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[[File:Mrs Lum Loy.jpg|thumb|A portrait of Granny Lum Loy]]
'''Lee Toy Kim''' better known as '''Granny Lum Loy''' or '''Lu Moo''' (26 February 1884 – 20 August 1980) was a renowned Chinese businesswoman in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] in the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]].
==Early life==
Loy was born in [[Shiqi Subdistrict|Shiqi]] in [[China]] in 1884. She moved to Darwin in 1898, one of two adopted children of Fong Sui Wing.<ref name=dob>{{cite book|editor=David Carment|title=Northern Territory dictionary of biography|date=2008|publisher=Charles Darwin University Press|location=Darwin|isbn=9780980457810|edition=Rev.|url=http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/260154|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> Loy married a mining engineer Lum Loy, and together they moved to [[Pine Creek, Northern Territory|Pine Creek]]. They had one daughter named Lizzie Yook.<ref name="TS">{{cite journal|title=Kim Lee Toy|url=http://www.territorystories.nt.gov.au/handle/10070/217891|website=Territory Stories|publisher=Northern Territory Library|accessdate=29 January 2017|date=1884-02-26|last1=Lee Toy|first1=Kim}}</ref>
==Life in Darwin==
After the death of her husband in 1918, Lee Toy Kim moved back to Darwin. She established a mango plantation in Fannie Bay. After selling the plantation in 1935, Loy and her daughter ran a cafe in central Darwin. She purchased a block in Stuart Park where she started a chicken farm.<ref name="TS" />
Loy was evacuated to Sydney after the [[bombing of Darwin]] by the Japanese in 1942. She returned to Darwin, working a market garden on the Stuart Highway outside Darwin which was later destroyed by [[Cyclone Tracy]].<ref name="dob" /><ref name=":0" />
She is remembered as an elderly lady in traditional Chinese trousers, jacket and hat, who walked each day from Stuart Park to the centre of Darwin and sold produce as the Rapid Creek Markets. She was an active member of the Chinese community and a regular worshiper at the Joss House Chinese temple. A portrait of Loy painted by artist Geoff La Gerche was entered in the [[Archibald Prize]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122279917 |title=The women from the north: larger than life but unknown |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=63 |issue=19,624 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=1 July 1989 |accessdate=29 January 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Loy died on 20 August 1980 at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite news|title=Granny Lum Loy dies|agency=Darwin Star|publisher=via Northern Territory Library|date=21 August 1980|hdl=10070/210650}}</ref> Her funeral in 1980 was reportedly one of the biggest and longest in Darwin's history.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Middlemast|first1=Anne-Marie|title=Granny Lum Loy remembered|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/08/13/2982301.htm|accessdate=29 January 2017|agency=ABC Radio Darwin|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=29 October 2010}}</ref> He great grandson Roland Chin said that "[t]here were people lining the roads to pay respects to her".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2020-09-12 |title=Remembering Granny Lum Loy: 40 years on, much-loved market gardener remains a Darwin icon |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-13/remembering-darwin-identity-gardener-granny-lum-loy-40-years-on/12656178 |access-date=2024-02-07 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref>
She is buried in the Gardens Road Cemetery.<ref name="dob" />
== Legacy ==
Loy is the subject of the song "Granny" by [[Ted Egan]] which is on the 2002 album The Drover's Boy - a celebration of Australian women.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation |title=Granny |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOommNewEUQ |access-date=2024-02-07 |language=en}}</ref>
Lum Loy Lane in [[Gungahlin]], a suburb in [[Canberra]], was named for her in 2003.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Browne |first=Peter |date=2019-03-07 |title=Matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese community |url=https://insidestory.org.au/matriarch-of-darwins-chinese-community/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Inside Story |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=AWHF |date=2010-02-27 |title=Granny Lum Loy |url=https://awhf.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/granny-lum-loy/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Australian Women's History Forum |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-12-14 |title=Public Place Names 2003, No. 11 (street nomenclature – Gungahlin) |url=http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/di/2003-331/current/pdf/2003-331.pdf |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=ACT Legislation Register}}</ref>
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[[Category:Farmers from the Northern Territory]]