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The vintage appeal: a Chung Collection close-up

By Jessica Woolman on December 6, 2012

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A profile of Dr. Wallace Chung and UBC Library’s Chung Collection are featured in the latest issue of Trek magazine.

As a young boy, Wallace Chung started a scrapbook on the CPR steamships that carried earlier generations from Asia to Canada. Decades later, that scrapbook had evolved into a bulging basement of Western Canadian artifacts and ephemera that together form one of the country’s most outstanding and revealing private collections.

“What is important here – and why I gifted this collection to be used and handled in the public domain – is that we don’t forget the past,” says Chung, “otherwise we are likely to repeat our mistakes.”

Read more from the article, “The vintage appeal,” by Larissa Buijs in Trek magazine online.

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