A SUPERIOR MAN
Copyright © 2015 by Paul Yee
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to persons either living or deceased is purely coincidental.
Cover photograph: Chinese work gang on the C.P.R.,
Glacier Park, BC, 1889 © McCord Museum
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Edited by Susan Safyan
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication:
Yee, Paul, author
A superior man / Paul Yee.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55152-591-4 (epub)
1. Chinese—British Columbia—History—19th century—Fiction. 2. Railroad construction workers—British Columbia—History—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS8597.E3S86 2015 C813’.54 C2015-903342-X
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