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Humber College Archives Wayson Choy fonds
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Genealogy

Subseries consists of birth and death records, including Wayson Choy's birth certificate. It also includes travel tickets, receipts, a register of Chinese immigrants to Canada, personal photographs of family members, and an elementary school textbook for children from the 1930s.

Genealogical Research

File consists of genealogical research conducted by Wayson. Includes birth and death records (including Wayson's birth certificate), travel tickets, a receipt, copies of archival research material (including a register of Chinese immigrants to Canada), and photographs of Wayson's family members and gravesites.

Family and financial documents

File consists of family photographs (including of Wayson as a child, Wayson's grandparents and others, and a photograph of a contemporary house in Vancouver), bank documents (including a Chinese Liberty Loan certificate), and a Chinese language school textbook for a first-year student which discusses how to behave in school. File also includes a coupon.

"Face Kao" : [programme]

File consists of a programme for a book and gallery exhibition featuring portraits of Japanese Canadians imprisoned during the Second World War.

Eulogy for Pei Lim

File consists of a eulogy co-written by Wayson. File also includes a receipt from Print Express, for fax services, dated September 14, 1992. The top of the eulogy includes James Johnston as the addressee. The eulogy is signed off, "Paul Cheung, Wayson Choy, Richard Fung, Allan Li, Lloyd Wong ... and other friends from Gay Asians of Toronto".

Envelope addresses

File consists of a list of addresses stored on a floppy disc by Wayson Choy.

"Empress of Asia" by Larry Wong

File consists of an essay written by Wong for a literary contest. The file includes a cover letter from Larry to Wayson discussing the essay being submitted to the CBC/Saturday Night Literary contest. Empress of Asia was a Canadian Pacific Steamship which travelled between China and Canada, before being requisitioned by the British Army for World War II. It sunk on 5 February 1942. The essay discusses Wong's family immigrating to Canada on Empress of Asia, settling in Chinatown, and a trip to Hong Kong in later life to visit his mother's grave, to discover it disturbed by a new property development.

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