The series consists of collected information on the Dutch, Ukrainian, East Indian, Chinese, German, and Mennonite communities of B.C., and particularly of Chilliwack compiled by Jessica A. Sutherland, Ethnic Research employed by the Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society in 1979 as part of a Ethnic Research Study. The series includes summaries of interviews with immigrants, photocopies of printed items, photographs, and research notes.

File list:

1. Dutch-Canadians
2. Ukrainian-Canadians
3. Indo-Canadians
4. Chinese-Canadians
5. Chinese-Canadians
6. Chinese-Canadians
7. German-Canadians
8. Mennonites

Outline from an interview with Earl Marshall Currie. Subjects include Chilliwack bee keeping, Chilliwack Carmen United Church, Cultus Lake, Chinese in Canada.

Outline and tape of an interview with Margaret (MacAdam) Hepburn. Subjects include: Caledonian Society, Cheam, Cheam School, Cheam United Church, Chilliwack High School, Chilliwack Museum & Historical Society, Chinese Cemetery, Hepburn's Stationery, Plowing (Sport), Rebekah Lodge. Chilliwack, Sheyaya Club.

Interview with Dorothy (Chung) Kostrzewa. Signed consent form, 5 page tape outline, copies of essays from other Add.Mss collections relating to Chinese in Chilliwack, and a 11 page transcription of Tape 1 and 2.

The series consists of a sound recording of a lecture on the Hudson's Bay saltery at Chilliwack Mountain, and the search to determine its exact location; as well as a portion of a lecture on Chinese immigrants in B.C.

File contains notes from an interview with Wally Chung, notes on Chinese headstones in Chilliwack's cemetery, and photocopies from police court record books of Chinese cases tried, 1909-1911.

File consists of copies of secondary literature about Chinese-Canadians in British Columbia. The file also contains correspondence of the Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society's Jessica Sutherland, Ethnic Researcher.

File consists of typewritten notes relating to the Chinese Ethnic Study undertaken by the Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society. Notes include a transcript of an interview with Bob Maitland (1979), interview with Mrs. Jack Robinson (1979), interview with Maxine Smith (1979), interview with Frank Hall, and an interview with Wally Chung (1979). File contains two copy photographs: 1) Wally Chung's parents tombstones and 2) Chinese graveyard marking stones at Little Mountain cemetery