Ng, Winnie
Over 130 interviews with Chinese Canadian women were conducted for the book Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women. Produced in 1992 by the Women’s Book Committee of the Chinese Canadian National Council, Jin Guo was intended to fill the gap in historical accounts of Chinese Canadian women’s history. Researchers traveled across Canada to interview Chinese Canadian women of various ages and backgrounds. The book’s authors, Amy Go, Winnie Ng, Dora Nipp, Julia Tao, Terry Woo and May Yee, organized the book around themes and patterns that emerged across multiple interviews – feelings of isolation and culture shock upon arrival in Canada, memories of parent-child relationships, the importance of education, the working lives of women, discrimination, cultural identity, marriage and dating, family life, perspectives on aging and retirement, and examples community activism. The interviews conducted for this project are stored at the Multicultural History Society of Ontario’s archives. This collections database includes a large cross-section of interviews conducted for Jin Guo – in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Winnie Ng came to Canada in 1968. She is a community activist and the first woman union organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). Around the time this photo was taken, she coordinated the English at the Workplace Program, organized by the Labor Council of Metro Toronto. Winnie Ng was a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Visible Minority Women in Ontario and past co-ordinator of the Ad hoc Committee on Wei Fu's complaint.
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