Families of Fortune: Chinese people in the Tweed by Joanna Boileau
Since 2005, Tweed River Regional Museum staff and volunteers have been working on an important project called Migration to the Tweed to collect and preserve information about the many people who have come to Tweed Shire over the years, and in doing so have contributed to the rich and diverse community here today.
Families of Fortune documents the presence and contribution of Chinese people in Tweed from the nineteenth century to the present. The Families of Fortune project resulted in a book, exhibition and short films that were launched in May 2009.
In the past decade, much work into the Chinese presence in New South Wales has been completed, and the work presented here in Families of Fortune adds the stories of families and individuals of Tweed to the wider narrative.