Journey of the Horse: 100 years of Chinese history in Edmonton
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The Mah Society of Edmonton exhibit details the struggles and racism Chinese immigrants faced in Canada, and why so many were forced to start their own businesses to make a living.
A new exhibit has opened up at the Mah Society of Edmonton, taking visitors through more than a century of Chinese-Canadian history.
The Journey of the Horse was created by Sue Mah and Andrea Maru.
The two met on a heritage tour in 2019 back to their ancestral village in southern China, where they both inspired to share their family’s history and the hardships early Chinese settlers to Canada experienced.
“The title is a play on words,” Sue said.
“Our surname ‘Mah’ in Chinese means ‘horse’ and so I wanted to depict the journey the men and a few women, how they came across the Pacific from China to Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and also show the struggles that they had, as well as facing the discrimination and racism in the early 1900s towards the Chinese and also to show the successes as well.”
The exhibit details their struggles, the racism they faced, how immigrants integrated with education and why they were forced to start up businesses to make a living.
“They were not allowed to be professionals — the only way for them to make money was open up their own businesses,” Sue said, leading to many immigrants opening up stores, laundromats and Chinese restaurants.
The Mah Society of Edmonton was created as a support group of sorts: many of the Chinese men who moved to Canada were forced to leave their wives and children behind.
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