ss TAMBA MARU
Boo Cheung sailed to Canada on the ss Tamba Maru built by Napier Shanks & Bell Yoker,
yard # 84, launched on Tuesday, 03/08/1897, built in 1897. Ship type was classified as a
Passenger and Cargo Vessel. Tonnage of 6102 grt, length of 445 feet, breadth: 49.4 feet,
Owner History was Nippon Yusen Kaisha Tokyo, presently The NYK Lines.
The ss Tamba Maru was scraped in Japan Q4 in the year of 1933
DOMINION OF CANADA IMMIGRATION BRANCH
Received from Chong Chung Boo whose photograph is attached hereto on the date and at the place there under mentioned, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars being the head tax due under the provision of the Chinese Immigration Act.
The above mentioned party who claims to be a native of Sui Kow in the district of Hoy Ping at the age of 20 years arrived or landed at Victoria on the 29th day of October 1917, ex SS Tamba Maru.
The declaration in this case is C.I.4. No. 0000
Dated at Ottawa on
November 12, 1917
E.B. Lake Robertson,
Assistant Chief Controller
of Chinese Immigration.
Registration #: 00000
This is to certify that the person, whose photograph appears
on the face of this certificate, has registered as required by Section 18, of the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923.
Dated at Victoria, B.C.
this 18 day of August 1924 S.M. Reid, Controller of Chinese Immigration.
Document below is the registration journal of all new immgarants entering Canada during the turn of the century.
