28: Glass slide Chinese Coolie Labour Corps Pictures made in coloured sands to mark a festival, on Vancouver Island.

The men were delayed at Vancouver Island, because of the explosion at Halifax. Instead of travelling across Canada by train, the men were embarked again, and sailed south through the Panama Canal, called at Jamaica and thence to Britain.


Order number: MS 380660, G. Cormack (glass slide box)
Date(s) of creation: 1916
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MS 380660, G. Cormack (glass slide box)
callnumber MS 380660/01/28
callnumber_txt MS 380660/01/28
callnumber-sort MS 380660/01/28
prefix_number 28
title 28: Glass slide Chinese Coolie Labour Corps Pictures made in coloured sands to mark a festival, on Vancouver Island.
scb_date_creation 1916
scb_level Item
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format Archive
description The men were delayed at Vancouver Island, because of the explosion at Halifax. Instead of travelling across Canada by train, the men were embarked again, and sailed south through the Panama Canal, called at Jamaica and thence to Britain.
scb_access_status Open
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hierarchy_sequence MS_380660.0001.0028