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Chinatown businesses and their communities

A black and white photograph of a Chinese man in a suit holding a manual scale balanced over a work surface. Next to him, a young child touching the scale with a large glass jar of organic material to the left with many shelves of similar jars containing other organic materials in a store.

Tony Bock for The Toronto Star, 1984

A New Life: Sze Yum Mak, who operates a small acupuncture and herb shop in Agincourt’s Chinatown II, gets some help from Wendy Hui, 4, to weigh yam roots.