Lor, Agnes Y.
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 portrait of Tom Gam, wife of Charlie Yim Young and mother of Agnes Young Lor. She came from a family of two daughters. Her parents died when she was 11 years old, and she was taken in by the weathy Young family. Charlie Yim Young brought her over to Canada from Canton, China as his second bride. The Youngs moved from Montreal, Quebec to settle in North Bay, Ontario.
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