Chinatown legend Bill Wong of Modernize Tailors dies at 95

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John Mackie, April 19, 2017

Bill Wong obtained an engineering degree from the University of B.C. in 1948. But the institutional racism of the time meant no engineering firm would hire him. So he returned to his father’s tailor shop in Chinatown. Together with his brother Jack — another engineering grad denied the chance to practise — he kept Modernize Tailors going decades after other Chinatown tailors closed. Read more…

Bill Wong of Modernize Tailors in 2014. Wong died April 8 at age 95.
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