The cataloguing of the Chung Collection has been done over a number of years, by a number of very hard working professionals and student assistants. However, mistakes do happen, and while we endeavor to make the records as accurate as we can, we are always happy to hear from an expert who can help us make them even better. Here are a couple of recent examples:
We had thought that this photograph was of Chin Shee, one of Yip Sang’s wives who moved to be with him here in Vancouver, but a researcher informed us that it is actually Wong Shee, another of Yip Sang’s wives. The researcher was able to confirm this with descendants of Yip Sang. If you see a correction like this that needs to be made, you can contact us at chung.collection@ubc.ca.
Another way to communicate with us is through the digital collections, where you can leave a comment about each item. For example, this photograph of the Kuo Min Tang was recently commented on by a researcher, pointing out that we had the photographer wrong- we had catalogued it as W.H. Wand, which the researcher very logically thought should have actually been the well-known Chinese Canadian photographer C.B. Wand. On closer inspection of the photograph, the typo turned out to be in the last name, not the first- the photographer is William Henry Wills, who was active in the Kelowna area in the first quarter of the 1900’s.
Thanks to our researchers for their help and expertise, and if you have information about an item in the Chung Collection, we’re always happy to hear from you!