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Group Member Names: Leah, Rod, McKenna, Ashley

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Group Member Names:
Kylee, Jai, Simrin,  Marlen

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Group Member Names: Lina, Zach, Salena, Leslie

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Group Member Names: Franz, Angelica, Jennifer, Jessica

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Group 1: British Royalty Commemorative Items.

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Group 1: British Royalty Commemorative Items.

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The British royalty has been commemorated on pottery, glass and paper since the days of Charles II in the seventeenth century. In Queen Victoria's reign commemorative souvenirs increased in popularity and were available to nearly everyone. Capturing memories of events and people for later recollection and enjoyment, commemoratives relating to the royal family seem to have a special place in the hearts of many.

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The British royalty has been commemorated on pottery, glass and paper since the days of Charles II in the seventeenth century. In Queen Victoria's reign commemorative souvenirs increased in popularity and were available to nearly everyone. Capturing memories of events and people for later recollection and enjoyment, commemoratives relating to the royal family seem to have a special place in the hearts of many.

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https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100/object/womens-war-service/

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Date:

2009.08.12

Record:

2009.126.2

Materials:

Doll in Canadian Women's Army Corps service dress

During the war, while many women served on the home front, others went to war. The first women's unit raised was the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC), founded in Victoria in 1941 by Mrs. Joan Kennedy. Although they were first dismissed as a "petticoat army" by a patronizing male, they became regular army in 1942. The CWAC uniforms included buttons featuring the image of Athena, Goddess of War. One who wore that uniform was Mary Greyeyes Reid, the first indigenous woman to join the CWAC. After the war she moved to Victoria and worked in a local restaurant until she retired. After her death in 2011 she was buried at Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan. More than 22,000 women served in the CWAC.

Denied combat roles, CWAC women provided clerical, transport and wireless support, including deployment overseas in England, Italy and Northern Germany. Some did secret decoding and cipher work. Initially disbanded in August 1946, they were reinstituted and continued to serve until 1964.

The 17,038 women of the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division (WD) did essential work, releasing men for overseas service and playing a crucial role at the training air bases of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program in Canada, where they prepared Allied air crews for combat. Their work expanded quickly to include over 22 trades, mechanical, electrical, radio, and parachute packing. Others served with RCAF Overseas Headquarters in London, sharing the risk of enemy bombing.

The last women's unit founded were the 6,000 women of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS), nicknamed "Wrens", who were excluded from warships until 1945. But naval land bases being technically "stone frigates," means the base commander at HMCS Bytown II, Captain Isabel Mcneill, became the first woman to command a RCN "ship." Only paid 2/3 a male wage, the Wrens handled a wide range of clerical and transport work but also did LORAN, signals and cipher work. One hundred WRCNS participated in headquarters command and control work during D-Day.

As in the previous war, women also served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) Nursing Sisters, holding a junior officer rank to give them authority over patients. They also shared the risks of bombing and shelling. Canadian women also worked for the Canadian Red Cross Service, providing comforts for wounded personnel, victims of war and prisoners of war.

After VE Day and demobilization, women war veterans joined the multi-service Canadian Legion, which has its own uniform. The service dress dolls pictured here are a gift of the Ex-Service Women's Royal Canadian Legion Branch 182. The Branch was founded in 1945 and disbanded in 2008. The dolls were displayed at public events and monthly meetings as a remembrance of past war service. The CWAC uniform was made by Dorothy Creasy (Ferguson) from an old uniform and shirttail. The WD doll service uniform was crafted by Ione Canning (Ellis) with the hat badge, buttons and belt buckle insignia by Delphine Large (Cameron). The WRCNS uniform was made by Ethel Jaggard. The RCMC nursing sister was made by Sergeant Dorothy Creasy.

This object selected by Paul Ferguson.

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Date: 2009.08.12 Record: 2009.126.2 Materials: Doll in Canadian Women's Army Corps service dress During the war, while many women served on the home front, others went to war. The first women's unit raised was the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC), founded in Victoria in 1941 by Mrs. Joan Kennedy.

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https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100/object/monarch-butterfly/

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This handsome butterfly is most famous for its long-distance migration. Monarchs have been recorded all across southern British Columbia at low elevations, although they are seldom seen outside the dry southern Interior valleys. It is a blue-listed species in BC, meaning it is of special concern because of characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events.

Most BC populations of this butterfly overwinter communally in California, while populations east of the Rockies head even further south to the mountains of Mexico. These aggregations are at risk because of deforestation, which reduces the habitat available to them. Temperature ranges for breeding monarchs make climate change a real issue as well - if it is too dry or too cool, this species cannot successfully reproduce.

The food-plant of the larva in the province is the Showy Milkweed ( Asclepias speciosa), which contains heart poisons called cardiac glycosides. The larvae and adults hold these chemicals in their bodies, making them toxic to predators. Both larvae and adults are boldly coloured to warn potential predators to stay away. Milkweed is being eliminated in agricultural areas through the use of herbicides on genetically-modified crops.

This object selected by Claudia Copley.

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This handsome butterfly is most famous for its long-distance migration. Monarchs have been recorded all across southern British Columbia at low elevations, although they are seldom seen outside the dry southern Interior valleys. It is a blue-listed species in BC, meaning it is of special concern because of characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events.

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Group 4: Handbook to the New Gold Fields.

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Group 4: Handbook to the New Gold Fields.

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https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100/object/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields/

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This 1858 handbook, advertising the gold fields of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers, comes from a time when the words "British Columbia" were synonymous with "Gold!". These early printed accounts of British Columbia are some of the most significant items in our library holdings. Before them, the world had very little sense of what British Columbia looked like.

The first line read: "The problem of colonization in the north-western portion of British America is fast working itself out." The author was completely correct, since it was the 1858 gold rush that essentially created the Colony and then province of British Columbia. In response to the massive influx of gold-seekers from all over the world, particularly California and the American northwest, Britain established the new mainland colony of British Columbia in 1858 to protect its interests.

Published by Robert Ballantyne in 1858, the book was printed in Edinburgh, and sold for one shilling. It was rushed into print to take advantage of the rapidly spreading interest in the new gold rush in British Columbia. Books like this often raised unrealistic expectations in would-be gold-diggers, who often went home poorer than when they arrived.

This object selected by Ann ten Cate. View Profile "

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This 1858 handbook, advertising the gold fields of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers, comes from a time when the words "British Columbia" were synonymous with "Gold!". These early printed accounts of British Columbia are some of the most significant items in our library holdings.

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https://batashoemuseum.ca/the-bsm-collection/

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

The mission of the Bata Shoe Museum is to communicate the central role of footwear in the shaping the social and cultural life of humanity. Through acquiring, conserving, researching, interpreting and exhibiting material evidence of the history of footwear and shoemaking, the museum illustrates the changing habits, lifestyles, culture and customs of the world’s inhabitants. The BSM’s international collection of over 14,000 artifacts spans 4,500 years of history.

The Bata Shoe Museum is home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of shoes and footwear-related objects. In addition, it is an internationally recognized centre for footwear research that sponsors field research, publishes research findings and promotes education.

At present, the permanent collection contains artifacts from virtually every culture in the world. Where else could you find French chestnut-crushing boots under the same roof as delicately-embroidered Chinese silk shoes, bear fur shoes made for Japanese samurai warriors and footwear made from human hair?

Highlights

A rare and well-preserved velvet-covered platform chopine from 16th-century Italy is one of the great treasures of the museum’s fashion footwear collection, which ranges chronologically from the Italian Renaissance to the catwalks of today’s designers. This chopine – so tall that the wearer could not walk unaided – provides an interesting introduction to other equally outrageous shoe styles introduced over the centuries. Salvatore Ferragamo and Vivienne Westwood weren’t the first designers to think of platforms; nor, if history teaches us anything, will they be the last.

One of the most important aspects of the BSM’s holdings is an extensive collection of Indigenous North American and circumpolar footwear. This collection, along with the fieldwork commissioned to study indigenous shoemaking, have greatly contributed to the scholarship of shoes.

Among the collection’s most popular features is an extensive assortment of celebrity footwear, including Queen Victoria’s ballroom slippers, Robert Redford’s cowboy boots, Elton John’s monogrammed silver platform boots, Terry Fox’s running shoe, Elvis Presley’s blue patent loafers, Karen Kain’s ballet shoes and John Lennon’s Beatle boot.

The museum’s archaeological collection includes footwear from some of the earliest civilizations on earth: ancient Egyptian sarcophagi with painted sandal designs, leg-shaped perfume vials made by an ancient Greek potter, and Roman bronze lamps representing sandal-clad feet. The collection also includes intriguing examples of medieval footwear.

But the BSM’s collection doesn’t stop at shoes. We also have a companion collection of shoe-shaped ornamental artefacts such as majolica hand-warmers and inlaid fruitwood snuffboxes, as well as graphic material from 14th-century woodcut prints and 19th-century caricature lithographs to original paintings and sculptures.

Some highlights from the BSM collection:

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

The mission of the Bata Shoe Museum is to communicate the central role of footwear in the shaping the social and cultural life of humanity. Through acquiring, conserving, researching, interpreting and exhibiting material evidence of the history of footwear and shoemaking, the museum illustrates the changing habits, lifestyles, culture and customs of the world’s inhabitants. The BSM’s international collection of over 14,000 artifacts spans 4,500 years of history.

The Bata Shoe Museum is home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of shoes and footwear-related objects. In addition, it is an internationally recognized centre for footwear research that sponsors field research, publishes research findings and promotes education.

At present, the permanent collection contains artifacts from virtually every culture in the world. Where else could you find French chestnut-crushing boots under the same roof as delicately-embroidered Chinese silk shoes, bear fur shoes made for Japanese samurai warriors and footwear made from human hair?

Highlights

A rare and well-preserved velvet-covered platform chopine from 16th-century Italy is one of the great treasures of the museum’s fashion footwear collection, which ranges chronologically from the Italian Renaissance to the catwalks of today’s designers. This chopine – so tall that the wearer could not walk unaided – provides an interesting introduction to other equally outrageous shoe styles introduced over the centuries. Salvatore Ferragamo and Vivienne Westwood weren’t the first designers to think of platforms; nor, if history teaches us anything, will they be the last.

One of the most important aspects of the BSM’s holdings is an extensive collection of Indigenous North American and circumpolar footwear. This collection, along with the fieldwork commissioned to study indigenous shoemaking, have greatly contributed to the scholarship of shoes.

Among the collection’s most popular features is an extensive assortment of celebrity footwear, including Queen Victoria’s ballroom slippers, Robert Redford’s cowboy boots, Elton John’s monogrammed silver platform boots, Terry Fox’s running shoe, Elvis Presley’s blue patent loafers, Karen Kain’s ballet shoes and John Lennon’s Beatle boot.

The museum’s archaeological collection includes footwear from some of the earliest civilizations on earth: ancient Egyptian sarcophagi with painted sandal designs, leg-shaped perfume vials made by an ancient Greek potter, and Roman bronze lamps representing sandal-clad feet. The collection also includes intriguing examples of medieval footwear.

But the BSM’s collection doesn’t stop at shoes. We also have a companion collection of shoe-shaped ornamental artefacts such as majolica hand-warmers and inlaid fruitwood snuffboxes, as well as graphic material from 14th-century woodcut prints and 19th-century caricature lithographs to original paintings and sculptures.

Some highlights from the BSM collection:

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

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https://batashoemuseum.ca/the-bsm-collection/

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

The mission of the Bata Shoe Museum is to communicate the central role of footwear in the shaping the social and cultural life of humanity. Through acquiring, conserving, researching, interpreting and exhibiting material evidence of the history of footwear and shoemaking, the museum illustrates the changing habits, lifestyles, culture and customs of the world’s inhabitants. The BSM’s international collection of over 14,000 artifacts spans 4,500 years of history.

The Bata Shoe Museum is home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of shoes and footwear-related objects. In addition, it is an internationally recognized centre for footwear research that sponsors field research, publishes research findings and promotes education.

At present, the permanent collection contains artifacts from virtually every culture in the world. Where else could you find French chestnut-crushing boots under the same roof as delicately-embroidered Chinese silk shoes, bear fur shoes made for Japanese samurai warriors and footwear made from human hair?

Highlights

A rare and well-preserved velvet-covered platform chopine from 16th-century Italy is one of the great treasures of the museum’s fashion footwear collection, which ranges chronologically from the Italian Renaissance to the catwalks of today’s designers. This chopine – so tall that the wearer could not walk unaided – provides an interesting introduction to other equally outrageous shoe styles introduced over the centuries. Salvatore Ferragamo and Vivienne Westwood weren’t the first designers to think of platforms; nor, if history teaches us anything, will they be the last.

One of the most important aspects of the BSM’s holdings is an extensive collection of Indigenous North American and circumpolar footwear. This collection, along with the fieldwork commissioned to study indigenous shoemaking, have greatly contributed to the scholarship of shoes.

Among the collection’s most popular features is an extensive assortment of celebrity footwear, including Queen Victoria’s ballroom slippers, Robert Redford’s cowboy boots, Elton John’s monogrammed silver platform boots, Terry Fox’s running shoe, Elvis Presley’s blue patent loafers, Karen Kain’s ballet shoes and John Lennon’s Beatle boot.

The museum’s archaeological collection includes footwear from some of the earliest civilizations on earth: ancient Egyptian sarcophagi with painted sandal designs, leg-shaped perfume vials made by an ancient Greek potter, and Roman bronze lamps representing sandal-clad feet. The collection also includes intriguing examples of medieval footwear.

But the BSM’s collection doesn’t stop at shoes. We also have a companion collection of shoe-shaped ornamental artefacts such as majolica hand-warmers and inlaid fruitwood snuffboxes, as well as graphic material from 14th-century woodcut prints and 19th-century caricature lithographs to original paintings and sculptures.

Some highlights from the BSM collection:

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

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https://batashoemuseum.ca/the-bsm-collection/

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A world renowned collection of over 14,000 artifacts

The mission of the Bata Shoe Museum is to communicate the central role of footwear in the shaping the social and cultural life of humanity. Through acquiring, conserving, researching, interpreting and exhibiting material evidence of the history of footwear and shoemaking, the museum illustrates the changing habits, lifestyles, culture and customs of the world’s inhabitants. The BSM’s international collection of over 14,000 artifacts spans 4,500 years of history.

The Bata Shoe Museum is home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of shoes and footwear-related objects. In addition, it is an internationally recognized centre for footwear research that sponsors field research, publishes research findings and promotes education.

At present, the permanent collection contains artifacts from virtually every culture in the world. Where else could you find French chestnut-crushing boots under the same roof as delicately-embroidered Chinese silk shoes, bear fur shoes made for Japanese samurai warriors and footwear made from human hair?

Highlights

A rare and well-preserved velvet-covered platform chopine from 16th-century Italy is one of the great treasures of the museum’s fashion footwear collection, which ranges chronologically from the Italian Renaissance to the catwalks of today’s designers. This chopine – so tall that the wearer could not walk unaided – provides an interesting introduction to other equally outrageous shoe styles introduced over the centuries. Salvatore Ferragamo and Vivienne Westwood weren’t the first designers to think of platforms; nor, if history teaches us anything, will they be the last.

One of the most important aspects of the BSM’s holdings is an extensive collection of Indigenous North American and circumpolar footwear. This collection, along with the fieldwork commissioned to study indigenous shoemaking, have greatly contributed to the scholarship of shoes.

Among the collection’s most popular features is an extensive assortment of celebrity footwear, including Queen Victoria’s ballroom slippers, Robert Redford’s cowboy boots, Elton John’s monogrammed silver platform boots, Terry Fox’s running shoe, Elvis Presley’s blue patent loafers, Karen Kain’s ballet shoes and John Lennon’s Beatle boot.

The museum’s archaeological collection includes footwear from some of the earliest civilizations on earth: ancient Egyptian sarcophagi with painted sandal designs, leg-shaped perfume vials made by an ancient Greek potter, and Roman bronze lamps representing sandal-clad feet. The collection also includes intriguing examples of medieval footwear.

But the BSM’s collection doesn’t stop at shoes. We also have a companion collection of shoe-shaped ornamental artefacts such as majolica hand-warmers and inlaid fruitwood snuffboxes, as well as graphic material from 14th-century woodcut prints and 19th-century caricature lithographs to original paintings and sculptures.

Some highlights from the BSM collection:

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