Archiving Chinese-Canadians’ oral history

[helen]

www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/824595--archiving-chinese-canadians-oral-history The Multicultural History Society of Ontario has launched a new website dedicated to the oral histories of Chinese Canadian women during the exclusion period.

Launched March 31, the website explores the impact of discriminatory immigration legislation during 1923 to 1947, with 33 new interviews conducted across Canada.

[ziqing]

Hi Helen,

Something is just as exciting.

Cheers,
ZiQing

chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/about/

“Chinese Canadian Stories – Uncommon Histories from a Common Past” is a collaborative project between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and various campus and community-wide partners. This project will reshape the way all of us understand Canada, and reclaim the forgotten histories of peoples who have long been ignored in Canadian history.

The initiative aims to create:

1) A portal website that will be the first stop for Chinese Canadian history that is multilingual with English and Chinese resources

2) A digital archive that deposits and preserves digital material created from partner organizations funded by the CHRP and saves it in a searchable database

3) Workshops in the summer of 2010 and 2011 that will be attended by participants from local community organizations and from targeted community organizations across Canada that are receiving CHRP funding. These workshops, along with select community engagement events across the nation, will also help promote the process of digital preservation and collection and share what occurred at the summer workshops.

4) Promotion of Grade 5-12 classroom use of both the portal website and the digital materials through the creation of learning resources and teaching materials that will use CHRP created materials, embedding the material within a rethinking of the role of Chinese and First Nations peoples in the building of the CPR and in building Canada. The project aims to print 500 copies of teaching guides for the use of the downloadable web resources that can be accessed for free at the UBC website.

5) Virtual experiences that will appear in different forms on the portal website and within portable interactive kiosks, to be launched in early 2012.