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September, 2009  // Posts published in September, 2009

24 Sep Posted by David in Education, Event, Miscellaneous | 13 comments

W-5’s WTF!? … 30 years later

W-5’s  WTF!? … 30 years later

Thirty years ago one documentary awoke a silent community Some Chinese-Canadians who saw Campus Giveaway never forgot their reaction By Tom Hawthorn, Globe and Mail, Sep. 23, 2009 The television segment lasted about 11 minutes, an exposé of the takeover of Canadian classrooms by foreign students. A section of a university lecture hall filled with non-white faces was shown. The documentary, ...

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10 Sep Posted by tUCC in Business, Food, Miscellaneous | 5 comments

Foo’s Ho Ho is Back

Our thanks to our old bud, Larry Wong, for the following piece. We wish we could have joined in the big dining soirée a few weeks back … but alas, the UGLY Chinese Canadian was out of town. Foo’s Ho Ho is Back By Larry Wong For many years, the executive and directors of the museum meet every second ...

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04 Sep Posted by tUCC in Miscellaneous | Comments

Bones connect New Zealand, China and Canada

On one of the english language forums that explore pioneer Chinese-Canadian, Chinese-American and others whose heritage hailed from China, is the forum “Hoisan Sanctuary“. Here many of the visitors and forum contributors speak the Hoisan (Taishan) dialect – a subdialect of Cantonese. This Hoisan dialect is named after the area where most of the early Chinese ...

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