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/

A group of outstanding #Chinese #Canadians were honored at the 2023 #ChineseCanadian Legend Award event in #Toronto .
Organized by the Chinese Canadian Legend Awards Association, the annual event recognized individuals of Chinese descent who greatly contributed to Canadian society and fostered understanding, respect and integration of multiculturalism in Canada, according to the organizers.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202308/03/WS64cb0aa1a31035260b81a10f.html

(Under Siew’s active advocacy, the Ontario Ministry of Education has decided to include examples and sample questions related to Chinese Exclusion Act and Chinese Head Tax into mandatory learning in elementary and secondary curriculum.)

https://www.yorkregion.com/news/reflection-from-100-years-later-learning-about-contributions-of-chinese-canadians-becoming-mandatory-part-of/article_d63f5134-763c-5763-9af8-3d5334d25e3c.html

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

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The #exclusion act stopped all #Chinese #immigration into #Canada & divided hundreds of families until it was #repealed in 1946.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1982829/montreals-chinese-community-marks-100-years-since-chinese-exclusion-act

「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

#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

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/