Collection search - Wing, James - Interview

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Wing, James - Interview

Item number (ISN):

383024

Series title:

Chinese Head Tax

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2002-05

Item number (ISN):

383024

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: OTTAWA

Accession:

2007-0111

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2002-05

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer/interviewer, Bob Carty

Description:

Interview with James Wing, retired electronic technician with the Canadian Marconi Company and Chinese Canadian who came to Canada in 1923. Subjects discussed include: Wing’s arrival to Victoria, British Columbia at ten years of age where he remained in a detention centre until his head tax was paid; living alone with his father in a single room in Montréal, Québec; obtaining his Canadian citizenship 28 years after his arrival to Canada; his father’s work in Canada as a restaurant owner; discriminization against the Chinese culture, language and colour; cultural differences; his treatment by school mates; making a living in Chinese laundries; the loneliness of Chinese men in Canada living without their families; his return to China in the early 1930's to marry; treatment of Chinese Canadians following WWII; and the Canadian government’s failure to settle the redress issue. <35mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

226

Notes:

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1. Recorded as part of research for the radio documentary entitled CHINESE HEAD TAX, produced by Bob Carty for the CBC and featured on the CBC radio series SUNDAY MORNING.~2. Interview with James Wing begins on Track 12.

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Vault ISN:

444774

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2007-0111/226

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MINIDISC

Duration:

74:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

521599

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

383024-2007-0111-226.wav

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

40:31

Made from:

2007-0111/226

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

524380

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

383024-2007-0111-226.mp3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

40:31

Made from:

2007-0111/226

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: CBC, 2002.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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