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Sum Ying Engineer was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899.
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Sum Ying Fung
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Chong Lim would travel to visit Sum Ying regularly in the ensuing years and they had three children. The couple settled in Chinatown, Vancouver that year. The Fung family moved to East Vancouver upon Chong Lim"s death in 1967.
In 1989, she developed a brain tumour, underwent surgery, and survived.
She visited China later that year and was in Beijing during the military crackdown of Tiananmen Square protests. She and her family fled Beijing among a group of German tourists.
In January 2011, Sum Ying Fung became the oldest person in Canada, after the death of the previous title-holder Elizabeth Buhler. The Queen congratulated Fung in a letter on her 112th birthday on 27 January 2011 and the Mayor of Vancouver declared that day "Fung Engineer Sum Ying Day".
Fung died of natural causes at the claimed age of 112 at Burnaby General Hospital in British Columbia on 6 December 2011.
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China