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Chen, George Wing Dann

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    Chevron Hotel/St Kilda Road Melbourne 1950's., 1950s, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Occupation
banana merchant
Alternative Names
  • Chen, George Wing Dann (also used)
  • Wing Dan, George (also used)
Summary

George Wing Dann Chen was Mabel Wang's (married to David Wang) father. He and his three brothers ran the banana wholesaling company, Wing Young & Co established in 1924-5 at 139 Little Bourke Street.

Family

Published Resources

Book Sections

  • Couchman, Sophie, 'The banana trade: Its importance to Melbourne's Chinese and Little Bourke Street, 1880s-1930s', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 75-90. Details

Images

Title
Committee, Chinese Nationalist Party, January, 1922
Type
Photograph
Date
1 January 1922
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Title
Heung Shan Gong Hui (Hong Shan society) picnic
Type
Photograph
Date
1920s - 1930s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Aspendale?
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Title
Phillip Lew-Boar, Marie O’Hoy (Nee Kuramoto) George Chen, Shirley Chen(Nee Kuramoto), William Lew-Boar, Eddie O’Hoy at the Chevron Hotel
Type
Photograph
Date
1950s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - St Kilda Road - Chevron Hotel
Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Couchman, Sophie, 'The banana trade: Its importance to Melbourne's Chinese and Little Bourke Street, 1880s-1930s', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 75-90.

Created: 20 July 2005, Last modified: 4 July 2006