McClary Cook Stove - Penticton, British Columbia
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N 49° 29.452 W 119° 35.364
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McClary Cook Stove is located in a small recreated county kitchen in the back right side corner of the Penticton Museum & Archives. The museum is located at 785 Main Street. The library is also part of this Community Art Complex.
Waymark Code: WMV6J4
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 03/04/2017
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This McClary wood or coal burning stove is most likely circa 1920. This stove has the flue as part of the stove where much earlier stoves had a flue pipe attached as a separate unit. Most commonly referred as a "stove pipe" used for cook stoves and old cast iron heaters.
This McCleary stove is still in good condition and ornate with a warming compartment above the cook top. The oven and side compartments are faced with white porcelain. There is a temperature gauge on the oven door and the name McClary and Garry. Was not able to find any information about the reference "Garry". This is actually a very large stove with 8 burner surfaces rather than the more traditional 6 burner common on most homesteads in the area. I would consider this a more wealthy family's stove just because of its size and food preparation was mostly done by cooks and servants hired as domestic help.
J. & O. McClary, two brothers John and Oliver established their own line of tinware around 1850. They peddled their tinware and later added plows to their line.
Around 1897 they purchased a foundry in London, Ontario and started producing wood burning cook stoves. The McClary Manufacturing Company became later known as 100% Canadian and sales were now handled by dealerships throughout Canada. They later acquired other foundries as far west as one in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Museum History
The Penticton Museum was established in 1954, when the city gave local collector R.N. Atkinson the use of the decommissioned stern wheeler S.S. Sicamous to house his private collection.
A long-time Penticton resident and veteran of the First World War, Reg Atkinson collected military items, native artifacts, firearms, and antiques since the early 1920s and had previously operated a private museum in his home. The R.N. Atkinson Temporary Gallery is named in honour of the Penticton Museum's first curator, who passed away in 1973.
In 1965 the museum moved to its current location at the Penticton Community Art complex, which it continues to share with the Penticton Public Library."
Source:
Penticton Museum
