A Superior Man

A S
UPERIOR
M
AN

A SUPERIOR MAN

Copyright © 2015 by Paul Yee

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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council for its publishing program, and the Government of Canada (through the Canada Book Fund) and the Government of British Columbia (through the Book Publishing Tax Credit Program) for its publishing activities.

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

Design by Gerilee McBride

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

                                                          
C2015-903343-8

D
EDICATION

This book is dedicated to the Nlaka'pamux First Nations people, on whose lands most of this story occurs, and to the memory of Yee Fook, a railway labourer who worked near Lytton, 1883.