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CHINESE    IN TORONTO
SU-LIN LEE wore a made-in-Canada white wedding dn'ss for her mar-ria^t tu Ken-yui【力"r in the Chim's" Prcshytii i;»n church on Univ<M ^n> Ave. Fav thf ifcoption afterwards, in the Golden I)iH^on restaurant, she put a flower in her hair and changed to th<- slit vvd skirt and black jacket that a"' tj aditionally Chinese.
Thus cast and west meet in Toron to's Chinatown. The mo( ting is happier nowadays because of changes in Canada's immigration laws. Sur-lin Lee is one ol 150 brides allowed to come to Toronto during the last two years Jo marry young Chinese. Formerly the > oung men had to make the expensively long trip to China to find wives there.
Kervyui's fiancee arrived in Toronto from Hong Kong only a week before h('r wedding. The courtship hatl been by correspondence. A third party~~a mutual friend in Canada of the two families- had conducted the marriage negotiations. Ken-yui paid her plane fare to Toronto (about $700) and agreed to supply a return ticket should she clian^c h("、 mind on arrival.
But all went well. Following the wed-
dinp ceremony some 200 guests passed through the receiving line at the Golden Dragon on Dundas St. W. Th*'、 all brought money gifts from $5 to $20 \vrai，『》(*(l in ic<\ . a"'t a 10coui sr
meal (including Peking duck with plum sauce and birds nests with chuk en), "good luck" tea was served and more mony $1 and $2 bills left in the empty cups. The couple was dispatched with wishes for a long married life "until your hair and your eyebrows grow white."
Despite such an auspicious beginning, Su-lin and Ken-pui know that their future in Canada is not unclouded. They and their 45,000 compatriots are still second-class citizens. T\\o revisions in Canadian immigration laws― an ordcr-in-council 10 years ago permitting Chinese to bring their families into the country and the more recent ordor, allowing weddings to be arrant ed from Canada have helped thru lot. But discrimination still exists.
Mrs. Jean Lumb, the president of the Ontario Chinese Women's association, explains: "Immigration regulations still prohibit the landing of any Asiatic, unloss thr imrniprant is tht、
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CHINATOWN NEWS, MARCH IS, 1959
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