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This is such a massive loss. Ming Pao, imo the better of the two HK newspapers in Canada is shutting down Canadian operations. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-language-newspaper-ming-pao-ceasing-operations-january-2026-9.7043431

#Toronto #Vancouver #ChineseCanadian

Victoria's Forbidden City

https://christian.freediverse.com/w/gPnxEY63t9Lj3kN1TfPVK8

When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his sister, filmmaker Michelle Wong, needed to make sense of her brother's death. What drove him to end his life at age 36?

Weaving together intimate conversations with those closest to Phillip, as well as her own candid reflections, Wong embarks on a personal journey. Gently peeling away layers of silence, she uncovers her brother's story of gambling addiction and his lonely spiral into desperation, isolation and depression.

Filmed against the backdrop of the noisy casinos of Las Vegas and the quiet town of St. Paul, Alberta, the documentary lays bare the grief of family and friends. Sifting through feelings of guilt, sadness and shame, the once-fragmented family begins to discover a new closeness. This heart-wrenching film is a sister's uncompromising search for the truth and healing--for herself, her family, and others struggling with addiction.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/pieces-of-a-dream-a-story-of-gambling/

#AsianMastodon #AsianTaboos #SilenceIsDeadly #Compassion #Suicide #Trauma #ChineseCanadian #MentalHealth #ChineseFamily #Addiction #Gambling #Depression #Healing #Documentary #DocFilms

Julia Kwan’s feature-length #documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in #VancouverBC #Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows a year in the life of several #Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old #Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this #community in flux.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/everything_will_be/

#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCommunity #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #gentrification #YVR

This #documentary tells the story of a #Chinese #cemetery in #VictoriaBC that became a #NationalHeritage site. For Chinese #pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at #HarlingPoint was a temporary resting place until their bones could be returned home. (Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign place wanders lost until their bones are returned home.) This film traces the rich history of the #VancouverIsland cemetery from controversy and neglect to its revival as a #historic site. Told by those closest to it, the story of Harling Point is a metaphor for #Canada , a country still working on making a home for all who live within its borders.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/from_harling_point/

#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #Resilience

🧵#DocumentaryFilms I've enjoyed this month - in no particular order.

A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian women. It is an amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again and of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met. These are the women who fought against the many forms of racism they faced in Canada while, at the same time, challenging sexism within their own communities. By passing on language, culture, and values to their children, these women defined what it means to be Chinese Canadian. Beautiful old photographs from family albums, the recollections of seven women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, and the memories of narrator and director, Dora Nipp, whose grandfather came to Canada in 1881 to build the railway, create a remarkable story of stunning impact.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/under-the-willow-tree-pioneer-chinese-women/

#AsianMastodon #ChineseWomen #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #WomensHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #FilmsFriday

Did you know? The #UnitedChurch once operated a home and school in #VictoriaBC for #Chinese and #Japanese girls and women. Today, many are surprised to learn this. Margery Hadley, a professional #archivist and member of #FirstMetropolitanUnitedChurch in Victoria, has recently completed a #digitization project that makes the images of the Oriental Home and School available online. It opens to us a now distant world and its concomitant issues.

https://pacificmountain.ca/oriental-home-and-school-photos-online/

#FirstMetArchives has been privileged to care for two important historical documents from the #OrientalHomeAndSchool. The first is the #ChineseRescueHome Advisory Committee minute book, 1896-1915. The second is the Oriental Home and School album, a fascinating assemblage of 95 photographs of the Oriental Home community, mainly between 1907 and 1916.

The Oriental Home and School album is now available online. It is part of First Met’s #historic #photographs digitization project that involved digital scanning and description of over 500 images from our #archival collections. These photographs are available to the public on #Flickr. The Oriental Home and School album is one of ten sets of First Met’s #HistoricalPhotographs available for public viewing.

First Met gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support of the #BritishColumbia #History #Digitization Program (2015), sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, #UBC.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstmetarchives/albums/72157661823684156/

#AsianMastodon #YYJ #Lekwungen #VancouverIsland #ChineseCanadian #JapaneseCanadian #AsianCanadian #YYJhistory #AsianDiaspora

I remember me & others #FOBS - Fresh off the boat refugees, were treated with disdain by #Asian folks born here & it confused me a lot, as a little kid. I didn't understand why people who looked like me & my family, seemed to hate & not want to be anywhere around us refugee kids. It took me years to learn that they were so #whitewashed #indoctrinated, they became just as cruel to us as the white racist kids were. I felt sorry for them. I thought - how awful their lives must be, hating their own cultures & ethnicness. I got angry at their actions. I always felt more sorry for those #POC #brainwashed kids, than anger.

#AsianMastodon #ChineseCanadian #RefugeeKidExperiences

I picked some #flowers from our #gardens to make a new #bouquet for my Dad's memorial altar. We are doing his one year passing ceremonies on Sunday afternoon.

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Taoists #AsianCanadian #ChineseCanadian #ChineseStatues #DoorGuardians #bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #MemorialBouquet #CutFlowers

My fresh cut garden flowers in a bouquet in round glass vase. Behind it are large & small Chinese guardian statues, painted gold. The large one is standing. The small one is kneeling on one knee.

A new #exhibit has opened up at the #MahSociety of #Edmonton, taking visitors through more than a century of #ChineseCanadian #history.

The Journey of the Horse was created by Sue Mah & Andrea Maru.

The two met on a #heritage tour in 2019 back to their #ancestral village in southern #China, where they both inspired to share their family’s history & the #hardships early #Chinese #settlers to #Canada experienced.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10513329/edmonton-chinese-history-exhibit/amp/

#AsianMastodon #ChineseInCanada #ChineseHistory #Canadian

How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.

For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696

#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers

Unexpected #GoodNews - #NewHoKing #Chinese restaurant in #Toronto's #Chinatown has their online reviews skyrocket with #PositiveFeedback due to their food getting mentioned in #KendrickLamar's #Drake diss track.

https://youtu.be/XglDUD7jrdQ?si=P_90J4Ac18K4pQfW

#AsianMastodon #ChineseFood #ChineseCanadian #AsianCanadian #TorontoRestaurants

In #PortAlberni early 1990s.

Shortly after my 4th Uncle(Dad's little brother) & Aunt bought a small store & built their family home beside it. They've since retired & sold the store. They still live in Port Alberni.

Pictured from left to right:
My Mom, big Auntie Chan, 4th Auntie Louise & Uncle Minh

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #FamilyMemories #POC #MyFamily #ChineseCanadian #VancouverIsland #FamilyHistory

Circa early 1990s in Port Alberni at my 4th Uncle's old Riverbend store.
Left to right: My Mom, big Auntie Chan, 4th Auntie & Uncle.
Black and white photo.

Global News BC: New Chinese Canadian Museum opens in Vancouver https://globalnews.ca/news/9804535/vancouver-chinese-canadian-museum/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ChineseCanadianHistory #chinese-canadianmuseum #ChineseExclusionAct #institutionalracism #anti-Asianracism #ChineseCanadian #Entertainment #Canadahistory #Perspectives #Politics #chinese #History #Racism #Social #Arts

Members of #Montreal 's #ChineseCommunity gathered in Chinatown on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the #ChineseImmigrationAct aka the #ChineseExclusionAct .

The #exclusion act stopped all #Chinese #immigration into #Canada & divided hundreds of families until it was #repealed in 1946.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1982829/montreals-chinese-community-marks-100-years-since-chinese-exclusion-act

#AsianMastodon #ChineseHeadTax #discrimination #racism #oppression #exploitation #CanadianHistory #Quebec #CanadasUglyTruths #ChinesePeople #ChineseCanadian #ChineseInCanada

「前人種樹，後人乘涼」"The predecessors plant trees and the descendants enjoy the shade." – #Chinese #proverb

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6858176

#AsianMastodon #Canada #ChineseHeadTax #ChineseCanadian #ChineseInCanada #racism #prejudice #oppression #SlaveLabour #discrimination #CanadianHistory

#Vancouver based #chef & #author is exploring the #ChineseCanadian experience through the lens of #SmallTown #AsianRestaurants original #docuseries House Special, created by the local #filmmaking team behind Black Rhino Creative.
Jackie Kai Ellis says she makes her way across #BritishColumbia & #Alberta in search of #Chinese #Canadian #restaurants

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/05/19/chinese-canadian-docuseries/amp

#AsianMastodon #Asian #EthnicCanadian #ChineseFood #AsianFood #Cultural #Cultural #documentary #BCfilm #Canada

#NewExhibition at #Canadian #Museum of #Immigration in #Halifax #honours #Chinese #Immigrant #History 🙌

[... #discovery of the document, issued to her paternal grandfather upon his arrival from #China to #VictoriaBC in 1916, upended almost everything Lee, who was raised in Halifax but now lives in #Toronto thought she knew about her family's immigration history.]

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6847600

#AsianMastodon #ChineseCanadian #ChineseInCanada #AsianCanadian #Canada #NovaScotia #POCinCanada #POC

#HongKongWatch #Canada welcomed the idea. However, since consulting the public would take a few years to form legislation, the #HumanRights group urged the #CanadianGovernment to set up an #independent #reporting #hotline first. The group stated an urgent need for a hotline to prevent any suspected agents of the #Chinese #CommunistParty (#CCP ) from continuing to #intimidate Hongkongers in Canada.