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Post by helen on Jun 24, 2012 5:35:59 GMT -5
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Post by helen on Jun 24, 2012 5:54:08 GMT -5
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Post by douglaslam on Jun 24, 2012 7:13:35 GMT -5
Again, thanks to everyone for the keen interest shown.
Helen, your patience is matchless. Yes, I can see Lum Hop on the passenger list as you pointed out.
Ah Gin, I am now discovering the joy of finding out about the past. It is something you need to experience first hand in order to appreciate the exhilaration.
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Post by helen on Jun 25, 2012 4:46:14 GMT -5
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Post by douglaslam on Jun 25, 2012 7:26:18 GMT -5
Thanks Helen. I followed your lead and found the HTC register from the archive. It gives me a buzz to see everything matches up. Only one stamp on the HTC is clearly legible Nov. 23 1920. One appears like May 17 1926, one reads Aug 12, 1935 (or 36) and the fourth one July 13, (1930?).
People used to talk about the number of times my grandfather managed to return home. He had done well. But I can't forget grandmother's words to grandfather. She was lighting up incense sticks to thank the deities and ancestors for our safe passage home from Vancouver. She said in sixty years of marriage, they had less than ten years together, and the last time he left home he was in the prime of life. And now, he returned an old man and in dementia.
When grandfather saw grandmother for the first time in about thirty-five years, he was asked if he knew her. He said "the old woman". That was the only time he recognised her. Dementia had taken its toll.
Such was the high price the old timers- laohuaqiao, had to pay.
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