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During a talent show given at Chengtu, China, missionary Margaret Simkin sees some husky young women from Ginling College displaying their skill in dance, fencing, Chinese boxing, and European gymnastics. While describing the show to friends in Canada, Simkin said, "There is abundant hope for China in such as these."

The Hon Hsing Athletic Club is established in Vancouver, British Columbia, and its ch’uan fa classes were probably the first organized Chinese martial art classes in Canada. However, non-Chinese students were not allowed until the 1960s. "It used to be that the Chinese instructors wouldn’t teach Westerners," Raymond Leung told Ramona Mar in 1986. "But it’s wrong to think that if we teach them, they’ll use it to beat us. With every new student, I think we make one new friend."

In Montreal, 19-year old Joe Weider publishes the first issue of Your Physique, a 12-page mimeographed newsletter devoted to bodybuilding. (The