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Translated the diaries of her grandfather, Dukesang Wong whose accounts are the only first-person stories by a Chinese worker on the construction of the CPR. With editing and additional commentary by David McIlwraith, the stories were published in The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain (Talon $18.95).
Born in a village north of Beijing, China, in 1845, Dukesang Wong travelled to North America in 1880 and worked for several years on the construction of the CPR in British Columbia. He eventually settled in New Westminster, BC, where he worked as a tailor and started a family. He died in 1931.
Born in 1947, Wanda Joy Hoe translated sections from the diary of her grandfather, Dukesang Wong, for an undergraduate sociology course at Simon Fraser University in the mid-1960s. After serving for many years with Canada's delegation to UNESCO, she retired to live in Ottawa.
The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain (Talon 2020) $18.95 978-1-77201-258-3
[BCBW 2020]
Born in a village north of Beijing, China, in 1845, Dukesang Wong travelled to North America in 1880 and worked for several years on the construction of the CPR in British Columbia. He eventually settled in New Westminster, BC, where he worked as a tailor and started a family. He died in 1931.
Born in 1947, Wanda Joy Hoe translated sections from the diary of her grandfather, Dukesang Wong, for an undergraduate sociology course at Simon Fraser University in the mid-1960s. After serving for many years with Canada's delegation to UNESCO, she retired to live in Ottawa.
The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain (Talon 2020) $18.95 978-1-77201-258-3
[BCBW 2020]
