Lau, Lily
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/.
Lily Lau's great grandfather came to Canada in 1896. Her grandfather came to Victoria, British Columbia via the Blue Funnel Line on April 12, 1912. A fourth generation Chinese Canadian, Lily was the first Chinese Canadian on the Governing Council of the University of Toronto (1986- 1989), and the first female President of Ontario's Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (1923 - 1984).
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