Chinese: University Ave and Interracial Marriages

chinese: Times were different, rather extremely difficult, she says, being born to a Chinese immigrant father and a white mother when interracial marriages were seen as unacceptable, according to Toronto Star. But now, at the age of 76, Garland and her classmates have come together to recreate a photo that was taken during a period of discrimination, and now represents a snapshot of Canadian immigrant history. W. and University Ave. The photo, which Garland found while scrounging through old shoeboxes is just one of the artifacts donated to the Toronto Public Library as part of a three-year initiative, the Chinese Canadian archives, which opened on Tuesday at the Toronto Reference Library. Among the collection are old photographs of the city first Chinese restaurants, and businesses that once existed in the area where City Hall stands today. Since the announcement calling for donations in July, the library has received hundreds of articles to commemorate the historic voices of the Chinese people in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.