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File consists of copies of archival materials relating to Vancouver's Chinatown. Includes maps and sections of Vancouver directories, ranging between 1939-1948. These materials could have been used in genealogical research, or in planning historical fiction. Some names highlighted include Wayson's father, Toy Choy and Quene Yip.

File consists of news articles grouped together by Wayson about Chinatown, and the Second World War. File includes a 50th anniversary special issue of Time Magazine discussing Pearl Harbour, published 2 December 1991, An October 1988 issue of Saturday Night with a feature written by Denise Chong, entitled "Secrets of Chinatown", a newsclipping from the 30 May 1986 edition of the Globe and Mail discussing a British magazine's challenge of plagiarism towards Maclean's magazine, a section from 4 February 1992 edition of The Toronto Star discussing the Year of the Monkey and providing information about other signs in the Chinese zodiac, and a photocopied newsclipping of a contribution to The Toronto Star by Rebecca Bragg, discussing the Chinese zodiac.

File consists of a printout of an article originally published in 1966 in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, discussing a riot which occurred in Vancouver in September 1907.

File consists of Chinatown Stories and by Valerie Lee Whong. The file also includes a covering letter. Chinatown Stories contains twelve short stories for children and focuses on Vancouver's Chinatown. File also includes an alternate version of one of the short stories, A Special Chinese Peony. Post-it notes written by Valerie identify a childhood photo of herself, and the alternate version of A Special Chinese Peony.

File consists of an issue of the Vancouver community magazine. Cover story and image focus on "The First Chinese Lady Cabbie In Vancouver" -Ann Eng. In the article, Eng discusses her experiences growing up outside of Chinatown, in South Vancouver and her difficulty feeling accepted by the community in Chinatown, as well as her experience starting out as a cab driver in the 1950s.

File consists of a photocopy of a scholarly article published in "BC Studies" in their 1987 autumn issue. Includes a handwritten note on the first page "from Larry Wong. 9 July '96. 2nd Copy". The article discusses the uncertain nature of the original site of the Chinese cemetery in Victoria and includes photographs, maps of burial sites, and tables detailing statistical information about the people buried in the cemetery. Other contributors to the issue include John D. Adams, Alan Hughes and R. Alan Hedley.

File consists of a Bachelor's thesis submitted to the UBC School of Architecture on Vancouver's Chinatown and the Yip family. Includes handwritten notes by Wayson at a later date and post-it notes throughout.

File consists of a booklet from New York's Chinatown History Museum's hosting of the film "Golden Gate". It includes archival photographs from the museum, and discusses life in Chinatown in the 1950s, including a list of secondary sources to research for additional information.

File consists of a one page photocopy from a book about Chinatowns.

File consists of printouts of archival material from the museum's website about San Francisco's Chinatown. Pieces include: "Chinatown Declared a Nuisance!", distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California and "The Kearney-Kalloch Epoch" by Jerome A. Hart. Kalloch was the mayor of San Francisco from 1879-1881. Kearney was an anti-Chinese immigration agitator and leader of the Workingmen's Committee of California. File also includes some pages which have been duplicated,"Golden Legacy Curriculum" which includes information on the custom of foot binding, and brief write ups on Chinatown, foreign colonies, the Chinatown Tong Wars of the 1920s, history of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, and screenshots of archival footage from Chinatown, dated 1902.