Saskatchewan Co-Op Butter Crate.

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Object Description

Object Name

Butter Crate

Object ID

1950.002.290

Title

Saskatchewan Co-Op Butter Crate.

Date

[after 1944].

Description

1 square wooden crate; the wood is light brown; the crate has box joint corners; there is no lid on the crate; the front side of the crate is stamped with black text and an oval-shaped logo which reads: "Ch. No. Reg. No. / Canadian Butter / Co-Op / Saskatchewan"; "Date" and "56 lbs. / Net"; the oval-shaped logo in the center includes two small maple leaves, one of the left side and one on the right; Two sides of the crate have handwritten black text which read: "1946-44 / R/C Pd" and "1956+1957 / U/C Paid [written upside down]". One of the boards on the top edge is cracked nearly in half and very loose.

People/Subject

Noel Booth Store and Gas Station

The Booths arrived in Fern Ridge, south Langley, in the fall of 1921 to continue operating the local post office there. Mrs. Gertrude Lillian Booth assumed the role of postmistress while Mr. Booth commuted to Vancouver to his plumbing business until the mid 1920s. The Booths expanded the services of the post office soon after (a temporary partition was built to accommodate two services, the post office and a small grocery store). Initially a limited number of goods were offered for sale, due largely to the limited floor area. The post office ceased operation in 1926. The gas station at the Booth Store was built in the early 1930s, a small building with a covering for the pumps. There were two pumps - gas and coal-oil. Coal-oil was used extensively for lighting and heating prior to electricity in rural Langley. The store underwent a major renovation in 1936 when the Booths contracted the services of the Smith Brothers, a local construction company. The renovation changed the store layout from an "L" to a linear design. After the renovation the store was now called N. Booth's General Store. The Booth's expanded in 1940 and 1941, adding stores in Whalley and White Rock. The White Rock store closed for economic reasons, and the Whalley location after its manager enlisted in the army. During the Second World War the Booths' established a fleet of mobile stores, at the height of their use between 1946 and 1947. The service was decreased to a one vehicle operation in 1947, and the last remaining vehicle, a Diamond "T", remained in service until 1963 when the traveling grocery was cancelled.
Term Source: Donna J. MacDonald's "The Booth Travelling Store"; Inventory of Historic Buildings in Langley by the Langley Heritage Society.

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