A new #exhibit has opened up at the #MahSociety of #Edmonton, taking visitors through more than a century of #ChineseCanadian #history.
The Journey of the Horse was created by Sue Mah & Andrea Maru.
The two met on a #heritage tour in 2019 back to their #ancestral village in southern #China, where they both inspired to share their family’s history & the #hardships early #Chinese #settlers to #Canada experienced.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10513329/edmonton-chinese-history-exhibit/amp/
One year before the #ChineseExclusionAct was brought into effect, locally the #VictoriaBC #SchoolDistrict voted to #segregate #Chinese #students from the school system.
In 2022, on the 100th anniversary, the #GreaterVictoriaSchoolDistrict issued an #apology for this & the #ChineseCommunity marched to #commemorate the actions of students who walked out in protest of the segregation.
https://www.cheknews.ca/reflecting-on-the-history-of-chinese-canadians-in-victoria-for-asian-heritage-month-1154069
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Chinese Canadians in Victoria has a fraught history with laws and restrictions put into effect targeting the community both at a federal and local level. For Asian Heritage Month, Dr. Grace Wong Sneddon, board chair[...]
Members of #Montreal 's #ChineseCommunity gathered in Chinatown on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the #ChineseImmigrationAct aka the #ChineseExclusionAct .
The #exclusion act stopped all #Chinese #immigration into #Canada & divided hundreds of families until it was #repealed in 1946.
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「前人種樹，後人乘涼」"The predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade." – #Chinese #proverb
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6858176
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#NewExhibition at #Canadian #Museum of #Immigration in #Halifax #honours #Chinese #Immigrant #History 🙌
[... #discovery of the document, issued to her paternal grandfather upon his arrival from #China to #VictoriaBC in 1916, upended almost everything Lee, who was raised in Halifax but now lives in #Toronto thought she knew about her family's immigration history.]
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6847600
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A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax would never have come to fruition had JJ Lee not stumbled upon a century-old immigration certificate while clearing out her parents' attic in the early days of the pandemic.
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.
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