The Early Chinese Canadians, 1858-1947
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Educational Resources 

Activity Resources

Below are links to websites that may help to complete the activities in this educational resource.

Library and Archives Canada Websites 
(accessed March 24, 2009)

Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience
The Educational Resource section of this website on immigration offers two detailed critical thinking lesson plans on immigration, plus lesson plans and activities exploring genealogy in Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/immigrants/021017-6000-e.html

Images Canada
This is a useful source of historical images for student research with 11 images for the keywords “Chinese Canadian” and 219 for the keyword “Chinese”.
http://www.imagescanada.ca/

Chinese Immigrants Database

Library and Archives Canada holds the General Registers of Chinese Immigration, a list of all immigrants of Chinese origin arriving in Canada between 1885 and 1949. The registers include such information as age, certificate number, place of birth, occupation, date and port of arrival in Canada and head tax paid. The registers have been digitized and are available online by using the “Search” function in the box at the top left of the screen.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/chinese-immigrants/index-e.html

Chinese-Canadian Genealogy (in English and Chinese)
A partnership between Library and Archives Canada and the Vancouver Public Library, this site provides research tools and information on Chinese Canadian pioneers and genealogy.
http://www.vpl.ca/ccg/index.html

External Websites 
Note: The opinions expressed in external websites do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Library and Archives Canada. 

McCord Museum Image Search
The McCord Museum site has 135,000 images, 52 of which are on the theme of the “Chinese” as well as an extensive collection of educational activities, learning games and resources. (accessed March 24, 2009)
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/search_results.php?Lang=1&keyword
s=immigrant

Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism
This site holds a large number of links on a variety of multicultural topics with several on Chinese Canadians. (accessed March 24, 2009)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/multi/index-eng.asp 

Citizenship and Immigration: Chinese Head Tax Redress
This site provides the text of the apology made on behalf of the Government of Canada in 2006 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the implementation of the Chinese Head Tax. It also includes a Frequently Asked Questions section. (accessed March 24, 2009).
http://www.cic.gc.ca/multi/rdrss/index-eng.asp

Canadian Heritage: Chinese Head Tax 
This Canadian Heritage site gives speaking notes for a speech made by the Honourable Jason Kenney on the subject of Chinese Head Tax payments. (accessed March 24, 2009).
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/arc_disc-spch/kenney/2007/20070413-eng.cfm

Canadian Heritage: Chinese Head Tax 
This Canadian Heritage site gives the text of the speech made by the Honourable Beverley J. Oda on the subject t of Chinese Head Tax payments. (accessed March 24, 2009).
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/minstr/arc_disc-spch/oda/2007/20070411-eng.cfm 

Multicultural Canada
This site includes newspapers, oral histories, photographs, and a wide variety of other sources on ethnic groups, with extensive learning modules for teachers. (accessed March 24, 2009).
http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/Collections

Tribulations des Chinois au Canada – Radio Canada (in French only)
This site includes 20 video and radio clips on Chinese Canadians from 1947 to 2004 from the Radio Canada archives. (accessed March 24, 2009)
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/societe/immigration/dossiers/1591/

CBC Digital Archives 
This site contains 13 video clips on the Chinese immigrant experience. Conduct a general keyword search under “Chinese” to retrieve 24 additional results. (accessed March 24, 2009)
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/immigration/topics/1433/