Second Chinese arch on Cormorant Street, Victoria, B.C. erected for the visit of the Earl of Dufferin in 1876. The Earl of Dufferin, Frederick Temple Blackwood, was Canada's third Governor General from 1872-1878, and his six-year tenure was a period of rapid change in Canadian history. Catalogue Number: HP079724; Accession number: 198905-001. Probably photographed by Dally, Frederick, 1838-1914.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Subject

• Historic buildings
• Visits of state
• Governors general
• Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902

Identifier

• e_01926

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -123.3679
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical Repository

• Royal British Columbia Museum
• British Columbia Archives

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• BC Archives new photos Jan 21 document. Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• This material is made available on this site for research and private study only. These images are provided with the consent of the BC Archives, and cannot be reproduced or copied without their permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/eb0n-yh53

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