Records of the Education Committee
- AM1068-S5
- Series
- 1985-1990
Series consist of correspondence, minutes, reports and records related to school programs. Files arranged alphabetically.
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Records of the Education Committee
Series consist of correspondence, minutes, reports and records related to school programs. Files arranged alphabetically.
Records of the Finance Committee
Series consists of reports from this committee responsible for the Garden's financial statements, budget, and its financial strategies.
Records of the Executive Director's Office
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and records related to Society membership. Arranged alphabetically.
The office was established in 1985, just prior to the completion of the Garden, to manage the day-to-day operations of the Society. Besides overseeing the Garden's operational departments, the Director acts as a liaison between the Society and various government departments as well as the community at large.
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and miscellaneous records. Arranged alphabetically.
Records of the Fundraising Committee
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports and records relating to fundraising programs. Arranged alphabetically.
Records of the Garden Operations Committee
Series consists or correpondence, reports and records related to landscaping, maintenance and repair and personnel.
Records of the Maintenance and Repairs Committee
Series consists of correspondence and reports.
Records of the Membership Committee
Series consists of correspondence, membership lists and forms.
Records of the Nomination Committee
Series consists of correspondence, reports and records related to consent forms.
Records of the Landscape Committee
Series consists of correspondence and reports.
Records of the Public Programs/Newsletter Committee
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, records related to public programs, production and publications.
Records of the Public Relations Committee
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, published material and other records related to public relations activities.
Records of the Volunteer Committee
Series consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, records related to training and miscellaneous records.
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
Part of Major Matthews collection
File includes beautification studies for Gastown, Hastings Street, and Chinatown, 1969.
Vancouver: Joint Technical Committee re Social Planning - [minutes and reports]
File includes a socio-economic analysis of Gastown/Chinatown (1971).
Chinatown Historical Area Planning Committee
Part of Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association fonds
Gastown - Chinatown demolished buildings
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
File contains architectural surveys of demolished buidlings prior to and including 1971.
Gastown - Chinatown stage II general correspondence
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
File contains records pertaining to the architectural/historical study of the Gastown and Chinatown area. Stage II refers to studies investigating the physical, social and economic problems of the Gastown and Chinatown areas as part of downtown Vancouver's overall restoration and beautification plan.
Gastown - Chinatown stage II correspondence with city - documents, wages...$
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
File contains records pertaining to the architectural/historical study of the Gastown and Chinatown area. Stage II refers to studies investigating the physical, social and economic problems of the Gastown and Chinatown areas as part of downtown Vancouver's overall restoration and beautification plan.
Gastown - Chinatown study - original -
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Alexander St.
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Cambie, Abbott
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Carrall, Shanghai Alley
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Columbia
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 E. Cordova
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 E. Hastings 1-199
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 E. Hastings 200+
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 East Georgia
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 East Pender 201+
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 East Pender 1-199
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Gore, Railway Docks
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Howe + Granville
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Main 1-399
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds
Gastown - Chinatown survey 1971 Keefer
Part of Harold D. Kalman fonds