CAIN No. 144530

TITLE:
Lee Chong Company fonds

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
11 m of textual records

DATES:
1911-1970

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
The Lee Chong Company was established in 1926 when Wong Mon Hong and Lee Chong took over the Lun Wo Company. Wong Mon Hong was born in Van Winkle in 1901. He was a miner and operated two grocery stores and a cafe.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, mining records, receipts, invoices, accounts, daybooks, ledgers, notebooks, and a large number of untranslated records in Chinese.

REPOSITORY:
Barkerville Historic Town and Resource Centre

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS:
Restrictions apply.

FINDING AID AVAILABLE:
Finding aid available.

LANGUAGE:
Most of the documents are written in Chinese.

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

PROVENANCE:
Lee Chong Company

SUBJECTS:
Lee Chong
Wong Mon Hong, 1901-1985
Lee Chong Company
Lun Wo Company