Forgotten Sanctuary: Archival photographs of Montreal’s Chinatown

What did the Chinatown of years past look like? What forces shaped its change and decline over the decades? Join Parker Mah for an informal talk and viewing session in which participants will be privy to archival and family photographs from both institutional and personal collections, some never before seen, that tell the story of daily life in a bygone Chinatown.

Parker Mah 馬世聰 is a fourth-generation Chinese Montrealer of Toisanese descent, based in Tio’tia:ke. Artist and community organizer, he also acted as curator and artistic director for two major site-based Chinatown exhibitions produced by the MEM.