‘Very emotional’: Chinese-Canadian veterans honoured ahead of Remembrance Day
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Ahead of Remembrance Day, a group of Chinese-Canadian youth paid tribute to Canadian veterans at the Chinese-Canadian Military Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Sunday.
They put their lives on the line for our country at a time when they were treated as second-class citizens.
Ahead of Remembrance Day, a group of Chinese-Canadian youth paid tribute to Canadian veterans at the Chinese-Canadian Military Museum in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Sunday.
“I feel like it is really important for us, especially as Chinese, to learn their history, and to learn their struggles that they’ve come through,” A student named Anita said.
Even though they had long faced racism in Canada, approximately 200 Chinese-Canadians volunteered for the Canadian army during the First World War.
More than 600 Chinese-Canadians served in the Second World War.
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The walls of the Chinese-Canadian Military Museum tell the stories of bravery during discrimination.
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