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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/.
Members of the Bird family at the grave of Sherman Godfrey Bird, who died in 1873 of pneumonia. Children from left to right: Ernest Herbert, Charles Harold Ruth Emily, Helen and Eustace Godfrey. Eustace later rose to prominence as a Canadian architect, and built his mother a Tudoresque Queen Anne style house next door to Sans Souci, the large family home.
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