Canada Chinatown Series 加拿大唐人街系列

A second project related to the national chronology described above is under development. We intend to publish the Canada Chinatown Series as a set of companion documents to be used in conjunction with our national chronolgy and provided to educational, government and community organizations. These booklets will be produced in cooperation with universities and local community historians and the final text produced by Professor David Chuenyan Lai with assistance from our project team at the David Lam Centre. Our intention is to produce brief authoritative documentation of local Chinatown histories.

Our first booklet, fittingly on Canada’s first Chinatown, in Victoria, was completed in October 2011 and is supported by Victoria’s Mayor Dean Fortin and Victoria City Council. We have also nearly completed a second draft booklet on Vancouver’s Chinatown and negotiations are under way to generate local support in Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg for further booklets.

To date funds for this portion of the project have been provided by:

• Victoria Foundation
• Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• University of Victoria
• City of Victoria
• Tourism Victoria
• Downtown Victoria Business Association
• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association