Chinese arch, 1906

Nighttime photograph of illuminated Chinese arch erected on Government Street, Victoria, B.C. for the visit of Earl Grey. Earl Grey was the ninth Governor General of Canada, appointed by King Edward VII in 1904, and he travelled extensively in Canada.

In Collection:

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

Subject

• Grey, Albert Henry George Grey, Earl, 1851-1917
• Historic buildings
• Visits of state
• Governors general
• Immigrants

Identifier

• M09091

Date created

• 1906

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

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

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.4294, -123.3679

Physical repository

• City of Victoria Archives

Collection

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

Provider

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

Genre

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Is referenced by

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

Date digitized

• May 10, 2012

Technical note

• 600 dpi tiff. Cataloguing metadata provided by GF. 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 Victoria Archives, and cannot be reproduced or copied without their permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/3pdm-4678

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