Sales Tips: • This highly illustrated exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and outlines their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China. • Curator Helen Kwan Yee Cheung met with these merchant families to record their migration footprints and eventual settlement. Through these efforts, she captures the heritage of Chinese merchants in Western Canada and fills a missing page in the region’s history. • The book covers the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. • The catalogue features rare archival materials and valuable memorabilia. Audience: Libraries, art collectors, economic and business historians, and those interested in the history of Chinese migration to North America.

Helen Kwan Yee Cheung received a Master of Arts in East Asian Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Alberta. She curated a 2014 exhibition, Painted Faces on the Prairies, in the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections that explored the history of Edmonton’s Chinese community through the lens of Cantonese opera.