- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- [2022]
- Call Number
- 971.1 CHI
or by any contractor supplying
to the Municipality. Richard S. Lee, a 22-year-old
Chinese Canadian man, was the first Asian person
to break the color line when he was hired by the
Municipality of Burnaby in 1953. He was hired as a
“bookkeeping machine operator”.
�Chinese mill workers faced harsh
working