Chinese Canadian National Council
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/.
At the time this photo was taken, Dr. Lilian Ma was a research scientist at the University of Toronto and former National President of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC). She was appointed as a commissioner with the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1986, and was also the Secretary of the National Organization of Immigrant & Visible Minority Women. Since 1994, Dr. Ma has been a member of the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
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