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Jang, Dong Sang
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- 曾棟生
- 曾傳鉅
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1906-1966
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JANG Dong Sang was born in China on December 13, 1906, in the village of Hong Min Choon in the 恩平 Yinping / Enping district of Guangdong province.
He arrived in Vancouver on November 28, 1921, just prior to his fifteenth birthday, and travelled to Lethbridge, Alberta to join other Jang relatives from China who had settled there.
He journeyed back to China twice, returning to Canada in 1926, and again in 1929.
On July 4, 1943, he married Rose Leong. Together, they had nine children between the years 1945 and 1960.
Sang had two children from a previous marriage in China. Jerry, his adopted son, came to Canada in 1952. His daughter, Yit Lin, was born in 1928, and immigrated to Canada with her husband and four children in 1973.
In Lethbridge, Sang was a partner in a confectionery store. In 1953, he moved to Prince George to open a restaurant named Golden Dragon. His family joined him in 1954.
He adored his children and was a kind and thoughtful husband and father who assisted his wife with everything from washing dishes to cooking meals. He also helped with washing diapers and bathing the children, which was unusual for a man at that time.
Sang enjoyed gambling at fan tan and other Chinese games. He also loved Chinese opera and music, and he enjoyed singing to and teaching his children some little ditties sung in his home village from when he was a child.
Sang became a Canadian citizen on May 31, 1951.
Fifteen years later, he passed away on May 12, 1966, following a heart attack. He was not yet 60. His second wife was now a widow at the age of 40 with six children still at home.
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