Grace Law, photo in front of the Harbin Gate, 1988
Local artist Grace Law remembers visiting the Harbin Gate as a child in the late 1980s. Whenever her family would visit, from either Hong Kong or Calgary, they would get into the car and drive to Chin...
12 Syys 20193min
Emmy Mah on the Klondike Days Parade float, 1953
Emmy Mah was a young teenager when she came to Canada, and she was one of the very few Chinese females in Edmonton at the time. Due to this, she was asked to participate in the Klondike Days Parade Fl...
12 Syys 20193min
Ken Gee on picking goji berries in the Edmonton river valley
In this piece, we are just outside of the Shaw Conference Centre with Ken Gee, learning about the hill of Goji berries that once grew there on Grierson Hill. Ken shares a meaningful memory about him p...
12 Syys 20193min
Fundraisers - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera and Philanthropy
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cantonese Opera. She found that Cantonese Opera had el...
12 Syys 20193min
Convenient News - Raymond Ng on the Edmonton Chinese News 爱华报
Rachel Meldrum speaks here with Raymond Ng. Raymond talks about the free, weekly Chinese newspaper named the Edmonton Chinese News (or 爱华报) that he published for the Chinese community in Edmonton to f...
12 Syys 20192min
Marty Chan on Dim Sum, Haw-Flakes, and Old Master Q
In this piece, playwright Marty Chan shares a couple of childhood memories of Edmonton's Chinatown along Jasper avenue. He talks about the trip to Chinatown that his family frequently made for groceri...
12 Syys 20193min
Propaganda - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera and Homeland Politics
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cantonese Opera. She found that Cantonese Opera had el...
12 Syys 20193min
Raymond Ng on the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre
In this piece, Raymond Ng talks about the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre. The centre offers weekly table-tennis and language lessons that provide another fun and welcoming place in Edmonton f...
12 Syys 20192min
