About the Milton K. Wong Legacy Project

Milton Wong was known to many as a leader in business, volunteer service, health research, culture and sports. In 2013, Dragon Boat BC started the Milton K. Wong Legacy Project to honour Milton Wong’s memory, and to ensure that financial barriers are never an obstacle to youth participating in sport.

Increased support and engagement from our donors has enabled us to significantly expand the the Legacy Project’s scope from youth teams to include All Access teams, in the spirit of Milton Wong’s vision to include everyone in our civic fabric.

The Milton K. Wong Legacy Project directly supports youth and All Access participation at Dragon Zone Paddling Club in the following ways:

• Over $50,000 in direct contributions made to charities and community organizations to support medical research, support programs for individuals battling disease, financial contributions for youth paddlers to represent Canada at the World Championships;
• Low or no cost programming offered through our All Access programs to adult participants of different abilities;
• Over 2,000 kids participate in low or no cost dragon boat/kayaking one day programs;
• Children from inner city schools get to participate in paddling field trips including lunch;
• All Access paddlers and high school youth have the chance to join low or no cost multi-session year round programs;
• Thousands of youth and All Access paddlers can participate in the Dragon Zone Junior Regatta, the Spring Sprint Regatta and the Dragon Zone 500m Regatta at reduced cost;

Learn more about the Legacy Project here.

The Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival Society acknowledges its work takes place primarily on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands and waters of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.