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Paul Yee fonds Chinese in Canada
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Frank Wong and Paul Yee

File consists of photographs of Frank Wong, former member of Chinese Soccer Team, at Cathay Seniors Home, Paul Yee with students at Hastings Elementary School in Vancouver, two self-portraits of Yee and other images.

Paul Yee fonds

  • AM1523
  • Fonds
  • 1864-2007

The fonds consists of Paul Yee’s personal correspondence and records of academic achievement, writing and research files, subject files, photographs, and sound recordings, as well as publications and ephemera that he collected. These records relate to Yee's activities as a writer, historian, activist, and archivist in Vancouver and Toronto.

In addition, the fonds includes photographs, correspondence, and other records of some of Yee’s immediate family members, including his Aunt Lillian and Uncle Foon Wong, and their close friends. The fonds also contains textual records, publications, ephemera, and photographs relating to the activities of the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver and the Pender Guy Radio Co-operative, as well records relating to the functions of fraternal associations such as the Wong Kong Har Tong and Hoy Yin Association in Vancouver, and the Duncan, B.C., Branch of the Chinese Nationalist League (Kuo Min Tang).

Yee, Paul

Yee family photographs

Subseries consists of photographs of Gum May Yee and Gordon Yee, their children, and some of their friends and acquaintances in the area of Naicam, Saskatchewan.

[Interviews with] Peter Chong, Village Chief, Louie Phillips, Lytton B.C.

Item is an audio cassette containing recordings of two interviews, a brief one with Peter Chong at the beginning of the tape, and the rest of the tape contains an interview with Louie Phillips about the history of the Chinese community and First Nations people in Lytton. Although some of the audio sounds as if it was recorded outdoors with wind and car noises in the background, the speaking is intelligible.

Images borrowed from the Chinese Benevolent Association

A photocopy of a newspaper article included in this file indicates that the procession pictured in many of the negatives in the file may have been held as part of the funeral of Jung Jun Sow, publisher of the Chinese Times, grand master of the Chinese Freemasons, educator, chairman of the Jung Wing Sung Society, and a past chairman of the Chinese Benevolent Society.

Family

File consists of negatives showing Paul Yee and his aunt Lillian Ho Wong inside an apartment or house, presumably Wong's; one of the photographs is of a small child.

Edmonton

File contains photographs showing Edmonton's Chinatown, Klondike Days parade floats, houses, restaurants, buildings, retail shops and Paul Yee with some of his family members.

Writers Workshop

File consists of typescripts and manuscripts of stories by Paul Yee, including "Prairie nights 1939", and typescripts of stories, scripts, and poems by other writers who participated in the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. This file also includes a typescript of Acts 7 and 8 of the radio play Super Pender Guy: the banana flu by Barry Wong and Paul Yee.

Inalienable Rice anthology

File consists of drafts of scripts, interviews, essays, poems, and short fiction works considered for publication in Inalienable Rice: A Chinese and Japanese Canadian Anthology.

Asianadian, Vancouver issue

File consists of typescripts and manuscripts of essays, poems, and stories considered for publication or published in Asianadian vol. 3, no. 2. The file also includes drafts of the introduction to the issue, written by issue editors Paul Yee and Sean Gunn.

Wing Hing Dry Goods

File consists of photographs of Wing Hing Dry Goods taken just prior to the company's permanent closure.

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