Chinese bell liberated during the Boxer Rebellion

The Chinese iron bell was presented to the City of Victoria by Lieutenant William B. Macdonald of H.M.S. Pique. Cast in 1627, the bell was mounted at Beacon Hill Park in 1904. The bell was subsequently moved inside the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 1989. Catalogue number: HP008618; Association number: 193501-001.

In Collection:

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

Subject

• Macdonald, William Balfour, 1870-1937
• Boxer Rebellion (China : 1899-1901)
• Bells
• History

Identifier

• G-01992

Date created

• approximately 1903

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Geographic coverage

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

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -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

• 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

• Digitized by BC Archives. 300 dpi jpg, no colour correction. Archived in Cataloguing on server. 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/zaqk-4406

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