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Tracing back 115 Generations

Ming Sun Reading Room Society

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over the decades…
Dec. 20, 1925
May 23, 2005

The above photos are of the same building... taken 80 years apart

Located in Vancouver's Strathcona neighbourhood at 425 East Pender Street, is the original location of the Ming Sun Reading Room.

This old society's original home was in a Victorian style residential structure.

The building stands today, and is considered to be one of two of the oldest such buildings in Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood of Strathcona. In 1928, the Society relocated to 268 Powell Street where it spent the next 45+ years ...until the whole city block got supplanted by the Provincial Court and holding facility. The Ming Sun Reading Room Society then relocated to it's current location, across from David Oppenheimer Park (named after the second Mayor of Vancouver).


1929: some of the women in this photo are from our Coast Salish First Nations



1945: A couple of years before the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, we also begin to see more Children in the group photos


1973: My siblings, parents and I are in this photo ... I remember this day well - a hot stifling day in July


1975: the Fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ming Sun Reading Room society.


2005: the 80th anniversary of the founding of MSRR. Photo at a banquet for friends and descendants

Wong Family Genealogy ... going back 1,000 + years
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