Credits and Kudos

This page is the creation of Jared Obermeyer, an undergraduate enrolled in Simon Fraser University. This page was created as a part of course requirements for Museum Collections Management. Based off a physical exhibit in the museum of archaeology and ethnology at Simon Fraser University, the original design and layout of the exhibit was designed by Lisa Rezanoff. The author wishes to thank several people for their contributions to the design of this page. First off, to Phil Hobler, for access to several unfinished reports and other data pertaining to the original excavation. Secondly to Barb Winter for help with choosing the colour scheme of and critical comments about the page. Lastly the author would like to thank Ross Jamieson for leads on where to look for sources on the historical archaeology of Chinese sites, and for allowing the author the abuse his computer privileges in his lab.

Links to Other Fine Sites:

Heritage B.C's page on Barkerville

The Cariboo Sentinel - Barkerville's Official Newspaper

BarkerVille - What more can be said?

The Provincial Park of Barkerville - info on the provincial park that surrounds Barkerville, and places to camp within it

Another fine Barkerville Site - includes some great historic photos of the town. Be sure to note the really barren hillsides and high streets and buildings to prevent floods.

One last Barkerville Site - some great contemporary info, as well as Barkerville as a ghost town

The Asian American Comparative Collection - some fine images of artifacts from Chinese American sites.

The US Patent Office - if you have a bit some something with a US patent number, this page will be a great help in figuring out what it is.

References Cited:

1 Greenwood, Roberta S.
    1996  Down by the Station: Los Angles Chinatown 1880-1933. Monumenta Archaeologica 18, Insitute of Archaeology, U. of California, LA.

2 Lai, David Chuenyan
    1991  The forbidden city within Victoria. Orca Book Publishers, Victoria.

3 Lai, David Chuenyan
    1988  Chinatowns: Towns within cities in Canada. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver.

4 Nagel Auctions
    2000  Tek Sing Treasures. Nagel Auctions, Stuttgart.

5 Sando, Ruth Ann & David L. Felton
   1993  Inventory Records of Ceramics and Opium from a Nineteeth Century Chinese Store in California. in Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese. edited by Priscilla Wegars. pg 151-175. Baywood Publishing Company, inc, Amityville, New York.

6 Torbenson, Michael et all.
    2000  Lash's: A Bitter Medicine: Biochemical Analysis of an Historical Propriety Medicine. Historical Archaeology 32(2):56-64.

7 Wylie, Jerry & Richard E. Fike
   1993  Chinese Opium Smoking techniques and Paraphernalia in Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese. edited by Priscilla Wegars. pg 255-303. Baywood Publishing Company, inc, Amityville, New York.

8 Chan, Anthony B.
   1983  Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World. New Star Books, Vancouver.

9 Etter, Patricia A.
   1980  The West Coast Chinese and Opium Smoking. in Archaeological perspectives on Ethnicity in America. edited by Tobert L. Schuyler. pg 97-101. Baywood Publishing Company Inc., Farmingdale, New York.

10 Devner, Kay
   1968  Patent Medicine Picture. The Tombstone Epitaph, Tombstone.

11 Baldwin, Joseph K.
   1973  A Collector's guide to Patent and Proprietary Medicine bottles of the Ninteenth Century. Thomas Nelson Inc, New York.