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Home to my passions for my inter-cultural adventures, Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner event. Save Kogawa House campaign, Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team, Find what you are looking for by 1) scroll the topics links, 2) use the search function ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat. We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event. We practice Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks. Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams. Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 604-987-7124- e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008 WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve. WHEN: 6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY doors open 5pm WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant, #400-180 Keefer St. CULTURE: Our Performers create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond! FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner 2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton 2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet 2008 - Scotch tastings! Watch for more surprises in 2008! Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill . Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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Friday, February 23
Feb 23, 1887 Anti-Chinese Riot Remembered.. .120 years ago today
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Todd
on Fri 23 Feb 2007 04:34 PM PST
TORONTO . The Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) marked the 120th anniversary today of the anti-Chinese riot that took place in Vancouver . “We mark this anniversary today because it is part of our community’s unique history in facing the overt and often violent manifestation of racial discrimination that resulted in the Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act,” Sid Tan, National Chairperson of CCNC said today. “We should all take this opportunity to learn from our past mistakes, to restore dignity to the direct victims and to re-dedicate ourselves to a just society built on the foundations of respect and acceptance.”..... After the 1886 Great Fire razed Vancouver , the City leased 60 hectares of forested land to some 100 Chinese. However, this was the beginning of the Head Tax era, a period of overt racial discrimination against Chinese Canadians, which was legitimized by racist legislation. Mounting racist sentiment culminated in a riot on February 23, 1887 when an angry mob of 300 assembled to run the Chinese out of town. They tore down the shanty-town near Coal Harbour and roughed up the Chinese, some of whom managed to escape harm by jumping into the frigid waters. more »
Friday, February 16
Douglas Jung film biography "I AM the Canadian Delegate" airs this Sunday, Feb 18th
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Todd
on Fri 16 Feb 2007 12:52 PM PST
Preview: Watch "I Am the Canadian Delegate" this coming Sunday, February 18th, on Chinese New Year Day, Film maker Wesley Lowe recently completed the documentary biography on Douglas Jung, WWII Veteran and Canada's first Chinese Member of Parliament. more »
Monday, February 12
Polygamy and Head Tax: what's the point? Only 0.7% of head tax certificates are being recognized anyways!
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Todd
on Mon 12 Feb 2007 11:54 PM PST
The Vancouver Sun, on Monday February 12th, published an alarmist story Polygamy warning issued on head tax: Federal government told redress program might raise 'huge' legal issues about a non-issue regarding the possibility of multiple claimants as surviving spouses of head tax payers. It was a front page headline on page A1.
This is a 'huge' non-story because 99.95% of the 81,000 head tax payers from 1885 to 1923 are already dead. Only 44 head tax survivors applied for the $20,000 ex-gratia payment. Only 337 widowed spouses have applied for the ex-gratia payment. The government is still REFUSING to recognize any head tax certificates where both payer and spouses are predeceased, even if there are surviving sons or daughters. Less than 1% of the 81,000 head tax payments are being recognized - only half a percent - 0.5%! more »
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