CAIN No. 148412

TITLE:
Wah Hing Land Company fonds

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
5 cm of textual records

DATES:
1940-1942

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
The Wah Hing Land Company was formed ca. 1925 from the Lung Yick Company in response to high rent increases in Nanaimo's Chinatown. The company was a mutual organization that purchased seven acres of land from the Western Fuel Company on the bluffs overlooking Mount Benson and Harewood, and sold shares to 4,000 Chinese across Canada for five dollars each. The old Chinatown was then dismantled and moved over the railway tracks, and erected on the new land.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The fonds consists of a register, written in Chinese characters. It includes one receipt and one application to transfer money to the Bank of China.

REPOSITORY:
Nanaimo Community Archives

LANGUAGE:
Records are in Chinese.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Title based on the contents of the fonds.

PROVENANCE:
Wah Hing Land Company

SUBJECTS:
Wah Hing Land Company