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Wing’s and the Lee Family: A Chinatown History
2026-06-07 / 16:00 – 18:00
Fortunes & Futures (1/3)
Curated Talks and Deep Dives into Wing Noodles: The Heart of Chinatown
This first talk focuses on Wing’s early history, the beginnings of Montréal’s Chinatown, and the acts of solidarity that prevailed within a community targeted by a Head Tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Carol F. Lee will deliver an illustrated lecture that tells the intertwined stories of the Wing’s businesses and the Lee family in Montreal from the turn of the 20th century until 1964. Wing’s began as an importer, grocery, and herbal medicine store and pivoted after World War II to manufacturing noodles, fortune cookies, and sauces. Through the decades in Montreal Chinatown, the common themes of the business and the family have been hard work, perseverance through adversity, family solidarity, and commitment to the community.
with Lee family historian Carol F. Lee