AH SIM

Description

Biographical informationAh Sim was born in about 1867 in Hong Kong. He migrated to Western Australia in May 1886.

He worked as a marked gardener in Middleton Road, Albany, in 1916 and continued working as a market gardener in Albany until the late 1930s. He was a regular exhibitor of vegetables at the Albany Show, winning many prizes. He always donated his winning vegetables and his cash prizes to the Albany District Hospital. His obituary, published in the Mount Barker and Denmark Record in 1941, recalled that "his ready wit and dry humour won for him many friends".

He died at the Albany Government Hospital on 2nd August 1941 and was buried in the Chinese section of the Albany cemetery.Other nameAh Sim (differentiated name)Date of birth1867Date of death2nd August 1941

Document

AAC-Box-007-8-0151

Obituary for Ah Sim

Organisation

Ah Sim's Market Garden, Albany

Employment

Job titleGardenerDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (organisation)Ah Sim's Market Garden, AlbanySubject (place)Middleton Road, AlbanySubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaMarket gardeningRelated collectionAnne Atkinson Collection

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationAsian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)Additional research by David Mizen

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceHong KongDate1867

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDateMay 1886

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceAlbanyDate[date unknown]

UWA Collected

AH SIM

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA