CAIN No. 148911

TITLE:
Wong family fonds

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
1 cm of textual records
6 photographs
1 postcard

DATES:
1912-1948

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Wong Kee Soon was a doctor, herbalist, and general merchant in Nanaimo's Chinatown. He operated Di Sung Tong and Company, which was later called Keep You Alive Drugstore (later the Canton Restaurant). His wife was Mah Sze Hun and they had eight children. The business was also called Keep You Alive Drugstore, and later became the Canton Restaurant. After Wong Kee's death, Mah Sze lived at and operated the restaurant. Three sons are owners of the Diners' Rendezvous Restaurant in Nanaimo.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The fonds consists of declaration of partnership (1912), certificates of registration of family members (1913-1948), cancelled cheques (1929-1930), the last will and testament of Wong Kee Soon (1939), photographs and postcard, insurance documents (1940-1941), and receipts and woy contracts in Chinese.

REPOSITORY:
Nanaimo Community Archives

LANGUAGE:
Some of the records are in Chinese.

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

PROVENANCE:
Wong (family)

OTHER NAMES:
Wong, Kee Soon, d. 1939

SUBJECTS:
Wong (family)
Wong, Kee Soon, d. 1939