Jean Bessie Lumb, C.M.
1919 - 2002

BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY

ACTIVITIES

2009 Ontario Heritage Trust honours Chinese-Canadian community leader Jean Lumb with provincial plaque

2007 Newcomer Champion Award Visionary

• News Release
• Picture 1, Picture 2
• Background Information

2002 Queen's Golden Jubilee Award

2000 Order of the Knights of Rizal

1994 - 2000 Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto

• Honourary Advisor

1994 - 2000 Citizenship Court Judge

1985 - 2000 University Settlement House

• Patron

1985 - 2000 Mt. Sinai Hospital

• Director

1963 - 1999 Lem Si Ho Tong Family Association Women's Group

• President and Director

1997 Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs

• Lifetime Achievement Award

1997 Chinese Family and Health Cooperative

• Mother of the Year Award

1997 Elizabeth Fry Society

• Rebel for a Cause Honoree

1996 Tribute to Madam Jean Lumb Banquet

• Mid-Autumn Gala for the Jean Lumb Awards

1994 YWCA Women of Change Honour Roll

1994 Yee Hong Chinese Nursing Home for Greater Toronto

• Founding Director

1994 Ontario Women's Directorate

• Honourary Member

1992 Twinning of Chung King - Toronto

• Advisory Board

1990 The Chinese Community Nursing Home for Greater Toronto

• Tribute at the first annual Dragon Ball

1987 - 1990 Summer Centres for Seniors

• Director

1986 - 1990 Canadian Music Competition for Ontario

• Patron

1984 City of Toronto Award of Merit

• Special Sesquicentennial presentation on Civic Honours Day
• First Chinese-Canadian woman

1984 Award, Ontario Chinese Restaurant Association

1983 Special Award to Honour Special Chinese Canadians

• Presented by the Chinese Canadian National Council in honour of Chinese in Canada and their 125 years of continuous community

1982 The Fran Deck Award

• In recognition of Toronto's leading contributor to the restaurant industry
• First woman recipient

1973 - 1982 Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism

1970 - 1982 Women's College Hospital

• First Chinese-Canadian woman to sit on the Board of Governors

1966 - 1982 Rotary-Laughlen Centre

• First Chinese-Canadian woman to sit on the Board

l959 - 1981 Kwong Chow Chop Suey House

• Co-Owner and Director

1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee Award

1977 Governor General's Award

1973 - 1977 Kensington Towers

• First woman to sit on the Board of Directors

1976 Order of Canada

• First Chinese-Canadian woman
• First restauranteur

1950 - 1972 Women's Association of the Chinese Dramatic Society

• President and Director

1970 Save Chinatown Campaign

• Chairperson

1959 - 1970 Chinese Community Dancers of Ontario

• Director and Producer - Command Performance for a presentation to her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Ottawa, 1967

1962 - 1968 University Settlement House

• First Chinese-Canadian woman to sit on the Board of Directors

l959 - l967 Toronto Chinese Public School

• Trustee and Director

1957 Immigration Appeal Act

• Only woman invited to Ottawa to represent Chinese families separated by immigration laws.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Jean Lumb, Loving Spoonfuls, Episode 2, 2001
• Quo Vadis , Mrs. Lumb, National Film Board of Canada, 1965
• Spirit of the Dragon, Gil Gauvreau, 2002
• Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese women in Canada, National Film Board of Canada, 1997

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Chan, Arlene. Spirit of the Dragon: Jean Lumb, A Proud Chinese Canadian. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997
• Chinese Canadian National Council, Women's Committee. Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women. Toronto: Women's Press, 1992
• Huang, Evelyn and Lawrence Jeffrey. Voices from a Community. Vancouver: Douglas McIntyre, 1992
• Our Grandmothers, Ourselves: Reflections of Canadian Women. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005
• Sherwood, George. Legends in their Time: Young Heroes and Victims of Canada Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006
• Yee, Paul. Struggle and Hope: The Story of Chinese Canadians. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

• But Women Did Come: A Photographic Exhibition on Chinese Canadian Women, Chinese Canadian National Council, 1993

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