Yip Sang of Vancouver, B.C.
Yip Sang, mother, wife and 3 children
Yip Sang (Yip Chun Tien), head of the Chinese Nationalist League in Vancouver, brought his family to see the A-Y-P. Sang was one of the leading businessmen in Vancouver. He came to San Francisco from China in 1864 and worked seventeen years as dishwasher, cook, cigar maker before settling in Vancouver’s Chinatown. He became a leading businessman. After his first wife’s death, he remarried three times and had 19 sons and 4 daughters
Source: Yip Sang and family, NARA RG85, RS2396, RS2391-RS2394
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