Identifier

The_Vancouver_Sun_Sat__Sep_25__1937_Pages 1 and 8

Title

Dismissed Girls Parade To City Hall (Sep 25, 1937)

Description

Newspaper article documents the first action taken by White waitresses working in Chinatown Restaurants during a morality crackdown by the Mayor's Office and the Vancouver Police. Three Chinese-owned restaurants are threatened with having their licenses pulled if they continue to hire White waitresses. The waitresses argue that they prefer to work for Chinese restaurant owners and can't afford to lose their jobs.

Format

1 newspaper article scan

Type

JPG

Creator

Ancestry

The Vancouver Sun

Is Part Of

Newspaperss.com

Date

September 25, 1937

Contributor

Karen Knights (Researcher)

Theme

See all items with this valueLabour

Sub-theme

Chinatown restaurants

Subject

Racism

Unorganized labour

Vancouver Chinatown

Tags and Specific Analysis

Abuse of power

Anti-Chinese discrimination in Vancouver, Canada

Moral panic

Depression Era

Waitresses

Women's rights

Race

Chinese restaurants and Cafes

Benevolent Society

Places, Locations and Nations

Vancouver, Canada.

Unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Note

In 1937, The Vancouver Sun, then BC's 2nd most popular major newspaper, was under the management of the sons of Robert Cromie, its first publisher, who died 1936.

Source

Newspapers.com

Source Repository Description

Online subscription-based newspaper archives owned by Ancestry. Images available for download and sharing.

Provenance

In 2018, owner of The Province, Postmedia, made an agreement with Newspapers.com and ProQuest, a company that sells collections to the library and archive industries, to digitize The Province’s microfilm archives in return for lease access to their collection with restrictions.

Access Rights

Subscriber downloads are open access.

Rights Holder

Ancestry

Case Study

Case Study 1