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Wong, Dhung Yin
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- Wong, Charles
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1887-1962
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WONG Dhung Ying (known in Canada as Charles Wong) was the second member of his family to come to Canada. He was born in 1887 and arrived in 1916. He paid the $500 head tax and travelled to Nova Scotia where his eldest brother, Jack, was already established.
By 1923, Charles was living and working at Wong‘s Chinese Laundry at 390 George Street in Sydney. In 1943, Charles was working at the Union Laundry in Charlottetown, PEI.
In 1925, he returned to China to see his family, returning to Canada in 1927. Charles and his wife had one son, Kai Thien. Wife and son remained in China.
He died in 1962 and was buried in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
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Wong, Dong Gee (1895-1952)
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Wong, Dong Han (1898-1965)
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family
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