Business and financial records
- AM1108-S1
- Series
- 1896-1989
Series consists primarily of the records of Yip Sang Ltd. (Wing Sang Co. before 1950), as well as family financial records.
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Business and financial records
Series consists primarily of the records of Yip Sang Ltd. (Wing Sang Co. before 1950), as well as family financial records.
Series is arranged into three subseries: Older letters in Chinese, General correspondence, and Invitation cards. Some samples of traditional Chinese envelopes and paper for correspondence purposes are also included.
Series includes genealogical records, newspaper clippings, records pertaining to family properties, some correpondence, and miscellaneous other items.
Series consists of publications acquired by the Yip family, including a number of Chinese textbooks. The works cover a wide range of interests and include classical Chinese works such as Shi Jing, San Zi Jing, Yi Jing, Shu Jing, Verses for Children, Si Shu, and Li Ji; political work on Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's San Ming Zhu Yi; books on international law; science books; books on western culture; and popular novels.
Subseries consists of business records of Wing Sang Co. and Yip Sang Co. The records reveal the Yip family members' involvement with the following businesses: Kew Dang with salt herring packing business; Yip Qipeng, Kew Ming, Kew Yacht, and Kew Sheck with Remittance Co.; Kew Dang and Kew Yacht with Shanghai service gas station; Yip Kew Him with the bake shop Canada Cafe and Keu Hing Co.; Quene Yip as insurance agent; and Men Yip with Sonny's Marketaria. A substantial portion of the records are those of remittance transactions from Vancouver to Hong Kong.
Miscellaneous financial records
Subseries includes records such as receipts and invoices, accounts payable ledgers and others types of financial records. These records document the Yip family's involvement with community activities, and some family events such as wedding and birthday celebrations. Receipts and invoices relate mainly to rent, stove oil and meter rates.
Regulations, business licenses and legal documents of Wing Sang Co.
Subseries includes records pertaining to the governing principles of Wing Sang Co. from 1905 to 1921 among its business partners. Business licenses issued by the local agencies date from 1936 to 1989. These licenses are for a travel agency, retail dealer, ticket office, and lodging house.
Most of the older letters were not opened when the records were acquired. These letters were addressed to Wing Sang Co. to be passed on to a third party. They remained with the Yip family because there was no way of tracing the addressee. Letters from each year were tied and wrapped together. File titles have been transcribed from those wrappers. The sealed letters were opened in September 1993 by the project archivist and a subsequent content note of those undelivered letters follows:
The correspondence consists of approximately 600 letters in old style Chinese. They came from various parts of the world: China (mainly from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province), United States of America (New York, Seattle, Oregon, Chicago, and California), Canada (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Gainsbora, Regina, Victoria, and Port Moody), and Mexico. The addressees were either new arrivals in Vancouver or those who had been in Vancouver for some time. To the new arrivals, most letters were either notices of money sent to cover their journey expenses from their relatives or friends, or letters enquiring about their life in the new world. To those who had been in Vancouver for some time, letters were mostly routed via Hong Kong and written by family members or relatives (parents, wives, brothers or sisters, and uncles), requesting them to send their savings to cover their family expenses back home.
Other issues dealt with in these letters are: urging the addressees to come back home no matter what (for instance, wives informed their husbands of their hard life at home and their longing for them to be home; elderly father insisted his son come back and carry on his business at home; young sons and daughters wrote their father who got ill in Vancouver, begging him to come see doctors and recover back home; mother or uncle urged their son or nephew to come back home to get married); parents reminding their sons to be always hardworking and thrifty and never take to gambling or other bad habits while away from home; enquiries about the procedures to enter Vancouver, or the possibility of borrowing money for starting a new business or realizing the journey in mind to the West; accounts of happenings in their homeland (such as war, famine, and soaring price of food products); complaints from senior family members to the son for not sending money home for months; enquiries of those from Chinese communities in other parts of China about job opportunity in Vancouver; explanations of being unable to send out the amount of money as requested, or notices of the repayment of money borrowed.
This subseries relates primarily to various local agencies, such as the rental office and the assurance company.
[Yip Sang's eightieth birthday souvenir menu and guest list]
File consists of a guest list and a menu for Yip Sang's eightieth birthday celebration at the W.K. Chop Suey House at 96 East Pender Street. Guest list includes notations regarding who is able to attend.
Donation record re Chinese Hospital
Letter of appreciation to Chinese Benevolent Association from China University, Beijing
Listing of Yip Chuntien's properties in China and Canada
File also includes a will of Yip Sang.
Newsclippings in Chinese re Chinese Benevolent Association, Chinese School, happenings in China
[Canadian Pacific Railway Empress ships calendar sheets]
File consists of five calendar sheets for the years 1912, 1916, 1918, 1920 and 1921 detailing arrivals and departures of Empress ships travelling between Hong Kong and Vancouver. The sheets list CPR agents, including Yip Sang.
File contains magazine published in Japan, issues 1-100, with 89-99 missing.
[Legal case file - complaints against Chiu My re violation of faith and terms]
Contract [re clearing up land]
[Account book of] An Li gambling house [part 1]
[Account book of ]Yuan Li gambling house
[Account book of] Kwong Loy gambling den
[Account book of] An Li gambling house [part 2]
[Account book of] Yuan Li gambling house - part 1
[Account book of] Yuan Li gambling house - part 2
Bakery, Canada Cafe - [account books] - accounts receivable and payable
Bakery, Canada Cafe - [invoices]
Bakery, Canada Cafe - [account books] - expenses and wage account book
Bakery, Canada Cafe - [receipts and invoices]
Bakery, Canada Cafe - [receipts and invoices]
Certificate of P.O. registration - account book
Certificate of P.O. registration - account book
Fish packing - [account books] - [account book]
Fish packing - [account books] - [account book]
Fish packing - [account books] - account book
Fish packing - [account books] - [account books]
Fish packing - [account books] - account book [part 1]
Fish packing - [account books] - account book of salt fish
Fish packing - [account books] - account book [part 2]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 1]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 1]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 1]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 2]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 2]
Fish packing - [account books] - account books from Kew Dang [p. 2]