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When Norman Lim “Normie” Kwong was a youngster growing up in Canada, life wasn’t always easy. The son of Chinese immigrants, his mother and father moved from British Columbia to Calgary because they’d heard that anti-Asian discrimination was not as horrible in Calgary as it was in Vancouver.

Normie had five brothers and sisters and was very lucky to have both parents with him in Canada.

At the time, Canada’s discriminatory immigration laws often wouldn’t allow both Chinese-immigrant parents to move to this country.

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Fortunately, however, in 1947 Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed because it contravened the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That meant Chinese-Canadians like Normie, who was eighteen at the time, had full citizen rights for the first time, and barriers that had been put up to keep Chinese-Canadians out of professional sport were lifted.

Normie was an all-around athlete as a young boy, but he was especially good at football.

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