Victoria Quay : arrivals & departures 1906-1980

This chapter utilises extracts from oral-history interviews with bureaucrats and immigrants, and also draws upon archival documents to piece together a brief history of immigration on Victoria Quay, from 1906 until the 1970s. The history is viewed primarily through the lens of a group of buildings on the quay and the activities, official and informal, that went on within and around them over that period. These buildings are the Immigration Office and Information Bureau (erected in 1906), the waiting rooms constructed on its western side in 1926, and the passenger terminal, of which the first stage was completed in 1960.