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Chinese Laundromat Memories
Chinese Laundromat Memories

My relatives were part of the Chinese who immigrated to Saskatchewan between 1911 and 1921. According to Alison Marshall’s book Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada, the population of the province grew at this time from 492,432 to 757,510. By 1921, the Chinese population was double the number in Manitoba.

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Florence HwangFlorence HwangSaskatchewan History and Folklore Societylaundry, saskatchewan, chinese, saskatoon, hwang, Yee Foo, Wing Lee Lai Laundromat, Gold Mountain, Toi San, Canada, Freda Louie, Jennifer Yee Hwang, laundromat, Qing Dynasty, washing, washboards, Prairie, Prairie history, social history, Western Development Museum, Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society
The Glorious, Ever-Joyous Ukrainian Weddings of Old
The Glorious, Ever-Joyous Ukrainian Weddings of Old

1963 was a record year for attending lively and colourful Ukrainian weddings at the Rainbow Hall in Canora and the Burgis Beach Hall, Good Spirit Lake, just two miles from our family farm.  That summer our family took in a wedding every single Saturday for more than two months – 9 in all! 

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Katya SzalasznyjKatya SzalasznyjCanora, Saskatchewan, Rainbow Hall, wedding, Ukrainian, tsimbali, kulasha nalysniki, pampushki, polka, De Zhoda v Rodeni, history, social history, rural history, Ukraine, Canada, Dance, culture