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Chinese Coolies Built CPR and Defences for Canadians
Newspaper clipping from Times Colonist dated Decemeber 7, 1981. During WWI, thousands of Chinese laborers received training in building trenches, dugouts and gunpits at Willaim Head Quarantine Station before they were sent to the battlefields in E...
Article published in Esquimalt Sun dated December 4, 1974. For fifty years, Soue Kee collected and clean laundry for the Navy. He never gave a laundry ticket or misplaced a thing. He also ran a tab banking service for Navy men. He was well respec...
Newspaper clipping from Esquimalt Star dated May 6, 1987. Soue Kee's early days on Pioneer Street in Old Esquimalt Village.
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The Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project: Everyday Life in B.C.'s Chinatowns and Beyond
A pdf document summarizing and contextualising the database holdings.