The last surviving Chinese Canadian soldier from the Second World War died in B.C. last month, just shy of his 100th birthday, but there were still surviving Chinese Canadian veterans to honour at the Remembrance Day service in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Gordie Quan, who died in Victoria about six weeks ago at age 99, was a role model for Alfred Woo, 78, who was among the several dozen attending the service at the Chinatown Memorial Monument at Keefer and Columbia streets under sunny skies.

“I’m grateful to Gordie Quan,” and other Asian veterans for showing him that the military was open to him, said Woo, a member of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans.

He trained part-time as an artillery soldier for 22 years, but was never sent to a war zone, having served during the Cold War, the uneas

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