Ko Bong, Mary
This photograph was collected for the exhibit, “But Women Did Come”: 150 Years of Chinese Women in North America. The exhibit premiered at the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library in 1987, and brought together two complementary shows, one on Chinese American Women and the other on the history of Chinese women in Canada. The photographs in But Women Did Come document the lives of Chinese women in North America from the pioneer days (beginning in the 1830s) to the 1980s.
Included in this database are photographs from Chinese Canadian family albums and Canadian archival institutions. The online version of the Canadian exhibit is available at: http://www.mhso.ca/ggp/Exhibits/Chinese_Women/.
A photo of Margaret Chan Fong, one of the first Chinese girls to go through the public school system in Victoria, British Columbia. She completed her high school education at Victoria Normal School in the late 1920s or early 1930s. She was not allowed to teach in British Columbia at that time and went to Java instead. She was sent to Malaya, but returned to Canada after World War II. She married Mr. Fong and had a son and daughter. She died in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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