BARK_RG137

Held by

Barkerville Historic Town via Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (UVic)

Dates

1820 - 1967 (indexed as 1820–1967)

Level

fonds

Extent

21 boxes

Scope & content

This collection consists primarily of assorted Chinese papers Box 1: books, Chinese dictionaries, and Chinese-English dictionaries Box 2: books about herbs, ailments, Chinese opera, divination, abaci, gambling,history, letter writing, dictionaries, and novels Box 3: receipts, invoices, correspondence, gambling accounts, prescriptions, Chinese lottery tickets, publications, statements of accounts for Lee Chong Co. Box 4: a set of Kangxi dictionaries (incomplete) Box 5: invoices, receipts, and a grocery list from 1890 Box 6: documents concerning Quesnelle Forks Chee Kung Tong Box 7: Chinese documents and accounts books Box 8: a Chinese scroll Box 9: documents from Victoria's Chee Kung Tong, a cooking book, and a grocery store's inventory Box 10: books on poetry and divination, and Chinese family letters to Barkerville Box 11: receipts, invoices, a head tax certificate, a book of poetry, correspondence, a record of debtors, and a list of regulations about the share-holding of Lun W Co., Barkerville Box 12: books, textbooks, photographs, and a list of donors and donations for fighting the Japanese in 1938-1939 Box 13: letters, a grocery list of Chinese herbs, bits and pieces of torn papers, etc. Box 14.1: books on divination, Chinese opera, letter writing, herbs and medicine, a Chinese almanac, and a Chinese dictionary Box 14.2: books on gambling, abaci, geography, and Jesus, a Chinese Directory of Vancouver Island, newspapers, and gambling slips Box 15.1: receipts, correspondence, invoices, reports, account books, the Chee Kung Party, and a book on Guan Kung Box 15.2: unclassified Chinese materials - bits and pieces of torn paper, etc Box 16: invoices, correspondence, receipts, musical books for Chinese operas, and book covers Box 17: accounts books for the Lee Chong Co. in Barkerville Box 18: A book of Chinese herbs, donation receipts, lottery tickets, correspondence, Lee Chong Co. accounts, and a portrait of Dr. Alfred Sze Box 19: Correspondence, Chee Kung Tong circulars, Chinese newspaper, and an account book of Tai Lee Mine Box 20.1: Chee Kung Tong, contributions, and a 1918 Barkerville Chinese census Box 20.2: Lee Chong Co. account books, children’s textbooks, and gambling records Box 21: Chinese almanac, miscellaneous books, Chinese magazines, reports, and fundraising information

Places

B.C.

Location

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Subjects

Merchant; Lee Chong

Genre / form

Cartographic material; Textual record

Language

chi, English

Harvested

2026-10-15T07:29:07Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

Digital objects at the source

• imageOpen original at source ↗1980.0320.0001.0001.jpg