Canton
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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
- Photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, Canton, and Macau 1900-1930. University of Cambridge Digital Library
- "A Tour of Old Canton " Photographs taken by NZ Presbyterian missionaries. Presbyterian Archives Research Centre, Dunedin, NZ.
Historical books online
- "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 Hong Kong Journals online The University of Hong Kong Libraries sunzi.lib.hku.hk
- "Journal of Occurrances at Canton 1839" :"Introduction" by E. W. Ellsworth 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
- The 'Fan Kwae' at Canton before treaty days, 1825-1844 by An Old Resident [William C Hunter] 2nd edition 1911 (First published 1882) Archive.org (Fan Kwae=Foreign Barbarians, Devils)
- Canton and the Bogue. The narrative of an eventful six months in China by Walter William Mundy 1875 Archive.org. A visit in 1874.
- Bits of Old China by William C Hunter 1885 Archive.org
- "Historical Outline of Medical Missions at Canton, Hongkong and Macao" The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East Volume 4 No. 5 (1876 ) sunzi.lib.hku.hk
- A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
- Canton, China Published by the Bureau of Navigation under authority of the Secretary of the Navy [USA]. Catalogued 1920. Archive.org