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World Debate Format:Rules of thematic debate,speaking order, scoring. Chinese Canadian HistoryMr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-26443014734219979862020-08-17T17:10:00.000-07:002020-08-17T17:10:10.434-07:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">I found my Grandfather's village in Taishan in Guangdong Province</span> . My grandfather's house is still standing after 106 years. My grandfather built the four story house out of cement and it is still the largest house in the village. Some one uses the house to store materials to make honey. I stood on the front balcony where my dad stood with his two brothers over a hundred years ago. The house is derelict but has withstood the test of time. </h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFG4CJ2SAaahmRa_34If5tZCqELhxoKdm8sNPIvlP7nun1oRdnddy7RpmsfIEfS5HMMc4aMz9JqTTIx8xA9B0psLIB_cH446mQQNbFiLWcZmv6PvVM9UytUVF1Sc3OjLcOax2wXJVIuVs/s4000/P1160886.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFG4CJ2SAaahmRa_34If5tZCqELhxoKdm8sNPIvlP7nun1oRdnddy7RpmsfIEfS5HMMc4aMz9JqTTIx8xA9B0psLIB_cH446mQQNbFiLWcZmv6PvVM9UytUVF1Sc3OjLcOax2wXJVIuVs/s640/P1160886.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-70555498797293938722020-08-17T16:59:00.000-07:002020-08-17T16:59:19.129-07:00<p> <span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: #04ff00;">I have not posted in quite some time since i have retired from teaching. I have travelled a bit back to China. The provinces of china are so different from one another in topography and culture. In Fujian Province , I came upon a park where Lao Tzu is said to have retired to contemplate and meditate after he had written the 80 verses of the Tao. At the front entrance to the park is a stone sculpture of Lao Tzu that is 1200 years old and behind stone statue is the mountain valley. On top of the mountain is a restaurant from which you can see a panoramic view of the whole countryside.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVwpXaYEPmkTtYavo0fYwvE96RJePK1PfXyT_4UPfhwedQwxTOyUuENu37w-b69Mfi75aGuYHN50HoTTGKp60-FNqA3MzjoUlxjxach9en9I4ZuoXcR-uXD0sIpBSyoZLqxbxCP-jQW4/s640/Fujian+pictures+two+472.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVwpXaYEPmkTtYavo0fYwvE96RJePK1PfXyT_4UPfhwedQwxTOyUuENu37w-b69Mfi75aGuYHN50HoTTGKp60-FNqA3MzjoUlxjxach9en9I4ZuoXcR-uXD0sIpBSyoZLqxbxCP-jQW4/s0/Fujian+pictures+two+472.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: #04ff00;"><br /></span></span><p></p>Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-75248986372703424522018-07-17T07:38:00.001-07:002018-07-17T07:38:08.120-07:00THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF OUR ELDERS<span style="color: red;">THE HISTORICAL LEGACY OF OUR ELDERS</span><br />
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I was able to complete my project on recording the digital history of over 40 seniors living in Alberta by March 20 /2018. The age range of the participants were from 65 to 102. I achieved my goal of preserving the historical legacy of these remarkable people for future generations. In trying to make this project intergenerational , I approached numerous other organizations looking for volunteers to participate particularly the youth. What occurred was that many organizations I approached wanted to recruit me for their own projects. I would say that my book was completed by the "Un-organization" that had input from several organizations. The historical legacy book includes biographies on local residents of the Winston Heights Mountview Community, Calgary's Chinatown seniors, the Filipino community, the Vietnamese community, Europeans, and Sikhs. If one googles the <span style="color: red;">blurb.com</span> website and type in <b><span style="color: red;">"The Historical Legacy of our Elders"</span></b>, one can preview the complete book.<span style="color: red;"></span><span style="color: red;"></span>Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-51714538731027127402017-05-24T07:57:00.001-07:002017-05-24T07:57:30.201-07:00NEW PROJECTS<br />
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I have not posted for ages. A year ago , I became interested in making jewellery and in particular Buddhist Malas that are used for chanting. The malas have 108 beads. Each bead is used to visualize as one chants the individual mantra of a specific spiritual force such as Vajrasattva or Kuan Yin. I made so many malas that I went to craft fairs to recoup my costs. Here is a craft fair I attended last spring in Mckenzie that was held in the community centre hockey rink. Last year I applied for a $25,000 dollar federal government grant to purchase a portable television and editing studio to record the digital history of immigrant seniors to record their stories as a legacy project for their children and future generations. In March of 2017 , my funding proposal was approved and I now have one year to record the digital history of 30 seniors who reside in Calgary. By mid June the studio should be up and running. People being interviewed are between the ages of 60 and 105.<br />
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<br />Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-78148508786545732212016-05-04T10:09:00.001-07:002016-05-04T10:09:25.579-07:00I joined a Seniors project initiated by Calgary Family Services called the Elder Service Corps. The nine month course instructs Seniors on how to become community activists and leaders in the community. A facilitator mentors the Seniors in role playing activities to show the members how to recruit members into forming a community project of their own choosing.<br />
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I became involved in the Elder Service Corps through our Winston Heights Community Centre last year when I joined the Winston Heights garden committee to help build the community garden. Here I am standing in front of my community garden bed in August. I found out their were therapeutic yoga classes being held at the community centre twice a week and it was at the yoga classes that I was approached to join the elder service corps project. My project with another senior is to develop a historical digital history of the Filipino and Chinese Community in Calgary that will be multi-generational to preserve the cultural legacy of these communities with the emphasis on education of the ethnic communities and to disseminate the cultural history to the greater community to foster tolerance and understanding with respect to the Canadian mosaic.<br />Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-10564242447126573492016-02-24T21:53:00.002-08:002016-02-24T21:53:42.592-08:00Winston Heights Community Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a fall picture of the Winston Heights Community Garden. The garden committee raised $170,000 and spent $160,000 dollars in building 52 four by eight community garden beds that were rented out for 50 dollars a year. The city of Calgary installed a watering system with water spigots so water was available. The community members used their sweat equity to build all the beds. I myself rented a bed. In my community bed 10 tomato plants produced over 450 cherry roma tomatoes.<br />
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As of August 15, 2015 here is my garden plot. Sunflowers were seven feet tall. Other vegetables in the plot included carrots, lettuce, broccoli, beans, Chinese peas, collarabi , and tomatoes. Shortly after this photo was taken I pruned the majority of the tomato leaves from the tomato plants and just left the green tomatoes exposed. Green tomatoes photosynthesize like the green leaves. By trimming off the leaves more energy and nutrients flow into the tomatoes making them larger and since they are exposed to the sun they ripen on the vine.Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-38743529841985410412016-02-24T21:10:00.000-08:002016-02-24T21:10:14.195-08:00My New ProjectsIt has been several months since I last blogged an item. I have become involved in several projects such doing a corporate video for Suncor in November of 2015 and then the oil patch crumbled so thus ended future projects. I have become a Buddhist and a follower of the Pai Yuin True Buddha school who recognizes Sheng Len Lu as the true living Buddha. The Buddhism that I follow is the tantric Buddhism that follows a lineage of Padamakura. I am also on the Winston Heights community garden committee that created 52 organic gardening beds in the community centre. I am also a director on the Calgary Lees' Association and hoping to help revitalize the 100 year old benevolent association that still exists in Calgary's Chinatown. I have also been tutoring Buddhist monks in reading, writing and speaking English that will assist them in communication Buddhism in the English language. I have also joined a community group called the Elder Service corps dedicated to forming community projects to give back community service to the community. I still maintain my greenhouse that has expanded to include tropical fish, orchids, house plants and growing bedding plants for the summer. I have one of the few greenhouses that have fig trees that produce figs.<br />
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<br />Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-74922957741770569702015-01-12T21:11:00.000-08:002015-01-12T21:11:18.604-08:00Tomato UpdateI was in my greenhouse and I realized in three short months it will be time to start growing tomato seedlings to plant in May. I am already growing some hyacinths and gladiolus in pots so I will have some flowering plants by the end of May. Click on my Horticultural blogsite for an update on what occurred with the tomatoes, I grew this year. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251141518094724247#editor/target=post;postID=8844730836291514441;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=0;src=postname" target="_blank">Six varieties of tomatoes</a><br />
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Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-58664200554720583412015-01-12T18:28:00.001-08:002015-01-12T18:28:47.349-08:00The Nature of LyingI have not made a posting in a couple of months. I have been preoccupied with different projects. I have begun attending a Saturday meditation class at a Buddhist Temple. Buddhism does not conflict with Christian, Jewish or Islamic beliefs; however I find the afore mentioned religions present various misconceptions about Buddhism. I discovered that Buddhism is not a religion but has been classified as a religion by other institutions. Just as there are many different forms of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the same is true of different schools of Buddhism. In searching for the Truth or the meaning of one's existence, people turn to different religions or belief systems and the answer is found within oneself as you come to terms with your own personal beliefs. In our world one is constantly being deceived, so it is difficult at times to perceive what is the Truth. I recently reread a book by Sissela Bok entitled "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life" that describes the different forms of lies that are perpetuated in our society, and institutions. I have summarized the different forms of lying from her book in a topical outline. If you click on the following link you will find my outline of lies: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRsIdTLZ_HLgtS_3thelb7Yp_wImltKmZo1H5GXS1wk/edit" target="_blank">Types Of Lies</a><br />
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If one wants to learn more about deception one should read Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". After reading this documentary one can view all governments and all major corporations with eyes wide open and do not allow oneself to become manipulated into becoming subservient worker bees.<br />
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Here is a picture of the Leshan Buddha that is near Chengdu in Sichuan Province. Notice that the people at the base of the Buddha, the people do not even come up to the Buddha's big toe. The Leshan Buddah is now the largest statue of a Buddha in the world,.The largest Buddha in the world was in Afghanistan but the radical Pashtun Afghans, known as the Taliban blew it up with dynamite because they saw the Buddha as an affront to their Jihadist Islamic fundamentalist beliefs. Statues of Buddhas are not idols to be worshipped. Buddhists use the statues to help them visualize the powers of enlightenment when they meditate to gain inner peace. Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-37240713070203115222014-11-05T04:29:00.000-08:002014-11-05T04:41:50.032-08:00Chinatown CalgaryA walking tour of Calgary's Chinatown in the down town core only takes an hour. Chinatown is situated on Centre street where all four quadrants of the city intersect.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MFGM1eUC8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Chinatown Calgary</a> Click on the link to view the short video.<br />
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The hospital was run by the Galt family with Dr. Mewburn as superintendent. A staff of four nurses and 3 lay people were hired to care for the sick. The top floor of the hospital was reserved to accommodate the staff. Being so conveniently located, nurses were on call 24 hours a day.<br />
The Galt Hospital had 4 sources of income: (1) a twenty-five cent deduction per month from the employees of Alberta Railway and Coal Company and the Great Falls and Canada Railway (2) Government grant of 29 cents per free patient per day. (3) a Town of Lethbridge grant of $400 per year, and (4) pay patients--meaning those who could pay.<br />
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In 1910 and 1930 additions were made to the hospital and increased the capacity of the hospital to 65 beds. Sir Wilfred Laurier the Prime Minister of Canada came to the opening of the hospital but the coordinator of the opening ceremonies mislaid the key to the front door and the Prime Minister was not able to open the front door to turn the key in the door to officially open the hospital.<br />
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The Galt building has continued to serve the community. The Galt has been at different times a Senior Citizen's Home, Rehabilitation Centre and Health Unit. In 1966, the Sir Alexander Galt Museum moved from the Bowman Arts Centre into the Galt Hospital and occupied the top and bottom floors. In 1979, the Galt Museum & Archives took over the entire building. In 1985, the Galt Museum underwent its first expansion.<br />
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Our Lee Family held its 100th anniversary of Lees living in Lethbridge at the Galt Museum. The Museum has a beautiful foyer with a panoramic view of the High Level Bridge, the University of Lethbridge, and the Old Man River valley. The Lee Family had an open house luncheon and invited the general public to attend the event to meet the Lees who had returned for the reunion. In the evening there was a banquet catered from the University Of Lethbridge food services that was operated by Aramark. The Chef who prepared the meal was Charles Parker who had the distinction for cooking for the Queen of England. If you look at one of my previous videos in my blog , you will see the foyer of the Galt museum with the Lee relatives.<br />
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I recently visited the Galt Museum in October and went on a guided tour of the museum. You can view the tour I took as I videotaped parts of the tour in the video post below .Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-34099187943681187182014-11-02T01:39:00.000-07:002014-11-02T02:42:29.693-08:00The Galt Museum<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QTueuviQz_k" width="480"></iframe><br />Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-40289516912873978532014-09-05T20:18:00.001-07:002014-09-06T00:23:19.257-07:00Der Soon YetMy Grandmother's maiden name was Der Soon Yet who was married to Lee Duck . I flew to Kelowna this summer to meet with Tom Soon who was 95 years old and was a baby when my Grandmother was their servant girl at the age of 15. My grandmother at the age of two months was sold to a wealthy Chinese family in Guangdong Province to pay off a debt and became an indentured servant girl to a new born girl of the same age who belonged to the wealthy family. My grandmother grew up with the new born girl for 15 years. At age 15, the girl from the wealthy family was betrothed in an arranged marriage to a 30 year old Chinese businessman living in Vancouver who paid for the passage of his 15 year old bride and my grandmother the 15 year old servant girl to come to Canada who was Tom Soon's father. The young bride at age 16 gave birth to Tom's eldest brother<br />
and it was my Grandmother's responsibility to look after the new born baby. I remember my Grandmother telling me , that a Soon family member came to her while she was looking after the new born and said there was a gentlemen in the next room who was looking for a wife and if she wanted to she had the choice of marrying this man or she could remain their servant girl. My grandmother took a peek and saw her future husband Lee Duck and thought he looked so handsome in his wide brimmed hat, his nice white suit and the spats on his shoes. She thought I might as well have my own babies rather than look after someone else's babies. My grandmother's brother who was a Der tried to buy her back from the Soon's because he did not want her to marry Lee Duck but Soon had struck a business deal with my Grandfather Lee Duck to purchase my grandmother so Soon could recoup the passage fees and probably the Head tax fees for bringing over my Grandmother. So in summary my grandmother was bought and sold three times. My grandmother gave birth to six children in Canada---three boys and three girls. From these children came a host of cousins and I have fond memories of our family get togethers with all the cousins. We just had a family reunion in Lethbridge to commemorate 100 years of Lee's living in Lethbridge from 1914 to 2014. Four generations of Lee descendants came from ages 8 weeks, 1 to 2 years, 4 to 10, 12 to 18, 25 to 65 and the elders 85 to 95. Relatives came from Beijing, Melbourne, New York, Toronto. Utah, Colorado, Vancouver, Edmonton, Red Deer, Victoria, Lethbridge, Taber, Kelowna, Kingston, Whitehorse for a three day reunion. Below is a picture of Der Soon Yet at about age 18. She is just a gorgeous beautiful girl , no wonder my Grandfather wanted her as his bride. My grandmother was one tough resilient lady. I remember my Grandmother when I was six years old and was present at her funeral when she died and I was in my late teens. She knew the names of all her grandchildren and great grandchildren and loved them all.<br />
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1. Chicken Feeder Watering system<br />
2. Toilette float watering system<br />
3. Bucket watering system<br />
4. Individual container pot<br />
5. Bucket in bucket watering system<br />
6. Buried Soaker hose from a bucket<br />
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I began by starting my own tomato seedlings in April and May and placed these plants into different containers outside by June 15. It is now July 30 and I have some green tomatoes the size of my fist. I have planted different varieties of tomatoes: Tom Thumb, Cherry Roma, Manitoba, Early Girl, Giant Dotto and Beefsteak. I even started some tomatoes from cuttings from a tomato, I wintered over from last year.<br />
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April 18, Good Friday, and there is a snow blizzard outside when it should be a nice spring day. I go into my greenhouse and I am tending to my bedding plants, house plants and tropical fish. I notice that my two jewel cichlids are removing debris from a rock slab in the community tank. About an hour later, I look into the community tank and witness the female jewel cichlid laying her eggs on the slab and the male cichlid would circle behind the female to fertilize the eggs. In the space of an hour their were a couple of hundred eggs laid in a concentric circle. I went and videotaped the spawning of the two cichlids. This latch batch of eggs will be the 6th batch of fry to be hatched since January. I have to find another tank to place the female cichlid to give her a rest and prevent her from reproducing eggs. As long as the female is with the male, she will continue to be a prolific breeder but the problem is I have no room to raise the offspring.Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-2158123937852543982014-04-14T19:00:00.000-07:002014-04-14T19:20:53.125-07:00Chinese Genealogy: Finding Your Roots<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The New Penguin English Dictionary defines genealogy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as 1 (a) the descent of a person, family, or
group from an ancestor or from older forms. (b) an account of this. 2 The study
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the best websites to consult in one’s introduction to
Chinese genealogy is written by Al Chinn in his House of Chinn website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span><a href="http://houseofchinn.com/index.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://houseofchinn.com/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="file:///C:/Users/ronlee/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="179" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Al Chinn states the two fold purpose of his Genealogy site
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A word of explanation about this website, it contains two
sections. The first section is about Chinese genealogy and should be useful to
those who are looking for their Chinese roots. It contains background
information explaining about Chinese genealogy, the use of special terms and
terminologies, and some historical information about Chinese names, a brief
description about migration overseas by your ancestors and how to initiate the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The second section pertains to the Chinn (Chen) (<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ascii-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-hansi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">陳</span>) clan and should be of interest to
those who share my surname. It touches on some historical information about the
origin of the clan name, the State of Chen (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">陳國</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">), Yingchuan Hall (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">穎川堂</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">),
the Chen Dynasty (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">陳朝</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">), the southward exodus from the homeland in Henan
Province (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">河南省</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">) and later settlements in southern Guangdong Province (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">廣東省</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">).
It should be remembered that the majority of the present-day descendants of the
Chinese immigrants who went overseas originated from Guangdong Province (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">廣東省</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)
mainly from the Pearl River Delta Region (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">珠江三角洲</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">) not far from Hong
Kong (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">香港</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">), and also from southern Fujian Province (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">福建省</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">),
mainly from the Xiamen (Amoy) (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">夏門</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">) area. I hope your visit will be an
enjoyable one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Al Chinn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October
10, 2007) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Al Chinn’s website has an introductory genealogy book for
sale <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Are Royalty: A Guide to Your
Chinese Ancestor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In the preface,
he states “It is my sincere hope that this book will be of value to budding
family historians who are primarily involved in the investigation of their
Chinese ancestors. It should be helpful to non-ethnic Chinese who originally
had Chinese ancestry, and also to English educated ethnic Chinese who have
little or no Chinese cultural heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr. Chinn offers for sale introductory root search booklets
for the following surnames: Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Zhao, Huang,
Zhou, Wu, Zhu, He, Peng, Tan, Lu, Lan, Cen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Chinn, family names can be derived from the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Calgary Lees’ Association in Calgary who have been in
existence in Calgary for over 100 years has a generational chart that traces
their direct lineage to Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lao Tzu’s family name was Li and he was known
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Li Er was the 17<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> generational descendent of Li
Lizhen a court official during the Spring and Autumn Period (722-481 BC).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Li Lizhen adopted the name of a plum a tree
fruit called Muzi which became the Chinese Character for the surname Li.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Below is the generational chart of the Calgary Lees’
Association from Lao Tzu (500 BC)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the
various Lee clans in Guangdong province that include the counties of Toi-san,
Hoi-ping, Yin-ping, Hok-san and Sun-wui. (20<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Century A.D.) There is also a photograph of current Calgary Lees' Association members who are descendants of Li Er.</span><br />
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Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-81437399742195573192014-04-09T22:27:00.000-07:002014-04-09T22:58:22.771-07:00JUICE 4 U : Juice Bar In The Dragon City MallLocated inside the Dragon City Mall on Centre Street in the Calgary Chinatown Core is one of the best juice and beverage bars of the all the Bubble Tea Shops in Calgary. Although the selection is limited in comparison to the other Bubble Tea Shops, the beverage bar excels in terms of using natural ingredients and the drinks are the original creations of the health conscious proprietor Yan.<br />
The beverages include: Gourmet Coffee, Green Tea Smoothies, and Fresh Bubble Teas. Juice 4 U also offers a choice of two light snacks----rolled crepes and waffles---that are made from scratch and baked before your eyes on the crepe maker or the waffle iron. I sampled one of Yan's latest green smoothie creations that was a combination of papaya, mango, pineapple, kale and spinach that has no artificial sweeteners. The green colored beverage has a smooth texture, a bouquet of fresh fruit and vegetable flavors that tantalizes one's palate and quenches the thirst. This is the best smoothie, I have ever experienced. The price range for beverages are between $3.95 and $5.50.<br />
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Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-51584039628993094192014-04-06T13:40:00.001-07:002014-04-06T13:40:18.301-07:00Walking Tour of Chinatown CalgaryLast June all of Chinatown was flooded in Calgary's worst flood. You can look at my postings last year that show the damage. Today is April 5, Saturday and it is only two months away from the anniversary of the flood. Some businesses along Center street in the Canton Block have not returned such as the Gee Gong noodle house and a new contemporary art studio has taken over part of the space. Calgary's Chinatown is small in comparison to the Chinatown in Vancouver and Toronto. Chinatown Calgary is three square blocks at base of the Centre Street Bridge on the Southside of the Bow River in Calgary's downtown core. One can walk around each block in a systematic fashion and complete a tour of Chinatown in a leisurely stroll that would be completed in an hour. One could end the tour by having lunch in Chinatown and then visiting Sien Lok Park and sit and enjoy nature on the benches that surround the Return to Golden Mountain monument that is a 15 ton granite rock that was brought from Hoiping China and sculpted into a story that portrays the hardships encountered by the first Chinese pioneers during the gold rush to the Fraser Valley and the building of the railroad.<br />
I decided to walk around Chinatown and see how the community has recovered. The actual number of residents who live in Chinatown is just over 1300 people who comprise of Senior citizens who live in the different retirement apartments. The people who own the businesses live in the suburbs. There are 100,000 Asians who comprise 10% of Calgary's population. There are many businesses that serve the Asian community for their shopping needs in terms of Oriental foods and goods. From the centre street bridge north of the Bow River to 16th. Ave. North there are Chinese supermarkets, restaurants , herbalists and acupuncture. In Marlborough in southeast Calgary there is the Pacific Plaza Mall. Also in southeast Calgary in the Forest Lawn 17th avenue known as International avenue that has over 400 businesses that service the Asian community. Finally, in the northeast community of Harvest Hills is the TNT supermarket, the T-Pot in a giant shopping center that service the large Asian community in this area. The old Chinatown in the downtown core has been in existence for over 100 years and in reality the Asians have extended beyond that small enclave and is now mainstream in every quadrant of the city. I have created a 30 minute video in which I simply walk around the three blocks of the old core in downtown Chinatown.<br />
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Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-74055686567486079332014-03-30T20:52:00.000-07:002014-03-30T21:11:22.515-07:00Juno Awards : Tegan and Sara: Let's Get PhysicalI am sitting at my computer watching the Juno Awards and the first award for best single goes to Tegan and Sara Quinn. Back in the 1990's, I developed the broadcasting program at Crescent Heights High School and two twin girls named Tegan and Sara attended my broadcasting classes as grade 10 and grade 11 broadcasting students. I remember these two girls because they were identical twins and difficult to tell apart when they were separate. Sara was a little lighter in build and Tegan was a little chubbier in her facial features. Both girls has full length hair that descended below their waste. They loved wearing baggy blue jeans, loose fitting flannel shirts and big belts with chains attached. One day Tegan brought an acoustic guitar into the classroom and began strumming and Sara began to sing to the melody. I asked them who wrote the song and Tegan said she made up the melody and Sara made up the lyrics. It was something they did for fun. Both girls were typical adolescents with mood swings and crushes on different boys. These two girls were free spirits who at the time did not know what they would do in life, they just lived for the weekend with their group of friends. I cannot remember the name of their first song that they sang for me but what I remembered was that their voices harmonized beautifully and they sang their lyrics with emotion. The two girls prided themselves on writing their own original music and did not like doing cover songs. I told the two girls that they should start going to coffee shops that have an open mic and start playing at coffee shops. The girls asked me "What if the people at the coffee shops refuse to let us play?" I told them to keep going to different coffee shops and offer to play for free and give them a short sample of what you play and if they refuse come back next week and keep bothering them until they finally agree to let you play. The whole broadcasting class that these girls attended for two years were all a bunch of free spirits and I gave them freedom to create because this was a locally developed course that I had created at the school that had developed into a full time program in three years. One day the two girls came to see me and were so exited because they were now performing in coffee shops and you have to remember they were only grade 10 students. In Grade 12 they won a battle of the bands contest in Calgary and ended up opening as an act with Sara MacGlauchan at Lilith Fair and their career as musicians was on its way. About five years later, Tegan and Sara were doing the University Campus's and I saw them perform at McKewan Hall at the U. of C. campus and saw them afterwards as they were selling their CD's. Sara and Tegan were thrilled to see me and they had not changed a bit, they were still those two enthusiastic performers. Watching them accept their Juno Award tonight, I can see they have remained the same--Sara is the spokesperson and Tegan lets Sara take the lead. Tegan and Sara always prided themselves in saying that they were not main stream performers but with their original music today they have kept redefining themselves and now they are main stream but Tegan and Sara it does not matter, you are still the same little girls I used to teach. I am so proud of you for following a dream and finding success.<br />
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On this link is a video of Dome Productions new regional office in Calgary to store their mobile television stations when not in use or in need of repair. Dome has 15 of these mobile trucks in operation around North America to cover sporting events or other major events with the main production studio being in the Sky Dome in Toronto. My cousin Chris set up the Calgary Regional Office that services and stores Dome Production Mobile Units that are not in use between sporting events. He called me up so I could view one of the mobile units that came in while the Sochi Olympics were being televised in Russia, there was a little down time in North American sporting events.<br />
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<br />Mr. Lee's blogsitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783102651330900226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763960474732396455.post-78370278752316952992014-03-29T17:31:00.000-07:002014-04-14T19:35:25.058-07:00Chinese Cooking: Steam Cooking : Steamed Pork or Substituted Meats<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">STEAM COOKING<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Steam cooking is used with rice, meat, poultry, buns,
dumplings, pastries and custards as well as keeping fish moist and tender.
Steamed dishes are cooked in their serving dishes and go directly table steeped
in their natural juices and flavours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Direct steaming calls for live steam to rise from the boiling water to
circulate and cook the food by direct contact. Steaming can be on a rack, pot containing
boiling water or a steamer. In rack steaming the rack stands two or three
inches above the water. The ingredients are placed in shallow dish and set on
the rack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pot within a pot places a
bowl on the bottom of the pan surrounded by boiling water and is used for large
cuts of meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer using a enclosed
steamer with water in the bottom, two trays and a covered top. Ingredient
steaming may take 15 minutes to several hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One must periodically check the level of water and replenish the boiling
water lost to evaporation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Paraphrased from: Gloria Bley-Miiler. (1994) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook.</i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">CHINESE STEAMED PORK<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Ron Lee<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Steamed pork only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or
substitute (beef, moose or elk burgher only)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One pound minced pork (elk burgher or moose burgher should
be mixed with 50% pork)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>EGG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Water chestnuts (sliced in strips)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black mushrooms (diced)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baby corn (diced)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bamboo shoots (sliced in strips)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1/2 cup of water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2 tablespoons of light soy sauce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">UTINSELS:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steamer,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dish to hold chopped meat pattie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. The traditional Chinese method to make the diced pork
meat was to use two meat cleavers and slice the meat into small strips and then
use the two cleavers in both your right and left hands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and begin chopping the meat into a finely
ground mass. (Using a Cuisinart makes the meat stringy)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. Once the meat is chopped you would add the diced black
mushrooms, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and mix together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. In a measuring cup you would place one beaten egg with a
half a cup of water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the meat mixture
and slowly partially cook the meat mixture in a wok with oil in the bottom of
the wok.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">5. Add the mushrooms, baby corn, and bamboo shoots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(You can add what you like) Grandpa would
sometimes add minced ginger root with the egg water mixture into the meat
mixture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place the half
cooked meat mixture into glass bowl or glass pie plate and place in the
steamer. Flatten the meat mixture into a nice big fat meat pattie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">7. Place the two tablespoons of soy sauce on top of meat
pattie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">8. Place the meat plate into your steamer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steam the meat
mixture at the lowest possible steam temperature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The longer /slower steaming time will produce
a more tender meat dish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">10. Steam for at least 20 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Note</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For just the steamed pork:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One stirs the two tablespoons of cornstarch
into a half cup of water that is added to the half-cooked meat mixture and
follow the same procedure for steaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I believe this is one of Lee Duck's original recipes that he
taught my grandmother and his children. My mother showed me how to make this
recipe. The dish is quick and easy to prepare and it is quite tasty when served
with steamed rice. This a dish native to Toisan Province in Guangdong Province.</span><br />
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