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Wong, Get Howe
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- Wong, Get
- Wong, Yut
- Howe, Wong Get
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[1885]-1941
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WONG Get (also known as WONG Yut and WONG Get Howe) arrived in Canada in 1902 at the age of 17.
Later in life, he adopted HOWE as his surname, and so was known as Wong Get HOWE or W.G. Howe.
He lived in Vancouver for a time working as a barber and a portrait painter.
In 1918, he married Sue Ping (thereafter known as Jennie Howe) who was living with her family in the Vancouver area. He was nine years older than Jennie; he was 25 and she was 16. At first, she was upset with her family for arranging a marriage to an "old man".
Regardless of her initial feelings toward her husband, the couple moved to Oyen, Alberta in 1921 where their first child, David, was born. By 1923, the family was living in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan where their second child, Pearl, was born. By the end of that year, they were living in Marcelin, Saskatchewan and running the Star Café along with another man, L.K. Mah.
Wong Get died in 1941, leaving behind his wife and their two children.
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