Salt Water’s City: “King of the Thugs” Jim Goon
The corner of Pender and Carrall, at the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown neighbourhood (1910s). Photo: Vancouver City Archives AM54-S4-: Bu N158.1 By Cat Rose “I want you to understand and to take into consideration the fact that the man who stands arraigned on this charge is a Chinaman of low caste,” began the counsel for the defense at the pimping trial of Wong Yuen Jim. “There is a tendency among some juries to convict a man who is a Chinaman largely on the accident of birt