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By Glenn Drexhage on October 28, 2009
The Chinese Experience in B.C. website, a project involving UBC Library and the City of Vancouver Archives, is featured in the Vancouver Courier. You can view the article here: http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=bb4b8c74-b4d2-496e-b1c2-f556cba832fb
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with archives, Chinese Canadian history, Chung Collection, Media coverage
By Glenn Drexhage on October 14, 2009
The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, a new website that offers a fascinating look at a century of local Chinese-Canadian heritage, is featured in the Vancouver Observer. The site, which features digitized holdings from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at UBC, and the Yip family and Yip Sang Company collection at […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with archives, Chung Collection, Media coverage
By Glenn Drexhage on September 3, 2008
A digitization project that is a collaboration between UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Archives and the City of Vancouver Archives appears in the Vancouver Sun. The project, The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, 1850-1950, explores Chinese immigration, work, and social and cultural life in B.C. through the digitization of items from the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Chinese Canadian history, Chung Collection, digitization, Media coverage
By Glenn Drexhage on May 26, 2008
The latest issue of the CPSLD Newsletter – a publication from the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors features updates from UBC Library. The coverage includes news from Library branches such as Law, Koerner, Xwi7xwa and Asian, as well as notes on the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences 2008, the opening of the Chung Collection, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Chung Collection, First Nations, IKBLC, Media coverage
By Glenn Drexhage on April 17, 2008
The celebration of the new home for the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, held on April 15, 2008, has received much media attention. “A four-metre-long builder’s model of the CPR luxury ocean liner Empress of Asia — the pride of Canada’s maritime fleet in the early 20th century — is the centrepiece […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on April 17, 2008
On April 15, 2008, an event was held to celebrate the new, permanent home of the exceptional Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection. The event was held in the Golden Jubilee Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can view the press release here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2008/mr-08-042.html And you can view the Chung […]
Posted in Press releases | Tagged with Chung Collection