In 1970, Lee-Chin went to Canada on a scholarship program sponsored by the Jamaican government to study civil engineering at McMaster University and graduated in 1974, biography.com reported. He financed his first year at university on his own but after the first summer, he received the scholarship.Lee-Chin worked briefly as a road engineer for the Jamaican government, but unable to find work in his qualified field (and allegedly, because his Canadian wife didn’t like living in Jamaica), he returned to Canada. At first he worked as a bouncer, but later found employment as a financial advisor for Investors Group.
