Perfil de persona

King, Jim

1874–

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Biografía

He emigrated from China in 1882 as young boy alone.

He worked at the City Hotel in Vancouver as a houseboy to pay back the labour contractor who paid his way from China.

In 1903 he left Vancouver to work as a boom man travelling on the Bosquet he was wrecked on Harbledown Island.

In 1905 he worked for Jim Joliffe at Jackson Bay where he ws employed as a cook. On 1910 he moved to Alert Bay BC to work in the sawmill. About 1913 his family arrived from China.

He established a small cigar and tobacco shop.

He started a grocery business on thewaterfront.

In the 1930s he sold out to Dong Chong.

Referencias

Healey, Elizabeth. (1967)

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