Long Time No See Collective

Tomorrow is Red Dress Day, and we in Chinatown remember and honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Sprited People (MMIWG2S).

The REDress project created by Metis Artist Jaime Black in 2010 inspired the hanging of Red Dresses to honor stolen sisters from these communities.

Posters are up in and around Spadina Chinatown, in English and Chinese. Please visit, learn more about this human rights crisis happening in our country, and speak about it to your friends, families and loved ones.

Thanks and for another PACKED Toronto Living room Listening event at
Missing images of our incredible Chinatown Community Lion Dance performance. Next post!

Our last night with our fabulous Yiu Yiu tonight 7-8:30pm .itineraries 205 Richmond Street West-room 403 with and SEE YOU THERE✨

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I always thought history was for someone else until I found our Grandfather was one of those Head Tax payers that Canada was trying to keep out when I looked up his C.I.44 file. Any Chinese Canadian with a relative that came before 1923 likely has a C.I. 44. He came in 1903. We always knew him as Tom Wong but his real name was Wong Thick Tong aka Sack Chung. I have always felt restless unless I am busy, that chores are never done, the house is never clean enough, that idle pleasures are not for me. If you are a white Canadian you don’t need to look over your shoulder quite so often. My mother chose to not teach us Chinese but sent us to afterschool French classes. It’s all an echo from the legislated racism.

- Rick Wong

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Long Time No See mounted an exhibition of stories from the Chinese Exclusion Act years, in Toronto Spadina Chinatown May-July 2024. This project is supported by The Chinese Canadian Museum (CCM) of Vancouver. CCM is also the host of The Paper Trail to the 1923 Exclusion Act, a major exhibition documenting the effects of this legislation on the Chinese community, curated by Catherine Clement.
“好久不见”将于2024年5月至7月在多伦多士巴丹拿唐人街举办《排华法案》时期的故事展。 此展得到了温哥华加拿大华裔博物馆的支持。加拿大华裔博物馆也是《寻影觅迹：1923年排华法案》大型展览的主办方。该展览由嘉芙莲.卡曼策划，记录了《排华法案》对华人社区的影响。“好久不見”將於2024年5月至7月在多倫多士巴丹拿唐人街舉辦《排華法案》時期的故事展。此展得到了溫哥華加拿大華裔博物館的支持。加拿大華裔博物館也是《尋影覓跡：1923年排華法案》大型展覽的主辦方。該展覽由嘉芙蓮.卡曼策劃，記錄了《排華法案》對華人社區的影響。