The Lee Benevolent Association's certificate of incorporation, 1916

This document confirms that "The Lee Benevolent Association" was incorporated as a society in Victoria on 14 July 1916. This clan or family association traces its roots to Lao-tse, the founder of Tao-ism. Lees had arrived in British Columbia since the 1850s and had organized as a clan association in Victoria since the 1880s. The Lee's Benevolent Association built their headquarters at 614 Fisgard Street in 1911. Identifier: Society files No. S452.

In Collection:

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

Creator

• British Columbia. Registrar of Joint Stock Companies

Contributor

• Lee's Benevolent Association of Canada

Subject

• Fraternal organizations
• Associations, institutions, etc.
• Lee Association (Victoria, B.C.)
• Immigrants

Language

• eng

Identifier

• IMG_1758

Date created

• 1916

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 page

Geographic coverage

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

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.4294, -123.3679

Physical repository

• Yang, Charles

Collection

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

Provider

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

Genre

• certificates
• legal documents

Is referenced by

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

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• B.C. Registry Metadata Spreadsheet. Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• Copyright held by the BC Registry Service granted for the use on the Victoria's Chinatown project. These images are provided with the consent of the BC Registry Services and cannot be reproduced or copied without their permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0km4-2481

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