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Chinese holiday-makers come to worship and burn joss sticks to the memory of their ancestors at a temple of the Bo Lin Ji monastery on Lantau Island w(...)
Chinese holiday-makers come to worship and burn joss sticks to the memory of their ancestors at a temple of the Bo Lin Ji monastery on Lantau Island w(...)

Chinese holiday-makers come to worship and burn joss sticks to the memory of their ancestors at a temple of the Bo Lin Ji monastery on Lantau Island w(...)

Date4/1/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Chinese holiday-makers come to worship and burn joss sticks to the memory of their ancestors at a temple of the Bo Lin Ji monastery on Lantau Island where a paying guest can find peace and serenit spartan bed and board. The 55-mile-square island tually deserted; is reached by ferry from Hong [Incomplete]
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117470F
Ji Monastery sits high on a peak of the island of Lantau Hong Kong, a place of peace and serenity where you get a bunk bed and three vegetarian meals (...)
Ji Monastery sits high on a peak of the island of Lantau Hong Kong, a place of peace and serenity where you get a bunk bed and three vegetarian meals (...)
4/1/1972
Mongols And Turks are related and the ancestors of this Turkish trader came from the Asiatic steppes the Mongols in Inner and Outer Mongolia dominate.(...)
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Brown leather cover with no text or illustration
Northern antiquities; or, A description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other northern nations, including those of our own Saxon ancestors with a translation of the Edda, or system of runic mythology and other pieces, from the ancient Islandic tongue
1770
Cover has no illustration or text
Northern antiquities; or, A description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other northern nations, including those of our own Saxon ancestors with a translation of the Edda, or system of runic mythology and other pieces, from the ancient Islandic tongue
1770
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James McGivern: His ancestors came to North America on the Mayflower
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Bill Parker demonstrates the ancient pottery crafts of his Indian ancestors.
Bill Parker demonstrates the ancient pottery crafts of his Indian ancestors.
8/27/1978
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Chinese Juggling Sticks
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W. Bell & Co., makers of prize medal organs and melodeons, and proprietors of the Organette
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Makers of Canada a complimentary dinner given by the president of Morang & Co. to the authors, editors and advisory committee of the Makers of Canada on the completion of the series
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