Mark, Carol
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/.
Three generations of the Mark family are pictured. Grandmother Mark (left) arrived in Canada in 1949 after being separated from her husband for 40 years. Her son, Carol Mark's father, went to China in 1946 and was married there. He returned to Canada with his wife, and Carol was born soon after. This photo was taken in front of a rooming house for Chinese men at 32-34 Walton Street, Toronto, Ontario, in the summer of 1955.
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