CBC Radio Specials48:58100 Years Later: The Dark Side of Gold Mountain
Henry Yu’s grandparents’ marriage started out like a scene from a movie.
The year was 1937. Yu’s grandfather, Yeung Sing Yew, had just returned to visit family in Zhongshan county in China, after spending a decade working in Canada.
Yu said his grandfather spotted the woman who would later become his wife washing clothes beside a stream and “was smitten.”
“Then his mother kind of looked into it, asked and found out who it was. And then arrangements were made and next thing you know, they’re married.”
Yeung’s wife was pregnant when he went back to
