Ms. Que Banh<p>Did you know? The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UnitedChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedChurch</span></a> once operated a home and school in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaBC</span></a> for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> girls and women. Today, many are surprised to learn this. Margery Hadley, a professional <a href="https://beige.party/tags/archivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archivist</span></a> and member of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch</span></a> in Victoria, has recently completed a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/digitization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitization</span></a> project that makes the images of the Oriental Home and School available online. It opens to us a now distant world and its concomitant issues.</p><p><a href="https://pacificmountain.ca/oriental-home-and-school-photos-online/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pacificmountain.ca/oriental-ho</span><span class="invisible">me-and-school-photos-online/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstMetArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstMetArchives</span></a> has been privileged to care for two important historical documents from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OrientalHomeAndSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrientalHomeAndSchool</span></a>. The first is the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChineseRescueHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseRescueHome</span></a> Advisory Committee minute book, 1896-1915. The second is the Oriental Home and School album, a fascinating assemblage of 95 photographs of the Oriental Home community, mainly between 1907 and 1916.</p><p>The Oriental Home and School album is now available online. It is part of First Met’s <a href="https://beige.party/tags/historic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/photographs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographs</span></a> digitization project that involved digital scanning and description of over 500 images from our <a href="https://beige.party/tags/archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archival</span></a> collections. These photographs are available to the public on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Flickr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flickr</span></a>. The Oriental Home and School album is one of ten sets of First Met’s <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HistoricalPhotographs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalPhotographs</span></a> available for public viewing.</p><p>First Met gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Digitization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digitization</span></a> Program (2015), sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBC</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstmetarchives/albums/72157661823684156/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/firstmetarch</span><span class="invisible">ives/albums/72157661823684156/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YYJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YYJ</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Lekwungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lekwungen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VancouverIsland</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChineseCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseCanadian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/JapaneseCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseCanadian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianCanadian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YYJhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YYJhistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianDiaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianDiaspora</span></a></p>