• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • 604-419-0400
  • info@labourheritagecentre.ca
Working People Built BC
  • About
    • Our History
    • Board of Directors & Staff
    • Our Sponsors
  • BCLHC Blog
  • BC Labour History Resources
    • Articles and Research
    • BC Labour History
    • Lesson Plans
    • Podcast
    • Media Resources
    • Archives
  • Projects
    • South Asian Labour History Project
    • Asbestos Memorial Project
    • COVID
    • Walking Tours
    • Plaques Project
      • Vancouver Convention Centre
      • Plaques Around the Province
      • Mapping Our History
    • Oral History Project
    • Labour History Project for Schools
  • Video Gallery
    • Working People Series
    • History of Health and Safety in BC
    • Other history videos
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Newsletter
  • Contact us

asian heritage month

Education

The Asiatic Exclusion League Riot, 1907

(Photo credit: Boarded-up businesses after race riots in Chinatown at northwest corner of Carrall Street at Pender, 1907: Vancouver Public Library #940) In recognition of Asian Heritage Month, we remember a painful part of British Columbia’s labour history: The Asiatic Exclusion League. With high unemployment and a recession in full Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 3 years1 year ago
Education

Wong Hau-Hon, Railway Worker

  (Excerpt from On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement, by Rod Mickleburgh [2018]) The thousands of Chinese immigrants who endured so much helping to unite Canada by rail left little record of their ordeal. But we do have one personal account written by former railway Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 3 years3 years ago
Search
Donate
Donate Button with Credit Cards
© BC Labour Heritage Centre, 2021 ufcw1518