In the summer of 1923, Tai Hing Gom was committed to Essondale Hospital, a psychiatric institution in Coquitlam, B.C., that later became Riverview Hospital.
Tai was 42 years old and five feet two inches tall. He had arrived in Canada from Canton (Guangzhou), China about 13 years prior. Little else was known about him, according to government records at the time. There was no information about where he had settled, what he did for a living, or what mental health condition he had.
Even his C.1.44 — a government form that Chinese immigrants were required to have at the time — had a line that said, “Nothing more known.”
But the date of Tai’s hospitalization
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