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Vincent Lam

{{Vincent Lam (born September 5, 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor.
Born in London, Ontario and raised in Ottawa, his parents came to Canada from the Chinese expatriate community in Vietnam. He attended St. Pius X High School and did his medical training at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1999. He now works an emergency physician at Toronto East General Hospital and also does international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships.
Lam's two published works, the medical guide The Flu Pandemic and You and the short story collection Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, are based on his experiences in medical school. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest and most prestigious literary award, on November 7, 2006. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures was also a finalist for The Story Prize in 2008.
Following Lam's Giller win, Shaftesbury Films announced that it had reached a deal to adapt Bloodletting into a television series,[1] which will debut in January 2010 on HBO Canada.
Lam, who attended the Humber College School for Writers, continues to work on his first novel, Cholon, Near Forgotten.}}
Vinita Kinra

Vinita Kinra was born in Milton, Ontario on June 2, 1975 and raised in Jaipur, India. She earned her Master's in French degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) , New Delhi (1999-2001). Government of France awarded Vinita a scholarship to teach English at Grenoble International High School in France in 2001. She went on to teach English at French universities of Grenoble (2002-2003) and Orleans (2003-2004). Vinita returned to Canada in 2004, and her debut collection of short stories, Pavitra in Paris, was published in 2013. Vinita is a Speaker with Passages Canada, and has inspired new immigrant women to Canada and business networking group in Mississauga.
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Asia Television Network Canada: TV interview aired on November 24, 2013
Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage

Started in 2008, the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH), showcases the cultural experiences and expressions of Asian Canadians in a variety of capacities from across Canada. It strives to provide insight into how this demographic experiences life in Canada, how Asian Canadians choose to express their traditional culture and heritage, and what these expressions and experiences mean to Asian Canadian communities. The project is funded by Canadian Heritage's 'Gateway' Fund.
The Objectives of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) are:
* To provide opportunities for Asian Canadians to share their heritage and to promote a better understanding of Asian heritage by focusing annually on the month of May, designated as Asian Heritage Month.
* To enrich Canadian culture by building on the achievement of Asian Canadians
* To achieve full participation by Asian Canadians in the cultural life of Canada
* To build cultural bridges between Asian countries and regions.
* To encourage education of Asian heritage and culture within the broader public
* To establish a relationship and to co-operate with other persons, parties or Corporations with similar or parallel purposes. 
In showcasing Asian Canadian heritage, VMACCH enables Asian Canadians to share their heritage among themselves and with the rest of Canada. It exhibits the achievements and contributions of Asian Canadians to Canada. Featuring works by Asian Canadian artists, it encourages participation in the cultural life of Canada. The website is meant to connect Asian culture to other cultures, and show that it is part of the overarching Canadian culture. It is also a valuable teaching resource on Asian heritage and culture to schools, and the preparation of the website involves collaborations with various parties including other voluntary organizations like Social Service Network, and the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto, and mainstream museums such as the Gardiner Museum and the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
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Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH)

Please visit the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) at http://www.vmacch.ca or http://www.asianheritagemonth.org
The Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) showcases the cultural experiences and expressions of Asian Canadians in a variety of capacities from across Canada. The museum provides insight into how this demographic experiences life in Canada, how Asian Canadians choose to express their traditional culture and heritage, and what these expressions and experiences mean to Asian Canadian communities. 
VMACCH is as inclusive as possible in regards to the material it exhibits. From photo galleries of contemporary Asian photographers' work, to stories shared between grandparents and grandchildren to videos and other multimedia to work on traditional festivals celebrated within Asian Canadian communities; every effort is being made to examine a variety of perspectives and give them all an equal voice in the project. 
The benefits of such a project are immense and far reaching. Not only does the VMACCH allow for the preservation and online showcasing of one of Canada's most culturally diverse communities, but it provides a meeting place for Asian Canadians and other Canadians to come together to share in cultural experiences. By creating an easy to navigate, accessible meeting place, the VMACCH opens the barriers often encountered in cultural exchanges.
Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) is funded by Canadian Heritage Canadian Culture Online Program.
Vishal Misra

Vishal Misra is an artist with a growing repertoire of work and following. In October 2010, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Mississauga Art Society, in the city of Mississauga, Ontario where he currently lives and works. He was born in the city of Mumbai, India but has lived and worked across cities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
During his formative years in India , he had a very traditional upbringing, which largely set the undertone for his work. Over the years, his mobile lifestyle and globetrotting further expanded his experience through multitude of cultural influences and imbibe his art.
In his drawing and his paintings, Misra portrays the varied experiences, emotions and events in his life from his unique perspective. The interplay of light and dark plays an important role in all his depictions. He uses vividly contrasting colors and hues, which unveil beautifully the story behind each of his paintings.
His work is currently on display at galleries across Toronto and other cities in Ontario, at the Artists Alley in San Francisco, Dubai and in Gurgaon, India.
He is a member of various Art organizations. Vishal now resides and works in Mississauga, Ontario Canada.
Wai Young

Wai Young (traditional Chinese: 楊蕭慧儀) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Vancouver South as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
==Early life==
Young was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada when she was four years old. She attended Killarney Secondary School and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in sociology. Young has also taken post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She is married with twins, and is the foster parent of seven children.
==Before politics==
Prior to being elected, Young was a consultant and small businesswoman who contributed to social policies and program development. Her clientele includes municipal governments, Rogers Communications, Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Area Society, South Vancouver Policing Centre and S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Some of her work includes developing "youth at risk" programs, services for immigrants, and helping to found the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance (CISSA). Young also worked for the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development and the federal Ministry of Immigration.
==Entrance to politics==
After losing by 20 votes in 2008 federal election, Young was elected in 2011 by a margin of nearly 4,000 votes in a closely watched rematch over former B.C. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh. In doing so, she became the first Conservative MP to be elected in Vancouver since 1988.
Regarding the first SkyTrain faregate, Young said "The new faregates will make SkyTrain service safer and more secure for commuters."
Wally Oppal

Wallace Oppal, Q.C. (born 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian lawyer, former judge and provincial politician, who is currently serving as the Chancellor of the Thompson Rivers University. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2005 as a BC Liberal MLA for the seat of Vancouver-Fraserview.
Born in the Fraserview precinct of south Vancouver, Oppal is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Law School and operated his own law practice before going to the Bench. He was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver in 1981 and to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1985. In 2003, he was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal where he served until he resigned to seek election to the provincial legislature. He is the second Indo-Canadian Attorney-General of British Columbia.
Oppal served in the provincial cabinet as Attorney General of British Columbia and Minister responsible for Multiculturalism. He is also known as the author of a report: the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia (commonly referred to as the Oppal Inquiry).
Oppal announced in March 2007 that he was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer."B.C. attorney general to be treated for prostate cancer". cbc.ca, March 1, 2007. By the end of the month, Oppal was declared cancer free by his doctor.
For the 2009 provincial election, Oppal switched to the riding of Delta South. In initial results on election night, Oppal led in Delta South by a margin of just two votes over independent candidate Vicki Huntington."Oppal clinging to a two-vote lead". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 2009. On May 26, 2009, a recount revealed that Huntington had defeated Oppal by only 32 votes."Huntington defeats Oppal in B.C. election recount". cbc.ca, May 26, 2009. A judicial recount on June 2 confirmed Huntington's victory."Huntington win over Oppal upheld by judicial recount". Vancouver Sun, June 2, 2009.
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Warren Ounjian

Warren Ounjian (born in Ajax, Ontario, Canada in 1982) is a Canadian amateur skateboarder. Ounjian skateboards for C1RCA, based out of California. He has also been featured on ECW vs. NWO project created by Bo DiggaSBC Skateboard: ECW vs. NWO project as well as in Yesterday's Future, a Canadian skateboard video project.XTreme video: Skateboarding
Wayson Choy

Wayson Choy, CM (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn ; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian writer
== Early Life ==
Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown. Choy graduated from Gladstone Secondary School and went on to attend the University of British Columbia, where he studied creative writing.
== Career ==
Choy moved to Toronto in 1962, and taught at Humber College from 1967 to 2004. He continues to teach at the Humber School for Writers. He was president of Cahoots Theatre Company of Toronto from 1999 to 2002.
Choy is the author of the novel The Jade Peony (1995) which won the Trillium Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. In 2010, it was selected as one of five books for the CBC's annual Canada Reads competition.
His memoir Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (1999) won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and was nominated for a Governor General's Award.
Choy's latest novel, All That Matters, was published in 2004 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2005, he was named a member of the Order of Canada.
== Bibliography ==
Novels 
*The Jade Peony- 1995
*All That Matters- 2004
Memoirs 
*Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood- 1999
*Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying - 2009
Wei Zheng

WeiZheng is a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and on occasion, painter, living in Ottawa. Although recently graduated from Alonquin’s three-year Graphic Design Program, she’s worked at her art now for over 20 years. (Illustration happens to be her favourite mode.) Both WeiZheng’s designs and illustrations show adept skills in watercolour, oils, acrylic, even traditional Chinese brush and ink. Toggling back and forth between Western and Asian styles, she enjoys a challenge, often lucidly incorporating both sensibilities. What great pleasure she takes in creating her dramatic Pop-inspired art!— and no wonder WeiZheng is becoming so well known as an artist of delightful imagination and mischievous humour.
Wen Wei Dance Society

== Wen Wei Dance ==
 	
Wen Wei Wang was born in mainland China, where he trained and performed as a professional dancer. He subsequently spent 12 years in Canada as a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer before forming Wen Wei Dance in 2003. Wen Wei Dance offers a fresh voice in dance, one that is inspired by the evolving Canadian cultural context, which is made up of many experiences from many cultures. The company has presented Wen Wei Wang’s full length-work, Tao (2003), at the Firehall Arts Theatre in Vancouver in 2003 and 2004, and in 3 cities in Colombia, South America during the 7th Temporada Internacional de Danza Contemporanea Colombia in September 2004. Wen Wei Wang's most recent work, the solo One Man's... was featured at the Vancouver International Dance Festival in March 2005. Wen Wei Wang has just received a commission from the CanDance Network to create and tour a new work for six dancers that will premiere at the Canada Dance Festival in June 2006, and tour across Canada in Fall 2006.
== Choreographer ==
Wen Wei Wang danced professionally in China before coming to Canada in 1991. Since then he has performed with several Canadian companies including Judith Marcuse Dance Projects and Ballet British Columbia in Vancouver. He has choreographed more than twenty works for various groups and companies, including Arts Umbrella Youth Dance Company, Banff Festival Ballet, Goh Ballet Company, Dancers Dancing, Ballet Jörgen Canada and Alberta Ballet. In 2000 Wen Wei Wang received the prestigious Clifford E. Lee Award for excellence in choreography.
Wilfrid Fong

Wilfred Fong was Chief Information Officer and Director of IT & Digital Learning, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies He is a former President of the Chinese American Librarians Association (1995) and Executive Editor of the Journal of Library and Information Science from 1995-2007. He was also Editor of the Asian Pacific Asian Librarians Association (APALA) Newsletter. 
A Founding Faculty and the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Wilfred Fong joined the University in 2003. He helped build the Business and IT programs, and developed the first graduate program in IT security, as well as the inaugural Hong Kong Study Abroad Program at UOIT. 
Previously, he was the Assistant Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and initiated a distance education program that was ranked as one of the ten best web-based programs in 2001 by the US News and World Report. CIO Fong has developed and taught courses in information technology and leadership, as well as management. He has been a visiting professor at various universities including Hong Kong, Mexico, Egypt, Kuwait, Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia and is the author of two books and extensive journal articles. 
He was the Conference Co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Learning 2013.
William Ho (composer)

William Ho, an internationally renowned artist, thinker, writer, Goodwill Ambassador of One Heart Beat around the World, humanitarian, environmentalist and speaker famous for his poetic art creations and passionate speech, particularly in Chinese brush painting, living art installations and sculptures from 60’ to award size. He creates world class art and awards/sculpture/statue for international organizations and global causes including the UN MDG One Heart Beat Award sculpture and the UN IREO Renewable Energy Award. His Awards are master pieces of art carrying profound timeless messages for the world. His art appears in international museums, galleries, public areas and venues such as the United Nations and Parliament Hill of Canada, as well as in important private and public collectors around the world.
Mr. Ho was the invited Key Featured Artist of Art Expo 2008 and 25,000 art lovers came. Mr. Ho is also author of a Chinese version of the Canadian Anthem “O Canada”.
Mr. Ho's “One Heart Beat” single stroke concept brushstroke painting is the underlying foundation for the United Nations MDG One Heart Beat Award. He sculpted the Award and presented the individually made Award sculptures to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Nobel Price winner Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 61st and 62nd Presidents of the UN General Assembly, Chairman of the G77 of UN and H.E Leonel Antonio Fernandez, President of the Dominican Republic, in recognition of their support and efforts to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The award presentation ceremonies take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and viewed by the world.
William Lau

William Lau was born in Hong Kong and raised in Montreal. A graduate from York University’s Master of Fine Arts Program in Dance, he was trained in both Chinese traditional dance and Western classical ballet. Presently, William specialized in the art of Peking Opera and had performed nationally and internationally with critical acclaims. He had also pushed the boundaries of traditional arts practices by collaborating with professional artists of different artistic disciplines and diverse cultural backgrounds. 
With a deep passion for the arts, his professional experience includes artist, arts administration, producer, and researcher. Mr. Lau also founded the Little Pear Garden Collective in 1994, a collective of artists committed to preserving and promoting Chinese performing arts in Canada. photo by Yong Zhen Wang
Winnie Cheung

Currently a director with the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Society (ACWW) and founding director of the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre and Museum of Migration, Winnie Cheung is a community leader and organizer. Having also served in leadership roles as board of director at the Hong Kong Canada Business Association, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, the Laurier Institution, and the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre's Museum of Migration, Winnie L. Cheung has been engaged in building bridges and understanding across cultures for over twenty years. A published writer, art lover and intercultural educator, she is keen to create platforms and spaces for people to explore the cultural richness of an inclusive society. 
At the University of British Columbia, she has been instrumental for the establishment of several signature programs to foster interactions between international and local students, engage the community with the university, and promote learning through the appreciation of cultural diversity. As a volunteer, Winnie has devoted a lot of time to improve international education across the system in Canada through organizations such as the Canadian Bureau for International Education. 
To cultivate responsible citizenship among young people, she has launched innovative programs such as the Global Citizenship Project and the Global Student Speakers’ Bureau, thus fostering meaningful dialogues on the subject with the community. In recognition of her contribution to international understanding and world peace, Winnie has been named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.
Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre

Following the establishment of the Winnipeg Chinatown Corporation in 1981, the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre (WCCCC) was included in the development in 1983 to respond to the need for a cultural centre as Chinese immigration grew. The WCCCC is now the largest of its kind to be found in Winnipeg.
== Mission ==
- To promote and advance the awareness, knowledge and appreciation of the Chinese culture in relation to the multi-cultural mosaic of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Canada.
- To increase understanding between the various Chinese and non-Chinese organizations in Manitoba.
- To encourage public understanding of matters relating to the affairs of the Chinese Community.
- To provide facilities for educational, cultural and recreational purposes.
== The WCCCC Board ==
Honorary President
- The Rt. Hon. Edward R. Schreyer
President
- Dr. Joseph N.H.
Vice President
- Dr. Patrick Choy
- Ms. Malinda Lee
Directors
- Dr. Tina Chen
- Ms. Yun Cheng
- Dr. Maria Cheung
- Ms. Lan Doan
- Dr. Ertrice Eddy
- Dr. Yuewen Gong
- Ms. Debbie Guo
- Ms. Joan Harder
- Mr. Ben Lee
- Dr. Hermann Lee
- Mr. Edmond Lip
- Dr. Alison Marshall
- Mr. C.J. Pagtakhan
- Mr. Wilson Tat
- Ms. Yuling Wang
Wonny Song

Wonny Song is a pianist born in South Korea and grew up in Montreal. 
He began piano studies at the age of eight and received a full scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1994. He earned a bachelor degree from Montreal University in 1998 and continued his studies with Anton Kuerti at the University of Toronto and at The Glenn Gould School with Marc Durand. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in 2004, studying with Lydia Artymiw. He has also studied with Leon Fleisher, Jorge Chaminé and Marie-Francoise Bucquet. He has performed as a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and Thailand.
Song is presently Associate Director and Director of Artists-in-Residence project of Lambda School of Music and Fine Arts in Montreal.