Bachelors and China Dolls, Sex and Race in Postwar Toronto's Chinatown, 1920-1970

This collection consists of digitized materials concerning sex and race in Toronto between 1920 and 1970. It includes photographs from a private collection and newspaper articles about Chinese Canadians and white women (Chinadolls) in Toronto's Chinatown, published in the Toronto Chinese press. It also includes interviews with individuals concerning everyday life in Toronto's Chinatown and the experiences of mixed-race couples and children in Toronto's Chinatown.

Contributed by El Chenier, Simon Fraser University.

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Colored Prostie Arouses Sympathy of Magistrate. Gets Suspended Sentence

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Date: 1952-02-09

Colored Windsor Woman Pounded Toronto 'Beat'

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Date: 1957-06-22

Coloured Prostie Jailed Second Time Second Day

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Date: 1959-09-19

Combatting Immorality

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Date: 1953-05-30

Commit Baronet for Trial on Counts Involving Stable Boys in His Employ: Alleged Offences Go Back to 19_1 is Crown's Claim. Youths 14 to 16 Years Old

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Date: 1955-12-31

Commit Father Ingram for Trial on Charges Involving Young Boys

Date: 1954-06-19

Commit Woman on Manslaughter Charge After Husband Relates How Wife Died

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Date: 1952-01-19

Common Bawdy House International in Operation, Inmates & Patronage

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Date: 1957-12-07

Common Law Wives Beaten Up: Young Negro Bound Over for Beating White Girl Who Went Back to Hubby

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Date: 1952-03-22

Common-Law Wife Must Leave Canada Man She Lives With Won't Marry Her: Her Charge of Assault Fails When She Admits Man Refused Her Money

Date: 1954-07-10

Complainant Against Ex-Sleuth Hosed by Women Inmates at Don Out on Bail, Protected by Cops

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Date: 1955-08-27

Condition of Prostitute in Court Due to Alcohol, Not Drugs -- Lawyer: Latter Reverses Story Overnight. 60-Day Sentence Imposed for Vagrancy C.

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Date: 1958-05-10

Conduct of Hotels

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Date: 1946-02-16

Constable Admits Untruth but Conviction Registered Against Labour M.P. on Charge of Importuning Men for Immoral Purposes

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Date: 1953-02-14

Continued from above and another article about a Chinese UofToronto student fighting in China "Chinese chase Jap out of Chinatown". "Student of Varsity fighting for China" part 2

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Date: 1932-02-04