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| Title: | Performance for the Queen |
| Date: | 1967 |
| Donor: | Lumb, Jean |
| Subject: | None |
| Province: | Ontario |
| Copyright: | MHSO, courtesy of Jean Lumb |
| Holding Institution: | MHSO |
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's Chinese Community Dancers of Ontario perform for the Queen during the 1967 Centennial celebrations in Ottawa, Ontario.
