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Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung collection
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Chest

Wooden opium trade chest, containing opium layout. Holds glass lanterns in cardboard boxes and a compartment for opium tins. Retrieved by Dr. W.B. Chung from the cellar of a Pender Street store

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Mirrored pin

Metal and enamel mirrored pin commemorating Chinatown's celebration of Vancouver's Golden Jubilee, depicting the Bamboo Arch in Chinatown in green on a white background

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Inkwells

Cut-glass inkwells with hinged silverplated lids, sitting in a matching silverplated tray with two grooves to hold pens and engraved with the entwined initials "C.P.R."

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Rail section

Part of the last rail laid at Craigellachie, BC Nov 7, 1885. Souvenir was cut from the end piece of the final sawn rail after the ceremony - part of the newly laid rail that the train full of dignitaries passed over and on through the mountains for the first time to Port Moody :"All aboard for the Pacific!"

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Gas mantles

Three unused gas mantles in the original cardboard boxes, model number 100. Manufactured by Western Mantle Company of Portland, Oregon, retained by the Wing Sang Company

Wing Sang Company

Rubber stamps

Rubber stamps used for various aspects of Yip Sang's business, produced ca. 1900 by Thomson Stationary Company, Vancouver, including two stamps for Wing Sang and Yip Sang's company, one stamp for the Canadian Pacific steamship destination of Yokohama, a stamp for S.S. Monteagle tickets and a stamp in Chinese

Wing Sang Company

Model of the Empress of Asia

Model of the Empress of Asia made for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company by the shipbuilders of this vessel, the Fairfield Ship Building and Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland. The "Empress of Asia" models a quadruple screw turbine steamship, launched in 1912 for the Canadian Pacific Railway's trans-Pacific mail and passenger service, which saw distinguished service in peace and war for an extraordinary thirty years, travelling the route across the Pacific from Vancouver to Victoria to Yokohama to Kobe to Nagasaki to Shanghai to Hong Kong to Manila and return. An accurately scaled representation at 1:50 (1/4 in.:1 ft), the model consists of an exquisitely fine detailed wood structure, slightly longer than three and one half metres, painted in the Canadian Pacific colours of the period, fitted with very finely detailed brass rails and threaded stanchions, ship's bells, search light, life buoys, lanterns and propellers, rigging, gang ways and ladders, deck equipment including deck telegraphs, compasses, ship's wheel and binacles, hatches, housings, bollards, capstans and anchers, with working turnbuckles, pulleys, winches, three derricks, four cranes and other devices, and featuring lacquered wood promenades atop a strikingly long and elegant white-painted body of seven decks and top houses, surmounted by three slanted great funnels guyed to the tops of houses, two masts, one at each bow and stern, and a host of cowls with deep red-painted inside faces, sixteen covered Engelhardt boats and eighteen open life boats, complete with boathook and two pairs of oars each, suspended along the sides of the promenade and bridge decks, and bearing the name 'Empress of Asia' in brass letters affixed both port and starboard side and stern, the whole mounted on six turned and profiled brass posts on a base of solid mahogany and cased entirely in a cabinet, constructed in 1999 in the style of a period ship model case contemporary with the model of solid mahogany cornerposts with glass panes surrounding on top and all sides, set on a mahogany pedestal supported with six legs, all matched grain wood cut from a single four metre slab. Two original raised and tilted panels with the name of the ship, its builder, overall length, breadth, depth moulded, gross tonnage, and speed are fixed to the model base, one at each end. The model was purchased from Allenby Boake in 1993 by Dr. W.B. Chung, in a considerably damaged condition with the original case missing: after over 4000 hours of restoration the model was recased in 1999 in mahogany and glass.

Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Jessie Muir. Montreal. Empress of Ireland. Settler's effects

Travelling trunk of wood, reinforced with twelve metal angle braces along sides and bottom, with a metal handle on each of the shorter sides and metal hinges attaching the trunk lid, painted grey all over and in bold white characters on both of the longer sides with the name and destination of Jessie Muir, a passenger travelling from Liverpool to Canada via the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Ireland sometime between 1906 and 1914

Muir, Jessie

Carrying basket

Woven basket of Chow Kwong Ho, who travelled with it from Hong Kong to Vancouver via a Canadian Pacific trans-Pacific Empress steamship, coming to Canada sometime around 1920

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Slide holder

Glass lantern slotted holder shown with two glass lantern slides of the steamship Empress of Asia and a North Atlantic iceberg, ca 1913

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Teapot

Porcelain teapot decorated with the Empress pattern of multi-coloured flowers, vase and birds in an Asian motif on a white body with a red rim, a red pinstripe at the base and gold handles and spout. Produced by Minton, England for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service

Limoges

Teacup

Porcelain teacup decorated with the Empress pattern of multi-coloured flowers, vase and birds in an Asian motif on a white body, with red pinstripes on the rim and handle. Produced by Minton, England for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service

Limoges

Saucer

Porcelain saucer decorated with the Empress pattern of multi-coloured flowers, vase and birds in an Asian motif on a white body with a red rim. Produced by Minton, England for the Canadian Pacific British Columbia Coast Steamship Service

Limoges

Egg boiler

Copper egg boiler from the first Empress of Japan (1891). Each boiler may be timed for 1, 2, or 3 minute eggs. This boiler was salvaged from the ship when it was dismantled on the North Shore in 1928

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Plaque

Silver and wood plaque presented to the ship's surgeon, Dr. Ivan McKinnon, by the Chinese crew of the Empress of Canada upon his retirement in 1931

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