Wood Dragon
The year of the Dragon on now began on February 10th and will end on January 25th 2025. The Dragon is the fifth character of the twelve year lunar Chinese calendar.
Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival, also known as Yuan Xiao Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the counselor Chinese calendar. In 2023, the Lantern Festival will fall on February 24th, marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. During this festival, people celebrate by lighting and appreciating various types of lanterns, solving riddles on lanterns, and enjoying time with family and friends. It’s a beautiful and colorful event that signifies the coming of spring and the reunion of family.
Last year celebration ended on February 20th and started 4 days of preparation for the lantern festival.
We think very highly of the Chinese and British Columbia
The group provided the dangerous labor of using nitroglycerine in building the CPR and the CNR and that brought British Columbia into confederation. They adjusted well to the immigrant status and complied to some legislations that limited them to restaurants laundries and other service industries. However we cal the dry good store in Merritt that was constructed in the 1920s and run by local Chinese for many many decades. The building at the corner of Hope Street and canford avenue didn’t survive the aftermath of the November 14th 2021 flood in Merritt BC.
Thanks to Brenda Wong, for years of exemplary service has she managed the Canada Cafe in the downtown of Merritt and provided a richness to the culture and an inclusion to this little city.
Kevin Griffiths
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