Collection dates, Series 1 of 1 1948
See also:
Barkerville Archives
Barkerville Library
Barkerville Photographs
Historical
Data
Lee Chong started with a small store constructed of logs located across the street from the present store. It became too small for the business and Lee Chong had the existing structure built by Dawson Mah’s grandfather in 1932 at a cost of $1500.00.
Lee Chong’s store sold groceries, clothes, shoes, wool socks, herbs, leather miner boots with laces, rubber boots, pork, pigs, ice and frozen slabs of beef. Some of the above were sent directly to mining camps without unpacking them out of the crates.
While in China, Bill Hong’s father sold one
of his sons paper to Lee Chong for $500.00 (this was a common occurance in
those days). One of Bill Hong’s sisters
died and Lee Chong gave Bill his sister in absentia, thus Lee Chong and Bill
Hong were related. When both men were
mining in Canada, Lee Chong “wanted to do a good deed for Bill to help him out”,
so he gave him 1/4 (working share) of the business.
Scope
and Contents
1.
MISCELLANEOUS
1.1 (25) -balance sheets, Lee Chong Co. Dec., 1948 - Oct., 1949
-receipts and invoices: Wells Produce, Eric North,
Wells Garage, Tom Yee Co., National Biscuit and
Confection, Hammond Furniture, Nifty Noodles,
L.M. McKinnon, Northern Woodstock Rubber Ltd.,
McLennan, McFeely and Prior Ltd., H. Smart Men’s
Wear and Clothing, Goldfield Bakery, Blue Ribbon
Ltd.,
-Royal Canadian Mint, Memorandum of Outrun of
Gold Bullion Deposited at the Assay Office, by
Royal Bank of Canada at Wells
Canadian Factory Limited, British Ropes given
to
Lee Chong.
1.2 (1) Unused invoice book, hardcover, bound in corduroy. The Lee
Chong Co. was owned by Pat and William Hong (1948).
1.3 (1) Restmore Catalogue (Furniture and Mattresses) No. 8