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 in the Northern Territory of Australia.

[1][3] 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.

A portrait of Loy painted by artist Geoff La Gerche was entered in the Archibald Prize in 1979.

[6] He great grandson Roland Chin said that "[t]here were people lining the roads to pay respects to her".

[1] 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.