RBCM Archives

K/EA/C43.4
File
1883-1903

Part of Archives discrete item collection

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.

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

K/EA/C43.1
File
1865

Part of Archives discrete item collection

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.

The Reverend C.Y. Chow, of Metropolitan United Church, Victoria.

C-07985
Item

Part of Archives visual records collection

A distaff member of the Rout family, and the house boy at Rout Harvey Sr.'s home; Stoneyhurst, 1369 Rockland Avenue, Victoria; constructed 1884.

D-03788
Item

Part of Archives visual records collection

The Newcombe family, Charles on the left.

D-07476
Item

Part of Archives visual records collection

Business records

MS-1053
Series
1858-1887

Part of Kwong Lee and Company fonds

Business records of Kwong Lee and Co., and Hopkee and Co., including shares of British Columbia companies and agreement to transport Chinese to Victoria.

Presented by W.E. Knowlton, Kamloops, 1977.

Ah Foo, Charles Frederic Newcombe's cook

F-05112
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Chinese children on the sidewalk on Fisgard Street; Chinese new year; Victoria

C-06727
Item
1900

Part of Archives visual records collection

Chinese funeral procession on Government Street, Victoria

D-05667
Item

Part of Archives visual records collection

Chinese funeral procession southbound on Government Street, picture taken from Johnson Street

A-01548
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Chinese josh [joss] house

F-06762
Item
[between 1872 and 1892]

Part of Archives visual records collection

The item is a black and white cabinet card (with edges trimmed) showing a Chinese temple or Chinese community Tachiu event which may have been hosted by the Hongnen Chee Kung Tong (CKT). It may have been taken in Victoria. On the back of the card is the studio inscription of Mrs. R. Maynard's photographic studio with the address given as the corner of Douglas and Johnson Streets in Victoria. It is presumed to have been taken between 1872 and 1892 as that is when Maynard's studio was located at Douglas and Johnson Streets.

Commission on Victoria Police Commissioners

GR-0784
Series
1910

This series consists of records of the Commission on Victoria Police Commissioners, 1910. Commissioner Peter S. Lampman was appointed March 24, 1910 to inquire into the actions of the Victoria Police commissioners in response to allegations of corruption. The investigation centered on the actions of the Police Commissioners in regard to bawdy houses and gambling establishments in the Chinatown area.

British Columbia. Commission on Victoria Police Commissioners (1910)

From the Lee Mong Kow file

D-08818
Item

Part of Archives visual records collection

Two women and a girl in posed photo.

Group in front of Victoria Chinese United Church on the occasion of its 50th anniversary (1885-1935).

B-01010
Item
6 Sep 1935

Part of Archives visual records collection

Lee Mong Kow's family in Victoria

A-02348
Item
[Before 1905]

Part of Archives visual records collection

Left to Right: Mrs. Lee Mong Kow (Seto Chang Ann), #5 son Lee Yook Lum (Arthur), Mrs. Lee Yook Quan (Lee Mong Kow's mother), #3 son Lee Yook Quan (Alfred), Mr. Lee Mong Kow, #2 daughter Lee Yut Wah (Ida)