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Jim Wong-Chu fonds
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Letters to Jim

Includes letters sent during his illness after suffering from a stroke, as well as letter to Marlene after his passing.

Jim Wong-Chu fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1710
  • Fonds
  • [191-]-2017; predominate 1970-2010

The fonds consists of records produced by Jim Wong-Chu, records associated with Jim Wong-Chu's involvement in various cultural and artistic communities in Vancouver, British Columbia, San Francisco, California, and other areas in the northwestern United States and Canada.

In particular, the fonds includes records related to: Canadian cultural and literary communities; Asian Canadian writers; social justice and historical issues related to discrimination of Chinese and other Asian ethnic groups; and Canada and Vancouver's Chinese and other Asian cultural communities.

The fonds has been arranged into the following 9 series: Asian American communities; Asian Canadian communities; Asian Canadian Writers Workshop; Correspondence; Go for Broke Festivals; Manuscripts; Personal works; Personal Records; Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society; and Vancouver Chinese Cultural Centre.

In addition to the series listed above, there is one sub-fonds which includes records created by Garrick Chu, a close-friend and colleague of Jim Wong-Chu.

The main types of records within the fonds include correspondence, meeting minutes, schedules, manuscripts, posters and event flyers, photographs, event programs, financial statements and budgets, publications and articles, reports, conference proceedings, and speeches.

Wong-Chu, Jim

Personal records

Series consists of personal records belonging to Jim Wong-Chu. Record types include an expired passport from childhood, certificate of change of name, elementary school records, personal correspondence, personal photographs of friends and family, secondary and post-secondary school records, news clippings, notes, reports, biographical information, immigration records for Jim Wong-Chu's mother, business contracts, and artwork, posters, certificates of achievement, invitations and ephemera collected by Jim Wong-Chu.

Literary, performing, and visual arts

Series consists of cultural event programs and flyers from Canada and the west coast of the United States, predominately events taking place in Vancouver, Toronto, Washington and California. Events include musical performances, author readings, art exhibits, plays, festivals, film screenings, and conferences on arts and cultural topics. Other material in the series include cartoons, photographs of musical artists, dancers, and stage performers from Vancouver and elsewhere, meeting minutes of the Vancouver Cultural Alliance (now known as the Alliance for Arts and Culture), and material from the Vancouver Folk Music society.

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