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Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room Hours of Operation Winter Term I (Sept. – Dec., 2024) Monday-Friday 10:00 am-2:00 pm Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, Sept. 2; Monday, Sept. 30; Monday, Oct. 14; Monday, Nov. 11; Wednesday, Dec. 25; Thursday, Dec. 26 We recommend that you request materials in advance to make your visit more efficient and to ensure materials are available.
The Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room has been temporarily relocated to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room 142 due to upgrades.

source: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:RBSC_Hours

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Chung

This letter from the Crystal Bakery shows the network of connections that brought together Chinese Canadian communities.

Part 1: The Mah family of Crystal Bakery-Letters and Legacies

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on November 2, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at the Mah family of Crystal Bakery.

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Map of Guangdong Province, 1924

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on October 25, 2024

As part of a new series spotlighting items in the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection and the Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection, we look at a historic map of Guangdong Province.

Posted in Chung, Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Immigration and Settlement, Research and learning | Tagged with Chung Collection, Chung Lind Gallery, Digitization, Guangdong, Maps

Le Wan Nian Cantonese Opera Troupe

By Andrew R. Sandfort-Marchese on October 12, 2024

Welcome to our first short-form Chung Lind blog! Today we will be highlighting an incredible 1923 group photo by C. B. Wand of the Le Wan Nian Cantonese Opera Troupe featured in our Chung Lind Gallery exhibits. Cantonese opera and music have been an important cultural and social activity for Chinese Canadian communities for over […]

Posted in Chung, Chung | Lind Gallery, Collections, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Highlights, Immigration and Settlement | Tagged with Associations, Cantonese opera, Chung Collection, Chung Lind Gallery, collections, Digitization, photos

Visit the new Chung | Lind Gallery

By cshriver on May 8, 2024

The new gallery space on level 2 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is free and open to the public.

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Chung Translation Project: Chinese Miners in BC

By Claire Malek on August 15, 2023

The report starkly demonstrates the living conditions of the Chinese people at this time. In an environment of discrimination, they did the most dangerous jobs, and were rewarded with the lowest pay.

Posted in Chung, Collections, EarlyBC, Exhibitions, Frontpage Exhibition, Highlights, Immigration and Settlement | Tagged with Chung Translation Project Series