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
Maria Wong on burger places with friendly faces
Maria Wong has lived in Edmonton since 1977. She remembers visiting a burger restaurant owned by a Korean couple. Maria was drawn to the friendliness of the owners, their son, and the delicious season...
12 Sep 20192min
Tin Yip on The Two-Way Street
Tin Yip speaks about his integration into Canadian society. Tin explains how both learning and playing Canadian sports when he first arrived were essential in his smooth integration into society. He a...
12 Sep 20192min
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 Sep 20192min
