Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE) lapel pin belonging to Mrs. A.B. De Long. It was made by O.B. Allan of Vancouver Attached is a photo of the De Long lapel pins. Mrs. De Long organized and forwarded parcels to CEF troops who were serving overseas. The letters in this collection date from late 1918 and early 1919. They are thank you letters to her. It appears that all of the recipients lived or still had family in the North Burnaby area. The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) is a women's charitable organization based in Canada. It provides scholarships, bursaries, book prizes, and awards, and pursues other philanthropic and educational projects in various communities across Canada. The IODE's motto was "One Flag, One Throne, One Empire". In 1917, the IODE was incorporated as a Canadian women's organization by a special act of the Parliament of Canada. The Seaforth School was constructed due to the demand of increasing population after the First World War, in what was then known as the Lozells District, so isolated at the time that parents were concerned about the danger to their children from wild bears and cougars that roamed the area. It was located at the intersection of Government and Piper, north of Deer Lake in Burnaby. A group of Seaforth Highlanders raised the money to build the Seaforth School as a memorial to their fallen comrades of WW I. The school was named after its sponsor, the Seaforth Chapter of the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire. Bowman and Cullerne, the architects for the Burnaby School Board, designed the one room schoolhouse. It was constructed by local contractor, Alphonse J. Toebaert, following the standards of British Columbia public school architecture, which specified the plan and orientation of the building in 1922. This school is now within the Burnaby Village Museum. The school was moved to the Burnaby Village Museum in 1983, and was opened to the public after extensive restoration in 1987. Both the interior and exterior have been restored and interpreted to the date of original construction. The North Vancouver School Board donated most of the early desks, and the remainder of the interior artifacts are from the museum's own collection.