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185:. He immigrated in 1920 and was part of a group of Chinese migrants who had farmed on the Lin On Farm on Musqueam Reserve 2, one of 20 vegetable farms on the Musqueam reserve. The farm was owned by Agnes' father, Seymour Grant. Hong procured illegal documents which presented him as a relative of another settled Chinese worker, and was made to pay the
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grounds. Grant additionally provided the names of the tə šxʷhəleləm̓s tə k̓ʷaƛ̓kʷəʔaʔɬ residence area and the individual buildings təməs leləm̓ (Sea Otter House), sqimək̓ʷ leləm̓ (Octopus House), sɬewət̕ leləm̓ (Herring House), q̓əlɬaləməcən leləm̓ (Orca House) and qʷta:yθən leləm̓ (Sturgeon House).
215:. Despite their mixed ancestry, the people of the Musqueam reserve treated the Grant children as fully Musqueam. Agnes Grant, according to her children, was one of the few remaining speakers of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, and passed on her oral history onto Grant. As a child, Grant would attend the
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