Lin was born in 1898, in the closing years of the Qing dynasty. He moved from China to Canada in 1921. The photo on the opposite page was taken in front of the Eastern Canada branch of the KMT, located in Toronto; the calligraphy on the signboard was by party elder Wu Tiecheng.
圖片中，上一行的 Toronto 字樣是中國國民黨在加拿大「加東支部」的所在地，「中國國民黨加東支部」的橫匾，是黨國元老「吳鐵成」所題的真跡。