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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

La taxe d’entrée chinoise

et les politiques d’immigration antichinoises au vingtième siècle

by (author) Arlene Chan
translated by Marie-France Cloutier

Ages
13 to 18
Grades
8 to 12

Righting Canada's Wrongs 10 volume set

10 volume set + free resource guide

by (author) Pamela Hickman, Arlene Chan, Rona Arato, Gloria Ann Wesley, Jean Smith Cavalluzzo, Melanie Florence, Ken Setterington, Frank James Tester, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, Andrew Bomberry & Teresa Edwards
illustrated by Masako Fukawa
contributions by Lindsay Gibson, Ilan Danjoux & Roland Case

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

by (author) Arlene Chan

Ages
13 to 18
Grades
8 to 12

The Chinese Community in Toronto

Then and Now

by (author) Arlene Chan

Ages
12 to 15
Grades
7 to 10

Awakening the Dragon

The Dragon Boat Festival

by (author) Arlene Chan
illustrated by Song Nan Zhang

Ages
6 to 9
Grades
1 to 4