Chinatown with no. 3 mine in background
Type: Image
Date: 1910
History
From 1888 on Cumberland mines had a high proportion of Chinese workers, and swampy land was set aside for their thriving community.. Chinatown began to disintegrate in the 1960s. Transferred from Province of British Columbia: Catalog Number: HP41770.
Description
Cumberland Chinatown with No. 3 Mine in the background.
Item Details
- Materials: Graphic material
- Archival Reference: 994.1044
- Other reference: 982.020.105 / C040-041
- Author: [unknown]
- Donor: Talbot, Pat
- Donated: 1982/04/08
- Size: 21 x 26 cm