This is Sharon Lem and her Grandfather Shack Jang Mack. He is holding his head tax certificate in this picture. His father, Cheung Fung Mack, paid the head tax for his four sons to come to Canada. Cheung has come to Canada to work on the railway, made sacrifices and worked incredibly hard to help it be completed, and when it was done, simply wanted his family to be here with him. The only way they could enter the country was by paying it, or they would have been separated from their father forever.
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