Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.
Fonds consists of a collection of photographs of Herbert Yee Law, United Fruit Growers, his farm on Marine Drive and a scanned copy of a survey plan of District Lots 163, 162, 157, 158 and 165.
History
Herbert (Yee) Law was born in New Westminster British Columbia in 1916. Between 1938 and 1945, Yee Law worked for the United Fraser Growers Limited in Vancouver. The company was a wholesaler that purchased produce from Chinese farmers. In 1948 Yee Law purchased land from another Chinese family along Marine Drive in the Big Bend Area of Burnaby. From this location, Yee Law operated a Chinese market garden. Yee Law and his wife Jean had five daughters who attended schools in the area including Riverway West School, McPherson Park School and Burnaby South High School. In 1954, Yee Law continued to live in the area but left his farm to work for a plastic bag company on Annacis Island. Herbert (Yee) Law died in 2003.
"Property of St. Stephen's Church Choir. Priests Copy. Sept. 1957." -- handwritten in ink of endpaper (front).
"Allan's Stationery Gift Shop 17 Sixth Street ph. 1060" --sticker on endpaper (back).
"SUNDAY SCHOOL" [Handwritten in blue ink on front endpaper]
"ST. STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH
(BURQUITLAM)
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C." [Stamped in blue ink on front endpaper and front flyleaf]
The donor and her siblings attended North Burnaby High School (decades after 1938), and the donors parents lived in the Burnaby Heights area from 1963-1993. Their father passed in 2002 and their mother in 2010. The yearbook formerly belonged to the donors parents, though it is not known how they obtained it as the parents did not attend Burnaby North for high school.
"with British Columbia supplement" --Front cover.
"British Columbia [supplement] by Arthur Anstey" --p.1.
Author's given name: Burt, Alfred LeRoy, 1888-1971.
"S 25" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front).
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on endpaper (front).
"203-39-0-92" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (front).
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on flyleaf.
"Burnaby School Board" -- stamped on flyleaf.
"202-39-0-92" -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
"Sept/39 - Sch Bd." -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
"Vicki" -- handwritten in pencil on flyleaf (back).
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on endpaper (back).
"203-39-0-92" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (back).
"S 25" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front).
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on endpaper (front).
"201-39-R-92" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (front).
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on flyleaf.
"Burnaby School Board" -- stamped on flyleaf.
"201-39-R-92" -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
"Sept/39 - Sch Bd." -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
"Gilmore Avenue School Library / Number" -- stamped on endpaper (back).
"201-39-R-92" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (back).
1 map : blueprint ink on paper ; 60 x 85 cm folded to 25 x 11 cm in cover
Scope and Content
Item is Wrigley's Official Arrow City map of Greater Vancouver and New Westminster, published by Roy Wrigley Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. in Vancouver. Map includes a street index of "Vancouver and [the] Lower Mainland." The maps shows main streets, bus lines, interurban lines, street car lines a…
1 map : blueprint ink on paper ; 60 x 85 cm folded to 25 x 11 cm in cover
Material Details
Scale : 1 inch = 3000 feet
Cover is in col. and is attached to corner of map
Description Level
Item
Record No.
42693
Accession Number
BHS1986-43
Scope and Content
Item is Wrigley's Official Arrow City map of Greater Vancouver and New Westminster, published by Roy Wrigley Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. in Vancouver. Map includes a street index of "Vancouver and [the] Lower Mainland." The maps shows main streets, bus lines, interurban lines, street car lines and numbers.
"Donald Hayward" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (front).
"376 Albert St." -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front).
"172 Bernard kelowna" -- handwritten in pen on endpaper (front).
"Register No. '1903'
Date Issued 'Aug. 24 1935'
Loaned To 'Westminster Clear Cedar Mills'
Address "New Westminster, BC'" [handwritten in sticker on inside front cover]
"Maureen Farr
Class 14 Room 102" [handwritten in black ink on front pastedown]
"125" [handwritten in pencil on front endpaper]
Notes written in pencil and ink throughout book and on back endpaper and pastedown
"April 25th, 1935.
THIS CATALOGUE
is loaned to you with our compliments
Gordon & Belyea Limited
If at any time you do not require this Catalogue, please advise us and we will have one of our representatives call for it." [Typed in blue ink and pasted to front endpaper]
"Property of:
Gordon B. Hewitt
UBC Dept. of Pharmacy
or 7450 Angus Dr
Vancouver
Kerrisdale 4582" [handwritten in black ink on paper glued onto front endpapers]
"59" -- handwritten in pencil on cover
"u-9c" -- handwritten in ink on endpaper (front).
"41 / 11118 - 57 / --- " -- handwritten in pencil on back cover
"Glen School Library" [stamped in ink on t.p., iii, back pastedown]
Borrower's card from Glen School pastedonto front endpaper with names "Marilyn" and "Mary Ann" handwritten in pencil