
Popular Chinese Dishes in Canada
When Chinese immigrants came to Canada in the 1800s, there weren’t restaurants catering to their tastes — let alone popular restaurants selling food...
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Toronto Chinatown
Toronto’s Chinatown, one of the largest in North America, is an ever-evolving neighbourhood defined by numerous cohorts of Chinese immigrants with a d...
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Yucho Chow
Yucho Chow, photographer (born 3 June 1876 in Kaiping, Guangdong province, China; died 10 November 1949 in Vancouver, BC). Yucho Chow was Vancouver’...
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Vietnamese Canadians
The settlement of Vietnamese nationals in Canada is relatively recent. It resulted from two waves of immigration in the aftermath of the Vietnam War....
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Cambodian or Khmer Canadians
Immigration of Cambodians to Canada is relatively recent. From 1980 to 1992, Canada welcomed more than 18,000 Cambodia refugees who were fleeing the K...
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Komagata Maru
The SS Komagata Maru was a chartered ship featured in a dramatic challenge to Canada’s former practice of excluding immigrants from India. This challe...
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Korean Canadians
Korea was a single, independent country for 1,300 years before splitting in two after the Second World War. North Korea is today an isolated military...
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Won Alexander Cumyow
Won Alexander Cumyow (溫金有), activist and interpreter (born around 21 March 1861 in Port Douglas, BC; died 6 October 1955 in Vancouver). Won Cumyow...
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Buckam Singh and Sikh Canadians in the First World War
Buckam Singh, labourer, soldier (born 5 December 1893 in Mahilpur, Punjab, India; died 27 August 1919 in Kitchener, ON). There is little information p...
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Vancouver Asahi
The Asahi was a Japanese Canadian baseball club in Vancouver (1914–42). One of the city’s most dominant amateur teams, the Asahi used skill and tactic...
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Chinese Head Tax in Canada
The Chinese head tax was enacted to restrict immigration after Chinese labour was no longer needed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Between 18...
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Vancouver Chinatown
Vancouver's Chinatown features a distinctive hybrid of architectural styles that combines Chinese regional architecture with locally established West...
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Hide Hyodo Shimizu
Hide Shimizu (née Hyodo), CM, educator, activist (born 11 May 1908 in Vancouver, BC; died 22 August 1999 in Nepean, ON). The daughter of Japanese immi...
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Jean Lumb
Jean Bessie Lumb (née Toy Jin Wong), CM, community leader, restaurateur (born 30 July 1919 in Nanaimo, BC; died 17 July 2002 in Toronto, ON). Jean Lum...
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Victoria Chinatown
Located on the northern edge of downtown Victoria, Victoria’s Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in Canada. (See also Toronto Chinatown; Vancouver Ch...
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Chinese Canadians of Force 136
Force 136 was a branch of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. Its covert missions were based in Japanese-occup...
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