Title: The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 : from outside to inside the circle /
Authors: Chan, Arlene.
Publisher: Dundurn,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Chinese Ontario Toronto History.; Chinese Ontario Toronto Biography.; Chinese Canadians Ontario Toronto History.; Chinese Canadians Ontario Toronto Biography.
Abstract: An illustrated history of the Chinese in Toronto from 1878, when the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway allowed Chinese emigrants to travel east from British Columbia, to 2010.
Contents: The gold rush and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1858-1885 -- The birth of Toronto's Chinatown, 1885-1922 -- Early organizations and the Great War, 1885-1922 -- The bachelor society and the war years, 1923-1947 -- Saving Chinatown, 1947-1966 -- The changing face of Chinatown from 1967 -- Ethnoburbs in the 1980s -- Diversity in the 1990s and 2000s -- Inside the circle -- Appendix I -- Chinese Canadians (Greater Toronto Area) appointed to the Order of Canada, 1976-2010 -- Appendix II -- Chinese Canadians (Greater Toronto Area) appointed to the Order of Canada, 1991-2010.