About K. Dock Yip

Kew Dock Yip was community leader in Toronto's First Chinatown, the first Canadian lawyer of Chinese descent, and played a critical role in helping repeal the Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act in 1947. He is the third youngest son of Yip Sang, a prominent Chinese merchant and paymaster of CP Railway, in Vancouver in the 1900s.

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Lyonde, 1945 — Law Society of Upper Canada Archive's Photostream [1] via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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Canada

Born

1906

Died

October 2001, July 9, 2001

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