A Chinese-Canadian restaurant owner is being remembered as a hard worker who also enjoyed performing in the gym and on camera. 

Gordon Joe, who previously owned the Chow Yan Foo restaurant in Sydney, as well as other restaurants in Truro, Amherst, Windsor and New Minas, died on Dec. 19 at 93. 

Linda Joe Sears, his youngest child, said her father only took Monday off work when she was growing up. 

"What I remember most is how hard he worked," she said.

Linda said he worked at the family restaurant i…