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Tom, Wing Shung
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1902–1976
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TOM Wing Shung was born in China on July 12, 1902. He arrived in Canada in 1918 as a 15-year-old student.
By 1924, he was working as a laundryman at Fraser Mills. His father, TAM Fook, died in 1945.
Shung and his wife lived at 1152 East Georgia Street in the Strathcona neighbourhood.
He eventually left the hand laundry industry. By 1965, he owned a hotel, but later, in 1968, he was a labourer. His grandson, Fulton Tom, recalls that Shung operated a newsstand in Chinatown at one point.
Shung passed away on August 30, 1976.
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