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How Three Sisters Honour Mother’s Legacy at Vancouver’s Lunar New Year Parade
The Ho sisters manage parade production, dancer training, and logistics to preserve Chinese dance traditions, drawing thousands annually in Vancouver's Chinatown.
- On Feb. 19, 2026, Lisa Ho, Anabel Ho and Valerie Ho will lead Vancouver's Lunar New Year Parade this Sunday to honour their mother.
- Since their mother Maria Mimie Ho's 2010 death, the three sisters have managed the parade to keep her legacy and Chinese dance traditions alive, and the sisters said, `We really missed her`.
- Anabel Ho oversees training of volunteer dancers while Lisa Ho produces the parade and Valerie Ho, known as 'Ms. Vee', manages logistics, flying in when needed; prep begins in summer with costume building and dancer recruitment.
- The parade lasts about three hours and draws thousands, with prime ministers and premiers historically handing out red envelopes while sustaining Chinese performing arts and local community.
- Chiang said, `'I feel this is one of the only times of year where people who look like us are out on the street, proud and celebrating,'` and the youngest dancer in this Sunday's parade is four.
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How three sisters honour mother's legacy at Vancouver's Lunar New Year parade
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How three sisters honour mother's legacy at Vancouver's Lunar New Year parade – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — The youngest dancer in this Sunday’s Lunar New Year Parade in Vancouver is just four. “Hopefully they remember (the routine),” chuckled parade producer Lisa Ho of the tiny dancer and his fellow performers. She and her sisters, Anabel and Valerie Ho, know what the young dancer is going through. For decades, their mother Maria Mimie Ho was the driving force behind the parade in Vancouver’s Chinatown, and the sisters have been part of t…
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