Chinese Immigrants: Jennifer Gauthier and School Students

chinese immigrants: Council also voted to adopt other recommendations of a report that detailed the historic wrongs, according to Metro News. Those recommendations include applying for UNESCO World Heritage status for Chinatown and making the report accessible to the general public and to public school students. The apology is planned for April 2018 and will be delivered in Toishanese, a dialect spoken by the early Chinese immigrants to Vancouver, which has mostly fallen out of use but will be used as an homage to their struggles. Speakers told council of the discrimination their parents and grandparents faced. Jennifer Gauthier/For Metro Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown. They also expressed concern about the future of Chinatown, an area that has seen soaring land values, the loss of many stores that sold traditional Chinese food and other products, and fewer shoppers as more recent immigrants from China opt to shop elsewhere. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.