Chinese Head Tax Project at UBC

The federal government’s Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP) recently awarded a UBC project that involves students interviewing elders from B.C. communities. The idea is to preserve and archive Chinese-Canadian experiences from 1885 to 1947, during the times of the restrictive Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Immigration Act. The first project from this grant was created in 2009 by UBC students, Jennifer Yip and Alejandro Yoshizawa, for the IKBLC-INSTRCC collaborative Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP), this film called Vancouver’s Chinatown: Past, Present, and Future uses the historic buildings of Chinatown as a way to explore the history and importance of this community to Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada. This video is the first of a series of student-based projects that will be created throughout the three-year period of the CHRP.