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Title: Cadet Dorothy Chow and Cadet Grace Chow
Date: 1942
Donor: Salvation Army Archives
Subject: None
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Holding Institution: MHSO

Salvation Army Archives

This photograph was collected for the exhibit, “But Women Did Come”: 150 Years of Chinese Women in North America. The exhibit premiered at the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library in 1987, and brought together two complementary shows, one on Chinese American Women and the other on the history of Chinese women in Canada. The photographs in But Women Did Come document the lives of Chinese women in North America from the pioneer days (beginning in the 1830s) to the 1980s.

Included in this database are photographs from Chinese Canadian family albums and Canadian archival institutions. The online version of the Canadian exhibit is available at: http://www.mhso.ca/ggp/Exhibits/Chinese_Women/.

Cadet Dorothy Chow and Cadet Grace Chow, 1942. Cadets Dorothy and Grace Chow trained for overseas missions to China, but due to health and other personal concerns resigned from The Salvation Army following brief appointments in Canada. This image nonetheless represents the many cadets who did complete mission work abroad.