in May 1927. Hugh served as president from 1940-1946 and was instrumental in bringing about the amalgamation of the North and South Burnaby Boards of Trade to form the Burnaby Chamber of Commerce. Hugh ran for municipal council in the 1940s and was also a member of other organizations including the Burnaby Lions Club, The International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) and the Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans.
Patience Alberta Stewart died in 1967 and Hugh continued to live in their home on Albert Street until 1978. In 1979 he moved to an apartment on McGill Street in Burnaby. Hugh H. Stewart died in 1981.
Photograph of Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee chair James Barrington presenting a gift of handmade silver salad tongs on behalf of the Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee to Governor General Roland Michener on the occasion of the opening of Heritage Village. Norah Willis Michener is seated in front o…
Photograph of Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee chair James Barrington presenting a gift of handmade silver salad tongs on behalf of the Burnaby Centennial '71 Committee to Governor General Roland Michener on the occasion of the opening of Heritage Village. Norah Willis Michener is seated in front of the Governor General. The event took place during a civic luncheon at the Astor Hotel following the opening of Heritage Village (Burnaby Village Museum).
"____ Mrs. Harry Kolot" [Handwritten in cursive in black ink on verso of front cover]
"Jelly roll cake
3 eggs well beaten
3 tablespoon milk
1 1/2 baking powder
1 cup flour (quick oven)"
"Anna's Jelly Roll
5 eggs
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon water for
each egg. 1 2/3 cup flour.
3 level to B.P.
2 tablespoons
melted butter added last.
(moderate oven)
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on first page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Corn salad
18 ears sweet corn boil
on cob. cut off. 4 large
onions 1 head cabbage
fine and boil 15 min
then add corn with
2 cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons salt mix
1 small cup flour 1 tea
turmeric mix 2 tablespoons
mustard in cold water
add + cook for awhile"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on second page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Sauce for pickles
1 cup vinegar (strong)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup mixed spices
boil for any kind of pickle"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on third page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Anna's Chili Sauce
2 ripe tomatoes large / 6
3 onions chopped fine / 6
3 peppers chopped fine
Cook together until soft
and thru colander.
then add 3 tablespoons salt
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoonful ground
cinnamon 2 tablespoons
ground gigner 1 teaspoonful
ground cloves
2 cups good vinegar
Cook until as thick as desired then bottle and seal
(Excellent)"
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on fourth page of back section called "Recipes: My friends & my own"]
"Danish Icing
Boil 3 heaping tablespoons flour
mixed well with 1 cup milk. While
still warm add 1 cup butter, 1 cup icing sugar, broken walnuts, +
flavoring, Enough for 3 cakes."
[Handwritten in cursive in pencil on verso of back cover]
Item consists of part one in a two part video series "A Taste of History" created by Debbie Liang and Joty Gill, University of British Columbia alumni and graduates from the Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM). Part one is titled "Scraps and Dragons". The film provides backgroun…
Script: Debbie Liang; Joty Gill
Narration: Debbie Liang
Editor: Debbie Liang
Subtitles: English; Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese
Video Appearances: Kathy Lee; Eleanor Lee
Interviews filmed by: Eleanor Lee
Interview questions: Eleanor Lee; Debbie Liang
Illustrations and Animations: Debbie Liang
Photos, Images & B-roll: Vegetable letters from Shutterstock; Green onion and carrot footage from Debbie Liang; Chop Suey image courtesy of pulaw from Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0); Chop Suey from Shutterstock; Menus by Amy Wilson; Gold Dragon booklet cover and menu image- courtesy of UBC RBSC Chung Collection (RBSC-ARC-1679-CCTX-309-122); Chop Suey Nation book cover, image courtesy of Douglas & MacIntyre; Dragon Inn: City of Burnaby Archives, 556-239 photo by John McCarron; Larry Lee, image courtesy of Eleanor Lee; VanTech, image courtesy of Mike from Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0); Bamboo Terrace, image courtesy of Rob from Flickr, public domain; Map image courtesy of Sentinel 2 from wikimedia Creative Commons; Salad bar inside of Dragon Inn Restaurant, Burnaby Village Museum, BV017.37.3; John Lee: City of Burnaby Archives, 535-0415, photo by Brian Langdeau; Photograph - Bar Inside the Dragon Inn Restaurant - Burnaby Village Museum, BV017.37.2; Chopping Mushrooms, footage courtesy of Pressmaster from pexels.com; Chopping Parsley, footage courtesy of Pressmaster from pexels.com; Kwan Luck from Debbie Liang; Crystall Mall as taken from the north side of Kingsway in Burnaby, image courtesy of w:en: Colin Keigher from wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license; Lok's Produce at Crystal mall (Burnaby) in the Underground Chinese Produce Market image courtesy of William Chen from wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license; Crystal Mall foodcourt, image courtesy of Jay Friedman, Gastrolust; Restaurant and Dragon Innn art by Debbie Liang
Music and Sound Effects: "Alison", "Acoustic Mediation 2" from audionautix; "Slow Motion", "Creative Minds" & "Cute" from bensound.com; "Kitchen sounds" & "Pop" from Debbie Liang; "Ding sound effect" from freesoundlibrary
Video adapted from 2019 BVM intern project by Debbie Liang and Marcela Gomez
Special thanks to: UBC: Joanna Yang, Jenny Lu, Denise Fong, Henry Yu; BVM: Kate Petrusa, Amy Wilson
Changes to music may have been made for the purposes of this video
Scope and Content
Item consists of part one in a two part video series "A Taste of History" created by Debbie Liang and Joty Gill, University of British Columbia alumni and graduates from the Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM). Part one is titled "Scraps and Dragons". The film provides background information on the origins of the Chinese-Canadian culinary dish "chop suey" and tells the story of Chinese Canadian Chop Suey restaurants, highlighting the history of the "Dragon Inn" chop suey restaurant owned by Larry Lee. The film is supported with voice over in english, subtitles, animation, historical and family photographs and interviews with family members, Kathy Lee and Eleanor Lee. One version of the film is supported with subtitles in English while two other versions of the film are supported with subtitles in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
History
In 2020, due to the restrictions of COVID-19, University of British Columbia student interns with the Burnaby Village Museum Chinese Canadian History in Burnaby project were asked to create virtual experiences to reimagine Burnaby Village Museum's historical Chinese Canadian programming in remote online spaces. Debbie Liang and Joty Gill (UBC alumni and graduates of Dr. Henry Yu's 2019 summer ACAM 390A Global Seminar to Aisa) returned to work with Burnaby Village Museum to create two short films showcasing the history of Chinese Canadian Chop Suey restaurants and piggeries in Burnaby.
Larry Lee was born in Kaiping, Guangdong, China and immigrated to Canada in 1949 at the age of sixteen to reunite with his father, Lee Soon. Larry Lee's father had been in Canada for years before his son immigrated to join him. Larry attended Vancouver Technical Secondary School and learned English and carpentry. After he graduated, he was hired by Mr. Wong. Larry and Mr. Wong operated an IGA grocery store at Lonsdale in North Vancouver. Following this, Larry worked as a cashier for his father at "Bamboo Terrace" Chinese restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown. In 1958, he married his wife Kathy and one year later, in 1959 he started a new business of his own. Larry opened the "Dragon Inn" chop suey restaurant at 2516 Kingsway (at Slocan) in Vancouver. Once the restaurant was doing well, Larry opened the "Park Inn" at Kingsway and 25th Avenue. The "Park Inn" was the first Chinese food restaurant with a smorgasboard in Vancouver. With the success of these restaurants and subsequent restaurants Larry Lee opened three other "Dragon Inn" chop suey restaurants located at; 4510 Kingsway and Willingdon in Burnaby (1964); 250 Columbia Street in New Westminster (1971) and Hastings and Willingdon (1990s). In the 1990s Larry retained ownership of the Dragon Inn at 4510 Kingsway and Willingdon and sold the other restaurants. In 1996, Larry sold the property of the Dragon Inn and surrounding lots located at Kingsway and Willingdon to make way for the construction of Crystal Mall. Larry and Kathy Lee had eight children who all worked in the family run restaurants until they were sold.
Plate. White, ceramic, side or salad plate. Green transfer print on rim
Object History
The major B.C.E.R. Main Terminal building at Carrall Street and West Hastings Street in Vancouver and the New Westminster Station at 8th and Columbia included diners where food was served on dishware stamped with the B.C. Electric Railway name.
Marks/Labels
On rim in green transfer print is "COURTEOUS" "B.C. Electric" "SERVICE". On underside in green, half of "VITRIFIED" "GLOBE POTTERY CO. LTD." "COBRIDGE" "ENGLAND", "2-30" stamped in.