I used to work here. Top notch restaurant

May Chui et son indignation à degré variable selon l'origine ethnique des victimes est elle-même un problème après s'être montrée incapable de rallier les forces vives du Quartier chinois de Montréal qui s'enlise dans la criminalité et que les familles fuient. Quel gâchis ! Quel mauvais théâtre !

im surprised that this type of studies get funded. very anglo tactic. no doubt.

Merci

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What is the address of the restaurant? Marpole?

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COVID 19////many shop close down.

WOW///So mamy changes...disappering China Town...disappearing landmark.

I lived in the DTES just out of Chinatown in the '90s. Enjoyed visiting there, for the exotic little curios shops etc. And the smiling clerks(who largely did not speak English like me). My alltime favorite spot was/is the classical Chinese Gardens(Sun YatSen). Neighborhood has changed from old days, unfortunately..

Excellent, enjoyed this so much, thank you!

Thanks to Catherine Clement, my father's story, Guey Dang Wong, is included in the exhibit. As Dr. Yu said, it is not only my father's story that is important, but that of the family he left behind in China. This included the mother who adopted him, his wife, daughter, and son. Their stories are told in my book, that covers 100 years of my parents' lives within the context of Chinese Canadian and world history. Read all about it in "A Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada" (Brindle & Glass, 2012). If you think this book should be included at the Chinese Canadian Museum and in high school and university curricula, it would be much appreciated if you let them know.

Please share your family or personal stories

I Put My Mom in Jail Most people think the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1947 opened the door to regular immigration for Chinese. Not so, Canada had a little-known Order in Council (OIC) passed by the R. B. Bennett cabinet in 1930. This excluded me when I arrived in Canada in August 1948, when I was a year old. Since I had been born in Tianjin, China, while my mother served with the UN, my race caused my mom, me and my one month old brother to be put in the Don Jail for three weeks. Dr. Ming Yao, a graduate of U of T, MD ’44, was coming back to her country of birth. As artillery shelling between the Nationalist and Communists reached Tianjin, she and my dad made the pivotal decision to return to Canada. I say “return”, because they met in Copper Cliff, Ontario, not in China. My uncle Ying, wrote to his MP for Hamilton West, Colonel Colin Gibson, former Minister of Defence, who would soon become Secretary of State. This proved handy for what happened next. Colonel Gibson referred Uncle Ying’s letter to the Secretary of State, who stated that my mom “forfeited” her citizenship when she married a Chinese national. The letter concluded “the Immigration Branch is not prepared to consider favourably her application for entry for her son Teddy Yao (me)”. Amidst what was a Dr. Zhivago moment, the UN evacuated my parents from China in a Finnish fishing trawler via Hong Kong. On that part of the journey, she gave birth to my brother Tom. My mother said I was very good, and played quietly, which I am sure was burnishing the truth. She said she hoped it wouldn’t be a breech birth since she was the only person on board with any medical training. My dad assisted by getting boiled water. I later came to know him, the classic absent minded professor, as being on the extreme end of klutziness, probably less helpful than me. Dad knew he wouldn’t be allowed to enter Canada, and stayed in Hong Kong, where he could do nothing but wait. My mother spent the remainder of the journey alone. After a three day plane trip, through Guam, Honolulu, San Francisco and Chicago, she arrived in Malton Airport with Tom in. a basket. Since we both had been born abroad and mom was no longer considered truly Canadian, even having spent her whole life in BC and Ontario, she was still allowed to “land” since she had “protected her status by registering with the Controller of Chinese Immigration in Hamilton”. What? There was a Controller of Chinese Immigration in Hamilton? “Controller” is a misnomer - the purpose was to exclude. However, since I was born in China I wasn’t acceptable and so neither Tom nor I could “land”. The first (1930) OIC prohibited the landing of any person of any “Asiatic” race, being defined as anyone from east of Greece. If we fast forward, I found on the Ancestry.com records an Order in Council of the St. Laurent Government (May 1949) admitting my dad and recognizing “Teddy” as having temporary status. My mother had been released from the Don, where she said the matrons were kind to her and her incarcerated little ones. There were two 1949 Orders in Council on May 27, 1949: my dad’s OIC admitted 31 people, mostly Chinese but also one Japanese and several persons from the Mideast. A parallel OIC admitted 91 “white” folks, from countries as varied as Norway, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. Looking at the bios of both groups I can’t say that there was any racist subtext; the criteria for admission for the whites was similar to Asiatics. For example, the “white” OIC admitted Dr. Gorecki, a chest disease expert, already sponsored by the Halifax Tuberculosis Hospital and my dad had equivalent credentials: a PhD from a US university and work experience both in Canada and the US, as a metallurgist during the war. However, there are impacts even today, from that fateful 1930 Order in Council. It was the same xenophobic posture that prevented the landings of the tragic passengers of the Komagata Maru (Sikhs, 1914) and the MS St Louis (Jewish refugees, 1939). The repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, (whose 100th anniversary has just occurred) removed one barrier but there was still the 1930 OIC, and exemptions from it became only a “back door” for limited case-by-case entry for those 120 people put forward by Colonel Gibson on May 27, 1949. Prior to 1923 the entry of Chinese in Canada was very much on the Federal government’s mind as we see in this excerpt from the 1921 Census. It shows grandpa and grandma Chong arriving in 1880 and 1901 respectively, and their naturalization status as “A” for “Alien”. (There are some mistakes in the details). The children, starting with Uncle Ying, are initially marked as having “China” for citizenship, which someone has crossed out to become “Canada” because the census taker learned that all the children were Canadian born. I found this record very disturbing because both my grandparents had earned naturalized citizenship by virtue of long residency in Canada. I double checked to see whether other origins were so targeted; I found a Japanese family and an Italian with the foreign birthplaces, but who had not lost their naturalized status by a stroke of the census taker’s pen. My mother was 6 at the time of the census and I can imagine her excitement at the visit of the census takers, when the children would have surely been pressed into translation duties. Little did she imagine her second brush with authorities 26 years later would be a custodial term at the end of an exhausting journey halfway around the world for the offence of having non-white children. My mom never talked about this with me, although she told my wife how humiliated she was. “No one in my family has ever been in jail.” I can imagine she saw accurately that, because of Canadian laws, she was free to land, but we kids could not, because of a little known Order in Council designed to keep out non-white immigrants, even a breast feeding baby born to a well-educated Canadian doctor. I read today of refugees detained in jails, nip-tipping, residential schools, so I reflect on my own history and its impact in the present. Canada is a wonderful country, but still a work in progress.

I am 62 old, l would like share my stories. I grew up in Calgary, my father came to Canada 🇨🇦 in 1912, My father own the flat Iron building in Chinatown and he was founding member Mah society. I remember as young child going through Mah society and seeing Chinese men living in rooming houses and not understanding what I saw. These were men were separated from their wives and children because racist execution act. When the internet came to be, I started to learn about Chinese in Canada 🇨🇦 how a whole race was not allowed to come Canada. I did not know racism until I went school up to senior high school I have seen racism during covid.

HEADS UP EVERYONE! Vancouver’s ABC Party led by Mayor Ken Sims is putting up a massive investment into Chinatown this year 2023! Say hello to the resurgence of all the old school NEON LIGHTS! Every single old school one will be handmade as a replica to the old historic Chinatown past of the 80’s & 90’s! It’s not just Chinatown getting an investment but also Gastown and the Downtown Eastside!

Move the flagship for Chinatown to Richmond

looking forward to visiting the museum

I always enjoyed going to Chinatown.

😀 THANK YOU for sharing! Grew up there in the 50-60's and still have many fond memories of what it was! 249 E Pender... Valley Poultry store :) Wo Lay Guy Ahp ? ALL THE BEST and Cheers! :)

Too bad the drug adducts from the DTES are beginning to move in. It’s a beautiful Chinatown that is collapsing in front of us. And then you have the anti-Asian sentiment and defacing of assets in the area.

Unlimited funding should be possible because the project has a finite property. That HK POLICE STATION is beautiful and worth it.

1:34:30 - who has oversight and who are the parties who have or keep presenting roadblocks? Why? Talks keep us busy but progress and spread of commercial ventures have mechanisms that facilitate new stakeholders to enter the picture and present new challenges. "Colonial Regulatory Framework" spells it out ... It's our system in the way. If you want it, let's remove the barriers carte blanche.

The link to the film in the description is private and not viewable. This needs to be shared. Did Telus intentionally block people from this content?

6:33 Great to see my club Shon Yee doing the dragon dance back in the day

I knew a lot of the people in the video , the Chans personally and lots of business people after working many years in and around Chinatown . Lots of memories . Now retired in the Cariboo :)

This is fantastic! 👏 Thank you for sharing this.

Wow, its almost as same as 2021, thank you for the memory I have not able to see back in 1969 and history I haven't heard, You are awesome and thank you~ (^_^)7

Beautiful! Thank you for posting it. I sure miss the Chinatown of years past. It became a home away from my birth home to me, so many fond memories!

If I was Jeff basos I will come there and bring it back like it was new years I would even start everything back up and even pay the workers in the stores personally from my pocket

I like to mentioned that amazon books is selling a book about my grandfather, titled A Diary of Dukesang Wong, translated by my sister, Wanda Joy Hoe (Ottawa, Canada). amazon lists it as $16(USD). Grandfather, my granny, Lin Ying Wong, my #6 uncle Harry and my mom is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, near Fraser & 39th I believe.

POV: YOU'RE WATCHING THIS FOR A HISTORY PROJECT

I'm Bengali Canadian

I'm Bengali

Should have been called opium town funny how now the Chinese put a head tax on anyone living in Van now

Makes me sad that Chinatown isn't as vibrant as my youth....still love visiting it, though.....

Used this whole documentary for listening quizzes 5 years ago with a course I was teaching, and just this week have been using it again. It's awesome and students really love it!

The chinese of BC that mined the rivers and creeks financed much of Vancouver community. The real pro hand miners were chinese, the head tax now is immigration consultants and lawyers LOL!

Good video but the narrator doesn't enunciate very well

awesome

Thank you for this clip.

Great job!

Dear Karen: You should do a number on HON'S WONTON before they disappear

Great video of introduction of Chinatown and history of Chinese in Vancouver.

this is awesome... found it searching for the address for Green Lettuce and now I can use it in my Chinese food research paper. :)

korean bbq is getting popular but the korean food that's found outside of korea is probly about 5% of what is in korea. any good cooking korean grandma probly knows how to make more korean dishes than that restaurant ever had in it's whole history.

did that guy just say that his menu is more traditional or better than the restaurants in seoul!? They still practice almost every korean cuisine that was made since hundreds of yrs back. Court cuisine practiced in palaces are still preserved today & getting popular esp around tourists. things that are super unknown and rare outside korea r pretty common in it, like snake cuisine, 50 yr old fermented stingray, yukhoe (raw meat for comsuming), & other things that this guy probly never heard of.

here's the problem i see with a lot of asian restaurants in the greater vancouver area: they don't have their menus and signs in english... if they worked on that they could more than double their business!