magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV989.29.10
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1921]. Volume 2, No. 4 of School Days for January 1921. The front cover of this edition is brown with a poem in the middle with illustrations of sports equipment along the sides. Handwritten at the top of the magazine is "Winnie Barker". School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia. There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses. The magazine was printed by Cowan & Brookhouse Printers in Vancouver. The magazine measures 15cm x 22.5cm.
- Colour
- Brown
- Title
- School Days
- Publication Date
- January 1921
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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Embroidery stitches, part 2
magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV989.29.11
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1921]. Volume 2, No. 5 of School Days for February 1921. The front cover of this edition is gray with a poem in the middle with illustrations of sports equipment along the sides. Handwritten at the top of the magazine is "Winnie Barker". School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia. There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses. The magazine was printed by Cowan & Brookhouse Printers in Vancouver. The magazine measures 15.5cm x 23cm.
- Colour
- Gray
- Title
- School Days
- Publication Date
- February 1921
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.19.1
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1923]. Volume 6, No. 2 of School Days for September 1923.
The front cover of this edition has an illustration of a Ship of the Line. School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia.
There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses.
- Title
- School Days, Volume 6, No. 2
- Publication Date
- September 1923
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.19.2
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1923]. Volume 6, No. 4 of School Days for November 1923.
The front cover of this edition has an illustration of a garden scene at night with two people dressed in costume.
School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia.
There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses.
- Title
- School Days, Volume 6, No. 4
- Publication Date
- November 1923
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.19.3
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1923]. Volume 6, No. 5 of School Days for December 1923.
The front cover of this edition has an illustration of a child writing out a Christmas wish list, with Santa standing in the background.
School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia.
There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses.
- Title
- School Days, Volume 6, No. 5
- Publication Date
- December 1923
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.19.4
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1924]. Volume 6, No. 6 of School Days for January 1924.
The front cover of this edition has an illustration of a Roman Chariot pulled by three horses.
School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia.
There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses.
Hand written in pencil at the top of the front cover of the booklet is "Fairview".
- Title
- School Days, Volume 6, No. 6
- Publication Date
- January 1924
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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magazine
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV982.19.5
- Description
- School Days - Magazine -- [1924]. Volume 6, No. 6 of School Days for February 1924.
The front cover of this edition has an illustration of an owl flying in the woods.
School Days was a magazine produced monthly for students in grades 5 to 8 in British Columbia.
There are stories, articles, games, contests and questions in the booklet. There are also advertisements for local Vancouver businesses.
- Title
- School Days, Volume 6, No. 6
- Publication Date
- February 1924
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Documentary Artifacts - Magazines
- Education
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV015.35.86
- Description
- booklet; "THE RANGER STAR / Vol. 1 JUNE, 1924 No. 2"; booklet of written submissions on topics of interest to Rangers, such as music, camping and first aid; "published quarterly at West Burnaby, B.C."; pale green thin card cover with illustration of girl looking up at a star; "D. Pitman" handwritten in blue ink on page one.
- Object History
- The Ranger Star was available be subscription and was published quarterly in West Burnaby B.C. Editor of quarterly was Joy Mennie and Associate editor, Bessie Carter. This volume belonged to Dorothy Pitman who was a Girl Guide in the 1st Burnaby Company. She was known to be involved with guiding from 1919 to 1931. Textual records and photographs of the Pitman family, including one of Dorothy and her sister Gwen, are held by the City of Burnaby Archives. Dorothy and Gwen's parents, Ernest and Jean Pitman, owned McKay Dry Goods and Jubilee Dry Goods.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Literary Works
- Object Term
- Anthology
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- Publication Date
- June 1924
- Subjects
- Organizations - Girls' Societies and Clubs
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Names
- Pitman, Dorothy
- Girl Guides of Canada
- Carter, Bessie
- Mennie, Joy
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV972.173.119
- Description
- The Auto Knitter Instruction Book - Booklet -- [1925]. The Nineteenth Edition of the Auto Knitter Instruction book from September 1925. The cover is red with "Auto Knitter" in white, black borders, all other printing in black. The instruction book was produced by The Auto Knitter Hosiery Company Limited in Toronto, Ontario. The back cover has a circle at centre with a black and white photograph of smiling woman while using auto knitter. The booklet has instructions for set-up and use of machine, directions for making some articles of clothing, list of parts and price list; separate price list on green paper
- Object History
- Acquisition Record form in accession file lists knitting machine related objects being donated and states: "Material came from St. Annes Boys School at Duncan B.C. - run by Sisters of St. Annes - closed in 1970."
- Maker
- Auto Knitter Hosiery Company, Limited
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- Toronto
- Patent Date
- Copyright 1923
- Title
- The Auto Knitter Instruction Book
- Publication Date
- 1925
- Subjects
- Textileworking Tools and Equipment
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.76.5
- Description
- Rawleigh's Good Health Guide - Booklet -- [1926]. Rawleigh's GOOD HEALTH GUIDE Cook Book and Almanac 1926. The cover shows coloured picture of woman with bouquet of flowers with trees in the background. There is a hole at upper left, "HANGER" with arrow in border. The back cover has coloured picture of yellow Rawleigh truck on road, farm behind, woman in foreground waving, children playing at pond, "From Producer to Consumer" "The Greatest Industry of its Kind"
- Maker
- W. T. Rawleigh Company, Limited
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- London
- Title
- Rawleigh's Good Health Guide Cook Book and Almanac
- Publication Date
- 1926
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.76.8
- Description
- Rawleigh's Good Health Guide 40th Anniversary - Booklet -- [1929]. Rawleigh's 40th Anniversary Good Health Guide and Cook Book. The cover is mainly black with a coloured picture of a woman and a girl backing in the kitchen. Written below the picture is "HER FIRST LESSON". There is a hole in the top left corner for hanging. The back cover has a coloured picture of a woman and dog on steps, and boy carrying suitcase and man behind him. There is a Rawleigh's truck parked on road in the background. Written below the picture is "HERE'S THE RAWLEIGH MAN AGAIN MOTHER". There is white space below for stamp which was left blank. "Printed in Canada"; 1929 edition
- Maker
- W. T. Rawleigh Company, Limited
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Ontario
- Site/City Made
- London
- Title
- The Rawleigh's 40th Anniversary Good Health Guide and Cook Book
- Publication Date
- 1929
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
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program
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV009.12.1
- Description
- Souvenir program for "Mid-Summer Carnival / AND / Grand Amateur Athletic / Meet / UNDER THE AUSPICES OF / THE AMALGAMATED ASSOICATION OF STREET AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY EMPLOYEES / PIONEER DIVISION NO. 101 / VANCOUVER, B. C., FRIDAY, JULY 12TH, at 5 P.M. / and SATURDAY, JULY 13TH, at 2 P.M. / HASTINGS PARK / VANCOUVER'S OUTSTANDING EVENT FOR 1929" printed on the facing page of the program. Program consists of 32 pages inside a blue tinted cover, stapled binding. Program includes a list of officials, list of events, list of participants along with photographs, illustrations and advertising. Handwritten annotations are visible on the list of officials and the events pages. Program is "Approved by / THE / A.A.U. of CANADA / B.C. Board / Headquarters: Room 5 / HADDEN BLDG. / 633 / Hastings St. West"
- Object History
- Item belonged to a teacher in Steveston who attended the event in 1929.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Other Documents
- Object Term
- Program
- Measurements
- 30.5 cm X 22.5 cm
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Vancouver
- Title
- Mid-Summer Carnival and Grand Amateur Athletic Meet
- Publication Date
- 1929
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV998.61.72
- Description
- Short Cuts to Home Sewing - Booklet -- [1930]. Booklet produced by the Singer Sewing Machine Company Incorporated on Short Cuts to Home Sewing: The Modern Singer Way. The booklet is from the Singer Sewing Library - No. 1. The front cover of the booklet has an illustration of two women, one sitting in front of the Singer Sewing Machine, the other standing above looking at the machine. Handwritten on the front cover is "F.A. Gray". On the back cover is an illustration of the globe with a large red "S" in the middle. Written across the globe is "The Sign of Singer Service Throughout the World". The booklet was copyrighted in 1930 and printed in Canada. The booklet measures 14cm x 21cm.
- Object History
- Object from the estate of Burnaby pioneer Elsie Wilson.
- Colour
- White
- Title
- Short Cuts to Home Sewing The Modern Singer Way
Singer Sewing Library -- No. 1
- Publication Date
- 1930
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Textileworking Tools and Equipment
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Burnaby British Columbia : reference and year book 1931
Brown's guide to British Columbia
Dr. O.M. Jones chapter I.O.D.E. coronation number cook book
Basic training for A. R. P. workers