Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Document collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 p.

Scope and Content

Item consists of a notice from the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, addressed to A.G. Shore, 1322 Gilmore Avenue, Burnaby regarding an Apartment Study for proposed apartment developments. The notice is dated March 8, 1966 and is signed by Burnaby Reeve, Alan H. Emmott. Notice is double sided and includes a map of with locations of apartment development proposals.

Subjects

Documentary Artifacts - Letters and Envelopes

Accession Code

BV999.10.1

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

No known restrictions

Date

8 Mar. 1966

Media Type

Textual Record

Notes

Title based on contents of item

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Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Document collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 p.

Scope and Content

Item consists of a Certificate of Membership for Norman Thomas Carson who was admitted as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes [sic] of America by Division No. 134 of New Westminster, British Columbia. Certification was granted on January 1, 1944 and signed by W.D. Mahon International President.

Subjects

Transportation - Locomotives

Documentary Artifacts - Certificates

Names

Carson, Norman Thomas "Tom"

British Columbia Electric Railway Company

Accession Code

BV012.18.13

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Date

1 Jan. 1944

Media Type

Textual Record

Scan Resolution

600

Scan Date

29-Sep-2021

Notes

Title based on contents of item

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Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Document collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 certificate (tiff) : col. ; 600 dpi

Scope and Content

Item consists of a head tax certificate issued by the Dominion of Canada - Immigration Branch - Department of the Interior to Dung Way How (Dong Howe). The certificate was first issued on March 18, 1922 and includes certification stamps on the front along with a photograph of Dung Way How. Certification stamps on the verso of the certificate were issued by Chinese Immigration authorities between 1922 and 1934. Information on the front of the certificate reads "...This Certifies That / Dung Way How whose photograph is attached / hereto arrived or landed at Vancouver B.C. / on the 23rd day of January 1922 / ex "Empress of Asia" / and upon representations made has been / admitted as exempt from head tax under the / provisions of the Chinese Immigration Act. / The above mentioned party claims / to be a native of Bark Choon Jong in the District of Pon Yue of the age of 20 years. The declaration in this case is C.I.4. No. 3715 Date at Vancouver on March 18, 1922" signed by "Controller of Chinese Immigration". Printed text on verso of certificate reads "IMPORTANT / IT IS NECESSARY THAT THIS / CERTIFICATE BE CAREFULLY / PRESERVED AS IT IS OF VALUE / AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION".

History

Dung Way How (Dong Howe) arrived from Bak Chun (North Village), Guangdong in 1922 as a paper son. He had two sons during his first marriage, but the sons remained in China and one died at a young age. He married his second wife Chow Goon Pang through an arranged marriage. She was married twice previously and had a son from each marriage, but neither of them survived. Chow was from Nam Chun (South Village) and arrived in Canada as a paper daughter around the late 1930s or early 1940s. Both Dong and Chow spoke a Poon Yue dialect. The couple raised one daughter Vivian Dong (Dong Jing Yu) in Canada. The Dong family leased and operated the New Fountain hotel in Vancouver located at Abbott Street and Cordova Street. The family later went on to purchase farmland in Burnaby in 1957. The Dong family moved to Burnaby and operated a three acre market garden located at 6220 14th Avenue until 1972. They grew European staples including celery, radishes, green onions, beets, lettuces, endives, as well as Chinese vegetables such as gai lan (Chinese broccoli). There were two Chinese families in the area, including the Wong family who operated the Wong Chew market gardens 6325 14th Avenue. Dong Howe passed away in 1978. Chow Goon Pang passed away in 2000. Their daughter Vivian grew up in Burnaby and attended Riverside Elementary, McPherson Junior High School and Burnaby South Secondary School.

Creator

Government of Canada

Subjects

Persons - Chinese Canadians

Documentary Artifacts - Certificates

Migration

Names

Howe, Dong

Accession Code

BV021.13.1

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

No known restrictions

Date

1922-1934 (date of original), copied 2021

Media Type

Textual Record

Photograph

Scan Resolution

600

Scan Date

March 25, 2021

Scale

100

Notes

Title based on contents of photograph

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Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds

Burnaby Village Museum Document collection

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 booklet

Material Details

last three pages of booklet are blank

Scope and Content

Item consists of a handmade songbook - music journal that was created by Susanne Hughes while a student at Seaforth School in Burnaby. The booklet consists of six pages of cartridge paper bound together with staples. The booklet includes copies of mimiographed song lyrics pasted to the pages along with hand written entries in pencil and a copy of sheet music for "B.C. Land of Our Fathers" adhered to one page.

Creator

Hughes, Susanne

Names

Seaforth School

Hughes, Susanne

Accession Code

BV020.41.10

Access Restriction

No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction

No known restrictions

Date

[between 1954 and 1959]

Media Type

Textual Record

Scan Resolution

600

Scan Date

March 25, 2021

Scale

100

Notes

Title based on contents of item

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