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Jung, Bing Sun
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- 甄炳信
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- Jun, Bing Sun
- John Bing Sun
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[1907]-1975
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JUNG Bing Sun arrived in Vancouver, B.C. in 1920. He worked mainly as a cook but also operated a laundry for a time. He lived for many years in Vancouver’s Chinatown, staying in one of the many rooming houses for bachelors.
Even though Sun worked physically taxing jobs, he always took pride in dressing well: donning a suit and tie and, of course, a hat which was very popular at the time.
He was not a gambler and thus was able to send money home, pay back the sponsor who underwrote his $500 head tax, and make multiple trips home to China. He made five trips in total. Each time Sun went home, he stayed for a year.
On one visit, his wife gave birth to a son, Matthew. Two days after the birth, Sun had to board a ship back to Canada. It was around the time the Communists were fighting to take control of China. It would be another 21 years before Sun would see his son Matthew again.
After the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Sun applied for his wife and son to join him in Canada. However, the application was rejected. The Canadian immigration officials said that Sun had failed to prove a family connection.
Years later, when the government under Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau relaxed immigration rules, Sun tried again to bring over this family. This time they took a blood test to prove the family relationship.
Matthew and his mother finally were able to immigrate to Canada in the early 1970s. Not long after the family was reunited, on November 1, 1975, Sun passed away in Vancouver.
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