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The unbreakable Susie Chew EXCLUSIVE It began with a surprise birthday party – a 90th birthday party at the Waffle House. It led to a conversation with an amazing woman whose stories about New Westminster in the 1940s and ’50s recall a bustling little city where a young entrepreneur could really make an impression. They also recall a nearly forgotten racist blot on that city’s history. Susan Chew opened the Waffle House in 1955. She was a single, Chinese-Canadian woman with a great waffle recipe and a can-do attitude, and her uptown cafe became ‘the’ place to hang out, not just for waffles, but also to find out what was happening around town. She was a “colourful character” with a stake in the community, but one day in 1956, instead of making waffles, she felt like “crawling into a dark cellar, into a hole.” Reporter/photographer Cornelia Naylor sat down with Chew and discovered the story behind the story. Part one of Susan Chew’s story is on pages 10 and 11 in today’s paper.
REUNITED Susan Chew, left, and Verla (Staples) Thompson catch up during a surprise 90th birthday party for Chew at the Waffle House, a restaurant she founded in 1955. In 1956, the two former roommates were at the centre of a media fire storm about racism in the Royal City. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Island split: Candidates look for ’Boro votes By Cayley Dobie
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