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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Maximum Term of Two Years Imposed First Time on Male Brothel Keeper: Was Just Doing Washing Maintained Accused Man. Jail, Fines for Found-ins

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Date: 1957-04-06

Mayor, TV Producer's Assistant Not Guilty of Indecent Charges After Arrest in Subway Washroom (from "ONE" Homosexual Paper)

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Date: 1959-01-10
Name(s): McIntire, Dal

Mechanical Copulation

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Date: 1954-03-27

Medal of Merit Winner in Boy Scout Movement Unmasked as Homosexual

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Date: 1954-06-19

Medical Men Accused by Women Patients: Name of Negro Doctor Erased From Register as Half-Caste Child Shown by White Mother

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Date: 1951-03-24

Meet Me Under The Clock

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Date: 1950-08-19

Men Picked Up by Women in Toronto Usually End Up With Money Missing

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Date: 1952-01-12

Men Who Find Lesbians Desirable (in "ONE" Homosexual Publication)

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Date: 1959-10-31
Name(s): Martin, Del

Method Behind Madness

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Date: 1959-08-22

Middle Road in Liquor Legislation is Advocated by Hotel Proprietors

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Date: 1946-04-06

Middle-Aged Chinese Woman Carried Baby in Arms When Attacked by Man: Latter Was Drinking Beer in Complainant's Eatery. Trouble Began Over Spoon

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Date: 1957-01-26

Minimum Sentence Imposed on Preacher, Half-Sister. Possession of Narcotics

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Date: 1956-08-25

Minister of Justice is Satisfied Law Adequate to Cope With Gaming if Properly Invoked and Enforced

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Date: 1951-12-22

Misconduct Between Doctor and Patient After Child Was Born to Married Woman

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Date: 1951-12-22

Modification of Old Badger Game -- Crown: 73-Year-Old Romeo Victim of Man and Woman Pickup. Subjected to Bad Beating

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Date: 1956-05-26