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Oct 18, 2021 · Both Dock Yip and Himel experienced discrimination: Yip as a Chinese person and Himel as a Jew. ( See Chinese Canadians ; Jewish Canadians .) Eventually, they became committed to fighting injustices as fellow lawyers.
Kew Dock Yip (葉求鐸; pinyin: Yè Qiúduó; 1906–2001) was community leader in Toronto's First Chinatown, the first Canadian lawyer of Chinese descent, and played a critical role in helping repeal the Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act in 1947.
After graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1945, Dock Yip, as he was known, worked with Jewish civil rights lawyer Irving Himel and activists from across Canada to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act.
May 25, 2022 · Kew Dock Yip Mr. Yip is the first lawyer of East Asian descent called to the bar in Canada. After three attempts to be admitted into Osgoode Hall Law School, Mr. Yip was finally admitted and graduated from Osgoode in 1945.
In 1942, Dock Yip, along with some of his Osgoode Hall Law school classmates enlisted as army reservists with The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada. He befriended fellow reservist, Irving Himel, a Jewish lawyer.
May 17, 2018 · Sitting, left to right: Lem On, Dock Yip, Art Yip, Quene Yip, Frank Wong, Buck S. Chung. Further, government policy toward Chinese immigration to Canada reflected racial attitudes of the time. The Chinese head tax, instituted after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was systematically increased in the early 1900s.
Kew Dock Yip (1906 – 2001) Kew Dock Yip was the first Chinese-Canadian lawyer, and an activist who fought to repeal the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act, which barred nearly all Chinese immigrants from entering Canada. Thanks to the efforts of Kim, Jewish civil rights lawyer Irving Himel and other activists, the legislation was successfully ...
