The diary of Dukesang Wong : a voice from Gold Mountain
Record details
- ISBN: 1772012580
- ISBN: 9781772012583
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Physical Description:
xxi, 119 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada : Talonbooks, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The only known first-person account by a Chinese worker on the construction of the CPR"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118). |
Language Note: | Diary entries translated from the Chinese. |
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Genre: | Diaries. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | FC 3850 C5 W66 2020 (Text) | 26040003403058 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
David McIlwraith has been a writer, teacher, actor, and director. During a career in theatre, film, and television, he wrote and directed award-nominated documentaries and television programs, including Celesta Found, The Lynching of Louie Sam, and Harrowsmith Country Life. He has worked extensively across Canada in the development of new Canadian plays. As an actor, he has played roles from Romeo to Prospero, and he has taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife and daughter and spends summers with friends on Salt Spring Island.
Born in China in 1846, Dukesang Wong saw his magistrate father poisoned, and his family honour destroyed, in 1867, the year his diary begins. He travelled to North America in 1880, after several years of trying to scrape together a living in war-torn China, landing in Portland before making his way north to work in British Columbia on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He eventually settled in what is now known as New Westminster, working as a tailor, and was able to bring his bride to Canada from China. Together they had eight children. Dukesang Wong died in 1931. Selections from his diaries were translated in the mid-1960s by his granddaughter, Wanda Joy Hoe, as part of a university undergraduate paper. Wanda Joy Hoe translated selections from the diary of her grandfather, Dukesang Wong, for an undergraduate sociology course at Simon Fraser University in the mid-1960s. She lives in Ottawa.