So we’re at Burnaby Village Museum. This museum shows how British Columbia would have looked like in the 1920s. Upon entry, we saw British flags. But this is Canada eh? History lesson 101 – Canada was once under the British colonial rule.
Anyways, this buildings here are pretty cool. The country styles that some people are emulating now are exactly like these. Some of the exhibits here are dated from 1920s and hence they are No Man’s land. There are replicas in the exhibits based on photos from the past.
Somewhere in the middle of the village, we saw some people walking around in the 1920s clothes. Turns out they are the staff of the museum, some being volunteers. They don’t seem busy…just walking around. They do have some exhibits in which they are the interpreters – explaining what was going on in the 1920s.
Then we came across a mechanic – very nice guy. He gave a live demo on making a door knob, you know, heating and beating the metal. He even gave Nicholas some stuff to put on for photo taking!
We went into the Burnaby Post which is a newspaper publishing company. In those days, it takes 2-3 days to complete a newspaper. Hence news in those days aren’t exactly news. Then some guy (can’t rem his name) came up with a machine that allows the printing of newspapers in a day. This machine is amazing! In brief, you put the letters in a row to make up your sentence which is then made into an iron piece. So each time you want a new sentence, you gotta make a new piece. But people in the past were economical. When you are done with an iron bar and you don’t need that sentence anymore, just melt the iron and it gets recycled! Its a pity that this guy and alot of people in the print industry died of tuberculosis because of the unhealthy environment, the lead etc…
We ended our trip by taking a ride on the carousel. It is a beautiful and colourful carousel. Music was blasting out from the ‘jukebox’, which is pretty by itself. We didn’t know that carousel can go that fast…then again why not, since we had the carousel to ourselves at that time and the attendants were amused by perhaps, 2 old kids.
