Chen Sing, the Chinese railway worker who built a legacy in Merritt - Merrit Herald

—— By Cameron Bridge/Nicola Valley Museum & Archives

Chen Sing was born around 1861 in Southern China, when he was a teenager in 1879 he left his home in Guangzhou, China for a port in Hong Kong where he and a group of other workmen left for Canada.

They landed in New Westminster and from there were transported up the Fraser River to Yale.

They were placed under the command of Andrew Onderdonk, a man who had been contracted to construct the western end of the Trans Canadian Railway…

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