Douglas Jung

Show Douglas Jung wore badges. Douglas Jung (鄭天華, 1924-2002), a World War II Veteran, was born in Victoria, B.C. on February 24, 1924. He was a lawyer and the first Canadian of Chinese origin elected to the House of Commons. He was also appointed by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as a Canadian representative to the United Nations as Chair of the Canadian Legal Delegation. His profusion of honours included the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, the highest honours a citizen can receive from the federal and provincial governments respectively.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Contributor

• Victoria Chinese Canadian Veterans Association

Subject

• Politicians
• Legislators
• Veterans
• Chinese
• Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
• Jung, Douglas, 1924-2002

Identifier

• 126jung

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 colour photograph

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown
• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -123.3679
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical repository

• Amos, Robert

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• photographs
• color photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• Copyright held by Robert Amos. Permission granted for use on Victoria’s Chinatown website only. For all other uses please contact the copyright holder. These images are provided with the consent of Robert Amos, and cannot be reproduced or copied without his permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/47z8-fh47

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