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"Toronto filmmaker Kwoi Gin's father, Suey Kee Gin, arrived in Canada in the early 1950s as a the "paper son" of his own grandfather, who had followed an uncle here to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He used false identity documents purchased by his mother in Hong Kong to enter Canada, a common deception used by families to overcome the discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. | "Toronto filmmaker Kwoi Gin's father, Suey Kee Gin, arrived in Canada in the early 1950s as a the "paper son" of his own grandfather, who had followed an uncle here to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He used false identity documents purchased by his mother in Hong Kong to enter Canada, a common deception used by families to overcome the discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. | ||
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Kwoi says he's searched most of his life for a place to call home, traveling back to Hong Kong in the 1990s to explore his South China Sea roots. "I didn't want to come back, because I didn't really like it here in Canada. I couldn't fit in," he says. "Then when I went back there, I was very disillusioned and I realized I could never go home again. What I left was no longer there, and I didn't fit in there probably just as much as I didn't fit in here." | Kwoi says he's searched most of his life for a place to call home, traveling back to Hong Kong in the 1990s to explore his South China Sea roots. "I didn't want to come back, because I didn't really like it here in Canada. I couldn't fit in," he says. "Then when I went back there, I was very disillusioned and I realized I could never go home again. What I left was no longer there, and I didn't fit in there probably just as much as I didn't fit in here." | ||
Kwoi also has searched for his family's Canadian roots in Quesnel Forks, B.C., a ghost town where his great-grandfather, Dip Gin, lived for a time after the completion of the CPR. "I remember stories, fragments, from my great-grandfather about going there after the railroad. So I wanted to see if I could find any of that history." | Kwoi also has searched for his family's Canadian roots in Quesnel Forks, B.C., a ghost town where his great-grandfather, Dip Gin, lived for a time after the completion of the CPR. "I remember stories, fragments, from my great-grandfather about going there after the railroad. So I wanted to see if I could find any of that history."[http://www.mhso.ca/tiesthatbind/KwoiGin.php#] | ||