East Side of Clarence Street where The Huron and Erie Now Stands
Date1920s
Credit LineGift of Mr. William Robertson, London, Ontario, 1961
Object number1961.127.027
Label TextIn the middle of this string of rowhouses on Clarence Street was the Hop Sing Laundry. Hop Sing operated it in the 1920s, one of several Chinese men operating laundries in London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the mid-1880s, many Chinese workers headed east. The racist attitudes of employers and trade unions drove many to work as domestic servants, laundrymen, or restaurant workers.
NamePhotograph
CAIRNCROSS
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