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Archives discrete item collection Victoria (B.C.) With digital objects
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Account book

Account book containing entries about loans, insurance, exchanges of gold dust and "gold eggs". The keeper of the accounts was acting as an agent and banker for Chinese who wished to send remittances back to China.

Members of the Songhees at the ceremony attending the transfer of the Songhees reserve to the provincial government, Victoria; Chief Michael Cooper standing at centre

Songhees at the April 4 ceremonies. Front row, left to right: Sam Qullamult (ca. 1835-1925), Mrs. Pelkie, Mary Freezie (wife of the late Charley Freezie, mother of James Fraser) and an unnamed man. Back row, left to right: Councillor Thomas George, chief Michael Cooper and Councillor William Robert. (Songhees Pictorial, p. 150)

Tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria via Barque "Maria"

87 pre-printed tickets in English and Chinese, with name of passengers, age, occupation and native place filled out in English. The tickets also have the name of the passenger written in Chinese. Some of the ticket holders were children. Folder 1 also contains undated hand-written notes which describe the conditions on the voyage re food and space allotted, and state that they were in contravention of the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855. Two Chinese names are listed on the note: A. Quang and Quang Ling.