About Archive

Purpose

The purpose of this ‘family history’ is simply to display and make available to interested visitors documents, images and stories relevant to our Caldwell, Bruce and extended families, including our newly ‘discovered’ Chinese families (uh, they actually found us) — Lai, Kwan and Ko (and more to come, we hope). You may contribute materials (documents, images) and to the site by emailing them to myself along with explanatory notes. In time, this site will allow you and others to add materials directly. In time, we hope to grow a fascinating, comprehensive repository of images, documents and stories available to all. And what stories!

For now, the contents of the archive are largely materials passed down in my family as well as materials made available by our Chinese cousins . Photography was a new technology in the1800s, and limited to professionals. Thus, the photographic images displayed here are almost all from 1900 on, with the exception of some historic and stock paintings included for context. To read stories of our families, please go to Tales on the menu.

For simplicity, the materials are organized in galleries by place, with a brief paragraph at the head of the page and/or gallery which provides the context . You are free to download without permissions any of the materials on this site which you can do by ‘right click, copy image, paste.’ Enjoy.