The British Columbia History Internet/Web Site

Historical Disciplines and Subjects: Ethnic / Immigration / Emigration

To search for new or updated content, use the page-search function of your Web browser and search on "date added" or "date updated". Dates are entered as "yyyy.mm.dd", for example, "2001.08.23".

• Across the Generations: A History of the Chinese in Canada (Sumner Group and Canada's Digital Collections). Date added: 2001.05.28.
• Asian Canadian includes links to historical and genealogical resources under the Knowledge category.
• Becoming Canadian: Pioneer Sikhs in Their Own Words (Canada's Digital Collections)
• Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia
• British Columbia Black History Awareness Society
• Chinese Canadian Historical Photo Exhibit (Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter)
• A Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family (Vancouver Museum and Canada's Digital Collections)
• The Doukhobor Collection, 1898-1930 (Electronic Document Centre, Simon Fraser University Library). Searchable/browsable multimedia digital facsimile collection which includes full-text books, book chapters, magazine articles, and archival records preserved by SFU.
• Early Asian Pioneers in Western Canada by Nadine FabbiShushan (Canadian Studies Center, University of Washington)
• Harvest of Dreams celebrates the centennial of the first Ukrainian immigrants to Canada (Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre and Canada's Digital Collections)
• Home Children Canada (Pacific)
• Immigrant Voices (Canada's Digital Collections). Produced and donated by Chinook Multimedia Inc. Date added: 2001.11.19.
• Immigrants to Canada maintained by Marjorie P. Kohli (University of Waterloo, Ontario) includes extensive emigration data and links.
• Japanese Canadian Internment Information at the University of Washington Libraries and Beyond
• Kootenay: An Exploration of Historic Prejudice and Intolerance (Fort Steele Heritage Town and Canada's Digital Collections)
• The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930 by Jean Bruce (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
• Making History, Constructing Race: Situating 'Race' in Time, Space and Theory, 25 to 28 October 1998, University of Victoria, Cadboro Commons Conference Centre
• Nikkei Place (National Nikkei Heritage Centre Society) is a Web site and physical facility in Burnaby devoted to the history and culture of Japanese Canadians
• Pioneer East Indian Immigration to the Pacific Coast by T.S. Sibia includes text and photographs documenting the experiences of East Indian immigrants to the US and Canada.
• Scotland's Transatlantic Relations (STAR). Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh and Centre of Canadian Studies. Summary: "STAR's mission is to further the study of Scotland's connections with North America and the Caribbean." The site includes the STAR Archive with multimedia electronic resources relating to STAR's mission. Date added: 2002.10.25.
• TheShipsList (Sue Swiggum and Marjorie P. Kohli). Date added: 2001.06.03.
• Swiss Guide Centennial Festival, 1899-1999 (Golden) celebrated the arrival of Swiss mountain guides to the Canadian Rocky and Selkirk Mountains.
• The Wallace B. Chung and Madelaine H. Chung Collection (University of British Columbia Library). Donated in 1999 by the the Chungs, the collection features documents and artifacts relating to voyages of discovery to the Northwest Coast, immigration, and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Date added: 2002.05.19.
• Young Immigrants to Canada maintained by Marjorie P. Kohli (University of Waterloo, Ontario) contains data and links pertinent to child immigrants.

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