May Q Wong Author

May Q. Wong was born to Chinese immigrants and raised in Montreal along "the Main" a major boulevard that connects Canada's most diverse neighbourhoods. Educated at McGill University and the University of Victoria, she spent her career in the British Columbia Public Service working toward improving the lives of those in need. Since retiring in 2004, May has devoted her time to travelling with her husband and writing about the people they have met and the places they have been. Wong is the author of City in Colour, A Cowherd in Paradise and a forthcoming children's book. She lives in Victoria, BC. Catherine Clement is an awarding-winning community historian, author and curator. Her work focuses on excavating the lesser-known and forgotten stories of the Chinese Canadian experience. While her surname is French, Catherine’s mother was Chinese. In 2023, Catherine created and curated the national public history project The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act. Designed to commemorate the 100th-anniversary of this dark but largely unknown period in Canadian history, Catherine then repurposed this crowdsourced material to establish The Paper Trail Collection, the most comprehensive community archive in Canada of Chinese head tax and related documents. The online collection is housed at the University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, and her book, The Paper Trail to 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act is now available.