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Foundation hosts 2025 AGM

Calgary Chinatown Development Foundation – Annual General Meeting Nov 12 2025 Regency Palace / DragonCity Mall, Centre St & 4th Avenue SE. President Jack Yee addressed members giving an update on Bowside Manor, 10 storeys 88 suites affordable housing building, serving the community.

By Tom Dixon, 3 weeksNovember 13, 2025 ago
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Chinatown’s New City Council Member

Chinatown community now has a new City Council Member for Ward 7 – he’s Mike Atkinson as of the October 20th civic election. He recently attended a Chinatown community meeting organized at Bowside Manor with some 40 – 50 community residents and spokespersons for various community groups.

By Tom Dixon, 3 weeksNovember 12, 2025 ago
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Restoring the Final Resting Place of our Community

A project organized within the Calgary Chinese community in cooperation with the City of Calgary. Readily recognized on the west side of Macleod Trial as you reach the top of the cemetery hill, looking west. From the City of Calgary: You’ve probably seen it as you drive down Macleod Trail Read more…

By Tom Dixon, 2 monthsOctober 9, 2025 ago
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Dedication Ceremony Held for South Chinese Cemetery West

Dedication ceremony of enhanced facilities and renovations at the historic South Chinese Cemetery West of the Union Cemetery across Macleod Trail. Jack Yee from the Calgary Chinatown Development Foundation and City of Calgary cemeteries Management Lead, Gary Daudlin, address volunteers including community leaders.

By Tom Dixon, 3 monthsAugust 24, 2025 ago
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We Are Here Photo Series

Earlier this year, the We Are Here (WAH) project was launched in Calgary’s Chinatown. As a proud participant, we are happy to share with you the www.WAHvoice.ca website, along with a catalogue of photos we are sharing as the Calgary Chinatown Development Foundation.

By Tom Dixon, 1 yearAugust 3, 2024 ago
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How to prepare… the best Bao!

Totally engaging video is guaranteed to make you hungry – day or night. Best Bao, basically anywhere – preparation lessons and background for the foodies among us and all the culinary experts who, in particular, haunt Calgary’s Chinatown.

By Tom Dixon, 2 yearsMay 4, 2024 ago
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We Are Here. Introducing www.wahvoice.ca.

The Calgary Chinatown Development Foundation working with local historian and Chinatown enthusiast Fung Ling are pleased to add this digital access point for memorabilia and historically significant materials.   The purpose of the collection is to identify, acquire, preserve, and make accessible cultural heritage and historical assets of the Chinese Read more…

By Tom Dixon, 2 yearsFebruary 22, 2024 ago
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New Neighbours – Riverpark Apartments

August 30, 2023 – See below an artist’s rendering of the 52-suite Riverpark apartment and retail building under construction in Chinatown. The site is directly across from the Chinese Cultural Centre on the NW corner of 1st Street & 2nd Avenue SW. CCDF:  June 17, 2023 – New rental apartment under Read more…

By Tom Dixon, 2 yearsFebruary 17, 2024 ago
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The Enduring Melody of Heritage: Cantonese Opera in Calgary

Cantonese Opera, with its vibrant costumes, captivating melodies, and acrobatics, is more than just an art form in Calgary. It’s a thread woven into the city’s tapestry, enriching its cultural mosaic and reflecting its diverse heritage. This legacy finds its roots in the late 19th century, when Chinese immigrants arrived Read more…

By Tom Dixon, 2 yearsNovember 30, 2023 ago
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Submit Now: Recover Memories of Calgary’s Chinatown

Do you think you have some VHS/Hi8 tapes, audio recordings, photographs, and documents somewhere that are related to your lived experience or a story about Chinatown?  But where are those things? Dispersed over unknown basements, garages, the back of a bottom drawer, and landfill sites (real-life example of what happened Read more…

By Fung Ling, 2 yearsSeptember 21, 2023 ago

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