Victoria Chung

Victoria Chung was a Canadian medical missionary and physician. She was the first Chinese-Canadian to become a certified physician, as well as one of the first female interns at Toronto General Hospital. She became a surgeon and hospital administrator of the Marion Barclay Hospital for Women and Children, today the in Kongmoon, as part of the United Church's South China Mission. Her practise at the hospital spanned several decades, during the Chinese Civil War, the Japanese occupation of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during the early days of the People's Republic of China.

Early life Victoria Chung was born as Chung Toy Mea in 1897 in Victoria, British Columbia to Sing Noon Chung, a former Canadian Pacific Railway construction worker and Yin Han, a midwife. In 1913 she enrolled at Victoria High School and graduated first class in 1916. She then took first year arts at Victoria College. Chung was particularly skilled in the sciences and math, although in high school she struggled with Latin, with a grade of 59%. Chung graduated from medical school in 1922 and wrote her final exams for certification in 1923 with Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She began an internship at Toronto General Hospital in the summer of 1922, becoming one of the first female residents at the hospital. The Japanese conducted frequent searches of homes to look for signs of resistance or foreign agents, but they never discovered the clinic. In the 1890s, he returned to China and found employment in Guangzhou where he met his future wife.