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1888-1992 (Creation)
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5 cm textual material.
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Series consists of a letterbook pertaining to Cumyow's various activities, including activities of a business, personal and civic nature, 1888 to 1904, and a notebook listing persons arrested by the Vancouver City Police and the offences committed, 1906 to 1925. Series also includes transcriptions of English letters and transcriptions and translations of Chinese letters in the letterbook.
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Physical condition
The Cumyow Journal, 1888-1905, box 1, folder 3A, is in very fragile condition. All the letters in English have been transcribed and are available in box 1, folder 3B. Faded ink in the letterpress copybook has made a complete transcription impossible.
The transcription and translation of the Chinese portion of the Journal is available in box 1, folder 3C.