C.I. 5 certificate - Fong Wah Yen

Head Tax certificate issued to Fong Wah Yen by Dominion of Canada Immigration Branch, Department of the Interior on April 7th, 1914, in Vancouver.

Fong Wah Yen was the father of Chinese Canadian author Judy Fong Bates. She was born in China in 1949 and immigrated to Canada with her mother in 1955 to reunite with her father following the repeal of the country’s Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act.