Wong immigrated to Canada in 1896 at the age of 15 from the district of Taisan in southern China, after paying a $50 head tax. He worked his way across Canada, settling in London, and opened a laundry on Dundas Street in 1903. Returning to China, he made an arranged marriage with Toye Chin, a woman he had never before met…. They started London's first Chinese-Canadian family.

Resource / Link: http://pbdba.lfpress.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=256727&s=societe

The City of London has won a national "Excellence in Multiculturalism Celebration" Award presented by the Emcy (Enriching My Canada and Yours) Awards Foundation.

Resource / Link: http://immigration.london.ca/about-us/media_release.htm

Ontario has been battling unsuccessfully for greater control of immigration and resettlement while losing federal funding…. Managing those federal-provincial relations will have a huge impact on Ontario’s financial health and political prognosis.

Resource / Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/

While it is true that more minorities than ever before have been winning their way into Parliament, they still make up a percentage of the legislature that is much smaller than their incidence among the Canadian population..

Resource / Link: http://www.elections.ca

London’s population has relatively fewer immigrants (20.5%) compared to comparable municipalities including Windsor (27%), Hamilton (24%), Halton (22%) and Waterloo (21%). 

Resource / Link: http://www.london.ca/

President of University of Western Ontario from South Asia: Who would have thought that a boy from a tribe in the hills of South Eastern Bangladesh—facing challenges brought about by war and political conflict—would stand here before you as the President of a century-old Canadian institution?

Resource / Link: http://president.uwo.ca/media/AUW%20keynote.html

Constable Marcellin was recognized at the 2011 Black History Month Closing Gala on Sunday, February 27, 2011 for his outstanding work as the Diversity Officer for the London Police Service.

Resource / Link: http://www.police.london.ca/Headlines/ReadMore/More_Marcel.pdf

Richard Berry Harrison was the son of Thomas Harrison and Isabella Benton who escaped into Canada out of slavery in the 1850s. Harrison was born near Nelson Park in London on September 28, 1864. Broadway came calling for Harrison in late 1929 when playwright Marc Connelly, a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table, asked the 65-year-old actor to play the role of God in his new play The Green Pastures.

Resource / Link: http://londonblackhistory.tripod.com/rbharrison.html

London born Kadri, plays for NHL: Nazem Kadri is not the first Muslim to be drafted into the National Hockey League – perhaps his most prominent predecessor was Montreal's Ramzi Abid, a left-winger who played several seasons before heading to Europe in 2007.

Resource / Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/

In 2004, many new Chinese immigrants are going to Canadian churches to learn English and meet Canadian friends.

Resource / Link: http://archives.cbc.ca/society/religion_spirituality/clips/9288/

The Tzedaka-Sadaqah Project emerged from the grassroots level, taking shape as a vibrant student-run initiative striving to facilitate respectful, honest, and engaging interfaith dialogue between their Jewish and Muslim peers. TSP also plays a more consistently active role in the London community through inter-faith volunteerism at the Dundas Street Center United Church, helping to serve hot meals to the community’s homeless every Wednesday night.

Resource / Link: http://tzedakasadaqah.ca/2011/01/tsp-in-london-ontario/

Ontario's aboriginal students were urged to "Break Your Own Trail'' and embark on a college education in a multimedia marketing campaign launched in July 2011. Linda Franklin, president of Colleges Ontario, said just over 12 per cent of aboriginal students in the province go to college and only 2.8 per cent head to university.

Resource: http://www.680news.com/news/

Vincent Lam, the 2006 winner of The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s premier literary prize for fiction, for his novel Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures was born in London, Ontario. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam.

Resource / Link: http://www.vincentlam.ca/

Philip Aziz, whose work gained international recognition and the following of prominent patrons, thought the creation of artwork was a religious act. His parents, Lebanese immigrants of the Greek Orthodox faith who worked as fruit wholesalers, asked him to consider a professional career – medicine, law, a university professorship. He was born in St. Thomas, Ont., in 1923 and grew up in London.

Resource / Link: http://philipaziz.org/

Born in London, Ontario on October 28, 1991, Aboriginal pop artist Lil Pappie has devoted most of his 19 years to music.

Resource / Link: http://www.aboriginaldaylive.com/artists/lil-pappie/

Lawson Iroquoian Village, London ON: Canada's only on-going excavation and reconstruction of a prehistoric village retraces the steps which 1,500 Neutral Iroquoians trod five hundred years ago when they thrived in this village of elm longhouses and cedar palisades. Their resourcefulness and skill is evident from the artifacts unearthed by archaeologists who have carefully pieced together the clues of their existence.

Resource / Link: http://www.uwo.ca/museum/village.html

“Media organizations are struggling to grasp the cultural diversity of rapidly evolving Canadian cities. However, they are using outdated language and concepts to engage with the realities of multiculturalism, diversity and cultural identity. The gap which they have created is being filled up by ethnic newspapers which are booming at the cost of the mainstream.

Resource / Link: http://www.cnmag.ca

A London police officer has launched a $1-million lawsuit against the force and six colleagues, claiming he was the victim of racial profiling that sparked an internal investigation, fuelling rumours and suspicions he associated with a man linked to organized crime. Omnar Hassan, a 12-year policing veteran -- a decade of it with the London force -- yesterday was also to have filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights commission, his lawyer said.

Resource / Link: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2009/10/31/11588461-sun.html

London is called “The Forest City” but in recent years it has earned a second nickname, “Londombia” because of the rapid increase of Colombians here.

Resource / Link: http://immigration.london.ca/

London has the highest per capita population of refugees in Canada. In 2002, 27% of immigrants settling in London were refugees, compared to the provincial average of 9%.

Resource / Link: http://canada.metropolis.net/