What is Pacific Canada?

What is “Pacific Canada”? Pacific Canada is a perspective on Canada’s history, present, and future that recognizes the crucial importance of our long standing links to the Pacific region. As a corrective, it recovers histories that have been ignored or erased, and offers a new vision of Canada’s present and future. The first stage, focused on the central role of Chinese Canadians in our collective history, inaugurates a long term commitment at UBC to explore Pacific Canada. Over the next ten years, an academic historian at UBC, Henry Yu, will guide his students in creating oral history projects that will engage community with digital technologies in re-creating and remembering the past for the present. Here is one of INSTRCC's earliest student projects, "Eating Global Vancouver."