Until recent decades the important contributions of Chinese Canadians have been overlooked in educational materials and popular media depictions. Thankfully, many community organizations, educators, and activists have long worked hard and advocated to remedy this injustice. More Canadians are now learning about the complex history of discrimination in the past, not only against Chinese Canadians, but also Indigenous peoples, Japanese Canadians, South Asian Canadians, and Black Canadians. Often these stories of hardship are interconnected and intertwined. Below are some resources to help understand these legacies, and activities to help bring Chinese Canadian experiences alive!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• “Under the White Gaze” Newsletter by Chris Cheung
  A weekly newsletter written by reporter Chris Cheung from the Tyee running from October to end of December 2021 which explores the various manifestations of whiteness, racism, and colonialism with particular attention to media representation with a local focus on Vancouver and BC.

• Chinese Diaspora Recipes and Cooking

  • Made With Lau YouTube Channel: Cook alongside the Lau family as they draw upon Mr. Lau’s decades of restaurant experience in a quest to preserve and explore Cantonese-American cooking.

  • Woks of Life Online Recipe Database and Blog: An impressive collection of recipes, ingredient guides, and how-to manuals reflecting countless regional Chinese dishes and pan-Asian influences.

• 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.

• Examining the Intersections of Anti-Asian Racism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada 
  This backgrounder is produced by the Learning Network of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children at Western University. It uses intersectionality to explain the historical and contemporary contexts of anti-Asian racism in Canada, the gender-based violence that Asian Canadian women face, and the activism of Asian Canadian women in response to these injustices.

• Are People of Color Settlers Too? by Malissa Phung 
  Essay in Volume 3 of Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity discussing settler colonialism, the “model minority” concept, negative historical stereotypes and representations of Chinese labourers and Indigenous peoples.

• 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.

• Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens
  The Mass Capture project, led by Dr. Lily Cho at the York Centre for Asian Research, examines C.I. 9 certificates dating from 1910 to 1953. The project analyzes the ways that C.I. 9 certificates were forms of surveillance and produced “non-citizens” of Chinese immigrants in Canada. Mass Capture created maps and publications on the topic, as well as digitized C.I. 9 certificates that are viewable online.

• 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.