Bird, Amoi
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/.
An 1875 studio portrait of Amoi Bird (1841 - 1923) in Victorian dress. Amoi (aka Amy Laura) Bird was the daughter of Chun Akon and Sing Quork. She lived in Hong Kong for eight years, where she met English Army Lieutenant Sherman Bird during the evacuation of women and children before a planned attack. They married, and left Hong Kong on June 25th, 1867 for England. In May, 1869, the family set sail for Canada, and came to Barrie, Ontario via Montreal, Quebec.
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