Bing Wo, Reg & Hayven
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/.
Esther Lew, Reg Bing-Wo's mother, was adopted by a prominent Scottish Presbytarian family, the A.A. MacKinnons, who operated a machinery foundry. She subsequently married Yee Bing Wo, and had four boys and two girls. After her marriage in 1919 or 1920, the family moved to Lethbridge, Alberta, where her husband owned a grocery store and seed agency for Steele-Briggs Seeds. Left to right: Esther Lew Yee, Mrs. Leung Chow carrying Reg Bing Wo.
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