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Arlene Chan (Chinese: 陳林瑞玲; born in Toronto, Ontario; third generation Chinese Canadian) is a writer and retired librarian. Chan has published non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals, dragon boat racing, and the Chinese in Canada. She is currently working on a book about the head tax and Chinese Exclusion Act that will be published in 2013 by James Lorimer Publishing. | Arlene Chan (Chinese: 陳林瑞玲; born in Toronto, Ontario; third generation Chinese Canadian) is a writer and retired librarian. Chan has published non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals, dragon boat racing, and the Chinese in Canada. She is currently working on a book about the head tax and Chinese Exclusion Act that will be published in 2013 by James Lorimer Publishing. | ||
An avid dragon boater and gold- | An avid dragon boater and gold-medalist member of the Canadian National Women’s Dragon Boat Team, she lives, writes, and paddles in Toronto. She is the daughter of Jean Lumb, the first Chinese Canadian woman to receive the Order of Canada. | ||
Chan is the president of the Jean Lumb Foundation that supports a scholarship program for high school students of Chinese heritage, director of Little Pear Garden Collective, and member of the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers Advisory Council. | Chan is the president of the Jean Lumb Foundation that supports a scholarship program for high school students of Chinese heritage, director of Little Pear Garden Collective, and member of the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers Advisory Council. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award in 2013. | ||
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The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013. | The Chinese Community in Toronto: Then and Now. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013. | ||
The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. | The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. Nominated for the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award and 2013 Ontario Speaker’s Award. | ||
The Moon Festival: A Chinese Mid-autumn Celebration. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1999. Nominated for the Ontario Silver Birch Award. | The Moon Festival: A Chinese Mid-autumn Celebration. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1999. Nominated for the Ontario Silver Birch Award. | ||