The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now Music and as a woman

and as a woman

What makes it so special

she explores the importance of these restaurants in the country’s history and makes the case for why chop suey cuisine should be recognized as quintessentially Canadian

between the dream catcher and earring hook

The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now Music and as a womanThe history of the Chinese community in Toronto is rich with stories drawn from over 150 years of life in Canada. Sam Ching, a laundryman, is the first Chinese resident recorded in Torontos city directory of 1878. A few years later, in 1881, there were 10 Chinese and no sign of a Chinatown. Today, with no less than seven Chinatowns and half a million people, Chinese Canadians have become the second largest visible minority in the Greater Toronto Area.