CRATE, SHIPPING

Description: WOODEN CRATE WITH STEEL BRACKETS LABELED ON THE OUTSIDE "SILVERWOOD'S HAMILTON", AND STAMPED INTO THE WOOD ON THE INSIDE IS "4" AND "63" AROUND A LOGO MARKED "CANADA CASE CO. INDESTRUCTIBLE (HAMILTON?) ONTARIO". CRATE IS USED TO CARRY MILK, AND INSIDE HAS STEEL RODS IN A GRID PATTERN TO SEPARATE MILK BOTTLES. CRATE IS COVERED IN PAINT, STEEL IS RUSTING, AND WOOD IS TENDER IN SOME AREAS.

History: ITEM DISCOVERED BY DONOR IN DONOR'S BACK ALLEY OF HER LETHBRIDGE HOME WHEN SHE MOVED HERE IN 1975. ALSO, DONOR WAS THE CURATOR OF THE SIR ALEXANDER GALT MUSEUM UNTIL SHE RETIRED IN MARCH 1997. *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING SEVERAL CLOTHING ITEMS DONATED BY CECILE MCCLEARY. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DONOR, CECILE MCCLEARY AND HER HUSBAND CHARLES MCCLEARY. CECILE HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY: “THIS IS FROM THE SILVERWOOD DAIRY HERE IN LETHBRIDGE – A MILK CARTON THING – AND AGAIN WE ACQUIRED THAT – BECAUSE WE MOVED HERE IN ’76, SO WE ACQUIRED THAT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, AND AGAIN, BECAUSE IT WAS LETHBRIDGE … THAT’S WHY THIS IS HERE – JUST ITS UNIQUENESS AS AN ARTIFACT, MORE THAN A PROVENANCE.” SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR A COPY OF THE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT.