Lor, Agnes Y.
This photograph was collected for the exhibit, “But Women Did Come”: 150 Years of Chinese Women in North America. The exhibit premiered at the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library in 1987, and brought together two complementary shows, one on Chinese American Women and the other on the history of Chinese women in Canada. The photographs in But Women Did Come document the lives of Chinese women in North America from the pioneer days (beginning in the 1830s) to the 1980s.
Included in this database are photographs from Chinese Canadian family albums and Canadian archival institutions. The online version of the Canadian exhibit is available at: http://www.mhso.ca/ggp/Exhibits/Chinese_Women/.
An interior view of the Lor family's restaurant, the New York Café, in Brockville, Ontario. The restaurant was particularly popular with servicemen during the war. Valerie Mah, whose family ran the restaurant, says that the restaurant had one of the first liquor licenses in Ontario.
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