Patrick Tso on the competition that brought him to the Edmonton Chinese Computer Society
President of the Edmonton Chinese Computer Society Patrick Tso discusses his first experience with the society: a Chinese character typing competition. Patrick was intrigued by a tablet, which allowed...
12 Sep 20193min
Marty Chan on his hybrid wedding
When local playwright Marty Chan married his wife Michelle, they decided to pay tribute to their heritage. Marty’s parents choose their favourite Chinatown restaurant to host the Chinese wedding banqu...
12 Sep 20193min
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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 20192min
