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  • Wong Bark Ging 黃柏振 : A History of My Father’s Market Gardens

    Ging Wei Wong 黃景煒

    One hundred years ago my father stepped onto Canadian soil for the first time. It wasn’t until he passed away…

  • From Edmonton Chinatown: The All-Girls Cultural Troupe

    Lan Chan-Marples

    Have you ever heard of the China Dolls?  Not the glazed porcelain dolls or the 2015 novel written by Chinese-American…

  • World War II and the Chinese Women’s Club in Edmonton

    Lan Chan-Marples

    An April 1946 photo of three young Chinese women in the Edmonton Journal readily captured a reader’s eye.  Freshly home…

  • Ah-Yin’s Chinese Persons’ Street or Amy’s Chinatown

    Amy Wong

    I want to share my personal history of growing up in one of Edmonton’s Chinatowns in the 1970s. The Chinatown,…