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Join Foundation for Chinese Dignity and the Cowichan Valley community members to witness the recognition of the heritage significance of the Old Hillcrest Chinese Cemetery where at least 127 Chinese labourers in the region's sawmill industry are interred. Learn more about this initiative here.

This public lecture with Dr. Yao Sweden Xiao explored the undertold vicissitudes of Chinese Canadian lives and expressions through The Chinese Times (1914 – 1992), one of the longest-running Chinese-language newspapers in Canada that was published in Vancouver Chinatown. Drawing on personal farewell letters, editorial essays, ads for everyday escapes, as well as community news of mutual aid, resilience, and collective protests, Xiao brings to light the subtleties of inter-group relations, the reverberations of global geopolitics, the power of grassroots literacy, and the evolving role of culture in shaping diasporic Chinese Canadian identification. At its heart are the soulful and indignant voices of forgotten migrants – underpaid workers, dreamers, lifeline connectors, nonconformists – whose embers of hopes and sorrows glow at the margins of minoritized memories, underrepresentation, and above all, long overdue human dignities. Learn more.