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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association fonds
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1884-1976 (Creation)
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- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
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7 m of textual records
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Administrative history
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) was established in Victoria in 1884, and served as the main representative body for Chinese in Canada until 1908, when the Chinese Consulate was established in Ottawa. The CCBA's activities have included protesting against racial discrimination, mediating in community disputes concerning business deals and treatment of servants, providing financial assistance to Chinese individuals and families in other parts of Canada, China and Cuba, and monitoring the range of medical care offered by Chinese hospitals in British Columbia. In 1899, the CCBA built the Chinese Hospital in Victoria, which later developed into a boarding house for elderly Chinese men.
Custodial history
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association records have come into the custody of UVic Archives from the CCBA or Dr. David Lai.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of lists of Chinese deceased in Canada, 1937; leave permits issued to the Chinese Hospital in Vancouver, Victoria, and other areas of B.C., 1908-1909; donation and fundraising records, subscription booklets, records of income and expenditures, receipts, Free Miners Certificates, national bonds, 1884-1912; population data; correspondence from the Commander in Shanghai, 1932; minutes of the Chinese Public School; correspondence regarding donations for victims of famines, droughts, and floods in China, and booklets recording donations; records of the Chinese Hospital, including report books on patients, doctor order books and consultation forms, 1956-1976. Fonds also includes death and burial records series, 1902-1923, consisting of: medical certificates of death for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC; and burial permits for Chinese persons in Victoria, BC, including permits issued by the Chinese Benevolent Cemetery Company.
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Materials are on permanent loan to the University of Victoria Archives, by agreement made between the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the University of Victoria Library in 1973. Death and burial records series transferred to UVic Archives from Oak Bay Archives at the request of donor Dr. David Lai in 2010.
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Selected documents have been digitized and are available online in the Chinese Canadian Collection.
Restrictions on access
Chinese Hospital records are closed until 2040. No other restrictions apply.
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File list available
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Accruals
1977-084, 2009-021, 2011-004
Further accruals expected
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- Cultural groups
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Law and justice
- Organizations
- Health and social services
- Emigration and immigration
- Immigrants
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy
- Foreign workers
- Women immigrants
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
- Children of immigrants
- Immigrants--Social conditions
- Immigrants--Services for
- Children of immigrants--Education
- Race discrimination
- Anti-racism
- Racism
- Chinese
- Population
- Fund raising
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Medical care
- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
- Hospitals
- Hospitals--Administration
- Schools
- Segregation in education
- Business
- History
- Economics
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- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.) (Subject)
- Chinese Hospital (Victoria, B.C.) (Subject)
- Chinese Public School (Victoria, B.C.) (Subject)
- Chinese Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.) (Subject)
- Chinese Cemetery (Victoria, B.C.) (Subject)
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2013-02-05
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- English
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Chinese_Consolidated_AR030_FIND.pdf
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