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ommunity associations in Chinatowns, often referred to as tongs, family clans, or benevolent societies, are synonymous with what it means to build a community from the ground up. Dating back to as early as the 1880s, they emerged across Canada as a way for newly landed people from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam to find one another, acting as integral hubs

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