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The ubiquitous junk that you see everywhere around Hong Kong will most likely have been built on Cheung Chau Island in the New Territories. It's the c(...)
The ubiquitous junk that you see everywhere around Hong Kong will most likely have been built on Cheung Chau Island in the New Territories. It's the c(...)

The ubiquitous junk that you see everywhere around Hong Kong will most likely have been built on Cheung Chau Island in the New Territories. It's the c(...)

Date5/29/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: The ubiquitous junk that you see everywhere around Hong Kong will most likely have been built on Cheung Chau Island in the New Territories. It's the centre of Hong Kong's fishing and boat building industries. Buyers have to wait a year for their junks to be completed and they're costly.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117473F
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
5/30/1987
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
4/1/1972
Beleaguered: Metro entrepreneur Francis Cheung, above, has seen his Chinavision company go into receivership. In a happlier time, right, he's pictured with daughter Teresa and her groom, Hong Kong singer Kenny B.
Beleaguered: Metro entrepreneur Francis Cheung, above, has seen his Chinavision company go into receivership. In a happlier time, right, he's pictured with daughter Teresa and her groom, Hong Kong singer Kenny B.
5/31/1984
A mobile refreshment stand on the island of Lantau, near Hong Kong, bears little resemblance to the canteen trucks that you find around Toronto. [Incomplete]
A mobile refreshment stand on the island of Lantau, near Hong Kong, bears little resemblance to the canteen trucks that you find around Toronto. [Incomplete]
4/7/1972
A Chinese junk from Hong Kong rides at anchor in Toronto harbor, seen through a porthole of another ship
A Chinese junk from Hong Kong rides at anchor in Toronto harbor, seen through a porthole of another ship
6/12/1972
The water people of Hong Kong are born, live and die aboard the junks and small craft that populate the busy harbor
The water people of Hong Kong are born, live and die aboard the junks and small craft that populate the busy harbor
4/1/1972
Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor
Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor
12/28/1974
Immigration woes: Suresh and Anna Murarka, pictured above with their children, Anil, 3, and Lin, 7, have been fighting for four years to bring Anna's parents and two sisters here from Hong Kong, but have been refused because one sister is mentally retarted and has cerebral palsy
Immigration woes: Suresh and Anna Murarka, pictured above with their children, Anil, 3, and Lin, 7, have been fighting for four years to bring Anna's parents and two sisters here from Hong Kong, but have been refused because one sister is mentally retarted and has cerebral palsy
2/22/1987
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
Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada, containing authentic and complete maps of all the provinces, the North-west territories and the island of Newfoundland, from the latest official surveys and plans, by permission of the general and provincial governments, together with a general descriptive history, &c., also maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, United States, Oceanica, The World, &c., &c.
Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada, containing authentic and complete maps of all the provinces, the North-west territories and the island of Newfoundland, from the latest official surveys and plans, by permission of the general and provincial governments, together with a general descriptive history, &c., also maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, United States, Oceanica, The World, &c., &c.
1880
Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada, containing authentic and complete maps of all the provinces, the North-West Territories and the island of Newfoundland, from the latest official surveys and plans, by permission of the general and provincial governments, together with a general descriptive history, &c., also maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, United States, Oceania, the World, &c., &c.
Illustrated atlas of the Dominion of Canada, containing authentic and complete maps of all the provinces, the North-West Territories and the island of Newfoundland, from the latest official surveys and plans, by permission of the general and provincial governments, together with a general descriptive history, &c., also maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, United States, Oceania, the World, &c., &c.
1880
A map of the North Pole with all the territories that lye near it, known to us &c according to the latest discoveries, and most exact observations agreeable to modern history
A map of the North Pole with all the territories that lye near it, known to us &c according to the latest discoveries, and most exact observations agreeable to modern history
Approximately 1732