This Asian Heritage Month, the Museum presents a special edition of Canada’s Storytellers featuring award winning community historian and curator Catherine Clement to explore Chinese Canadian history through her landmark book, The Paper Trail…
This Asian Heritage Month, the Museum presents a special edition of Canada’s Storytellers featuring award winning community historian and curator Catherine Clement to explore Chinese Canadian history through her landmark book, The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act.
What to expect:
• Talk and reading examining the human impact of the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
• Insight into how a single law separated families and subjected Chinese Canadians to decades of surveillance and exclusion
