What does Asian Heritage Month mean to you?

Photo Credit: Chinatown Storytelling Centre
​Left to right: Dr. Anson Cheung, Dr. Peter Kim, Dr. Christopher Nguan, Dr. John Yee

The answer is probably different depending on the person’s heritage, culture, personal experience, number of years in Canada and so on…

As an immigrant from Hong Kong, I certainly think that Canada is an inclusive country accepting everyone from around the world until I learned about the history of early immigrants at Chinatown Storytelling Centre. 

With the early Chinese immigrants arriving in Canada in 1880’s to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, there was much tension as to where Chinese people can reside or have the right to vote. During World War II, a group of people of Chinese descent decided to go to war despite they are not officially Canadians. 

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