Wedding photograph of Victoria Chung's parents

Formal wedding portrait, man and woman dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. Victoria Chung's father emigrated from South China to Canada in the early 1880s to work on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, then paid for his wife to travel to Canada.

In Collection:

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

Subject

• Chinese

Identifier

• 2004-0275-91

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Physical repository

• First Metropolitan 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

• 2012

Technical note

• 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 by the First Metropolitan Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/vrh4-x224

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