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Wayson Choy fonds
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Personal records and correspondence

Series consists of the personal correspondence, records and genealogical research conducted by Wayson Choy. It includes personal letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, private records and genealogical research.

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.

Wayson Choy fonds

  • HC01 WC
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900] - 2005

Fonds consists of the personal correspondence, records, research material and writing of Wayson Choy. Fonds includes photographs, letters, floppy discs, personal genealogical research, private records, and research material organized into subseries focusing on China and Chinese culture, Chinatowns in British Columbia and internationally, Chinese Canadian immigration and history, and Chinese Canadian individuals.

Choy, Wayson (1939-2019)

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.

Photograph of a Chinese-Canadian Battalion

File consists of a photocopy of an archival photograph of the Chinese Canadian Large Battalion out of Victoria, British Columbia in March 1918. In the top right corner is written "From Larry Wong".

Research material about Chinese Canadian individuals

Sub-series consists of photocopies of immigration documents and head tax certificates connected to Chinese Canadian indivuals. Sub-series also includes transcripts of oral histories collected from Chinese-Canadian World War II veterans, and biographies of specific individuals, supplied to Wayson Choy by family members.

Research material collected by Wayson Choy

Series consists of research conducted by Wayson Choy. It includes material focusing on China and Chinese culture, Chinatowns in British Columbia and internationally, Chinese Canadian immigration and history, research focused on specific Chinese Canadian individuals, and general research.

Yip Family research materials

File consists of research materials relating to the Yip Family of Vancouver. The file includes a newspaper feature written about Charlie Hoy, correspondence between Robert Yip and Wayson, other news articles, duplicated photographs of the Ladies Auxillary from Victoria Yip's personal collection, and transcripts of an oral history interviews with Chik Wai (Victor) Leung conducted in 1985. File also includes a biography of his wife, Susanne Ling Yipsang by Eleanor S.P. Leung, an autobiography written by Chik Wai Leung, at age 81, in 1978, and original correspondence between Art and Quene Yip from 1929. Art writes "Chinatown is dead now". The Yips feature in several of Wayson's novels and memoirs.

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