Info Guides: Racism and Anti-Racism: anti-Asian racism

Timeline: Asia-Canada
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia
SUMMARY: "The Asia-Canada timeline presented here is a chronological record of over 200 years of history since the first Chinese settlers helped build a trading post in Nootka Sound. The timeline touches on the settlement history of various Asian groups, the discrimination that many suffered in our early history, accomplishments, firsts, biographies, and the gradual changes through which Canadian society came to accept the rights and equality of its Asian immigrants."
Racial Segregation of Asian Canadians
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Author: Sarah Isabel Wallace

Chinese Head Tax in Canada
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Author: Arlene Chan.
The Chinese-Canadian Experience - a National Film Board playlist
SOURCE: National Film Board of Canada

History of South Asians in Canada: Timeline
SOURCE: South Asian Studies Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
South Asian Canadians
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. author: Celine Cooper
South Asian Canadians
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. authors: Norman Buchignani & Celine Cooper
The Vote: The South Asian Franchise in Canada
SOURCE: South Asian Studies Institute, University of the Fraser Valley

Japanese Canadians
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. author: Ann Sunahara
Japanese Canadian Internment: Prisoners in their own Country
SOURCE: The Canadian Encyclopedia. author: James H. Marsh, updated by Eli Yarhi
Japanese Canadian Oral History Collection
SOURCE: Simon Fraser University
SUMMARY: Find dozens of oral history recordings to listen to online.
From Racism to Redress: The Japanese Canadian Experience
SOURCE: The Canadian Race Relations Foundation
SUMMARY: A short article that includes a timeline.

The Diary of Dukesang Wong by Wanda Joy Hoe (Translator); David McIlwraith (Editor); Dukesang Wong Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong's written account of life working on the Canadian Pacific Railway, a Gold Mountain life, tells of the punishing work, the comradery, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous Peoples, and the dark and shameful history of racism and exploitation that prevailed up and down the North American continent. The Diary of Dukesang Wong includes all the selected entries translated in the mid-1960s by his granddaughter, Wanda Joy Hoe, for an undergraduate sociology paper. Background history and explanations for the diary's unexplained references are provided by David McIlwraith, the book's editor, who also considers why the diarist's voice and other Chinese voices have been silenced for so long.
Publication Date: 2020

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