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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 : 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 : 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 : 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