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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 page
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and China
Coordinates:
35, 105 and 48.4359, -123.35155
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Chinese Canadian Collection
Provenance:
Donor: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
fliers (printed matter)
Archival Item Identifier:
Acc. No.: 1977-084, 1.7, 1.7.08
Fonds Title:
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR030
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/chinese-consolidated-benevolent-association-fonds
Date Digitized:
2008-01-17
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF, no colour correction, archived in Cataloguing on DVD, digitized by CDW. Metadata by MH and KD.
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 leaf
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and California--San Francisco
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155 and 37.77493, -122.41942
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Chinese Canadian Collection
Provenance:
Donor: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Acc. No.: 1977-084, 1.1, 1.1.02
Fonds Title:
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR030
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/chinese-consolidated-benevolent-association-fonds
Date Digitized:
2007-07-30
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF, no colour correction, archived in Cataloguing on DVD, digitized by CDW. Metadata by MH and KD.
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 page
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Chinese Canadian Collection
Provenance:
Donor: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Acc. No.: 1977-084, 1.6, 1.6.02
Fonds Title:
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR030
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/chinese-consolidated-benevolent-association-fonds
Date Digitized:
2008-01-17
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF, no colour correction, archived in Cataloguing on DVD, digitized by CDW. Metadata by MH and KD.
Chinese, History, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.), Emigration and immigration, Race discrimination, Poll tax, Associations, institutions, etc., and Emigration and immigration--Government policy
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
4 pages
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria, British Columbia, and Commonwealth countries
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155 and 53.99983, -125.0032
Chronological Coverage:
1884/1891?
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Chinese Canadian Collection
Provenance:
Donor: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Acc. No.: 1977-084, 1.2, 1.2.05
Fonds Title:
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR030
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/chinese-consolidated-benevolent-association-fonds
Date Digitized:
2007-07-30
Transcript:
July 2,
Dear Directors,
I read your letter, knowing that the Parliament of British Columbia passed a new law to increase the rate of head tax on every Chinese, new comers or current residents, merchants or workers. I reported it to the Honorable Minister, who addressed a protesting note to the Foreign Ministry of England last month. Please find attached a copy of this note.
It reminds me of the time when I was Consul General in San Francisco in 1884, the Parliament of British Columbia had passed a very harsh discriminating law against Chinese. You sent four representatives to San Francisco to require for help, I instructed you to unite all the Chinese in Victoria, and hire lawyers to bring in a lawsuit. Meanwhile I explained all the matters to the envoy of the Canadian Foreign Ministry, who happened to be in San Francisco on duty. It was fortunate that this law was abolished later, and the interests of Chinese were not inflicted. Anyway I forwarded your case to the Honorable Zeng. He told me that it was difficult to argue in London, because, firstly, there are no terms in Sino-British treaties that Chinese who reside in the British dependencies enjoy rights to most-favored-nation; secondly, unlike the Chinese central government governing the 18 provinces, the British dependencies like Australia, Canada have semi-sovereign rights, the British Government can not abolish their laws. It was, therefore, more effective to argue against it in British Columbia by the Chinese who reside there. I was off my position in 1886 and left San Francisco. The law that forbade Chinese to enter British Columbia was passed and came into force till now. This year there was debate in the Canadian Parliament whether to increase the rate of head tax to $100 on each Chinese. It was not passed fortunately. The Honorable Xie cares a lot of the Chinese in British Columbia, he knows that there are not too many business opportunities except gold mining and fishery, especially after the completion of the railway, many Chinese workers would be jobless, they can not bear the heavy taxes on them. Consequently, he addressed a note to the British Government, in which the Australian case was mentioned as well, intending for the abolition of the bad laws. His Honor particularly instructs me to forward a copy of this note to you for your knowledge. If in future there are more discriminating laws against Chinese, please first hire lawyers to enter a lawsuit, and write to me in details, advising me what really happens. Do remember to attach the original English documents.
Please send my best regards to all of you
Yours sincerely
Huang Zun Xian
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 page
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and California--San Francisco
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155 and 37.77493, -122.41942
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Chinese Canadian Collection
Provenance:
Donor: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Acc. No.: 1977-084, 1.5, 1.5.07
Fonds Title:
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR030
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/chinese-consolidated-benevolent-association-fonds
Date Digitized:
2008-01-17
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF, no colour correction, archived in Cataloguing on DVD, digitized by CDW. Metadata by MH and KD.
These images are provided for research use only. These images are provided with the consent of the Victoria’s Chinatown Project and cannot be reproduced or copied without permission. For more information, contact Dr. Zhongping Chen at zhchen@uvic.ca
Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
IMG_4588
Extent:
1 colour photograph
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown
Coordinates:
48.4294, -123.3679 and 48.4359, -123.35155
Physical Repository:
Yang, Charles
Collection:
Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
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Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
AMOS 81gumsingsign
Extent:
1 colour photograph
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown
Coordinates:
48.4294, -123.3679 and 48.4359, -123.35155
Physical Repository:
Amos, Robert
Collection:
Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
These images are provided for research use only. These images are provided with the consent of the Victoria’s Chinatown Project and cannot be reproduced or copied without permission. For more information, contact Dr. Zhongping Chen at zhchen@uvic.ca
Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
IMG_2500
Extent:
1 colour photograph
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown and British Columbia--Victoria
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155 and 48.4294, -123.3679
Physical Repository:
Yang, Charles
Collection:
Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
Copyright held by Robert Amos. Permission granted for use on Victoria’s Chinatown website only. For all other uses please contact the copyright holder. These images are provided with the consent of Robert Amos, and cannot be reproduced or copied without his permission.
Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
AMOS 113dartcoonsign
Extent:
1 colour photograph
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown and British Columbia--Victoria
Coordinates:
48.4359, -123.35155 and 48.4294, -123.3679
Physical Repository:
Amos, Robert
Collection:
Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
Tam Kung Temple (Victoria, B.C.), Fraternal organizations, Yen Wo Society (Victoria, B.C.), Immigrants, Associations, institutions, etc., and Chen, Lesan
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Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
IMG_4448
Extent:
1 colour photograph
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia--Victoria and British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown
Coordinates:
48.4294, -123.3679 and 48.4359, -123.35155
Physical Repository:
Yang, Charles
Collection:
Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians