Gordon Jin and Frank Jin

Frank Jin: The manner in which it was stored didn t seem as if it had been something important to his father, but Jin decided to unfold it very carefully just the same. , according to The Telegram. It was the registration certificate his father had received when he first arrived to what was then the Dominion of Newfoundland on Nov. 19, 1931. Pinned to the upper left corner of the certificate was a photo of his father as a young man. Gin Chok to be known in St. John as Frank Jin was only 16 years old at the time and could not speak English. His certificate number was 306. After his father died in 1995, Gordon Jin was sifting through his father personal documents when he came across a paper folded into a small, thick square. What it revealed was something he hadn t seen before. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.