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This is a political cartoon entitled “A picture for employers. Why they can live on 40 cents a day, and they can't” designed by J. Keppler and published in Puck Magazine in 1878. While it was produced well before the period scope of this topic…

This is a political cartoon entitled “Not ready for these shoes.” designed by Don Resse and published by The Montreal Star in 1960. While other materials discuss this subject more concretely, it is now worth discussing how during the 1960s, the world…

This news report, entitled “Inside the 1969 Sir George Williams student protest”, is a piece of archived content from CBC’s The Way It Is program, originally aired during the protests of the same name and year. This report interviews student…

This is another news report, entitled “Chinese-Canadians enter the professions in the 1950s”, of archived content from the CBC and reporter Bill Cunningham, originally aired in 1957. Now sufficiently distanced from 1945, the end of the Second World…

This film is a 1959 documentary made by The Central News and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China, which is addressed as a birthday message from China to W. E. B. Du Bois and contains celebratory moments from his trip to the…

This is a photograph taken by Yucho Chow (a very well known Chinese-descended photographer who operated a store in Vancouver Chinatown) in 1944 of a woman named Emily Aida and her grandchildren. Chinatowns were hubs of multiculturalism, whether as a…

This is a photograph of a Telegram article written by Pat McNenly (including pictures by Leo Harrison) in 1954, centering around the action of Bromley Armstrong and Ruth Lor in testing the recently enacted Equal Accommodations Act of that year during…

This video is part of a rebuttal broadcast produced by the Chinese Canadian Council of Ontario during the W5 “Campus Giveaway” protests in 1979. It works to dismantle and rebuke claims targeting Chinese Canadian students as being inherently foreign,…

This news broadcast was produced by Nick Purdon and the CBC News in 2014, entitled “How a group stood up for civil rights in an Ontario town”, which develops on the aforementioned story of Bromley Armstrong and Ruth Lor as they revisit the same…

This is a photograph taken of members of the Chinese Association of Trinidad and Tobago (at least is now currently referred to as such) in 1929. While 1929 is fairly before the website’s focus period, it is useful in contextualising how the Chinese…