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Originally Posted by Matlock
My Grandfather was born in Vancouver during the 1930s and grew up in Chinatown. He was Chinese and spoke English and Toisan which it was the spoken Chinese language in Vancouver during the time.
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My uncle came here in the 40s (we're from just outside Guangzhou) and working in a restaurant he used to always get told "Gong tong wa ni yew um hew, gong fan wa ni yew um hiew"
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Originally Posted by Matlock
People who were not Caucasian were not allowed in the pool at English Bay, but the man who worked there would let my grandfather and his friends in early before they opened.
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Racism when convenient cause Joe Fortes was our first lifeguard and he was black.
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Originally Posted by Matlock
In a factory that he worked in, as an adult he was making less than a Caucasian child who worked there doing the exact same job simply because he was Chinese and the child was Caucasian.
We also have a Chinese family member that got buried into the concrete of one of the bridges. I'm assuming he fell in some how during construction.
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Harsh