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About

Arlene Chan

ARLENE CHAN, a third-generation Chinese Canadian, is a retired librarian and author of non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals and the Chinese in Canada. An avid dragon boat racer and gold-medalist on the Canadian National Women's Dragon Boat Team, she lives, writes, and paddles in Toronto.

Books by Arlene Chan

Righting Canada's Wrongs 2023 set

8 volume set + free resource guide

by (author) Pamela Hickman, Arlene Chan, Rona Arato, Gloria Ann Wesley, Jean Smith Cavalluzzo, Melanie Florence & Ken Setterington
illustrated by Masako Fukawa
contributions by Lindsay Gibson, Ilan Danjoux & Roland Case

Arlene Chan 4-Book Bundle

The Chinese Community in Toronto / The Chinese in Toronto from 1878 / Paddles Up! / Spirit of the Dragon

by (author) Arlene Chan & Susan Humphries

Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century

by (author) Arlene Chan

The Chinese Community in Toronto

Then and Now

by (author) Arlene Chan

The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

From Outside to Inside the Circle

by (author) Arlene Chan

Paddles Up!

Dragon Boat Racing in Canada

by (author) Arlene Chan & Susan Humphries

Awakening the Dragon

The Dragon Boat Festival

by (author) Arlene Chan
illustrated by Song Nan Zhang

Spirit of the Dragon: The Story of Jean Lumb, a Proud Chinese-Canadian

by (author) Arlene Chan