Interesting Asian histori.ca minutes
Watching the movie minutes on tv by http://histori.ca, I really like the well produced vignettes about the past.
I'd like to contribute by suggesting some Asian Canadian based histori.ca minutes, currently there are 2 out of 326 about Asian Canadians one is about Normie Kwon, a CFL'er and another about the coolies that worked the railway.
Suggestions include
Barkerville: Canada's first multicultural city
The main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush, whose population was comprised of a mixture of Europeans, Asians and Native Indians.
http://www.wellsbc.com/History1/barkerville.htm
http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/info/content.html
Kwong Lee company - the first chain store in BC
http://www.museevirtuel.ca/pm_v2.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=00...
Won Alexander Cumyow
An early Chinese Canadian public servant and community leader. The first person of Chinese descent known to have been born within the boundaries of present-day Canada. The only Chinese person to have voted both before and after the disenfranchisement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won_Alexander_Cumyow
http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/1947/sltpg106.html
Jimmy Smith
Chinese Calgarian, 1890, who donated the bulk of his estate to establish Calgary's first public hospital.
http://www.chinesealbertanhistory.com/timeline.htm
Quesnel photographers C.D. Hoy and C.S. Wing
"His portraits of local residents –Chinese, First Nation and Caucasian, speak profoundly of the economic, religious and social forces of acculturation at work in this young frontier town, but also reflect a casual intimacy that existed between individuals of diverse cultural background."
http://www.2010andbeyond.ca/html/inspiring-stories/quesnel-honours-histo...
http://www.quesnelmuseum.ca/SpecialEvents.htm
or other material:
http://www.explorasian.org/history.html
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage2.cfm?id=1149
http://www.asian.ca/history/
http://www.vpl.ca/research_guides/item/3809/C201
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/generations/index2.html
http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/info/content.html
http://www.famouschinese.com/virtual/Chinese_Canadian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_Canadians
http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/05/06/asian-heritage-month-famous-canadi...