Not sure if I've posted this story here or not, my family immigrated here on Halloween of '82 (today is my 35th anniversary in Calgary). Was originally supposed to be here much later but a random series of events happened in the summer of '82. There were a bunch of serial killings in Hong Kong, and at the time my dad worked at Kodak. The wiki article mostly explains it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Kor-wan
There's a bit of inconsistency with the wiki page, it was actually at the Kodak lab, and not the store where it was reported to the cops by my dad. The Kodak store bit was from the movie. Anyways, long story short, my dad was involved in the case with the cops and prosecutors, and the HK government rewarded us by fast tracking our emigration process, which is how we got here 2 months later.
Why Calgary? It was my cousins families that chose Calgary, and we just followed along. Since then I've embraced Calgary and Canada's culture and lifestyle pretty well, to the point where I consider myself pretty white washed and Calgary is my hometown. Whenever I visit HK, I get sick of it after a week, and can't see myself living there ever again.