“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
(The committee, which came out of #antiBlack#racism work municipal staff have undertaken in recent years, will convene monthly to discuss how #municipal#policies and services affect #BlackCommunities and to suggest changes.
Member Jerry Taylor talked about a possible future for the land where #Africville once stood. The north-end #community was destroyed by the city in the 1960s to make room for the MacKay Bridge.)