[BCMA] FBCA hybrid event: October 15, 2 pm / On the Menu: Collectors, Collections, and Archives with Dr. Imogene Lim

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Please join the Friends of the BC Archives online or in Victoria for this
event Sunday, October 15 at 2pm.


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15 Oct 2023, 2:00 pm PT

On the Menu: Collectors, Collections, and Archives

Guest speaker: Dr. Imogene Lim

   - *In-person*: Newcombe Hall, Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville St.,
   Victoria, BC
   - *Onlin*e: Zoom attendees are required to register at the following
   link:
   https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvfuyqrD0qGN2iwxY7_7yNSnm9cjyDlcF3
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When dining out, you are either presented with a menu or view one that is
prominently displayed, bulletin-board-style, to allow the selection of
items, from appetizers to mains to desserts and beverages. These categories
reveal eating behaviours in a time and space, which make menus an
interesting topic of research.  Chinese restaurant menus in British
Columbia will be the focus of this talk. Examples will be drawn from
community archives, as well as a personal collection. The latter raises the
question of what will find its way into an archive, whether a community or
provincial one, as a donation. According to the BC Archives website, it
accepts private records that are “provincially significant,” while for a
community archive, documents are deemed equally “significant” to its
history, or as noted by another site, “establish a sense of community, of
family, and of particular times and places.” Join us as we consider the
historical and documentary importance of Chinese restaurant menus across
the province.


A descendant of Cumberland’s and Vancouver’s Chinatowns, Dr. Imogene Lim is
an anthropologist at Vancouver Island University. For the past two decades
her research interests have focused on Vancouver Island—primarily,
ethnicity in Canada and Asian Canadian history, including food and
culture. She co-curated, *Dishing Up Memories: Eating Chinese in BC*
(2022). Actively engaged in her community, locally and regionally, she
received a Ruth Master’s Hero Spoon, 2002, and the BC Medal of Good
Citizenship, 2020.
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