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Yip Sang (Chinese: 葉春田; pinyin: Yè Chūntián; 1845–1927) was a prominent Canadian businessman, whose business and family flourished during the period when Chinese Canadians faced discrimination and restrictions.
Jun 16, 2017 · Yip Sang became a wealthy man, and so well-respected he was dubbed the unofficial mayor of Chinatown. But he never forgot his humble beginnings.
May 23, 2023 · Much of Canada’s Chinese history happened in the Wing Sang building. Yip Sang helped bring over the 6,000 to 7,000 Chinese labourers who helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s.
Jul 11, 2023 · Yip Sang was a businessman who arrived in Vancouver in the late nineteenth century. His offspring now number nearly 400, and they all got together to celebrate their roots.
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The career of Yip Sang illustrates the trans-Pacific family, cultural, and business ties that characterized the lives of most first-generation migrants from China during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Wing Sang building dates to 1889, when Vancouver was only three years old. It was built by Yip Sang, who was once regarded as the unofficial mayor of Chinatown.
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Jun 26, 2020 · Yip took the rare opportunity afforded him as a prominent Chinese merchant to naturalize as a Canadian citizen on 11 June 1896 35. Even when he died, Yip chose Canada, deciding against the practice of bone repatriation – the custom among Chinese to send their bones back to China for burial 36.
