Gim Wong — page 2

By Julie MacLellan,reporter

From his parents' villages, in fact, only three women made it in to Canada.

Anyone who hadn't made it into the country by 1923 didn't have a chance again until 1947, when the Exclusion Act ended. Some never came.

"Twenty-five years, the families were separated. That's a lifetime," Wong says.

It was the same for most of his friends growing up; everyone had relatives who were left behind.

"We never did meet any of our grandmothers and grandfathers," he says.

Wong was born in 1922, growing up through the Depression years.

"The real miracle is the fact that I even grew up at all," Wong says. NEXT