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Vancouver Mayor, distant relation of Dr. Bethune, visits China
Vancouver’s Mayor Gregor Robertson is in China this week, along with a group of “green” business people. Mayor Robertson is a distant relation of Canadian, Dr Norman Bethune. An article in a local paper last week, gloated over the opportunities that will be presented to Vancouver’s “green” industries. One of the individuals on this trade delegation was...
Website shares untold history of Canada’s national railway
The following article was published by the Vancouver Sun, Saturday, August 28, 2010. It’s reposted here in it’s entirety on our blog, courtesy of the Vancouver Sun: New website honours long-ignored Chinese who built the CPR by Stephen Hume Vancouver Sun August 28, 2010 Perched in a wooden lift-top desk with working ink well, at first in a...
The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history TORONTO, August 25, 2010 Chinese Canadians are making history with a more inclusive interpretation of Canada’s official story in a new online exhibit that draws attention to their contributions in achieving the national dream – the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Nearly 125 years since the driving...
Reason #77 why I love Vancouver
by David It’s been a very beautiful summer here on the westcoast. With the gorgeous summer weather, came the many weddings. That’s why it’s reason number 77. Actually, I hadn’t prepared an earlier 76 reasons, but number “77″ sort of has a nice ring. And I think the Chinese Calendar had the 7th day of the...
Chinese ‘languages’ still at each others’ throats
Chinese “languages“? No. It’s actually, Chinese dialects. But to the outside observer, it may as well be complete different languages, as the sounds, intonations and even colloquialisms are so far and different from one another. Cantonese v/s Mandarin v/s Toishanese v/s other dialects. It seems that the Cantonese are perhaps, a bit more stubborn than are some other...
Vancouver’s Pride getting a nice dose of Asian smiles
photo courtesy of Raigen D’Angelo The UGLY Chinese Canadian was supposed to be waving along with his friends and buds atop a firetruck during this past weekend’s Vancouver Pride Parade. A nice spot had been made welcome for us on the decorated vehicle, with a banner and all! Yes. We’re proud to be a part of the supporting...
Grassroots efforts on saving old Chinatown restaurant make front page news
Yesterday, respected community leader and author, Jim Wong-Chu, met up with a few of us to celebrate yesterday’s Vancouver Courier newspaper article on the banana lead effort on saving Foo’s Ho Ho restaurant ( read our earlier articles here, here, and here) Jim was delighted of the community news coverage, and mentioned, We’ve got no budget for...
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Vancouver Mayor, distant relation of Dr. Bethune, visits China
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Website shares untold history of Canada’s national railway
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The Ties that Bind: virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s history
The Ties That Bind virtual exhibition rewrites Canada’s official history
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50 years of Filipino-Canadian history
Yesterday's post on "reason no. 77, why I love Vancouver", ...
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Reason #77 why I love Vancouver
by David
It's been a very beautiful summer here on the ...
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Chinese ‘languages’ still at each others’ throats
Chinese "languages"?
No. It's actually, Chinese dialects.
But to the outside observer, ...
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