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Jean Lumb’s activism for the Chinese community

Black and white photo from the 1960s showing Jean Lumb speaking through a megaphone in a parade, with a child beside her in a convertible car, and a sign in the background

Courtesy of Arlene Chan, 1960

A member of the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism, Jean Lumb founded and chaired the Save Chinatown campaign to protect businesses in Toronto’s first Chinatown, on Elizabeth and Dundas Streets, threatened with demolition. In 1976, she became the first restaurateur and the first Chinese-Canadian woman appointed to the Order of Canada.