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    Ada Elizabeth Goon (nee Mahlook), ca. late 1930's, c. 1935 - c. 1940, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Ada Elizabeth Goon, ca. 1920, c. 1920, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    THE CHINESE DRAGON, BENDIGO EASTER FAIR. [picture], c. 1914 - c. 1941, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Alice Lim Kee, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Family gathering at Drummond St, Carlton, courtesy of D. Peebles (private collection).
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    Bert Goon and Ada Goon, ca.WWII, 1939 - 1945, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Colin Raymond Goon, around 12-15 years with a ukulele, courtesy of F. Anderson (private hands).
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    Edna and Verna Goon, courtesy of F. Anderson (private hands).
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    Edna Goon on left, and Verna Goon on right, ca.1916-1918., 1916 - 1918, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    Fay Anderson's mother's sister. Edna May Goon, now Macdonald, born 22/5/1912., courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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Archival Collections

C. Lee (private hands)

  • Lee Wah family collection; C. Lee (private hands) [ Details... ].

Chinese Museum

  • Cheong Collection; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].
  • Shirley Millard collection; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].
  • Young Chinese League Debutante sets, 1938 - 1988; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].

Creswick Historical Museum

  • General picture collection; Creswick Historical Museum [ Details... ].

Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria

  • Virtual exhibition, http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/index.htm; Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria [ Details... ].

Linton & District Historical Society

  • Linton & District Historical Society collection; Linton & District Historical Society [ Details... ].

Museum Victoria

National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office

  • B13/0 General and classified correspondence, c. 7 January 1901 - , B13/0; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office [ Details... ].
  • VA1984/397 Photograph of Lip Moon, c. 1900, VA1984/397; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office [ Details... ].

National Library of Australia - Picture collection

  • Melbourne and Shipping, PIC/3392 LOC Album 963; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].
  • Richard Ledgar collection of photographs, 1858-1910; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].
  • Ron Blum collection of Rose's stereoscopic views of Australia Federation celebrations, 1901; National Library of Australia - Picture collection [ Details... ].

S. Millard (private hands)

  • Shirley Millard private collection, 1890s; S. Millard (private hands) [ Details... ].

St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive

  • James Cheong photographs; St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive [ Details... ].
  • James Cheong photographs; St Peter's Eastern Hill Church archive [ Details... ].

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • Copyright Collection, Env25; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Gold mines in Victoria, ca. 1860; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Gosbell collection of lantern slides; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • J.H. Harvey collection; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Miscellaneous album compiled by Hamilton family; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Residents of Kyneton and district; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Tomlin's Jericho photographic collection, 1892 - 1976, LTA 81; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Loh, Morag, 'Chinese', in Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 131-132. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

  • Yong, Arthur (ed.), Chinese Settlement in Whittlesea, Our Chinese Community, Our Stories, Whittlesea Chinese Association with City of Whittlesea, Whittlesea, Victoria, 2008. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Hess, Rob, ''A death blow to the White Australia Policy': Australian Rules football and Chinese communities in Victoria, 1892-1908', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 89-106. [ Details... ]
  • Kyi, Anna, 'Unravelling the mystery of the Woah Hawp Canton Quartz Mining Company, Ballarat', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 59-78. [ Details... ]
  • Lancashire, Rod, 'Blanche Street, Wahgunyah: A pre-federation australian Chinese community on the border', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 191-202. [ Details... ]
  • Mayne, Alan, ''What you want John'? Chiense-European interactions on the Lower Turon goldfields', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 1-14. [ Details... ]
  • Reeves, Keir, 'A songster, a sketcher and the Chinese on central Victoria's Mount Alexander diggings: Case studies in cultural complexity during the second half of the nineteenth century', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 175-192. [ Details... ]
  • Rule, Pauline, 'The Chinese camps in colonial Victoria: Their role as contact zones', After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 119-132. [ Details... ]
  • Stanin, Zvonkica, 'From Li Chun to Yong Kit: A market garden on the Loddon, 1851-1912', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 15-34. [ Details... ]
  • Yong, C. F., 'The banana trade and the Chinese in NSW and Victoria, 1901-1921', ANU Historical Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1964, pp. 28-35. [ Details... ]

Newspapers

  • Eccelesia (St Peter's Church parish paper), 1930. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • '[unidentified article]', Australasian Post, 23 October 1947. [ Details... ]
  • Bagnall, Kate, 'Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1885-1915', PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 2006. (Also available at http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412) [ Details... ]
  • Cohuna & District Historical Society, Unlock the Land: A History of the Cohuna District 1875-1975, 2nd edn, Cohuna, 1988. [ Details... ]
  • De Bolfo, Tony, 'China Blue': The Wally Koochew Story, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/koochew.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Holst, Heather, 'Equal before the law? The Chinese in the nineteenth-century Castlemaine police courts', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 113-136. [ Details... ]
  • Lovejoy, Valerie, The things that unite: Inquests into Chinese deaths on the Bendigo goldfields 1854-6, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, vol. 6, September, http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/no6/ThingsThatUnitePrint.asp. [ Details... ]
  • Nicholas, Diane & Sheehan, Mary, Faint Traces: Chinese in Hawthorn before the Second World War, Hawthorn historical Society & City of Boroondara Library Service, Hawthorn, 2002. [ Details... ]
  • Reeves, Keir, 'Jacjung, Lee Heng', in eGold: Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia, http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00220b.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Rule, Pauline, 'A tale of three sisters: Australian-Chinese marriages in colonial Victoria', in Kee Pookong, Ho Chooi-hon, Paul Macgregor & Gary Presland (ed.), Chinese in Oceania, Association for the Study of the Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands; Chinese Museum; Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 65-76. [ Details... ]
  • Talbot, Diann, Grave Recollections: The History of the Bright Cemetery with some Brief Histories of our Early Pioneers, Diann Talbot, Bright, Victoria, 1999. [ Details... ]
  • Talbot, Diann, The Buckland Valley Goldfield: A Brief History fo the Rush for Gold, the Deaths, the Chinese Tragedy and the Rebellion that Culminated in the Famous Riot, Diann Talbot, Bright, Victoria, 2004. [ Details... ]
  • Taplin, Harry, Shang, Caleb James (1884 - 1953), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, 574 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110587b.htm. [ Details... ]

Images

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Ada Elizabeth Goon (nee Mahlook), late 1930's
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Photograph
Date
c. 1935 - c. 1940
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Ada Elizabeth Goon, c1920
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1920
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Aerial view of dragon circling the Alexandra fountain
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914 - c. 1941
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo - Pall Mall
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Alice Lim Kee
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Anguey family gathering at Drummond Street, Carlton
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Carlton - Drummond Street
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Assistant missionaries
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Bertram Ronald Goon and Ada Goon, around WWII
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Photograph
Date
1939 - 1945
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Caleb Cheong
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Cheok Hong Cheong, supt Chinese Missionary
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Children of Chinese Converts
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Chinese converts
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Chinese converts
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Chinese mission work in Victoria - collection of portraits
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Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Colin Raymond Goon, around 12-15 years with a ukulele
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Converts in Chinese costume
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Edna and Verna Goon
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Edna Goon on left, and Verna Goon on right, c1916-1918.
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Photograph
Date
1916 - 1918
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Edna May Goon, now Macdonald
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Eric William Goon in uniform
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Ernest (baby), Colin and Roy Goon, c1916-1918
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Photograph
Date
1916 - 1918
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Ernest Leondard Goon in uniform
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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F.S. Goon (Frank Shum Goon, Shum Fook Yuen) in Chinese clothes
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Frank Shum Goon (Shum Fook Yuen)
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Frank Shum Goon, Roy Goon and two unidentified men with plane
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Full-length portrait of an unidentified Chinese woman, seated
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1855 - c. 1882
Place
Australia - Victoria?
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Full-length portrait of an unidentified Chinese woman, standing
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1855 - c. 1882
Place
Australia - Victoria?
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Geoff and Eric William Goon, aged about 5 years, c1925-1926
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Photograph
Date
1925 - 1926
Place
Australia - Victoria
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George Ringold Artso and the Warrnambool Physical Culture Club
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Photograph
Date
1910s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Warrnambool
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George Ringold Artso and the Warrnambool Rovers Football Club
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912
Place
Australia - Victoria - Warrnambool
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Harry Louey Pang
Type
Photograph
Date
- 1925
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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John Lee Ack
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1925 - c. 1926
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Kong Meng's building at 210 Little Bourke Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1934
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Lowe Kong Meng (1888)
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 29 November 1888
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Lowe Kong Meng holding Chinese book
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1863
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Market gardens being worked with inset portrait of On Lee
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1886
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Mary Jane Whay (Hin Yung)
Type
Photograph
Date
1890? - 1915?
Place
Australia - Victoria - goldfields town?
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Miss B. Eager, Hon Secty Ladies Council
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Miss Davies, Organist & secty Adult Mission Service
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Miss Locke, Secty Mission Worker Society
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Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mr James Cheong M.A., late organist
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mr Joshua Cheong, organist
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Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mr M.C. Bridger
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mr Wm Davies, Hon Treasurer
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mrs C.H. Cheong
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Mrs Chun See Tock
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Photograph
Date
c. 1920
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Norman Geoffrey Goon in uniform
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Photograph
Date
c. 1941
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Pan Ah Shin and Catherine Martin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1857 - 1890s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Pupils & teachers
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Roy Goon and Laurie McKay Johnson, the chief flying instructor of the Victorian Aero Club, 1935
Type
Photograph
Date
1935
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Sarah Lee Hang Gong (nee Bowman) with four of her children in Victoria mid 1880s
Type
Photograph
Date
1880s
Place
Australia - Victoria
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School children in costume
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 2 September 1899
Place
Australia - Victoria
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The last Chinaman on the Jordan goldfield, a market gardener
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1906 - c. 1907
Place
Australia - Victoria - Gippsland - Jericho
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Title
The three Anguey shops
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Tong family
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 21 June 1912
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Unidentified Chinese miner outside wattle and daub hut with a dog
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Unidentified woman wearing dragon robe
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900 - c. 1940
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Verna Frances Warner (nee Goon)
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Title
Wedding of Frank Shum Goon and Ada Mahlook, pre 1911
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Victoria - Wangaratta
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Wesleyan Chinese Mission Victoria montage
Type
Photograph
Date
1883
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Sources used to compile this entry: Yong, C. F., 'The banana trade and the Chinese in NSW and Victoria, 1901-1921', ANU Historical Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 1964, pp. 28-35; Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977.

Created: 11 July 2001, Last modified: 7 November 2005