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OBJECT TYPE: uniform
DATE: 2003
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2003.0229.002

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Prince Edward Island Forest Service
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 2
AKA: shoulder flash
Patents: N/A
General Description: fabric & embroidery thread/ synthetic backing

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 10.2 cm
Width: 6.2 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Forestry
Category: Fire fighting
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Prince Edward Island
Period: Unknown
Canada: Uniform identification badges used by Canadian forestry and forest fire fighting personnel, specifically of Prince Edward Island. The Provincial Forest Section is responsible for the sustainable management of the provinces publically owned forest, including forest fire management. Fire suppression is carried out using Forest Section staff & equipment in conjunction with volunteer fire departments. Equipment includes six forest fire tanker/pumpers & two all terrain tracked tankers (Ref. 2).
Function: Identifying patches worn on the uniforms of provincial forestry personnel, affixed to a shirt or jacket.
Technical: An example of a machine embroidered fabric badge. For centuries embroidery hand been done by hand, but during the industrial revolution mechanization of the process began. Embroidery machines were designed by 1860, combining in a single machine handloom technology with the existing sewing machine technology, the lock-stitch. The automation was refined in the in the 1970s - early 1980s with automatic, electronically controlled custom embroidered machines developed in Japan. Instead of the instructions being coded on a continuous reel of paper or Mylar(r) tape containing x-y coordinate information in Binary, Fortran or other numeric code to control pantograph movement, the information is now digitized on computer disks. These machines also do the work flat instead of vertically which allows automatic colour changes (Ref. 1).
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: embroidered gold lettering reads "PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FORESTRY SERVICE"
Missing: complete
Finish: brown with gold & green embroidery
Decoration: emboidered island & trees motif

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Unknown Manufacturer, Badge, circa 2003, Artifact no. 2003.0229, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0229.002/

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