: My father William C. Wong was the editor and chairman of Shing Wah Daily News in Toronto, from 1937 until 1990.
As a child, I remember seeing hundreds of rows of Chinese character typesets being inserted in the press for daily publication. I remember the noisy click, clack of the press spitting out newspapers with a great sense of urgency. : It’s rare that Newfoundland gets attention for extreme heat. As a St. John’s native and longtime summer visitor, I can bear witness to the shift in weather conditions on “the Rock.”