booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.5678.1
- Description
- Rules of the Road - Booklet -- [1922]. Booklet with the revised "Rules of the Road and Traffic Regulations" for the Province of British Columbia for the year 1922. The booklet cost 50 cents. The front cover has an illustration of a police officer conducting traffic in a cityscape. The main colours are blue and red. At the bottom of the cover it states "Keep to the Right". The booklet includes information on accounting, licenses, various offences and penalties, along with regulations for Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle.
- Object History
- On January 1, 1922 at 2:00 a.m. motor vehicles in British Columbia changed from driving on the left to driving on the right hand side of the street.
- Title
- Rules of the Road and Traffic Regulations Province of British Columbia
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Booklets
- Transportation
- Transportation - Automobiles
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booklet
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV001.1.36
- Description
- Booklet: "Burnaby Employees' Benefit Association" "RULES AND REGULATIONS"; pocket-sized; brown cover with black print and border; staplebound; 20 pp; monthly dues pages signed by John J. Coe; begins October 1934 (booklet has pages printed for 1926 to 1928, overwritten in ink) to 1938 inclusive; Oct. - Dec. 1934 are "50" each, initialled "CBB"; Jan. 1935 is "50", "CB Brown"; Aug. 1 "3.00", "J--", in pencil; Sept. - Dec. 1935 are "50" each, "ST" or "SA" "Mayne"; 1936 is all "50", Mayne and Brown; 1937 is all "50", all Brown; last page lists "OFFICERS:", hon. president is Reeve of Burnaby, then President, Secretary and Treasurer, no names, titles only, and Board of Control, 6 members, not named; union logo; The Columbian Co., Ltd., Printers and Bookbinders
- Colour
- Brown
- Maker
- Columbian Company Limited
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Title
- Burnaby Employees' Benefit Association
Rules and Regulations
- Publication Date
- 1926
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B C driver's licence
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV990.16.1
- Description
- British Columbia Driver's Licence - License -- [1928]. Driver's Licence issued to Jean Caldwell Thompson on August 8, 1928. The front cover has the Provincial Coat of Arms and the issue number for the licence "No. 144650". The fee for obtaining the licence was $1. It states that "The Licence Must Be Carried With You At All Times When Driving". Inside provides detailed information about Jean and rules and regulations to driving. The address given for Jean was "General Hospital Vancouver". The license has been stamped by the Provincial Police in Vancouver, B.C. and signed by Superintendent of the Provincial Police E. McArthur. The licence measures 6.5cm x 10cm.
- Colour
- White
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Licenses
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B C driver's licence
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV978.57.5
- Description
- British Columbia Driver's Licence -(License) -- [1927]. Driver's Licence issued to Norah Irene Descoteau in 1927. The front cover has the Provincial Coat of Arms and the issue number for the licence "No. 118183". It states that "The Licence Must Be Carried With You At All Times When Driving". Inside provides detailed infromation about Norah and rules and regulations to driving. The license has been stamped by the Provincial Police in New Westminster, B.C.
- Object History
- From the estate of Norah Byrne, daughter of Peter Byrne and Priscilla Amelia Rowling Rowling. She married William Napoleon Descoteau on May 28th 1924 in New Westminster. William worked as a steam engineer on the railroad.
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Licenses
- Names
- British Columbia Provincial Police
- Descoteau, Norah Irene Byrne
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card
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV998.58.1
- Description
- National Registration Regulations - Card -- [1940]. Dominion of Canada National Registration Card for Eric Coe of 2684 Fern Avenue, Burnaby. Eric Coe was Part of the Electoral District Number 235 New Westminster, B.C. The registration card was signed on August 19th, 1940 and was signed by Deputy Registrar Vivean Ramsbothan (?). On the back of the card are several ink stamps "BCL-3143", "BCL-3144", "BCL-3145", "BCL 3146" and "STORE X 3-44". The card measures 10cm x 7cm.
- Colour
- White
- Subjects
- Documentary Artifacts
- Documentary Artifacts - Cards
- Names
- Coe, Eric
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wall clock
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV011.20.1
- Description
- Clock - wall clock in a wood case with a pendulum enclosed by a lower extension of the case. The case face is octagonal with a round clock dial. The clock is made by the "New Haven" clock company of the USA. and is marked as a "REGULATOR"
- There is a paper label glued to the back of the clock : "8 Day ERIE REGULATOR / TIME PIECE / MADE BY / THE NEW HAVEN CLOCK CO. / NEW HAVEN CONN. / U.S.A. / DIRECTIONS FOR REGULATING THE CLOCK / If the clock should go too fast, lower the ball; if too / slow, raise it." printed on label.
- There is a pendulum with the clock
- There is a key to wind the clock
- Object History
- The donor was a janitor working for the Burnaby School Board durring most of his career. The clock was donated is from the Riverway East School. This school was built in 1906 and torn down after the Second World War, ca 1948, and replaced with a new school called Glenwood.
- Riverway East School was very similar to the Seaforth School now located at the Burnaby Village Museum.
- Category
- 05.Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology
- Classification
- Timekeeping T&E
- Object Term
- Clock
- Subjects
- Timekeeping Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Riverway East School
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botanical specimen
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV017.7.32
- Description
- English Name: Villous Amomun Fruit
Chinese Pinyin Name: Sharen (ShaRen / SuoShaMiRen)
Physical Description: many small dried fruits, flattened ovals, ranging from pale tan to darker reddish brown colour; some have longitudinal ridges, others appear wrinkled, with stem protrusion one end or hole; at least one is broken open
Production Regions: Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi. Imported sha ren is produced in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
Functions: Transforms dampness, increases appetite, warms spleen, relieves diarrhea, regulates qi, calms fetus. Apply to retention of dampness in the middle, abdominal fullness and anorexia, deficiency and cold spleen and stomach, vomit and diarrhea, pernicious vomiting, restless fetal movements.
- Object History
- Collection of original raw contents of the Chinese Herbalist Shop, Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee, Victoria BC, as purchased from Rodney Pain in 1974.
- Reference
- Chinese Medicinal Material Images Database, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University. URL: http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&lang=eng&searchword=pid=B00254 ;
Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu), 2003;
- Names
- Way Sang Yuen Wat Kee & Company
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handcuffs
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV971.5.47
- Description
- Burnaby Municipal Police issue handcuffs. The cuffs are secured by three links of chain. There is no key.
- Object History
- These handcuffs were used by Constable George Jeffery. George Jeffery served as a Constable on the Burnaby Police Force from 1912 - 1935. His patrolled the large Central Park District by foot, stretching from Boundary to Royal Oak and Marine Drive to Moscrop. Over the coarse of his duties, Constable Jeffery saw the need for recreational activities in the area. He founded the Burnaby Athletic Association which featured a competitive boxing ring and gym. In 1935, when the Burnaby Police became the British Columbia Provincial Police, rather than leave the community he chose to leave the force. George Jeffery than worked at the nearby Oakalla Prison Farm until retiring in 1945.
- Subjects
- Public Services
- Public Services - Policing
- Regulative and Protective Tools and Equipment
- Names
- Jeffery, George
- Burnaby Municipal Police
- Oakalla Prison Farm
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