City mourns Milton Wong

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Published: January 03, 2012 5:35 a.m.

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A memorial service for Vancouver philanthropist Milton Wong — who died of pancreatic cancer on New Year’s Eve — will take place later this month.

“His contributions to B.C. and Canada are extraordinary,” NDP Leader Adrian Dix said Monday. “We have lost a great civic leader, a role model that exemplified the best of our city and province.”

Wong, who was 72, graduated from the University of British Columbia and founded the financial management firm M.K. Wong and Associates. Among his many contributions to the community, he was a mentor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and chancellor at SFU, and he also helped to establish Science World.

Premier Christy Clark praised Wong as a businessman “whose personal success was matched only by his caring for others.”

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