Welcome to the
Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society Website
The Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society is a non-profit organization consisting of volunteers who are concerned and passionate about sharing Asian and Asian Canadian heritage with everyone in the National capital region. It is also a non-partisan, non-political, and non-religious organization. Please contact us for more information.
In May 2002, the Government of Canada signed an official declaration to designate May as Asian Heritage Month.
Member of the Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, and a first generation Chinese Canadian, The Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck is the first female First Nations senator and first Canadian born Chinese senator. She continues to speak on these topics and others, such as the Medicine Wheel and Science, across Canada.