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Title: Chan family videos : Acting out play titled Fun with Toy
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "George Chan gets Kate and her siblings to act out a play he’s labelled 'Fun with Toy' The toy is the mechanical alligator that came directly from China right before Christmas along with customized clothes. They play doctor and nurse with their new presents, the Ben Casey kits. Stan, plays a mischievous boy who startles the doctor played by Kate. Linda plays the nurse, and Joyce plays the mother of a sick child (the doll). Kate calls it a 'play toy within a play of toys'."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (12)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (12)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152078

Title: Chan family videos : Christmas turkey dinner
Description: Item consists of footage of carving and eating a turkey dinner. Project and donor contributed description follows: "It’s Christmas dinner in 1953, the Chan family sits around the table, Stan, Joyce, Linda and Kate. They are joined by Dad’s first son, Karl Chan, sitting to the right of Kate’s mother, Clara. Karl came to help out in the Virden Café as Virden was in the midst of an oil bloom. Kate’s dad George always remained behind the camera. "
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (11)
Date: 25 Dec. 1953
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (11)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152077

Title: Chan family videos : Chinese new year preparations
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "On January 24th, 1963, Kate’s mother, Clara Chan, prepares for Chinese New Year the night before, setting the table and filling red envelopes with money her kids. Cut to the next day where Stan, Joyce, Linda and Kate, are coming downstairs to receive their red envelopes. Everyone sings around the piano as Joyce plays. Upon further observation Kate’s friend notices that they are singing 'Away in a Manger'. Clara is a Russian refugee who came to Canada after the war in 1950. Fortunately for Clara the Manitoba law that prohibited white woman from working in Chinese restaurants was repealed in 1948. Her parents met in the Virden Café in 1950."
Type: video files
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (04)
Date: 24 Jan. 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152065

Title: Chan family videos : bathroom mirror selfie
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Ahead of his time Kate’s dad, George, takes one of the original selfies and films himself in his bathroom mirror on Super8 Kodachrome film in 1963. Kate’s brother, Stan, recalls seeing his dad set up lights to make this possible. George was a real film buff, a fan of Charlie Chaplin, and actively sought out arts and culture. Life and Time magazines came through the mail every week, and Kate says if it weren’t for him taking up these interests she wouldn’t have a worldview outside of small town Prairie Manitoba."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (01)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152062

Title: Chan family videos : Virden Cafe sign
Description: Item consists of footage of a sign that reads: Virden Cafe : fish & chips, chop suey. Project and donor contributed description follows: "The neon lit café sign of the Virden Café at night, Kate’s dad’s Chinese Canadian restaurant."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (03)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152067

Title: Chan family videos : Cleaning up
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Mom and Joyce picking up the wrapping and cleanup, etc."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (10)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (10)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152076

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP weddings : part 2 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties. The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (02)
Date: [196-]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152068

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP weddings : part 3 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties. The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (03)
Date: [196-]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (03)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152069

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP weddings : part 4 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties. The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (04)
Date: [196-]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (04)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152070

Title: Chan family videos : Stan marching with a tuba is in his Virden Band uniform
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Filmed by Kate and Stan’s dad, George, in 1963. George staged this shot of Stan is in his Virden Band uniform marching with his alto horn in his bedroom before going downstairs into the world. Four years later the Virden Band would go on to play at Expo ’67 in Montreal."
Type: video files
Accession / Box: 2018-039 / 001 (02)
Date: 1963
Identifier: 2018-039 / 001 (02)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152064

Title: Chan family videos : House with Christmas decorations
Description: Item consists of footage of a snowy house with Christmas decorations on the lawn. Project and donor contributed description follows: "George Chan filmed Christmas decorations in town, day and night."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (07)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (07)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152073

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP weddings : part 1 of 4
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the 1960s Kate’s dad, George admired the RCMP and made a point of befriending them. This segment includes four RCMP weddings. Here at Virden United Church George, like much of the town, waits to see the bride and groom. George would later go on to screen these films at the town Holiday parties. The Chan family was the only Chinese family in the community and his relationship with the RCMP helped him maintain his business as the owner of the Virden Café. It also helped that Kate’s mother, Clara, was Russian and hostess at their café."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (01)
Date: [196-]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (01)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152066

Title: Chan family videos : Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas message
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "George films the TV and captures Queen Elizabeth's message to start off the Christmas day."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (08)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (08)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152074

Title: Chan family videos : Christmas 1962 sign
Description: Item consists of footage of a sign with Christmas 1962 written on red. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Christmas 1962: George captures holiday decorations, neon lights, dinner and his kids opening presents, etc."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (05)
Date: 25 Dec. 1962
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (05)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152071

Title: Chan family videos : RCMP dinner at Virden Café
Description: Item consists of footage of town decorations and individuals at a restaurant. Project and donor contributed description follows: "An RCMP dinner at Virden Café including all of the grooms and brides."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (06)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (06)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152072

Title: Chan family videos : Opening presents and playing
Description: Project and donor contributed description follows: "Kate and her siblings open presents and set the scene for a play her dad directed with typewriter and doctor/nurse kits. Kate’s mom is in the silk housecoat. Joyce plays piano and they all gather to sing around her."
Type: video files
Fonds: Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
Accession / Box: 2019-035 / 001 (09)
Date: [196-?]
Identifier: 2019-035 / 001 (09)
Identifier (PID): yul:1152075