Jessica Mah on the Mah Society's early days as a boarding house
The Mah Society's Jessica Mah talks about the surprising early days of the organization, and how it's changed over the years.
Edmonton Chinatown Stories
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Short stories and remembrances of Edmonton's Chinatown. This series was produced as part of a Community Service Learning project at the University of Alberta. It is part of a multimedia project capturing the history of Edmonton's Chinatown, called Figure 一，二，三，六，八.
Convenient News - Raymond Ng on the Edmonton Chinese News 爱华报
Rachel Meldrum speaks here with Raymond Ng. Raymond talks about the free, weekly Chinese newspaper named the Edmonton Chinese News (or 爱华报) that he pu...
Grace Law, photo in front of the Harbin Gate, 1988
Local artist Grace Law remembers visiting the Harbin Gate as a child in the late 1980s. Whenever her family would visit, from either Hong Kong or Calg...
Cheatsheets - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera as Cultural Entertainment
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cant...
Propaganda - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera and Homeland Politics
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cant...
Ken Gee on picking goji berries in the Edmonton river valley
In this piece, we are just outside of the Shaw Conference Centre with Ken Gee, learning about the hill of Goji berries that once grew there on Grierso...
Stan Mah on the Blue Willow Restaurant's fish pond
Stan Mah reflects on his late father, Victor (Vic) Mah opening and running the original Blue Willow restaurant. He takes listeners back to the past wi...
Fundraisers - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera and Philanthropy
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cant...
Raymond Ng on the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre
In this piece, Raymond Ng talks about the Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre. The centre offers weekly table-tennis and language lessons that pro...
Patrick Tso on the competition that brought him to the Edmonton Chinese Computer Society
President of the Edmonton Chinese Computer Society Patrick Tso discusses his first experience with the society: a Chinese character typing competition...