Asian Canadian Dept: Lam was British Columbia s 25th lieutenant-governor from 1988-1995. He was also a noted philanthropist who funded many public projects that now bear his name and founded Vancouver's dragon boat festival, according to CBC. Lam was born in Hong Kong and worked in the banking industry before immigrating to Vancouver with his family in 1967 and launching a successful career in real estate development and download Flash Player to view this content. var flashvars= state:"embed", RSI: " -production", clipId:1658487219, image:"http://www. .ca/bc/img/thumbnails/bc-101122-david-lam-embed 306.jpg" ; var params= allowFullScreen:"true",allowScriptAccess:"always",menu:"true",salign:"tl",scale:"noscale", bgcolor:"#000000" ; var attributes= id:"tpSwf", name:"tpSwf" ; swfobject.embedSWF "/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf", "tpSwf", "306", "224", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes ; Canada's first Asian-Canadian lieutenant-governor, David C. Lam, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 87. A spokeswoman for the family said he died just after midnight, early Sunday morning. As
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