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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...
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...
Touring Exhibit: Chinese restaurants and small-town Canada
There’s an old saying in the “Loh Wah KIu” (old pioneer Chinese-Canadian) community: “…if the place don’t have a Chinese cafe/ restaurant, then it ain’t a real town. This interesting article from the National Post: Museum probes link between Chinese restaurants and small-town Canada Katherine Laidlaw, National Post · Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 Karen Tam still remembers the smell...
a $900,000 CHRP to recognize Chinese Canadians
CHRP as in Community Historical Recognition Program or Chinese-Canadian Historical Recognition Project … not of the Twitter ‘chirp’ sort! This morning, an announcement was made at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In attendance at the event, were a number of prominent community leaders, politicians, academics, and the media. All had been invited to hear of the generous...
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...
Is there more to the Richmond racist graffiti?
Yesterday, we received an email from Adrian MacNair, a blogger colleague, whom we had communicated with a few years earlier. Adrian writes the blog Unambiguously Ambidextrous. Back in 2007, Adrian had shared some thoughts on another blogger colleague’s site “Chinese in Vancouver“. Mr MacNair had written about what bothered him regarding the insular nature of the Chinese...
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