#May is #Asian #HeritageMonth and to celebrate, #CBC #Calgary is highlighting the rich #heritage and #contributions of #Asian #Calgarians through a series of five profiles and you get to #nominate them!
#Nominations will be open until April 24th, 11:59 p.m. MT.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/community/nominate-asian-changemakers-2023-1.6808642

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Betty never married, yet she was the #matriarch of the Lynn family. Each year on Canada Day, Betty organized a family reunion at her parent’s gravesite in Toronto. She wanted the family to pay respects to her father, who first arrived in 1911, and her mother, who arrived in 1920.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/life/article-seamstress-and-restaurateur-betty-lynn-was-the-bridge-between/

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#Canada ’s #first #museum #dedicated to #Chinese #Canadian #history will open in #Vancouver on the 100th #anniversary of #legislation that curtailed #immigration from #China .

#ChineseCanadianMuseum will open July 1, 2023 — one century after #GovernmentOfCanada #enacted the #ChineseImmigrationAct aka #ChineseExclusionAct

https://www.hopestandard.com/news/chinese-canadian-museum-to-open-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-chinese-exclusion-act

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