Salutations, dear citizens! Today, we, as in Sara and Sherry, will be talking to you about the amazing, extraordinary, fantastic.... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN!!!!
Michael Lee-Chin,a Jamaican-Canadian, was born in the year 1951. He is the Executive Chairman of AIC Limited ,which is a Canadian mutual fund, and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica.Michael is also well known because of his work for the Royal Ontario Museum otherwise known as the R.O.M.The very generous Michael Lee-Chin donated about $3,000,000. He is also well known because of being one of the few Jamaican billionaires!
This is a video regarding Michael Lee Chin talking about himself as a chairman and a leader. In the video, he gives tips on how to be successful and also discusses his past experiences in this world!
Hello dear readers. Our names are Sara, Sherry, Rena and Lin. We're going to be talking about the fantastic PATRICK CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick Chan is a Canadian figure skater who was born on December 31, 1990. This talented young figure skater is also the 2010-2011 Grand Prix Champion!! Patrick was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Lewis Chan and Karen Chan, Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong. His Cantonese name is Chan Wai-Kuan. He moved to Toronto when he started skating at the age of 5.
He originally wanted to learn to skate so he could play hockey, but soon became interested in figure skating. Osburne Colson, a figure skater, was his coach. In 2001, he won the bronze medal at the Canadian Junior National Championships ain the juvenile level at the age of ten. He also advanced to win the pre-novice Canadian national title in 2003, the novice title in 2004, and also the junior title in 2005.
In 2009, Patrick Chan graduated from a French-language school called École Secondaire Étienne-Brûlé, a school in North York, Toronto. Now, he plans to go to Colorado College and study international economics. To make time for training, he is going to take one course at a time.
Patrick can speak many languages including English, French, Cantonese and a little bit of Mandarin. He has one many awards like Sportsnet's 2011 Canadian Athlete of the Year and the Lou Marsh Trophy, an award given annually to Canada's best athletes. He is the World champion for 2011 & 2012 , a two-time (2010 & 2011) Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time (2009 & 2012) Four Continents champion and a five-time (2008–2012) Canadian champion.
Quote:"It all feels a bit unreal ... Like we're living in a dream."
After winning CBC Sports athlete of the year for 2011, he said:"It's a great honour for me to win the CBC Sports Athlete of the year for 2011. It's been an amazing 2011 season with a world championship, three world records and a repeat at the Grand Prix Final"
Although he didn't win in this competition, you can see that Patrick
Chan is a great skater. Why? Well just look at all the techniques hes uses!
As we all can see, Patrick was a very succesful and industrious figure skater that had competed hard in the championships against so many well experienced contestants. He is a role model and hero to many kids and adults and has many fans.Thank you Patrick Chan for contributing your leadership and success to Canada, and don't forget the people who took their time to read this article! Thank you too!
Hi, my name is Steven. I will be talking about a fabulous, very talented Asian-Canadian artist for Asian History month. Can you guess who this person is?... Well... it's Crystal Lowe! I hope you will learn lots about her after reading this biography.
Crystal was born on January the 20th 1981. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia. Crystal's family backround is Chinese and Scottish. Crystal got married to Miko Tomasevich on August 8, 2009.
She and her family moved to Hong Kong where she grew up for a few years. Now she is fluent in Cantonese. Crystal Lowe's career started off as modeling at the age of 15. Soon, she started to have an interest in acting. She became very sucessful. The first film she was in was, "Stargate SG-1" and her role was that of Nya. After her role in the movie, she starred in, "Children of the Corn: Revelation". In 2006 Crystal was Ashlyn Halperin in, "Final Destination 3". Her next role was as Lauren in the remake of "Black Christmas". Just after "Black Christmas" Crystal went on to star as Elena in "Wrong Turn 2". She is considered a "Scream Queen" after her appearances in horror films and TV shows.
In 2008 she was once again with her Final Destination 3 co-star Amanda Crew in the film," That One Night". In 2009, Crystal had a supporting role in the action film Driven to Kill with Steven Seagal. She was cast as the female lead Rose in the film Charlie. She was Vala in in the 9th season of the CW show Smallville and in Sheldon Wilson's new TV Horror/Thriller movie Killer Mountain as Nina.
Hello! This blog entry was primarily done by Tony in 2011 and was finished by Jenny and Gabriel. Today we will be introducing to a brilliant Asian-Canadian Doctor: Dr. Tak Wah Mak.
Dr. Tak Mak was born in southern China on October 4, 1946. He is now 65 years old. Dr. Mak Tak is well known for his work in immunology (the study of the immune system), he has also done work in biochemistry and cancer genetics! This particular Doctor made a huge contributions to Canada and medical history.
Dr. Mak Tak works with genetically modified mice to better understand the causes of cancer.
He also determined the gene inside the body which creates T Cells and by doing so he made an enormous medical breakthrough about the immune system. He was a step closer to stopping cancer. That lead him to the second part of his research: cell-apoptosis ( the death of cells). Cancer is basically cell-apoptosis gone wrong, since the cancer cells can't die they grow. Now, because of the research of Dr. Mak Tak a lot of people are safe from cancer. 50 years ago 25% of Women diagnosed with breast cancer lived for only 5 years. Today 75% of women diagnosed with breast cancer live more than 5 years and some are cured. Wow isn't he amazing?
Here is a quote made by Dr. Mak Tak : "Instead of trying to save a person drowning in the river, who is throwing them into to the river upstream? Can we prevent that from happening?" That makes a lot of sense doesn't it?
The video where I found this quote can be found below. It is entitled: CP24 Shares... Dr. Tak Mak's Story.
Here is a quote made by someone about Dr Mak Tak:"Dr. Tak Wah Mak brilliant career as a leading world-renowned Canadian scientist has had a major impact on public health around the world."
I got this quote from a description box of a Youtube video. I have the video below, but here is the link to the website so you can read the description box.
In this is a video of Dr. Mak Tak talks about breast cancer and the different result of a person diagnosed with breast cancer 50 years and today.
This is a pretty short video but I believe you will find it very meaningful. In short, he is explaining his philosophy about how best to deal with Cancer.
P.S. This is where I got the quotes made by Dr. Mak Tak.
This is a biography of Dr Mak Tak. It also talk about successes and there are a couple of Doctors talk about and complements him and his work.
Bibliography:
Here are some wesite links for more information on Dr. Mak Wah Tak
Hi! My name is Natasha and I am a grade 6 student at Sir Samuel B. Steele Jr. P.S. in Toronto. In my post I will be talking about the great Canadian designer, Alfred Sung.
Alfred Sung was born on June 14, 1948 in Shanghai, China. Mr.Sung is well known for his beautiful clothing designs that he makes himself. His greatest contribution, in my opinion is that he has made the Canadian fashion industry more popular, in Canada and around the world, by making trendy and high fashion clothing for both men and women.
Here is a quote made by Alfred Sung "I was young and very immature, and very shy back when I was 17."
(source of quote: ) http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=n6Stmakbqws
Here is a quote made by an interviewer about Mr.Sung "I think that Mr.Sung is a very talented and interesting designer."
(source of quote: ) http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=n6Stmakbqws
Mr.Sung wanted to become a fine artist. His parents' wishes were that he should pursue a more traditional profession. In time, his father compromised and agreed to send him to Paris where he studied couture at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. After graduating with first-place honours, Mr. Sung moved to New York City to study at the Parsons School of Design. Upon completion, he began the task of getting better at his talent while working as an assistant designer for a Seventh Avenue dress manufacturer. In 1972, Mr.Sung moved to Canada (Toronto). His next step was designing for a sportswear manufacturer in Toronto's garment district. After using his fashion illustration skills to make extra money for his income, he opened a tiny shop called "Moon" in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood.
It was very perplexing for me to find so little information online about such a famous designer. In my opinion, there should be more acknowledgement about Mr. Sung's talent on the Internet. I am especially disappointed that there is not an appreciation website about him anywhere on the Web. In my own way, I hope that this blog entry helps a bit in exposing the world a bit more to the contributions of Alfred Sung.
