Nanaimo’s Chinese community want their history and heritage more recognized

Sherron Soo, chair of the Nanaimo Chinatown Heritage Foundation, and her supporters continue to work hard for more recognition of the heritage and history of the city’s Chinese community.
Soo and group of supporters, including Melody Ma, from the Foundation for Chinese Dignity, and Dr. Yao Xiao, a UBC scholar in Chinese diasporic migration studies, spent Monday, June 29, going door-to-door in what was once Nanaimo’s Chinatown in the Hecate Street area collecting stories and memories