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Shong, Yaw
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- Shong, Won
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b. [1893]
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Shong Yaw was born in China around 1893. He arrived in Canada at age 20 in 1913 on the Empress of India. He was listed as a "merchant's son" and therefore did not pay the head tax. His intended final destination for settlement was listed as Clinton, B.C.
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