McClary Cook Stove - Okanagan Falls, British Columbia
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N 49° 20.524 W 119° 34.275
11U E 313233 N 5468663
The Bassett House is the oldest buildings in the South Okanagan, Bassett House has housed a museum for close to 40 years.
Waymark Code: WM18HC3
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 08/05/2023
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Bassett House, which today houses the Museum, was ordered from the T. Eaton and Company catalogue in 1906 by the pioneer Bassett family, who operated a freight and stagecoach company in the area. Arriving in prefabricated kit form at the north end of Okanagan Lake by rail, the house crossed the lake from Vernon to Penticton on a stern wheeler and was carried the rest of the way to Okanagan Falls by horse drawn wagon.
Since its opening in 1984, the Bassett House Museum is filled with artefacts and paraphernalia germane to the period in which the house was built, which was before 1910. Some of the furnishings may have belonged to the Bassett family.
This McClary Kootenay wood or coal burning stove is most likely circa 1920 and is located in the Bassett House. This McCleary stove is still in nice condition and ornate with two warming compartments above the six burner cook top. There are two very ornate emblems;
McClary's
Famous Stoves
McClary MPC, CO
Kootenay
London, Ont.
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 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
