🍃Carkner🥺"Sid Chow Tan (1949-2022), was a Vancouver-based media producer, activist, community organizer, video documentarian, television host, and writer, among many other roles. [...] We are pleased to announce that the first phase of videos from the Sid Chow Tan fonds have been digitized and are now available in our online database."
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2026/03/19/videos-from-the-sid-chow-tan-fonds-now-available/
Nancy Marguerite AndersonTHE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Once Anderson's expedition party made their way over the Tulameen Plateau to the north, they reached the beautiful Nicola Valley, where many of their trails followed old Indigenous routes in every direction. #BCHistory #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicola-valley/
Once Anderson's expedition party made their way over the Tulameen Plateau to the north, they reached the beautiful Nicola Valley, where many of their trails followed old Indigenous routes in every direction. #BCHistory #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicola-valley/
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
At the top of the Tulameen Plateau, a tree stands alone on the shores of a small lake. It is a Maypole Tree, decorated and named for the leader of a party of men who have never stepped foot on this height of land before. This tree is Anderson's tree. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/andersons-tree/
At the top of the Tulameen Plateau, a tree stands alone on the shores of a small lake. It is a Maypole Tree, decorated and named for the leader of a party of men who have never stepped foot on this height of land before. This tree is Anderson's tree. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/andersons-tree/
Ms. Que BanhHuge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.
We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.
Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)
https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/
#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse
THE CHILCOTIN POST WAS A SMALL POST WEST of Fort Alexandria, surrounded by First Nations people who were not as friendly as their neighbours had been to the HBC men. It had been built in 1829, and was finally closed down in 1844, as a result of a new post being constructed some miles to the north. #AmWriting #History #BCHistory #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/chilcotin/
On April 6, 1980, the #Canadian #Farmworkers #Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among #Chinese and #EastIndian #ImmigrantWorkers in #BritishColumbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and #labour contractors to the threat of #unionization. Made over a period of two years, the #documentary film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the #WorkersMovement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/time-to-rise/
#CanadianImmigrants #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Racism #EmployerExploitation #WorkersRights
A Time to Rise
Julia Kwan’s feature-length #documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in #VancouverBC #Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows a year in the life of several #Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old #Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this #community in flux.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/everything_will_be/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCommunity #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #gentrification #YVR
Everything Will Be
This #documentary tells the story of a #Chinese #cemetery in #VictoriaBC that became a #NationalHeritage site. For Chinese #pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at #HarlingPoint was a temporary resting place until their bones could be returned home. (Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign place wanders lost until their bones are returned home.) This film traces the rich history of the #VancouverIsland cemetery from controversy and neglect to its revival as a #historic site. Told by those closest to it, the story of Harling Point is a metaphor for #Canada , a country still working on making a home for all who live within its borders.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/from_harling_point/
#AsianMastodon #ChineseInBC #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadian #ChineseDiaspora #ChinesePioneers #ChineseCanadianHistory #History #Canada #Immigrants #CulturalHistory #CulturalDiversity #BritishColumbia #BCHistory #Racism #Resilience
From Harling Point
More visual memories from recent multi-day sailing adventures around the #SalishSea 😊
#SailAway #CoastalBC #Adventures #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #PacificOcean #sailboat #wildlife #AbandonedPlaces #landscape #seascape #Summer #marine #nautical #LifeIsForLiving #MakingMemories #hydroelectric #BChistory #BCHydro
Heritage House PublishingCalled “a must-read for anyone who loves the history of this province” by author Katherine Palmer Gordon, Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan reveals the long-forgotten history of BC’s “silver-rush”.
Available now at https://shorturl.at/BQRfP
