Christine Theriault has always taken great pride in her great-grandfather, who achieved remarkable success as an entrepreneur in the Interior of British Columbia after arriving in Canada to help build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
But her admiration for Wing Chung grew even stronger when a museum in Revelstoke, B.C., told her that he could have been present at the Last Spike ceremony, which symbolized the completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railway — even though Chinese labourers were omitted from photographs of the event.
“That was new information, and I was quite taken aback from that — I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a very
