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1858-1947

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Historical Photographs and Documents

Gallery of Documents

In this gallery, you will find a selection of digital images of textual documents relating to early Chinese history from the collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC).

To order a print or digital copy of these documents, please use our online order form. The order form will ask you for a reference number or item description, which you can obtain by clicking on the "Source" button beside each item. Information about price and format, as well as the online order form, is available in The Public section of the LAC website.

To find out more about archival and library material available at LAC, read the Research Guide to Early Chinese-Canadian History at Library and Archives Canada

Click on each image for an enlarged, printable version.

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Ink drawing of a row house, with sign written in Chinese at top of building

Chinese quarter: Lagauchetière Street (Montréal, Que.), 1926. Artist: Paul Archibald Caron
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Cartoon depicting Chinese man trying to escape three Caucasian men holding raised canes, while being held by his pigtail

A cartoon from the "Canadian Illustrated News", 1870
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Invoice from the Hop Lee Laundry in Peterborough, Ont., ca.1910-11
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Cover of magazine with coloured illustration of a house on shoreline, a sailing junk, and rising sun; with Chinese script and some English

Front cover of "The Don Bon Quarterly"
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Cover of magazine with words, Canadian Illustrated News. Illustration shows Chinese man being forcefully directed to a ship by a tall man in top hat

A cartoon from the "Canadian Illustrated News", 1879, entitled "The Heathen Chinee in British Columbia", with the caption: "Amor de Cosmos, i.e.:-The Love of the World or the Lover of Mankind.-Heathen Chinee:-Why you sendee me offee? A.D.C.:--Because you can't or won't 'assimilate' with us-Heathen Chinee:-What is datee?-A.D.C.:-You won't drink whiskey and talk politics and vote like us."
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Watercolour painting of people in Victorian dress and three men in traditional Chinese clothing, walking on wooden boardwalk beside a river. Forest and mountains in background, two dogs in foreground

New Westminster, B.C., between 1887 and 1909. Artist: Edward D. Roper
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Pencil sketch of two men gardening and wearing broad-brimmed hats, one carrying yoke and water buckets, the other watering garden

Chinese Gardeners, Vancouver, B.C. (June 23, 1934). Artist: Lloyd Scott
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Coloured illustration with Chinese script showing three women, one holding up a gramophone and the others holding up black records

Page from catalogue of Chinese gramophone recordings advertising the Victor Talking Machine Company
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Privy Council Report, Ottawa. Report concerning British Columbia's request that the Department of Agriculture promote white immigration to the province and end the use of Chinese labour on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 23 May, 1882
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