Stories

For the people who love Chinatown, a piece of this place only lives in memory.  by Kathryn Mannie   Chinatown’s steady decline as a hub of culture and economy in recent years comes as no surprise...

  “I wish to congratulate the Chinese Freemasons of Canada on its 160th anniversary. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese arrived in Canada to work on railroads, forestry and gold mines...

  Senator Ravalia gave a speech in support of Senator Woo’s inquiry calling the attention of the Senate to the one hundredth anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the contributions that...

    Forty years ago, on my first day of law, I was sitting in a discussion circle with classmates, and we were asking ourselves why we were in law. Some talked about wanting to make lots of...

Lanterns, mooncakes, and families coming together to feast remain traditions in Chinese and Vietnamese households in Vancouver written by Deanna Cheng     Vancouver residents reflect on...

A brief overview of systemic racism, its manifestation in Canada, its impact on Chinese Canadians, and strategies to address it. By Dannie Fan   What is Systemic Racism? When one considers...

  Edward Woo visited his ancestral home and flew a drone in Hoi Ping (Kaiping), Guangdong, China. Hoi Ping is the hometown of many early Chinese settlers in Canada who had to pay a head tax and...

Listen to this article:   Overview     The Chinese Cultural Centre Chinese School of Greater Vancouver was established in 1981.  At our school, highly qualified teachers are employed...

The grand opening exhibit traces the exclusion of Chinese communities across the nation   “The very things that we hated—these objects of control and surveillance—are the things that help us...