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The Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver
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二○二五年活動
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2025 Event Logs
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蛇來運轉,好運綿綿! 金蛇狂舞,幸福高歌!
銀蛇報喜,年年如意!
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Wishing you a joyful, peaceful, and prosperous 2025!
January 1st marks a fresh start for 2025, filled
with new beginnings, traditions, and
resolutions. People celebrate with fireworks,
gatherings, and symbolic foods, emphasizing
love, family, and optimism.
Vancouver YFT
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溫哥華余風采堂舉行團拜聚餐
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2025 New Year Get Together Party
A New Year get together dinner party was held at
the Grand Crystal Seafood Restaurant on Friday,
January 24, 2025.
Vancouver YFT board directors, spouses and
guests were attending this event.
Chairman Phillip Yu wishing everyone a
prosperous and happy lunar new year of the
snake!
Martin Yee
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溫哥華余風采堂舉行 2023-2024 年度獎學金頒獎典禮
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Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver Scholarship Presentation Ceremony![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver Scholarship
Presentation Ceremony 2023-2024 was successfully
held on 8 March 2025 at the Floata Seafood
Restaurant, members of the YFT Board of
Directors, donors, guests, parents, and student
awardees, gathered to celebrate the students'
achievements in the past year and share in their
joy.
A special award of Recognition was given to Mrs.
Joseph Yee, for her continue yearly support and
sponsoring the annual YFT Essay contest.
Martin Yee
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溫哥華馬氏宗親會慶祝成立七十五週年聯歡晚宴
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The Mah Benevolent Society of Vancouver 75th Anniversary Evening Gala
The Mahs celebrated their 75th anniversary
evening Spring Banquet Gala at the Pink Pearl
Seafood Restaurant on Saturday, March 15.
Four members of the YFT Society of Vancouver
also attended the Mah's noon ceremony.
Phillip Yu
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舍路余風采堂春節聯歡盛宴隆重舉行
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Vancouver YFT members attended the Seattle YFT Spring Banquet
The Seattle YFT Spring Banquet was held at the
Ding Feng Seafood Restaurant on Saturday, March
29, 2025.
Vancouver YFT members, Michelle Yee, Crystal Yee
and Canada YFT Chairman, Mr. Bill Yee and
spouse, Carol attended this event.
Crystal Addison
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余風采堂舉行春祭紀念先僑
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Qingming Festival - Vancouver YFT Annual Ching Ming Memorial Service
On Sunday, March 30th, around 11:00am, twelve
members of the YFT Society of Vancouver and
Canada gathered at the Mountainview Cemetery to
attend the annual Ching Ming memorial service.
Members had lunch together at the Yee Fung Toy
Hall after the ancestor ceremony.
Phillip Yu
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加拿大余風采總堂余宏榮主席出席「溫哥華—廣州締結友好城市40周年」活動
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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Sister City Relationship between Guangzhou and Vancouver
Vancouver twinned with Guangzhou, the capital of
China’s most-populous province Guangdong in
1985. Guangdong is the ancestral home to many
British Columbians of Chinese descent and known
as the manufacturing and high-tech heartland of
China.
On Friday, April 18, 2025, the Consulate General
of the People's Republic of China in Vancouver
hosted a reception celebrating the 40th
anniversary of the Sister City relationship
between Guangzhou and Vancouver.
Bill Yee, Chairman of the Yee Fung Toy Society
of Canada, a retired B.C. Provincial Court
judge, he was the first Chinese Canadian elected
to Vancouver city council in 1982 and he
remained at 12th and Cambie until 1986. The
honorary citizen of Guangzhou, Vancouver’s
Chinese sister city, also served on the
Vancouver Police Board (1992 to 1997) and BC
Hydro board (1997 to 1999). Bill was invited to
attend the 40th anniversary celebration.
During the event, Chairman Bill Yee was asked to
make a speech, in his speech, he recalled that
during his tenure as a city Councillor, he
actively traveled between Guangzhou and
Vancouver, and after two years of hard work, he
finally facilitated the signing of a sister city
agreement on March 27, 1985, between the then
mayor of Guangzhou, Yip Xuanping, and the mayor
of Vancouver, Mike Harcourt. Since then,
Vancouver has become Guangzhou's second
international sister city in North America.
William Ma, President of the Vancouver-Guangzhou
Friendship Association, said that the
association is actively planning to organize a
delegation of overseas Chinese, business and
municipal government in Greater Vancouver to
visit Guangzhou this autumn to conduct cultural
and commercial exchanges and deepen the friendly
relations between the two sister cities.
Martin Yee
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風采堂耆英組慶賀母親節暨耆英壽辰聯歡午宴
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Vancouver YFT Mother's Day Luncheon And Senior Birthday Party![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
The Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver senior
group celebrated Mothers Day and senior member’s
birthday party on Saturday, May 3rd at the Royal
Palace Seafood Restaurant.
Special thanks to the Senior Committee co-chairs
Mrs. Shui Chi Yu and Crystal Addison for
arranging this annual luncheon! Also thanks to
luncheon helpers Michelle Yee, Kai Yi Ye and
Xiao Mei!
Martin Yee
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溫哥華余風采堂舉辦端午節包粽子工作坊
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Chinese Glutinous Rice Dumpling (Zongzi) Workshop
Thanks to Crystal and her group of volunteers,
we hosted our first Chinese Glutinous Rice
Dumpling (Zongzi) Workshop! On Saturday, May 24,
2025, our enthusiastic registrants arrived early
and gathered at the Society kitchen area. Guests
were first treated to a brief history background
of the origins of the rice dumpling followed by
a dumpling making demo.
Participants were asked to wash their hands
first, then gathered around the ingredients
table that allowed each participant to try their
hand at dumpling making.
The event ended with everyone sampling homemade
zongzi and some tea, grapes, mandarins,
watermelon and sweet pastries. Participants also
took home a few zongzi that they made. Workshop
teachers were thrilled to be able to share their
skills to the participants!
We also received positive feedback from
participants, many who indicated that they hoped
there would be more cultural food workshops
hosted in future. It was a great Yee building
activity that brought longstanding members and
newcomers together. Thanks to all who helped
make this workshop a success!
Martin Yee
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溫哥華余風采堂慶祝端午節
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Dragon Boat Festival Celebration
The Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver held a
successful rice dumpling (zongzi) making
workshop last Saturday for the Dragon Boat
Festival. The atmosphere of the event was
lively, attracting over twenty members and
relatives who enthusiastically participated.
Everyone worked together that day to complete
about 180 rice dumplings. Some of the dumplings
are specially reserved to be presented during
our monthly meeting on June 8, to the directors
who could not attend due to other commitments,
to show our respect and gratitude for their
sponsorship.
After the successful completion of the workshop,
The Yee Fung Toy Society of Vancouver members
held a simple and warm Dragon Boat Festival
celebration on May 27th (Tuesday) at 12 noon at
the hall.
On that day, the event specially welcomed a
guest who came from afar—Mr. Eric Yu, the Vice
Chairman of The Yee Fung Toy Society of
Edmonton. Mr. Eric Yu returned to Vancouver
primarily to visit his mother, Mrs. Shui Chi Yu,
and to join the many clansmen in celebrating the
festival.
Crystal Addison
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總堂余宏榮主席 出席卑詩省與廣東省締結友好關係三十週年慶典
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British Columbia celebrates 30th Anniversary with Sister Guangdong Province
On Saturday, May 31, Mr. Bill Yee, the current
Chairman of the Yee Fung Toy Society of Canada,
he’s also a founding representative of the BC
Guangdong Friendship Association, a retired BC
Provincial Judge and former Vancouver City
Councillor, attended the 30th Anniversary
Celebration of the Sister Province Relationship
Between British Columbia and Guangdong.
The event was hosted by the BC Guangdong
Business Council and the Canada International
Trade Promotion Society. Member of Parliament
Parm Bains, BC Minister of Citizens’ Services
George Chow, Parliamentary Secretary for
Asia-Pacific Trade Paul Choi, BC MLAs Teresa
Wat, Hon Chan, and Steve Kooner, former BC
Premier Mike Harcourt who signed the
sister-province agreement, and around 200
representatives from various sectors attended
the celebration.
The event was held at the Radisson Hotel
Conference Hall in Richmond, B.C.
Martin Yee
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溫哥華謝氏宗親會隆重舉行成立五十週年暨婦女部三十二週年
雙慶晚宴
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Tse Clansman Association of Vancouver 50th Anniversary Celebration
Our Vancouver Tse cousins celebrated their 50th
Anniversary and their Women’s Department 32nd
Anniversary on Saturday, May 31st, the
Anniversary banquet was held at the Floata
Seafood Restaurant.
The evening celebration event started with the
Tse Clansman roast pork cutting ceremony,
followed by honoring the seniors over 85 years
old, honoring seniors who are 80 years of age,
then honoring the seniors who are 79 years.
Tse Clansmen president Madam Lily Der giving her
welcome speech, followed by speeches from Member
of Parliament Ms. Jenny Kwan and other guests.
Laughter and joy filled the venue, writing
another glorious chapter for the Tse Clansman
Association of Vancouver. Photos courtesy of Chia Su-Ping, Esther Yue, Crystal Addison, Tang Keung Hing and Martin Yee.
Martin Yee
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加拿大余風采總堂暨溫哥華余風采堂
謹賀始祖余靖忠襄公千秋寶誕
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Ancestor Chung-Sheung's 1025th Anniversary Event![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Members of The Yee Fung Toy Society of Canada
and the Vancouver YFT Chapter commemorate the
anniversary of ancestor Yee Chung-Sheung's
1025th birthday(寶誕)on
Sunday, June 8, 2025.
Vancouver chairman Phillip Yu emceed the
ancestor ceremony, more than 50 members and
friends joined in this event. After the
ceremony, we all enjoyed a delicious buffet
lunch.
Thank to Crystal for snapping these memorable
photos for us!
Martin Yee
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