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About Bessie Lee
- Bessie Lee (née Lum; August 26, 1924 – December 22, 2016) was a Chinese Canadian community organizer and civic activist in Vancouver's Strathcona and Chinatown neighbourhoods.
- She was a co-founder and long-time President of the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association (SPOTA), which was instrumental in mobilizing several neighborhoods to work together to stop a freeway in the late 1960's that would have run through the heart of many of Vancouver's inner-city neighborhoods.
- Lee was also a founding member of the Britannia Community Centre and a board member of the Strathcona Community Centre.
- She won the BC Community Achievement Award in 2014.
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