Spandonidis Family (Friends)

Entered March 24, 2021 from Markham

Dear Lee Family,

Our thoughts and prayers are with you. May he rest in peace.

With love,
Sterg, Dina, Labros, Anthony

Jacob Young-deuk Kim (Son Young Lee’s friend)

Entered March 24, 2021 from Toronto

Wishing you comfort and peace in the days ahead.
한국일보에서 기사를 보고 알았습니다.
캐나다 이민사회에서도 많은 헌신을 해주셔서 감사합니다

Dr&mrs Byungki Kim (Good friend)

Entered March 24, 2021 from Florida

We are so sorry for your loss and we will miss him greatly!

Darren Majoros (Friend of Young)

Entered March 24, 2021 from Whitby

So sorry for your loss

유 성룡( Thomas Yoo) (경기고등학교 동문 (Kyunggi Highschool Alumni member))

Entered March 24, 2021 from Ottawa (오타와)

하나님의 크신 위로와 평안이 가족께 함께 하시기를 기도합니다
Praying our Heavenly Father will wrap His arms of peace and comfort!

I want you all to know that my father loved his career as a civil servant. Being a Professional Engineer was a high calling for him to do real things to improve people’s lives. He found a professional home in the Region of Durham and that was more than a community of colleagues and friends.

I also want to tell you that my father loved Canada before stepping into Canada. While being a teenage “houseboy” for US Army officers during the Korean War, my father had awed admiration for American wealth, strength, duty and friendship. He got chances to learn English and soak up American culture - listening to music and films shown for the GIs.

So, later he coveted going to the US and could do so as an exchange student. He was basking in the land of capitalist milk and honey that saved South Korea from communist tyranny.

One day, he was on a bus somewhere and he boarded the bus and took a seat at the back where he could see the sights better. He noticed everyone looking at him - Asians not being common in college towns - he thought. A few minutes later the bus stopped and the bus driver walked right at my father. The driver said “You can’t sit here.”
Did I have to pay more?
“Come with me. You sit here”
But why? Did I do something wrong?
“Only Coloreds sit in the back”

In a second, my father realized American wasn’t perfect. Having lived his early years under Japanese authoritarian rule during annexation of Korea, my father had a sense of what is prejudice and what is just.

Ultimately, he chose deliberately to try to live in a country that had the best things of American culture but not the darkest ugly side. Hence, my father arrived in Oshawa to take his first job as a draftsman for the City of Oshawa. After he settled first at a basement apartment, his wife and sons arrived on a cold winter night in 1968. Little did we realize that after we arrived, the Leafs will never win the Stanley Cup again! Please! It has nothing to do with us! 🇨🇦🏒🤦🏻‍♂️