Lansdowne Airfield, early 1920s

Chan Dun, who was a naturalized Canadian citizen, was the principal of a flying school started by the Chinese community in order to send trained pilots to China to aid the revolution. The woman in the photograph is Edith Lee (nee Koo), wife of Rev. Clarence Lee and sister of Mrs. Chan Koo Shee; the little boy standing in front of Edith is Maurice Chan; Roy Chan is on the extreme right; Ira Chan is in the cockpit; Esther Chan is in the rear cockpit; Allan Chan is on the wing of the airplane.

In Collection:

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

Subject

• Chan, Dun
• Flight schools
• Chinese

Identifier

• M06952

Date created

• 1920s

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

• black-and-white photographs
• 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/edc9-t813