Alice Yeasting was born in Vancouver in the 1920s, one of nine children born to Kim Yook and Stephen Fee Yeasting.
In the early 1940s she worked as a clerk at Toronto Grocery and studied commerce at UBC. Here, she is pictured in 1945 alongside her co-workers (she is front row, on the right) at the Burrard Drydock where she worked as a passer – the member of the riveting team who passed the red-hot rivets off to be driven into place.
Following the war, Alice married her UBC classmate Peter Chong and the pair moved to Lytton, Peter’s hometown.
Visit the MONOVA website for more information about the history of the North Shore and to plan your visit to MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver, now open at 115 West Esplanade in The Shipyards.
Currently, MONOVA: Archives of North Vancouver, at 3203 Institute Road in Lynn Valley, is open by appointment only. Contact: [email protected]
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