‘Hard working and kind’: Woman killed crossing Dartmouth street came to Canada to start new adventure
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Tabitha Osler set up a GoFundMe page to help Suete Chan's family come to Canada. It had an original goal of $35,000 and has now surpassed $85,000.
Suete Chan was worldly, adventurous and courageous.
So adventurous, in fact, that in the summer of 2020, she decided to immigrate from Hong Kong to Canada, and call Nova Scotia home.
Last Wednesday morning, Chan was on her way to work in Dartmouth, when she was struck at a crosswalk on Pleasant Street.
The 27-year-old woman died in hospital.
“She worked really hard. And she was also very soft and gentle, and very kind, and she was kind of light-hearted. She wanted things to be happy and it was just very sweet,” said Tabitha Osler. She owns Fairechild, an environmentally-friendly clothing company based in Dartmouth.
In August 2020, Chan applied for a marketing manager position with the company “and was one of the best resumes that I reviewed,” Osler said.
“After interviewing several people, I offered her the position. And then we started working on integrating her here through the Atlantic Immigration Pilot program.” After an intense application process, Chan arrived in Canada earlier this year. She was mere days away from her 28th birthday when she died.
Two days ago, Osler set up a GoFundMe fundraising campaign for Chan’s family, with an original goal of $35,000. It has surpassed $85,000. The money raised will help Chan’s parents make the trip from Hong Kong to Canada to claim her remains and belongings. Chan was her parents’ only child.
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