Lumb, Jean
Jean Lumb was a community activist, business owner, and the first Chinese Canadian recipient of the Order of Canada. She was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and moved to Toronto, Ontario as a young women. She ran a number of successful businesses, including the Kwong Chow chop suey house in Toronto's Chinatown. She was also part of a delegation that lobbied the Federal government to change its immigration laws, that kept Chinese Canadian families separated.
Jean Lumb (seated, right) and a delegation of Chinese Canadians appeal for change to The Chinese Immigration Act during Diefenbaker's Prime Ministership. Ottawa, 1957.
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