Virtual Exhibitions & Projects

• Chinatown Reimagined Virtual Exhibition
  Created for the 2021 Chinatown Reimagined Forum through  a collaboration between UBC INSTRCC, City of Vancouver, and community partners, the Chinatown Reimagined Virtual Exhibition contains interactive elements, videos, and resources about Vancouver Chinatown’s unique history and potential future.

• Royal BC Museum Learning Portal: Early Chinese Canadian Experiences in BC
  Videos, digitized artifacts, stories, and activities about Chinese Canadians for all ages.

• Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site Information Page with Virtual Tour
  Understand the history of Chinese workers in maritime industries at the Britannia Shipyards. Virtual tour of the Chinese Bunkhouse here.

• Chilliwack’s Chinatowns: A Story of Diversity, Racism, and Arson. – Community Stories
  Produced by the Chilliwack Museum and Archives and Virtual Museum of Canada, this project examines the lives and contributions of Chinese migrants living in Chilliwack’s two Chinatowns from the 1880s to 1930s.

• Data Visualization of Chinese Migration at Stanford University
  Part of the outputs of the Chinese Canadian Stories Project, this tool visually presents Chinese migration trends to Canadian towns and cities outside of Vancouver and Victoria between 1912-1923.

• “Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections” Exhibit Page and Virtual Tour
  An interdisciplinary artistic exploration of belonging in Chinatowns across Canada and the US by Griffin Art Projects, curated by Karen Tam.

• A Brief Chronology of Chinese Canadian History  by Simon Fraser University (2011)
  This timeline provides an overview of the history of Chinese in Canada from 1788 to 2011.

• Standing in the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community
  The Standing in the Doorway online virtual exhibit, which launched May 2023, is a collaboration between York Region District School Board Museum and Archives, the University of Toronto’s Museum Studies program, Markham Museum, and community partners in the York region. The virtual exhibit addresses Chinese diaspora, Chinese Canadian history, and the Chinese Canadian experience in the York region through photographs, text, and videos.

• Canadian Law and Canadian “Wrongs”: The Chinese Head Tax
  This is a section from a larger online virtual exhibit called “Canadian Law and Canadian Identity”, which was created by Dr. Theresa Miedema and her Law and Social Issues class and published by the University of Toronto Libraries. This section of the online virtual exhibit addresses the historical context behind the Chinese Head Tax, as well as the movement towards redress.

• Road to Justice
  Road to Justice is an online project covering the history of laws used by Canadian governments to exclude people of Chinese descent.

• Memorial University of Newfoundland, Digital Archives Initiative – Chinese Community in Newfoundland
  As a part of the Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Digital Archives Initiative, this online collection includes photographs, government documents, videos, and publications (such as newspaper and magazine excerpts) about the history of the Chinese people who lived in Newfoundland from 1895 until the 1990s.

Designed for Teachers

• Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC
  Educational resources, activities, and materials for Grade 5 and Grade 9 students put together by the Government of BC in collaboration with the Royal BC Museum and a group of BC teachers.

• Teaching Guide: The Secret Life of Chinatown
  This teaching guide is based on the episode of the CBC Radio produced podcast, The Secret Life of Canada where the hosts discuss Chinese Canadian history. The guide includes resources such as a lesson plan, slideshow, and activity sheets that correspond with the podcast episode which is also available for download.

• Source Docs – Chinese Canadian History
  This educational resource webpage from the Critical Thinking Consortium, brings together sources like photographs and newspapers with accompanying activity worksheets. The page also has tabs that provide student tasks and teacher notes to help guide educators.

• The Ties that Bind: Building the CPR, Building a Place in Canada
  The Ties that Bind is an online virtual exhibit about the Chinese men who helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway. The project is supported by the Foundation to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada, in collaboration with the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, and Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

• Teaching Asian Canadian History: Classroom Resources for Educators
  The Asia Pacific Foundation Canada, in partnership with UBC INSTRCC Research Assistant Kelly Tang, organized three teacher working groups – in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario. The information and links in this resource provide summaries of the work of the three groups, as well as recommended resources and a set of graphs that can be used to stimulate critical thinking and class discussion that support the culturally appropriate teaching of Asian Canadian history.