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Paul Yee fonds Chinese in Canada
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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.

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

Lillian Ho Wong's photo album : ca. 1918 - ca.1920

File consists of a album containing photographs taken in and around Vancouver and Seattle, Washington. Some of the subjects of the photos in the album are arches erected in downtown Vancouver for the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1919, young people singing at a piano, and Capilano Gardens. The album also includes photographs of Lillian Ho Wong working in a millinery shop, frequenting Stanley Park with friends, and posing on a beach and at the steps of the Vancouver Courthouse wearing an elaborate hat and dress.

Foon Wong at association events

File consists of photographs of Foon Wong and other men at the sixth national convention of the Wong Kong Har Tong held in Vancouver, B.C. and other Wong Kong Har Tong or Chinese Benevolent Association events.

Class photos

File consists of photographs of students including Wilgene Wong gathered outside of school buildings, likely in Vancouver.

Lillian Ho Wong's photos removed from album

File consists of photographs of Lillian Ho Wong working at a millinery shop with other young women and standing outside a building. The photographs appear to have been removed from a photo album.

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.

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.

1960 trip

File consists of photographs of Vernon and Paul Yee and Lillian Wong on a cross-continental trip the three went on in the summer 1960, visiting Lillian's sister Lillian's sister Winnifred and her family in Chicago, Lillian's sister Nellie and her family in the Washington, D.C. area, and Lillian's brother Sam in Toronto, with stops in New York City and Niagara Falls. The file also contains photos sent to or from Lillian from her family members in the years immediately following the trip.

Wong Bark Gin, Edmonton, Alberta

File consists of photographs of a house and a family. According to Yee's notes on the envelope in which these photographs were received by the Archives, the photographs show Wong Bark Gin of Edmonton, B.C.

Paul Yee in kindergarten

File consists of photographs of Paul Yee and his kindergarten classmates in their classroom and at their graduation.

Don Wong's family

File consists of photographs of Don and Lily Wong's three sons, including images of Christmas and the three boys at a picnic with Foon and Lillian Wong and Paul and Vernon Yee.

Visit of Wong Yu Nam

File consists of photographs of Lillian and Foon Wong, Paul and Vernon Yee, and family member Wong Yu Nam at Capilano Canyon, and one photograph of Wong Yu Nam in an office.

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