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Title: Chinese War Relief, Toronto
Date: March 22, 1943
Donor: York University Libraries
Subject: None
Province: Ontario
Holding Institution: York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections
Author: [Telegram Staff]

York University Libraries

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/.

Chinese War Relief Fund. Volunteers prepare to sell tags bearing the flags of Britain and China . Melvin Ing looks on as Mrs. Harry Ing and Mrs. Peter Kin (sp?) thread the tags.