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Honey Extracting - Processing

Item is a silent, colour film featuring the processing of honey from its transport by truck to the Bee Cee Honey plant through to canning and labelling by factory workers on assembly lines. School children and girl guides are shown entering the plant for tours. The Bee Cee Honey plant building includes a "Hodgson's Bee Supplies Ltd." sign suggesting it may have been filmed in New Westminster, BC, where Hodgson's was based at the time. One of the transport trucks shown in the film bears the slogan, "Another Load of Silverbow Honey." Silverbow is a Washington state-based honey company.

Honey judging

Sub-series comprises originals and copies of material relating to the history of honey judging and the courses developed to train honey judges in British Columbia. The need for honey judges grew out of the desire to promote honey and its uses at various exhibitions in BC, and in particular the Pacific National Exhibition at Vancouver and the Interior Provincial Exhibition at Armstrong. As early as the 1920s, a score card was developed to rank honey on a standardized scale and was used into the 1950s. The Canadian Beekeepers Council, established in the 1940s, also developed a score card allowing for the judging of honey at a national level. By the mid-1960s in BC, there was a demand for formally-trained honey judges, and a one day course was held in 1966 to teach, test, and certify the first group. Additional courses followed in 1975 and the 1980s. Certified honey judges continue to be an important part of exhibitions. Records include course materials, forms, notes, scoring sheets, correspondence, and other documents.

Miscellaneous photographs of BC beekeeping yards, personalities, exhibits, association meetings, and equipment

File consists of 63 black and white, colour, and sepia tone photographs. The majority are original, but there are some copies. Most include annotations identifying content and dates. Personalities pictured include G. Fred Pearcey, W.H. Turnbull, C.F. Connor, Percy Hodgson, John Corner, among others. Locations featured include Armstrong, Creston, Kelowna, and Vernon. There are a number of images featuring honey exhibits from around the province. Of particular note is an original photograph from after 1924 that features W.J. Sheppard, A.W. Finlay, W. Harris, W.H. Turnbull, Alex Keir and F. Dundas Todd, all of whom worked for the BC Department of Agriculture.

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