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| Title: | Chinese display |
| Date: | 1959 |
| 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.
Chinese display during the Uptown Theatre's screening of the 1959 film, Ferry to Hong Kong.
