General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

HEAVY GAUGE TIN? PAN/ FORGED? METAL HANDLES

Dimensions

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

Length

104.0 cm

Width

58.0 cm

Height

82.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

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Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Cottage industries

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Quebec

Period

Unknown

Canada

This evaporator pan was collected by ethnographer Marius Barbeau in the summer of 1936. It was bought from Joseph Cote of St. Pierre, L'Île-d'Orléans. Mr. Cote sold an estimated 133 items to Mr. Barbeau for 280.00 dollars. Marius Barbeau was a renowned Canadian ethnographer and folklorist in the first half of the 20th century known for his work on Indigenous groups and collections of songs and stories. In 1936 and 1937 Barbeau travelled to Ile de Orleans and other locales near Quebec City and bought hundreds of agricultural and domestic artifacts for a museum first developed by the Department of Agriculture in 1920. The former Department of Agriculture museum was located on the same site as the current Agriculture and Food Museum on the Experimental Farm property. Source: Listed on page 10 as number 232 under Joseph Cote’s name as “Large square box of cast iron” from the Canadian Museum of History’s archival fond entitled the Marius Barbeau fonds. Entreprise link: http://opentext/OTCS/llisapi.dll/link/6642150 This research was performed by volunteer Denise Steeves in November-December 2019.

Function

For boiling sap in order to reduce it to syrup by reducing most of the water content. Sap admitted to the pan thickens as it flows through the zig zag course created by the flues until it reached the consistency of syrup & is drawn through the outlet. Note: this pan would have been set on an “arch” or stove.

Technical

Notes on the object in Barbeau’s inventory states as follows: “Large square box of cast iron to boil the maple sap used before the round kettle was in use here. Weighs more than 100 pounds. The only one of its kind, according to owner”. This pan has a spout on its front side. Use of narrow, deep channels or flues in bottom of pan increased heating surface and transfer of heat, resulting in faster rate of evaporation, improved quality of syrup and lowered production costs.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'[FOUAUCA]'? SCRATCHEDIN SCRIPT ON END/ 'X-500' PAINTED IN BLACK ON OTHER END

Missing

From CA of 06/20/1997 by Pat Montero: No - Complete

Finish

PAN & HANDLES METAL UNFINISHED

Decoration

N/A