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Chinese Diaspora
Ocean View Chinese Cemetery
Ocean View Cemetery is a very popular cemetery with the Chinese in Greater Vancouver. On the southwest corner of the cemetery, which Ocean View has assigned the name Fern, is a fair number of Chinese who died in the 1950s and from the looks of things most died without family. These graves had shown... »
Search for family members in Penang, Malaysia
My family was originally from KwangTung, Taishan, Dong Hang, Taup Kirk. My grandfather (Lee Yee Hui) settled in Penang at the young age of 17 as carpenter. My father was born in Penang in 1906. His name was Lee Kam Mao. He was also known as Lee Ping Wah or Lee Wai Mao. My father... »
Chinatown Riot of 1887
The Chinese first came to British Columbia (BC) from California with news of gold on the Fraser River. They arrived in Victoria and continued northward into the interior. However, the migration directly from China didn’t begin until the spring of 1859 when the first arrival from Hong Kong took place. By early 1860’s it... »
Wing Shui Xie
We don’t have a lot of information on him but from data on hand and knowledge of Chinese customs we can make certain deductions. Firstly, it is safe to say that Xie Wingshui was born in 1883 or there about. His second daughter and fourth child, Der She Chow, was born in 1911. Males... »
Ben Yen Chow
Kevin, Thank you for set up the website and let me know the chow family tree. I have a problem, I don’t know can you help me? My grandfather have gone to Canada to work around 1915 and was dead around 1958-1959. I have never seen my grandfather’s look because I was born after he dead.... »
Head Tax
When Canada in 1885 imposed a $50 head tax on Chinese immigrants it wasn’t the only nor the first country to do so, Australia in November 19, 1857 imposed a head tax of £10 on all Chinese arrivals. Canada’s wasn’t the first to use legislature to bar Chinese from entering the country either. The... »
Different views on compensation
Senator Vivian Poy addressed the 12th AGM of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians at the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre September 13, 2003. Thank you for inviting me to discuss the Head Tax issue with all of you today. Even though I have not, up until this point, taken part in any of... »
Quincy Chinese Cemetery
We thank Elizabeth E. Bullard-Watson, County Coordinator, Plumas County GenWeb, for taking these photos and so kind to let us use it here. What follows is part of an email she wrote which gives some historic background to these markers. The headstones are located at the Quincy Chinese Cemetery in Quincy, CA. I have no... »
Apology for woman jailed over Chinese boyfriend
The following articles are written by CBC News Online staff. Tue, 08 Oct 2002 TORONTO – An elderly Toronto woman plans to keep fighting for an apology and compensation for abuse she suffered decades ago in a provincial reformatory. Velma Demerson was arrested and jailed in a tiny cell 60 years ago after authorities decided she was... »
Ancestors Of Li Jiquan – Part IV
by Peter Leeson Sydney James Leesoon 1875 – 1942 Sydney James Lee Soon, eldest son of Lee Soon (Li Jiquan) and Elizabeth Lee Soon, was born in Ballarat on 27th June 1875. Little is known about his early years, other than he grew up with his family around Golden Point (China Town), where his father Lee... »