For part of his time in Canada, Holland College student Thinh Nguyen was known as Andy. "What I didn't really know then was I was trying to fit in, because that's what society made me think, that my name was so hard to pronounce." Deep rootsAlly Guo, who came to P.E.I. Chinese names often reference the parents' hopes for the baby. In the same tradition Guo has given her son two names, Shingyun, Chinese for golden star, and Octavian, after the Roman emperor.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2021 16:52 UTC