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Kew Dock Yip (葉求鐸; pinyin: Yè Qiúduó; 1906–2001) 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.
Oct 18, 2021 · Kew Dock Yip (葉求鐸), community leader, lawyer, school trustee and film actor (born on 23 August 1906 in Vancouver, BC; died 2 July 2001 in Toronto, ON ). Yip was the first lawyer of Chinese descent in Canada. ( See Chinese Canadians .) He and fellow lawyer Irving Himel played a pivotal role in repealing the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923.
Apr 18, 2017 · This is the story of Kew (K.) Dock Yip and Irving Himel, and their work to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act, which is more formally known as the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923. There could be no consideration of voting for Chinese while this piece of legislation was on the books, banning Chinese from entering the country on the sole ...
K. Dock Yip. Actor: Year of the Dragon. K. Dock Yip is known for Year of the Dragon (1985), Diamonds (1987) and Fearless Tiger (1991).
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Kew Dock Yip was born in 1906 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a prominent family in the local Chinese community - the 17th of 19 sons, and one of 23 children born to prominent Canadian businessman Yip Wang Sang's four wives. He won the Mainland Cup soccer tournament with the Chinese Students Soccer Team, and was…
Kew Dock Yip LLB was the first Chinese-Canadian lawyer and the second youngest son of Yip Sang, a prominent Chinese merchant in Vancouver in the 1900s. K. Dock Yip graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1945 and help to bring about the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.
Dock Yip, as he was known, was born in 1906 and was the 17 th child of Vancouver businessman Yip Sang, who had amassed a business empire large enough to support three wives and raise 23 children.
