Daily archives: October 25, 2018


Save Chinatown Committee

In the late 1960s, Jean helped in a campaign to save Toronto’s Chinatown. She was in charge of representatives from over 40 Chinese organizations who went to City Hall to save their Chinatown. Wealthy businessmen with their own ideas about improving the downtown area wanted to tear it down and build expensive high-rise apartments and […]

Jean Lumb sitting in back of converitble down busy pedestrian street in chinatown holding a megaphone. Young girl beside her holding a lantern.