The Philippines is a country with a deep and rich cultural history, and has been the top country of birth of immigrants in Canada, according to the 2016 Statistic Canada Census. Yet, how much do we know about the Philippines and its people, especially those who have emigrated to Canada and made their home here? … Continue reading
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Free Walking Tour: Where Vancouver Remembers – A Selection of Early Chinese Stories
“Free Walking Tour: Where Vancouver Remembers — A Selection of Early Chinese Stories Date: May 14 (Saturday) Time: 10:30 – 11:30 am Venue: Mountain View Cemetery (5455 Fraser St., Vancouver) FREE but spots are limited. Pre-registration required through 604-325-2646 or mountainviewcemetery@vancouver.ca In 1890, when the City of Vancouver allocated a section at Mountain View Cemetery for … Continue reading
Family History with a Smartphone – A Workshop Series
Do you have an elder in your family who has stories to tell but few members of the family have heard them? Would you like to learn how to record and preserve the stories of struggle and triumph of your parents or grandparents for your own children and grandchildren to know? Learn how through this … Continue reading
New Photo Gallery from A Banquet of Stories
New photo gallery from PCHC-MoM’s September 26 event A Banquet of Stories: Sharing Migration Tales Through Food at the Sunset Community Centre. Photo credit goes to David Wong. Continue reading
Komagata Maru 2015 Anniversary
2015 is the 101st anniversary of the Komagata Maru, an incident that reflected exclusionary policies of the Canadian government at the time on the subject of Asian Pacific migration. On May 23, 1914 a ship carrying passengers that were largely immigrants from the Punjab, British India, arrived in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, and were subsequently denied entry … Continue reading
UBC Library Celebrates 100 Years
Our 2015 title sponsor UBC Library is celebrating 100 years and is holding an event as a part of explorAsian 2015! “From Buddhism to Nestorian Christianity: The Importance of the Silk Roads in the Movement of Ideas and Religions across Central Asia” is being held Tuesday, May 26th at 3pm (Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall). … Continue reading
PCHC-MoM explorAsian Events May 2015
explorAsian 2015 is coming up this May in Vancouver, BC! The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration Society will be co-hosting and participating in several fascinating events this May, and we hope that you will come out to see them. Grand Opening of explorAsian Festival, May 2nd May 2nd marks the beginning of … Continue reading