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Yuk Soy Goon fonds
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- Part Of
- Yuk Soy Goon fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of menus for the Mount Royal Hotel, 1958-1965; a menu for a Gray Line dinner party at Hawaii in 1952, signed by Fern and Henry Dooley; and photographs pertaining to Yuk Soy Goon, the Goon family and members of Brewster family. Also included are coloured photocopies of Yuk Soy Goon's…
- Date Range
- [ca.1911]-1965
- Reference Code
- M479 / V233
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Yuk Soy Goon fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 479
- V 233
- Sous-Fonds
- M 479
- V 233
- Accession Number
- 3878, 5067, 5100, 7832 (unproc)
- Reference Code
- M479 / V233
- Date Range
- [ca.1911]-1965
- Physical Description
- 53 items textual records. -- 18 photographs: prints
- History / Biographical
- Yuk Soy Goon, 1896-1978, was born in Kwan Tung, China. Yuk Soy left China in 1911 to find work in Canada in order to help support his family. He made six extended trips back to China to visit his family. Yuk Soy worked in Vancouver, B.C. and Calgary, Alberta before moving to Banff where his cousin Goon Sir Wing was working. Yuk Soy worked for Dr. Robert Brett at the Sanitarium Hotel and in 1930 went to work for Jim Brewster as a house servant until 1947. During his employment with Jim Brewster, Yuk Soy was occasionally hired out and in the summer of 1937 he worked as camp cook for Erling Strom at Mount Assiniboine. Yuk Soy then worked at the Mount Royal Hotel as a chef, retiring in 1965 as head chef. In 1955, Yuk Soy's wife and son Howie Chung Hing Goon (b.1948) arrived in Banff from China and the family lived in a house on Beaver Street behind the Mount Royal Hotel until 1960 when they purchased a new house on Lynx Street.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of menus for the Mount Royal Hotel, 1958-1965; a menu for a Gray Line dinner party at Hawaii in 1952, signed by Fern and Henry Dooley; and photographs pertaining to Yuk Soy Goon, the Goon family and members of Brewster family. Also included are coloured photocopies of Yuk Soy Goon's passport, ship's ticket, Canadian registration cards, head tax certificate, and Canadian citizenship certificate.
- Name Access
- Brewster, Dell
- Brewster, Fern
- Goon, Yuk Soy
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: basic description for photographs
- Creator
- Goon, Yuk Soy
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Biographical Source Notes
- We Live in a Postcard: Banff Family Histories (Banff: Banff History Book Committee, 2005)
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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- Part Of
- Yuk Soy Goon fonds
- Scope & Content
- Menu, Royal Hawaiian Gray Line Dinner Party, 1952 Nov 15, 1 item.
- Reference Code
- M479 / 1 / O.S. / "H"
- Part Of
- Yuk Soy Goon fonds
- Accession Number
- 421
- Reference Code
- M479 / 1 / O.S. / "H"
- Scope & Content
- Menu, Royal Hawaiian Gray Line Dinner Party, 1952 Nov 15, 1 item.
- Content Details
- Held in oversize "H"
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