Thanks to The Children’s Breakfast Club for profiling the valuable contributions of Asian Canadians in our multicultural society.

Meet Patricia Youn – Firefighter. Patti (연민경) has been a firefighter since 2016. She was born in Toronto to Korean parents and grew up with her two older brothers in the suburbs just outside the city. She completed a degree in Fashion Design at Ryerson in 2009 and worked for a number of mascot companies, constructing costumes and a few outerwear bag companies. Since then, she has done catering, farm work, retail, auto-sharing fleet work as well as bicycle messengering, dog grooming, and other odd jobs. Her interest in firefighting was piqued in 2012 when two firefighters knocked on her door for a neighborhood smoke alarm awareness campaign. She now works the best job in the world!