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| 標題： | Full Interview with Keith Lock, Part 2 |
| 日期： | September 3, 2009 |
| 提供者： | Lock, Keith |
| 主題： | Arts, Celebrations, Childhood, Chinatown, Church and Faith, Citizenship and Civil Rights, Clubs and Organizations, Discrimination, Domestic Work, Education, Exclusion, Family Life, Family Separation, Food, Identity, Immigration, Cross-cultural Relations, Inter-generational Relations, Language, Politics and Activism, Work, War and War Effort |
| 省份： | Ontario |
| 權利： | MHSO |
| 語言： | ENG |
Lock, Keith
Keith Lock, is a filmmaker who resides in Toronto. His work includes the documentary The Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story and a recent feature-length film, The Ache. Keith’s grandmother, Mrs. Quong Lock, was among the first Chinese women to settle in Toronto, Ontario. So rare was the sight of Chinese women in the city that when she arrived in 1909 to join her husband the Toronto Star announced on its front page: ‘Chinese Woman comes to Toronto.’ After her husband passed away in 1933, Mrs. Quong Lock opened her own hand laundry at St. Clair and Lansdowne to support her family. Her son, Tom Lock, joined the Canadian Army during the Second World War. He and other Chinese Canadians were recruited for dangerous duties behind Japanese enemy lines. Tom arrived in Australia in 1944 for special military training, where he met Joan Lim On. They married in 1945, and Joan was permitted to enter Canada during the Exclusion Period (1923-1947) by way of an Act of Privy Council. She, along with another Chinese Australian war bride, Myrtle Wong, arrived in Vancouver aboard the S.S. Monterey in 1946. Joan and Tom settled in Toronto, where Joan was hired as microbiologist at Sick Kids hospital and Tom opened up a pharmacy in Chinatown.
In part two of a two-part interview, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock describes his Chinese Australian mother’s first impressions of Canada after she immigrated as a war bride. He discusses his mother’s scientific career and her values as a wife and mother. Keith recalls some childhood memories of racism growing up in Toronto, Ontario and discusses the Chinese Canadian community’s lobbying efforts for equal rights in the post-war years. He also describes Toronto’s Chinese community during his youth, and how he was inspired to become a filmmaker. He discusses research for a project on First Nations and Chinese relations, and adds some concluding remarks about the l
