Fonds - Oriental Home and School fonds

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Oriental Home and School fonds

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    • 1886-1959 (Creation)
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      Oriental Home and School

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    52 cm of textual records
    348 photographs
    9 architectural drawings

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    Name of creator

    (1888-1942)

    Administrative history

    In 1885, missionary John Endicott Gardner began sheltering Chinese women and girls working as prostitutes in Victoria. Gardner received support for this work from the Rev. J.E. Starr, a local Methodist minister. In 1888, a home on Cormorant Street was purchased, and the Chinese Girls’ Rescue Home officially opened. At Starr’s urging, the Woman’s Missionary Society (WMS) at Pandora Avenue (later Metropolitan) Methodist Church became involved. By 1890, the home’s main priority shifted to providing refuge for Asian domestic servants suffering enslavement and abuse. In 1908, the WMS opened a newly constructed facility, and the name of the home was changed to the Oriental Home and School. It offered shelter and Christian education for Chinese and Japanese women and girls. The United Church continued to operate the home after Church Union in 1925. The evacuation of Japanese Canadians from the coast during the Second World War brought an abrupt end to the home in 1942. Japanese residents were relocated to a WMS home at Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. The WMS purchased a smaller home on Pembroke Street for the remaining Chinese women, and it became known as a Chinese Christian community centre.

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    Scope and content

    Fonds consists of the following record series: Attendance records (1886-1942); Financial records (1888-1948); Historical accounts and other material (1887-1959); Resident case files (1891-1942); Annual reports (1926-1934); Meeting minutes (1896-1915); Property records (1908-1909); and Photographs (1901-1947).

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    Physical condition

    Some material is fragile

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Acquisition details were not documented. The majority of the records were received prior to 1990. Transfer of photographs P-31/file 1 and Advisory Committee minute book transferred from First-Metropolitan United Church Archives (Victoria, B.C.) on September 15, 2016.

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    • English

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      Advisory Committee minutes available in microfilm

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      Access to some records is restricted to protect personal information

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      No further accruals expected

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      BCAUL control number: UCCBC-21

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      AffB 19

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      Final

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      Full

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Created March 2, 2016
      Revised October 4, 2018

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      • English

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