Pacific Canada Resources

In this time of social distancing and self-isolation, why not check out some of these resources on Pacific Canadian history and migration stories? Below is a collection of helpful links for those interested in learning more about people in Pacific Canada. Stay safe and let's flatten the curve together!


UBC ACAM

ACAM Program: Celebrating a Century of Asian Communities at UBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRB5Shm9LAM

Telling Stories of Chinese and First Nations Relations: at Musqueam and Across Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RqF0gO4A

Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian Youth - Joanna Yang

https://youtu.be/7zRiDFBX6Uw

UBC ACAM 390A Feature: Kimberley Wong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfnbXqES2OU


Black Strathcona 

Black Strathcona: Hogan’s Alley 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANX5kYh-8dc

Black Strathcona: Militant Mothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdk_KUFUp98&list=PLUEtsWOW7Wdv4TJbtiumGaJIit4KSmZ-E&index=2&t=0s


Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 

Chue George Ing 

https://pier21.ca/content/oral-history-161124cgi-with-chue-george-ing

Harbhajan "Harb" Gill

https://pier21.ca/content/oral-history-161125hg-with-harbhajan-s-gill

Kelly and Maggie Ip (audio only)

https://pier21.ca/content/oral-history-120315kmi-with-kelly-and-maggie-ip

Wallace B. Chung

https://pier21.ca/content/oral-history-181030wbc-with-wallace-b-chung

Winnie Cheung

https://pier21.ca/content/oral-history-161128wc-with-winnie-cheung


PCHC-MoM + Partner Collaborations


All Our Father’s Relations - Alejandro Yoshizawa

http://allourfathersrelations.com/trailers


Block By Block (2017 National Oral History Project) - Toronto Ward Museum & PCHC

About Strathcona and our National History Project with the Toronto Ward Museum & other partners:

http://www.wardmuseum.ca/blockbyblock/archives/blockbyblock-2017/strathcona/

About the Strathcona storytellers PCHC identified and interviewed:

http://www.wardmuseum.ca/blockbyblock/archives/blockbyblock-2017/storytellers/

Audio recordings of two of the above storytellers from Strathcona:

Randy Clark:

http://passagestocanada.com/story-profile/?story=1987

Larry Grant:

http://passagestocanada.com/story-profile/?story=1988


Banquet of Stories 

Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiEEyea3C4

Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTdWb1GHLI

Part III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispeOQPb4Ew


Chung Collection - Passage of Dreams (University of British Columbia)

Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXe7LkUYMg8

Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrkmtwm7_b8

Part III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOmvHwhdE0


Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour - May 2019 (Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJB3cdkh5yc


Civic Education Society Canada with Winnie Cheung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKjcFGe5fyg


 

Family History Workshop: Dan Seto and UBC Asian Library ( PCHC Smart Phone Workshops)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwAolbIVZ0


 

Harpreet Singh Show: Interview with Harbhajan Gill & Raj Toor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8_pot47ibQ


 

Henry Yu - Chinese Canadian Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SW7I7uzGuc

Henry Yu - Our Future as a Half-Chinese City: Lessons from History (University of British Columbia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKPWbtUxP84


 

History of Cantonese Chinese in Cuba (Inside a Chinese Clan): Dan Seto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0gPD6ntIA


 

INSTRCC - Vancouver Chinatown: Past, Present, and Future

Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVpLlim9zQ

Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5rRDJWyXk


 

Japanese Canadian War Memorial 100th Anniversary (Nikkei Museum)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VOjeKvHz4&feature=youtu.be


 

Larry Grant (Produced by CCS) 

Part I: Not Belonging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsoPvOnB9sA

Part II: Intertwining Cultures 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bh3QidIVFU


 

Learning Cantonese in Chinatown Vancouver - Youth Collaborative for Chinatown Interview (ACCESS TV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnB-nnR2bg


 

Nellie Yip’s House (Chinese Canadian UBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WRZNHxKRF8


 

Philippines Historama (Balitang America)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSuuxhUCTw


 

Project 40 Collective: Museum Conversations with PCHC-MoM (Tineke & Eleanor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKW2El6duq0


 

Remembering Jim Wong-Chu: A Celebration of Life (Ricepaper Magazine)

Part I 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSjjNhLVE_8

Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sczZSpY0Po


 

Roedde House Museum Interviews with Jean Barman & Jan Walls (by Josie Chow/PCHC )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2tVMZyZ7Fs


 

VAFF: Havana Divas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoauYPAo-qA


 

Vancouver Asahi - Heritage Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBv-MYAf9P0


 

Dr. Vivienne Poy - Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada (HKU)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUf5J_9zIlE


 

Wayson Choy - Vancouver Memorial and Tribute (Elwin Xie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5Y_Ondzfw


 

Youth Collaborative for Chinatown Interview (Samson Tam)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVPQEmVSBNk


 

Yucho Chow - Chinatown Photographer 1906 - 1949 (by Elwin Xie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m62uHV4pDDY


 

Yucho Chow Launch: Dan Seto 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_8wX6cIjo


 

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