Interior Chinese joss house, Victoria, B.C.

Image originally published in 'Souvenir of Victoria", published by Atkinson Brothers for O.B. Ormond Bookseller and Stationer, Victoria, B.C. "Joss house" was a term in common use in English in western North America during frontier times, when joss houses were a common feature of Chinatowns. The name "joss house" describes the environment of worship. Joss sticks, a kind of incense, are burned inside and outside of the house.

In Collection:

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

Subject

• Ethnic neighborhoods
• Religious life
• Chinese

Identifier

• M05580

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

• 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/kcap-0h25

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