Here you will find a list of resources relating to Pacific migration stories and Asian Canadian heritage. Click here for an extensive list of anti-racism resources.
Click here for PCHC-MoM President Wendy Yip’s statement in solidarity with VAFF’s Elimin8hate campaign.
On March 21 2021 – International Day Against Racial Discrimination – PCHC-MoM Society and CCPA-BC co-hosted the launch of Challenging Racist “British Columbia”: 150 Years and Counting. Click here to download this free resource and watch the book launch here.
See below for Pacific Canada resources by partner organizations:
For Anti-racism resources, visit:
– Elimin8hate by VAFF for community support and anti-racist resources
For First Nations’ resources, visit:
– First Peoples’ Cultural Council for their interactive First Peoples’ map
– Museum of Anthropology for their podcasts and at-home resources
For Asian-Canadian resources, visit:
– Asian Canadian Wiki for an interactive website dedicated to promoting the Asian Canadian community
For UBC Resources, visit:
– The Chung Collection for Wallace and Madeline Chung’s collection on Chinese Canadian history
– ACAM for multimedia projects created by students of the new Asian Canadian Asian Migration Program
For Japanese Canadian resources, visit:
National Association of Japanese Canadians: Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians
For digitizations of multicultural artefacts, visit:
For Chinese-Canadian author resources, visit:
– In Memory – Wayson Choy: Tribute to Vancouver-born author Wayson Choy (1939-2019) hosted by PCHC-MoM and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop
For the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots history, visit:
– 360 Riot Walk: An audio-visual experience developed by Henry Tsang
For National Film Board films related to migration stories in Pacific Canada, visit:
– Third Heaven: on the community of Vancouver’s Hong Kong Chinese
– Sleeping Tigers – the Asahi Baseball Story: on the Asahi baseball team in pre-Word War II Vancouver and the age of Japanese internment
– Bella Bella: on the Bella Bella First Nations on Campbell Island, whose culture and independence began to disappear with the coming of first settlers
For articles on the need for a Museum of Pacific Canadian Migration, see here:
– Family Stories Live On Through Our Museums, by Todd Wong
– National Centre Needed to Celebrate Pacific Immigrants by Ingrid Parent and Henry Yu
– We Need to Extend Pier 21 Across Canada by Laura Madokoro
For oral history resources, visit:
– Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21: recording peoples’ immigration stories through oral history interviews
For Asian Canadian arts and culture as well as a timeline of Asian Canadian history, visit:
