In Vancouver’s Chinatown—home to about 30 percent of Canada’s Chinese community by the 1930s—Nellie Yip Quong was a trusted midwife to some 500 women, an adoption broker, and an interpreter. A white woman who challenged convention by marrying a Chinese-Canadian man, she mastered five Chinese dialects and became an outspoken intermediary between immigrants and Canadian officials. Like other midwives in ethnocultural communities across the country, where maternity services were often constrained by poverty and prejudice, “Granny Yip” quietly but effectively provided mothers with birthing services in their own language.