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A picture of Nettie Ware when she received her honourary doctorate from the University of Lethbridge in 1982. Nettie dedicated her whole life to contributing to the community, and as a result, she received a doctorate that she deserved. She received…

Joseph Koo is a Chinese Canadian composer and is widely touted as being the father of Cantopop, having pioneered and paved the way throughout the late 20th century for musicians in this genre. The starting point of Cantopop can thus be traced to his…

Oliver Jones is another important African-Canadian pianist and Jazz musician, especially with regards to his influence on Little Burgundy, a neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, which became a hub for African diaspora cultural expression. An influential…

Oscar Peterson is renowned not only domestically in Canada, but also more regionally, and even internationally as an influential African-Canadian artist and Jazz musician. One of his most popular songs, “Hymn To Freedom” published in 1963, was borne…

Leslie Cheung is one of the first pioneers in the musical genres of Mandopop and Cantopop, reflected in his performance at a Vancouver Fundraising event for flood victims in China in 1990. While Mandopop and Cantopop are popular forms of music across…

This is another photograph taken by Yucho Chow, centering around an unidentified Black sailor from the US Navy in 1944. Here there is again the attempt to humanize minority soldiers, individualizing them by capturing their faces to present to a world…

This is a photograph of Mah James, a soldier of Chinese-descent in World War 2 who fought on the side of Canada, taken in 1942 by Yucho Chow. Photos like these are important parts of humanising the statistical costs of war, looking beyond the numbers…

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…

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 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,…