The collection consists of documents, archival records, photographs, ephemera and artifacts related to three broad themes: British Columbia history, immigration and settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Included are the archival fonds of the Yip family and Yip Sang Company, the Dart Coon Club and Chinese Freemasons of Victoria, Hugh G. Robinson (regarding the S.S. Greenhill Park Explosion), Rev. MacDonnell (regarding the Clandonald colony of Scottish immigrants in Alberta) and the British Columbia Coast Steamship Service. Includes documents, ephemera and artifacts of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, including records of travelers on CPR rail and steamships.

Written on the box in traditional Chinese is '生佰旧信.'

Orange coloured promotional cards highlighting rail service.

Letter denouncing Yip Wing as possibly complicit in covering up the murder of a local Chinese man, Ho Yuen.

Item is an educational booklet explaining the nuances of the Chinese cultural experience, and how life in Vancouver has had its influences on that experience. It covers topics such as the status of Chinese women in Chinatown, Chinese immigrant attitudes toward religion, and how Chinese benevolent societies evolved in the region. The book contains a number of photos of various immigrant Chinese people, and a number of Chinatown landmarks. The item also contains a number of local advertisements. The booklet has a gold cover with a picture of the Bamboo Arch on its cover. Stamped on the Bamboo Arch picture is "Compliment Mandarin Garden" and then below that the businesses address.

For use on trains owned by Canadian Pacific Ralway. Distributed by sales agent, Yip Mow. Written verso is 'D. Y. Lim, 215 Centre St. Calgary, Alta. Canada.'

A letter of thanks in response to roses gifted by the addressee.

A message from Bowser Reid Wallbridge Douglas & Gibson concerning negotiations with Mr. John Borio.

An invoice to Mr. Yip Mow. The item is marked 'paid' in pencil.

An invoice for the servicing of Yip Kow's Dodge Victory sedan.

Addressed to Mr. Yip. Mr. Yip is asked to have enclosed photographic negatives developed and extra copies sent to Susan.

A letter addressed to Yip Mow. Content of the letter gives an update about life as a medical student at Queen's university. There are also two sheets with Ghim's expenditures for November and Decemeber of 1923.

Dock Yip gives updates about his life, and asks after his older brothers.

Concerning the delivery of silver.

Receipt for medical services rendered for Loo Wing.

Cheque payable to Yip Him redeemable at the Bank of Montreal.

Balance sheet of Yip Kew Him, cataloging his liabilities and assets.

A receipt for a foreign exchange transaction.

A letter sent to British Canadian Mines, ltd. requesting investor information.

A newspaper clipping from the Vancouver Sun describing Yip Sang's role as a recruiter of Chinese workers for CPR.

Includes book titled "The diagram of tracing the ghost's leg," for playing the Chinese game, "Tracing the ghost's leg."

Includes bound book of Chinese medicine and acupuncture written in old style Chinese with calligraphy. This text might have been published in China and taken to Canada by the Chinese immigrants who were members of the Chinese Freemasons.

Includes bound books of donation records for the Chinese Freemasons (Cheekungtong) that list the donors' names and donation amount, which reflect the activities that members of the Chinese communities (who might all be members of the Chinese Freemasons) participated in. The donations might be for the operation of the Chinese Freemasons of Canada in Victoria, B.C. and for rendering financial assistance to members in need. Bound books of donation records are primarily from Cumberland, Victoria (which contains a letter of acknowledgment), Kamloops, the Dart Coon Club of Vancouver, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Vermon, Armstrong, Clinton, Rossland, and Chiliwack; Calgary and Lethbridge; Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Halifax. Branches of the Chinese Freemasons may exist in these provinces and places.

Records of receipts and envelopes primarily for the expenses of the Dart Coon Club (Cheekungtong) Headquarters of Canada in Victoria, B.C., which includes payment receipts for utilities, telephone company, tools, hotel and boarding, cigarettes, food, and rental fee for events, and reflects the operation of the Dart Coon Club and the activities of the members of the Chinese Freemasons. The records are arranged roughly in chronological order.

Includes records that primarily reflects a number of posts that Wong Hong Sung held at the Chinese Freemasons (Cheekungtong) in Canada and the Vancouver branch. File includes Wong Hong Sung's T4 slips, issued by the Chinese Freemasons in Canada Publishers Limited in Vancouver, B.C. and Home Cannery, Canadian Fishing Co. Ltd., dated from 1946 to 1956. The records are arranged in chronological order.

Includes records that reflect the procedure for the election of Dart Coon Club Headquarter officers in Victoria, B.C. Voters' ballots were mailed to the Dart Coon Club Headquarter of Victoria in 1942. Ballots contain signatures of the voters, the names of candidates, and indication of selected candidates; some ballots have the Dart Coon Club stamps of Canada-wide branches. The ballots are kept in the original order as they were received.

Includes records that reflect the procedure for the election of Dart Coon Club Headquarter officers in Victoria, B.C. Voters' ballots were mailed to the Dart Coon Club Headquarter of Victoria in 1942. Ballots contain signatures of the voters, the names of candidates, and indication of selected candidates; some ballots have the Dart Coon Club stamps of Canada-wide branches. The ballots are kept in the original order as they were received.

Includes records that reflect the procedure for the election of Dart Coon Club Headquarter officers in Victoria, B.C. Voters' ballots were mailed to the Dart Coon Club Headquarter of Victoria in 1942. Ballots contain signatures of the voters, the names of candidates, and indication of selected candidates; some ballots have the Dart Coon Club stamps of Canada-wide branches. The ballots are kept in the original order as they were received.

Includes records that reflect the procedure for the election of Dart Coon Club Headquarter officers in Victoria, B.C. Voters' ballots were mailed to the Dart Coon Club Headquarter of Victoria in 1942. Ballots contain signatures of the voters, the names of candidates, and indication of selected candidates; some ballots have the Dart Coon Club stamps of Canada-wide branches. The ballots are kept in the original order as they were received.

A name or title is written on the plate.

The number 16 and some traditional Chinese characters are written on the plate.

Name is written on the plate.

Name is written on the plate.

The number 4 and a name or title are written on the plate.

Nicholson declines an invitation to the 54th anniversary of the founding of The Dart Coon Club in Victoria.

Ceritiface of appointment of Mr. Huang Hongxin to the position of secretary to the club. The certificate is printed in red, and has annotations made in black ink by a brush. On the certificate is a gold seal reading "Dart Coon Club Branch, Vancouver B.C." in the bottom left hand corner. Around the item content is a decorative green border.

Subseries consists of records assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, a Scottish minister who came to Canada after serving as chaplain with the Canadian Corps during World War I. These records relate to MacDonell's work, starting in 1922, to bring several hundred families from Scotland and Northern Ireland to settle in Alberta as well as his work with the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society. The records in this subseries predominantly pertain to the Clandonald settlement near Vermilion, Alberta, which MacDonell established in 1926. He remained actively interested in the Clandonald settlement well into the 1950s and the records in this subseries provide insight into life in the community and the development of the area.

Records in this subseries include MacDonell's diaries and notebooks from 1918 to 1948, maps and blueprints, pamphlets, local histories of Clandonald, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence. This correspondence includes correspondence with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, correspondence with prospective settlers and applicants for settlement, maps of Clandonald and district, and correspondence pertaining to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society.

Correspondence and other textual material, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged as a file in chronological order perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Material relates to settlement schemes for Scottish immigrants to Canada and particularly to the settlement in 1926 of the Clandonald Colony in Alberta. The file includes correspondence retained by MacDonell beginning with letters of introduction in 1912 from British Benedictines to the Archbishop of Vancouver, some early 1920s letters related to MacDonell's efforts to bring Scottish settlers to farm in Ontario and 1920s letters regarding potential for Hebrideans to settle in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, correspondence regarding the industrial farm established in 1923 at Ard-Moire, Alberta, and other concerns of the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society.

Correspondence and other textual material relating to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged chronologically as a file perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Includes correspondence regarding the activities of the Society, especially regarding financing and settlement planning for the Society's settlement scheme in Alberta, Canada, minutes of 1925 meetings, printed reports for the years 1933 and 1939, and a 1926 field supervisor's report regarding Clandonald, Alberta. Includes an informal retrospective report by MacDonell in 1952, pamphlets, broadsides and other promotional material for the Clandonald settlement scheme, specifications from 1923 for farm workers' housing construction and settlers' cottages, copies of memoranda and requests for funds by MacDonell, correspondence with and copies of lectures in 1933 by Dr. Coady of the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University, and four indentures made in 1939 and the early 1940s by MacDonell with his relative Arthur Lawrence regarding property in Clandonald.

Includes memoranda and progress reports.

Two letters retained by Annie Lawrence, sister of Rev. Andrew MacDonell, regarding kinfolk.

Manuscript written by Reverend MacDonell in 1925 entitled "Report of the Hebridean Delegation".

Clippings book includes newspaper articles written by MacDonell. Also includes articles relating to Clandonald where authorship is not clear. Interleaved is Rev. MacDonell's calling card.

Unofficial Clandonald plat book showing settlement plots with owner names. Lists of settlers and the locations of their land (in degrees) also given.

Large-scale sectional map of township in the Clandonald Colony include handwritten annotations indicating settlers' names, land purchase price, advance payments and mortgages, land value, area cultivated and area wasted, and the number of miles to the nearest railway siding.