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Lore, Helen Hing Yee
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- Chang, Helen
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1919-2006
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Helen LORE Hing Yee was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1919. She had two brothers and three sisters. She graduated from Victoria High School.
In 1943, during the war, she married CHANG Gan, the son of a well-known Chinese pioneer and businessman named Sam Kee. Helen and Gan would have two sons: Dwight and Blythe.
She worked as a homemaker but also helped in the office at her husband’s dental practice in Vancouver.
Helen’s oldest sister married Quene Yip from the well-known Yip Sang family. And her uncle, Lieutenant Commander William Lore, gained fame for his role in WWII. As an officer with the Royal Navy, he helped to liberate Hong Kong from the Japanese, and free Canadians from the Sham Shui Po Prisoner of War Camp.
Helen died in 2006.
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