Cairns & District Chinese Association

It has been twelve years since CADCAI became the caretaker of the important Lit Sung Goong temple artifacts.  A small group of volumteers was formed to collate amd catalogue the collection.  They had a lot to learn but now they are getting ready for the next phase which is to build on their land in the Cairns Cultural percinct near the Chinese garden.  This will establish a permanent home for the temple artifacts and a place where the community can come together to share and celebrate their heritage.  During the year a fresh sub-committee has been working on a more affordable staged development aiming to start in this new year.  Recently the heritage group has received a number of family history enquires regarding Chinese migrants who had lived in North Queensland.  In most cases the trail have been difficult to track, however there has been some success such as the story of Jang Tim who settled in Gordonvale and was been researched by his grand-daughter from China.  The Association has also catalogued a collection of twenty-three original lithograph poster depicting both traditional and popular Shanghai vintage art.  Other achievements during the year were the completion of the cataloguing of the Kevin Wong Hoy library and the Chinatown collection files.  This new year will see the ongoing conservation of all the CADCAI heritage collection and fundraising will become an important and major focus for the group.