- MS-0103
- Series
- date unknown
History of the Ng family (20 volumes in Chinese).
Ng Family
10 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
History of the Ng family (20 volumes in Chinese).
Ng Family
The file contains Free Miners Certificates, one of which is made out in the name of "Dree Quong."
British Columbia fiction: attitudes towards Chinese / Kathleen Swee Yin Chen
The item is a typescript copy of a thesis by Kathleen Swee Yin Chen called "British Columbia fiction: attitudes towards Chinese". vi, 187 leaves. Thesis (M.A.), Simon Fraser University, 1984. Bibliography leaves, 1-5 (after thesis).
Letter from Caspar Phair, Sheriff of Lillooet, to Mr. Justice Harrison
The item is a letter from Caspar Phair, Sheriff of Lillooet, to Mr. Justice Harrison regarding the sitting of County Court and the gold discoveries made by Chinese miners at Cayoosh Creek, 1886.
Harrison, Eli, 1852-1930
CALL NUMBER: T1660:[0006? - 0009?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson (cont'd) RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974 & 1975 SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses his memories of the First World War; memories of Vancouver; and the history of Hopkins Landing. [NOTE: Not transcribed.]
CALL NUMBER: T1660:0001 - [0005?] SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Evening chats with Eric R. Thomson RECORDED: Hopkins Landing (B.C.), 1974-07-30 & -08-01, etc. SUMMARY: In a series of interviews recorded by his grandson, Eric R. Thomson of Hopkins Landing discusses: a 1902 trip up the Skeena with his father, James Thomson, of the Hudson's Bay Company; a 1911 trip up the Stikine; and his recollections of growing up in Victoria, 1896-1904.
Smithers, British Columbia; Bakery.
Account book, in Chinese, no date, and English, 1932 and 1944-1954.
Smithers, British Columbia; Bakery
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.
Chinese business in Vancouver, 1886-1914 / Paul Richard Yee
Chinese business in Vancouver, 1886-1914. v, 143 p: tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1983. Vita. Bibliography: pages 128-132.
Purchased from the National Library, 1987.
Account ledger; Chinese language book. A story, either personal or copied, appears near the back of the language book.
Presented by W.B. Armstrong, Emery Camp, Choate, 1932.
Chinese Ledger (Choate, B.C.)
Series consists of two items. One is a 1911 letter from Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Victoria businessman Li Bang Lim, regarding fund-raising for Nationalist China. The letter is written in Chinese. The second is a medal presented to Li Bang Lim by Hon. Li Hong Chong on the occasion of his visit to Victoria.
Papers relating to Chinese people in British Columbia
The series consists of (Volume 1) tickets for passage from Hong Kong to Victoria in 1865 via the barque "Maria", receipts, account books, medicine books; and (Volume 2) letters written by a son in China to his father in B.C. in the 1870s relating to crops, family news, and information regarding the investment of remittances (Volume 2).
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.
Receipt issued to Tea Ah Chee for a Record of Placer Claim and water in a small spring below A. Burnett's House, 12th July, 1898, Lillooet District. Free Miner's Certificate issued to Te Ah Chee of Crow's Bar, 12th July, 1898. Small decorative envelope.
The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Chee Chiu Clement Ng titled "The Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver: 1885-1923, a response to local conditions." vi, 293 p Thesis (MSW), University of Manitoba, 1986. Bibliography: p 280-293.
The item is a typescript of a thesis by Charles P. Sedgewick titled "The context of economic change and continuity in an urban overseas Chinese community, 1973". 224 p,. tables, maps. Thesis (M.A.) - University of Victoria, 1973. Bibliography, p 196-203.
Presented by the author, 1973.
Account book written in Chinese.
Presented by Mr. A.L. Reeve, Toronto, Ontario.
Chinese Grocery
Letter from Sam L. Bedson to John Peter Mackenzie
The item is a 1946 letter from Sam L. Bedson to military engineer John Mackenzie about efforts by Vancouver Chinese merchants to export goods to China, and offering comments about strikes and rumors of strikes in Vancouver area.
Statement of accounts in the matter of Kwong Lee and Company; receipts.
Kwong Lee and Company
Street of T'ongs: planning in Vancouver's Chinatown / Raymond Edgar Young
Street of T'ongs: planning in Vancouver's Chinatown. 1975. vi, 125 leaves: illus., maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1975. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 119-125. Canadian theses on microfiche, 26033.
Undated and untranslated account book.