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*[http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/photogallery9/page1.htm "A Tour of Old Canton "] Photographs taken by NZ Presbyterian missionaries. Presbyterian Archives Research Centre, Dunedin, NZ.  
*[http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/photogallery9/page1.htm "A Tour of Old Canton "] Photographs taken by NZ Presbyterian missionaries. Presbyterian Archives Research Centre, Dunedin, NZ.  
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4wAyDgrnHicC&pg=PR1 ''A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an Account of the Islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the City of Batavia. Of the Government and Political Conduct of the Dutch. Of the Empire of China, with a Particular Description of Canton ...''] 1762  Google Books. The Preface states the author was an officer in the service of the East India Company. 
*[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401303.pdf "Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super-cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811"] by J. L. Cranmer-Byng ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) from [http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/browse.jsp Hong Kong Journals online] The University of Hong Kong Libraries  sunzi.lib.hku.hk
*[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401303.pdf "Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super-cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811"] by J. L. Cranmer-Byng ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) from [http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/browse.jsp Hong Kong Journals online] The University of Hong Kong Libraries  sunzi.lib.hku.hk
*"Journal of Occurrances at Canton 1839" :[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401052.pdf "Introduction"] by E. W. Ellsworth [http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401053.pdf Notes] by L. T. Ride and J. L. Cranmer-Byng ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 4 (1964 ) sunzi.lib.hku.hk
*"Journal of Occurrances at Canton 1839" :[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401052.pdf "Introduction"] by E. W. Ellsworth [http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/4401053.pdf Notes] by L. T. Ride and J. L. Cranmer-Byng ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 4 (1964 ) sunzi.lib.hku.hk

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Place Name: Guangzhou
State/Province: Guangdong
Country: China
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Canton, now known as Guangzhou, is an important city in Southern China, situated on the Pearl River. Whampoa (a transliteration of Huangpu) is the district within the city where the docks were situated.

During the 18th and 19th century this important trading port was used extensively by the East India Company. China supplied the company with various commodities which were in high demand by the British – particularly tea. As a counterbalance, the East India Company supplied, amongst other goods, a large amount of Indian grown opium to China and this supply would eventually lead to the Opium Wars of the mid nineteenth century.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Guangzhou
Variants: Canton, Whampoa

History

Battle of Canton 1841
Siege of Canton 1857

Records

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library. Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9. These records are probably included in the digitised records now available on the commercial site FindMyPast

External links

Historical photographs online

Historical books online