Today was a wonderful day with helping out two Aunties & hanging out with my Mom. We are becoming best friends, slowly.
Mom took this photo of me, in our backyard, when we got home. We're sending lots of newer family photos overseas this month & this will be one of them.
Age 30. At Coquitlam Town Centre.
On one of my part work/part leisure trips to Vancouver. I signed 2 work contracts on that trip😊
Back when my hair was jet black & hung down to my thighs. I wore it in half/full up-dos or in messy buns often back then.
Mom was 26 yrs old & I was 8 yrs old. In front of BC legislature. Wearing my fave red ruffle neck sweater vest, wide leg jeans; Mom let me wear her red lipstick that day. I'm unhappy about my mismatched Frankenstein orthotic boot - ppl used to stare at/make fun of them/me. It took years for me to be able to wear regular, matching boots.
#Expo86 in #VancouverBC
Mom was 29 yrs old, brother Jerry was 8 yrs old. In a cyclo, at the #Singapore exhibition. Our very first family holidays trip, a ferry ride over. We stayed in a motel & had fancy dimsum for first times on this short trip. We had lots of fun at Expo86. The monorail rides were my fave.
I was 13 yrs old & being taught how to target shoot pop cans with a pellet rifle. Jake Masselink - one of our family's sponsors who funded our family to come to Canada & helped us apply for asylum & then Canadian citizenship - was teaching me. It was on #PenderIsland at their family homestead, in Hope Bay. My 2 brothers are waiting their turn.
Head over to 51 East Pender Street in #VancouverBC#Chinatown & you’ll find the #historic Wing Sang Building—home of #Canada’s first #ChineseCanadian#Museum. While it may look unassuming from the streets, the inside features three floors of contemporary gallery space shrouded in period brick, a call from the past.
#Nostalgia, or the act of longing for something from the past, has always seemed more bitter than sweet to me. In the years following my move from #HongKong to #Canada, reminders of the place I once called home came with a fear that my connection to it was fleeting or, worse, lost forever. I can’t help but continue longing for something I can never get back.
Branigan received the award for “Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution” at a gala in #Montreal on Wednesday evening.
Jurors describe the book as a “haunting” account of the #trauma endured by those who #survived#MaoZedong ’s power grab in the mid-20th century.
#Chinese#artist Xiangmei Su’s exhibit, Intricately Woven, compares her experience of finding her identity as a #ChineseCanadian to Suzhou’s changing industry from #textiles to technology.
“I started growing hard-to-find #ChineseVegetables in 1950s Toronto and helped shape #Chinatown into what it is today”
When Wing Fung Chong came to #Toronto from #China as a young man, #Chinese produce was scarce. So he saved up, bought a #farm and started importing and cultivating fruits and vegetables to supply the city’s growing Chinese population
Ronny Kay was considered an important figure in #Montreal ’s #Chinese community. He was a businessman, a part-time actor, and his friends and family say he was active in his neighbourhood.
#Asian#writers of all cultural backgrounds are encouraged to submit non-fiction articles, stories, poems, and profiles relatable to #AsianCanadians , many of whom are global citizens with ties to other parts of the world.
Found my first public school photo in a shoebox today.
I cried for an hour prior, was still crying when put on seat in front of photographer & was forced by teacher to get my photo taken. I didn't want any photos done. I was 5 yrs old. This was at Hampton elementary school.
Shortly after my 4th Uncle(Dad's little brother) & Aunt bought a small store & built their family home beside it. They've since retired & sold the store. They still live in Port Alberni.
Pictured from left to right:
My Mom, big Auntie Chan, 4th Auntie Louise & Uncle Minh