File consists of scrapbook contents including newspaper articles and clippings from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (FVMPA) newsletter "Fraser Valley Milk Break". The scrapbook documents and chronologizes the history of the association and the planning, construction and implementation…
File consists of scrapbook contents including newspaper articles and clippings from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (FVMPA) newsletter "Fraser Valley Milk Break". The scrapbook documents and chronologizes the history of the association and the planning, construction and implementation of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association plant on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby. The dairy plant covered five acres of property in Burnaby situated at Lougheed Highway and Sperling. The FVMPA was a 2200 member dairy co operative consisting of dairy men all in the Fraser Valley and claims that it was the first in Canada to add Vitamin D to fluid milk and to use the vacuum packed tin for evaporated milk. The FVMPA was originally located at 425 W. 8th Avenue in Vancouver prior to the construction of the new plant on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby which opened in 1964.
Item consists of a typewritten statement from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association with a summary of purchases for products sold to the Canada Way Food Market.
small yellow page adhered to top of white typewritten page
Scope and Content
Item consists of a typewritten statement from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association with a summary of purchases for products sold to the Canada Way Food Market.
Bronze date plaque stamped "F.V.M.P.A./ BURNABY PLANT SOD TURNING / JULY 26, 1962" with 4 corner holes. The object has scratches throughout. The plaque is taped to a cardboard tag with the text "B5102 / $0.80"
Object History
The plate is to commemorate the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Assocation Burnaby Plant sod turning ceremony on July 26, 1962, when construction started on the new facility at Sperling and Lougheed. The plant opened in 1964, and housed the FVMPA head offices, fluid milk plant, and ice cream manufacturing division.
Homogenized Pacific Evaporated Milk - Label. Unused label for Pacific Evaporated Milk. This label is for unsweetened homogenized milk. The company was part of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association with the head office in Vancouver, BC. The label has a four Chinese Characters on one side of the label along side the English lettering.
Label, paper, white; red "HOMOGENIZED" "PACIFIC" "EVAPORATED MILK", blue "REG'D BRAND" "VITAMIN D INCREASED" "ONE POUND NET WEIGHT" "15 IMPERIAL FLUID OUNCES", horizontal oval picture, coloured, of cows grazing, farm, mountains behind; narrow border top and bottom of vertical stripes; front and back are same except one has 4 Chinese characters in red, 2 either side, in "Evaporated Milk" area; two sidebars separated from front? by gold stripe; both begin "PACIFIC UNSWEETENED EVAPORATED MILK", one lists vitamin information, at bottom is "PACIFIC MILK DIVISION" "FRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION" "HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA"; other has "1" "EVAPORATED MILK" and information about method of production, logo at bottom in blue of totem pole in front of maple leaf, "MADE IN B.C."
Label, paper, white; red "HOMOGENIZED" "PACIFIC" "EVAPORATED MILK", blue "REG'D BRAND" "ONE POUND NET WEIGHT" "15 IMPERIAL FLUID OUNCES", horizontal oval picture, coloured, of cows grazing, farm, mountains behind; narrow border top and bottom of vertical lines; front and back are same; sidebars are same at top, "PACIFIC" "UNSWEETENED" "EVAPORATED MILK", with one describing the vitamin content, "PACIFIC MILK DIVISION" "FRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION" "HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA" at bottom; other describes manufacturing process, logo at bottom of blue totem pole in front of maple leaf, "MADE IN B.C."
Label, paper, white; red "HOMOGENIZED" "PACIFIC" "EVAPORATED MILK", blue "REG'D BRAND" "ONE POUND NET WEIGHT" "15 IMPERIAL FLUID OUNCES", horizontal oval picture, coloured, of cows grazing, farm, mountains behind, narrow border top and bottom of vertical lines; front and back are same; sidebars begin the same, "PACIFIC UNSWEETENED EVAPORATED MILK", one describes vitamin content, at bottom is "PACIFIC MILK DIVISION" "FRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION" "HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA"; other describes manufacturing method, logo at bottom in blue of totem pole in front of maple leaf, "MADE IN B.C."
Label, paper, white; blue "PACIFIC" "REG'D BRAND" "CONCENTRATED PARTLY SKIMMED MILK" "VITAMINS C & D ADDED" "4% MILK FAT", red "ONE POUND NET WEIGHT" "15 IMPERIAL FLUID OUNCES"; horizontal oval picture, coloured, of cows grazing, farm, mountains behind, narrow border top and bottom of vertical stripes; two side panel begin with "PACIFIC" "CONCENTRATED" "PARTLY SKIMMED MILK"; one continues with composition charts, at bottom "PACIFIC MILK DIVISION" "FRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION" "HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA"; other side has "2" "PARTLY SKIMMED MILK" "SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR Infant Feeding", promotional information below
Label, paper, white; blue "PACIFIC" "REG'D BRAND" "CONCENTRATED PARTLY SKIMMED MILK" "VITAMINS C & D ADDED" "4% MILK FAT", red "ONE POUND NET WEIGHT" "15 IMPERIAL FLUID OUNCES", horizontal oval picture, coloured, of cows grazing, farm, mountains behind, border top and bottom of vertical stripes; side panels both begin "PACIFIC CONCENTRATED PARTLY SKIMMED MILK"; one continues with composition chart, at bottom "PACIFIC MILK DIVISION" "FRASER VALLEY MILK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION" "HEAD OFFICE: VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA"; other panel has "2" "PARTLY SKIMMED MILK" "SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR Infant Feeding", continues with promotional information
Promitional tape measurer with a silver top plates and a gold body engraved on both sides. One side dark blue with ariel drawing of building and "Dairyland/ BURNABY PLANT/ 1964" engraved. Reverse is oval image of 4 cows in a field with mountains, sky, and a barn painted on a gold body with "FRASER VALLEY/ MILK PRODUCERS/ ASSOCIATION" in red. Top has a retractable silver steel tape with measurements in inches on one side. "Japan" engraved on base.
Object History
This object belonged to a sales representative for Dairyland, who lived in Chilliwack. He retired in 1978 after 40 years with the company. The Burnaby Dairyland plant was constructed in 1964 on Lougheed Highway near Sperling Avenue.
99 photographs (35 large b&w prints; 36 medium b&w prints; 15 small b&w prints; 5 large b&w panoramas) + 0.5 cm. of textual records.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a scrapbook organized by Don McQueen containing photographs, newspaper articles, and clippings from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (FVMPA) newsletter "Fraser Valley Milk Break". The scrapbook documents and chronologizes the planning, construction, and implementation …
99 photographs (35 large b&w prints; 36 medium b&w prints; 15 small b&w prints; 5 large b&w panoramas) + 0.5 cm. of textual records.
Description Level
Fonds
Access Restriction
In Archives only
Reproduction Restriction
No reproduction permitted
Accession Number
2015-10
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a scrapbook organized by Don McQueen containing photographs, newspaper articles, and clippings from the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (FVMPA) newsletter "Fraser Valley Milk Break". The scrapbook documents and chronologizes the planning, construction, and implementation of the FVMPA Plant located on Lougheed Highway in Burnaby as well as providing some background history on this organization.
History
Don McQueen was born September 7, 1918, in Wilkie, Saskatchewan, and was the son of Thomas Kerningham McQueen (1873-1948) and Ethel (Badley) McQueen (1889-1981) and brother to Tom Alexander McQueen (1920-1999). In 1924, Don moved with his family from Wilkie, Saskatchewan, to North Vancouver, where they lived until 1930 when they moved to Burnaby. In 1942, Don moved back to North Vancouver, and in 1951, he settled in West Vancouver. As a child, Don attended Queen Mary Elementary School in North Vancouver, followed by attending Burnaby North High School and completing a degree in Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1948.
Don married Rosina Amelia Hewett in 1942 and together they had four children: Donald James (Winnie) McQueen; Rose Anne (Wayne) McQueen; Robin Elaine (Robert) McQueen; and Robert Douglas McQueen. Following the death of Don's first wife, Rosina, in 1966, Don was married three more times, beginning with Laverne Cyr, followed by Marian Schreiber and Gregoria Noble. He had seven grandchildren: Tanja, Mark, Todd, Karina, Morgan, Anthony, and Kosal.
During World War II, Don worked at Boeing Air Craft, building planes, and after the war, from 1945 until 1948, he worked at the shipyards in North Vancouver. In 1948, he joined Dairyland, which was affiliated with the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Association (FVMPA), working as the head of Engineering until his retirement in 1980. Building the FVMPA plant, which opened in 1964, was a highlight of his career, where he was employed as the lead Engineer in creating a state-of-the-art plant located at Lougheed Highway and Sperling Avenue in Burnaby. Don spent three years directing research investigations into modern dairies and ice cream plants throughout Canada and the USA. This plant served the FVMPA for many years to come, and his dedication resulted in giving hundreds of hours of overtime for which he was never paid.
The FVPMA was organized by farmers to protect the quality and price of milk. It was granted its charter on June 18th, 1913, and the organization was represented by farmers of every district in the Fraser Valley with 22 locals. In 1919, the Association purchased manufacturing plants and a milk company, and in 1920, the firm acquired another milk company and condensery. In 1923, the FVPMA became the first Canadian dairy organization to establish a quality control laboratory and employ a bacteriologist, and in 1943, the Association established Dairyland dairies.
The original headquarters for the FVMPA was located at 425 W. 8th Avenue in Vancouver and as a result of FVMPA's growing success and need for expansion, a modern plant was opened in Burnaby in 1964. The four-million-dollar plant was built on a 24-acre site located at Sperling and Lougheed Highway. This location also housed the association's head office, the Dairyland Fluid Milk Division plant and offices, the Arctic Ice Cream Division plant and offices and the Concentrated Milk Division (Pacific Evaporated and Powder) sales and offices. The facility included a processing plant, service block, garage, primary and secondary mechanical and electrical services, and air conditioned office space. The general contract to build the plant was awarded to John Laing and Son (Canada) Ltd. and was overseen by the FVMPA engineering department, headed by D.R. McQueen, P. Eng.
Don belonged to the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. (APEGB) from 1948, was a founding member of the Hollyburn Country Club in West Vancouver, and between 1950 and the 1960s, was a director on the board for the West Vancouver YMCA. Don had many hobbies including Russian ballet, kinesiology, drawing, photography, sailing, canoeing, and teaching ballroom dancing and downhill skiing. He competed in fencing in the Empire Games in the 1950s and was slated to canoe for Canada in the 1940 Olympics but was prevented by the war. He was a carpenter and handyman, beginning with building his first sailboat at 12 years of age, and later enjoyed building and restoring furniture.
Don passed away on October 22, 2017 at the age of 99.
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.