Skip to main content
Go back

Sing and coworker spraying hops

Black and white photograph of two men spraying hops in a field with horse and wagon

Date: 1901-1937
Credit: Chilliwack Museum and Archives, 1987.013.004

Sing (also known as Ah Ling and Him; b. 1865) emigrated to Canada in 1896 and made his home in Chilliwack. He worked at the Hulbert Hop Gardens and in 1901 was appointed foreman of a regular crew; a post he held until retiring in 1937. Here Sing and a co-worker spray rows of hops (likely with some form of pesticide).