August Moon Festival and Seniors Birthday Celebration

Our Association held its August Moon Festival and Seniors birthday celebration dinner and dance on September 15, 2024 at the Floata Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown. More than 200 members  and their friends attended this annual event. The evening started with the welcoming message from the President, Peter Chong following by karaoke singing, dancing and other activities. Highlights of the evening included the singing of the happy birthday song and the distribution of longevity noodles to all seniors in attendance, the sharing of mooncakes and peanuts during desserts and the 50 plus dinner tickets lucky draws. Everybody had a wonderful time of entertainment, socializing and good food. The event was successful and feedbacks were very positive.
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Hakka Qilin Dance and Workshop

Location: Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Courtyard (adjacent to David Lam Hall) - 578 Carrall Street

3:30 to 5:30PM

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Courtyard, 578 Carrall St

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Spring Memorial Service

Our Association held the Spring memorial Service/Visitation on Saturday, March 30, 2024. About 40 representatives of the Board of Directors and members of the Association visited the Association's owned Memorial Gardens (more than 400 plots in total all sold to members) in Valley View Memorial Cemetery, Ocean View Cemetery and Forest Lawn Cemetery and laid more than 130 flowers to individual plots to pay their respects to the deceased members of the Association. The visitation started at 1: 30 pm on Saturday to Valley View Memorial cemetery first, followed by Ocean View Cemetery and then finished around 4: 45 pm at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Some of the attendants then stayed behind and had dinner at a local restaurant. - Photos

Chinese New Year & Anniversary Banquet

The Association held a dinner and dance gala on February 17, 2024 at the Floata Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown to celebrate its 53rd Anniversary and the Chinese New Year. Some 420 members and friends including representatives of the Chinese community organizations attended this very popular annual event, the first since the covid pandemic in the Spring of 2020. The master of Ceremony for the evening were Larry Chin and Philip Chong for both the English and Chinese translation respectively. The banquet started with the introduction of a brief history of the Association and an online video presentation of the Unicorn dance, a traditional Hakka custom to welcome the New Year and to bring good fortune. In his welcoming speech, the Association's President, Peter Chong extended his warmest welcome to the attendees and wished them the very best of the Year of the Dragon. He told the audience that he was most impressed by their support of the event and promised that he and the Board would continue to organize more group activities in the future to serve their needs. Then the Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee, Ivy Chung acknowledged and thanked all the prizes sponsors, singers, performers, volunteers and the audience. Programs for the evening included the introduction of honored guests, toast from the Board of Directors, karaoke singing, dancing, live performances and free dinner tickets draws. One of the highlights of the evening was the free and generous dinner tickets draws. More than 60 prizes were drawn ranging from 284 grams beef jerky to $100 value health product (Reichi) with the great majority in $20-25 T&T gift cards. After dinner, floor dancing continued until midnight. Everybody had a great time, enjoying the very entertaining evening and good food. By all accounts and from feedbacks received, this year's event was very well organized and very successful, arguably, one of the best ever held! - Photos

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

• light lunch provided

• Location: Association Main Hall

 Enquiries for the above, please contact:

     Peter Chong (778-862-5932) or 

     Ivy Chung (604-435-5959) or

     Chia Su Ping (604-716-3880)

Fall Memorial Service

• Mountain View Cemetery

• Ocean View Cemetery

• Forest Lawn Cemetery

• Valley View Cemetery

August Moon Festival & Seniors Birthday Celebration Dinner

The Association held its first major group activity since the covid pandemic on September 23, 2023. The full house dinner, held at Pink Pearl Restaurant was attended by some 200 members and friends. The program for the evening event included birthday celebration for the seniors, Karaoke singing, lucky dinner tickets draws and August Moon festive foods like moon cakes and peanuts etc. The dinner event was very successful and was very well received by the attendees.

Learning Hakka

The first online lesson to learn Hakka was held on September 3, 2023.

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Summer Picnic

The Association organized a day trip picnic, led by the Supervisory Board Chairperson, Ivy Chung to Victoria on July 13, 2023. More than 20 members and friends attended the trip and visited the Victoria Tsung Tsin Association temple, the Parliament Building and other scenic locations. It was a successful and fun picnic.

Parents Day Celebration

Due to time constraint and lack of preparation, the Association did not organize a formal celebration of the occasion but only had a take out luncheon following the Board meeting on June 17, 2023.

Spring Memorial Service

On April 4, 2023, representatives from the Board of Directors and members, led by the Association’s President (Peter Chong) and the Supervisory Board Chairperson, Ivy Chung visited Mountain View Cemetery, Ocean View Cemetery, Forest Lawn Cemetery and Valley View cemetery respectively to pay respect to its deceased pioneers and members. The group had lunch together at a local restaurant after the visit.