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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.
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Kew Dock Yip, known in the community as Dock Yip, was born in Vancouver in 1906. His father, Yip Sang, was a paymaster of the Canadian Pacific Railway and a prominent merchant. He was also the patriarch in Vancouver’s Chinatown, renowned for his community leadership and philanthropic work in health and education. He had four wives and 23 children. ...
During the Second World War, Canada initially restricted Chinese people from joining the military. (See also History of the Armed Forces in Canada.) However, in 1942, Dock Yip managed to enlist as an army reservist with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. (See Canadian Army.) During training, he shared a tent with Irving Himel, with whom he became cl...
Dock Yip was fluent in Chinese (Taishanese, Cantonese and Mandarin). He served his clients at his Chinatown office for 47 years. Early on, many came to him because he was initially the only Chinese-speaking lawyer in Toronto. In the 1970s, Yip served two terms as a school trustee on Toronto’s Board of Education. In 1985, at age 79, he turned to act...
Dock Yip, along with some of his brothers, were members of the Chinese Students Soccer Team that made history in 1933 by winning the Mainland Cup — the championship for soccer clubs in British Columbia. The team is believed to have been the only soccer team composed of Chinese players outside of China. The players competed at a time when Chinese pe...
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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Apr 18, 2017 · Fast forward to 1942, to the Queen’s Own Rifles Reserves, where two lawyers happened to share a tent: K. Dock Yip and Irving Himel. The two lawyers are hanging around base camp, recovering, when they hatch a plan to fight injustice.
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).
Kew Dock Yep. 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 later ...
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Canada’s first Chinese Canadian lawyer K. Dock Yip helped bring down the Chinese Exclusion Act. Hostility against Chinese Canadians had lessened during the Second World War while China and Canada were allies.
