See everything, hear everything
Watch 60 films, 170 excerpts and over 80 archival artefacts selected by NFB specialists as part of this unique project.
Excerpts from NFB films
The Third Heaven
[1998]
The heritage of Chinese contributions to Vancouver, B.C. and Canada is discussed by...
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi
[1998]
In 1942, Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King ordered all Japanese people relocated...
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi
[1998]
Success at hockey was based on skills, not race, explains Eugene Ouchi, a Japanese...
Minoru: Memory of Exile
[1992]
Canada ordered the dispersal of Japanese Canadians from British Columbia in 1945....
Entire NFB Films
Enemy Alien
[1975]
This is about a people who dared to ask: "What are they going to do with us?" The...
From Harling Point
[2003]
Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign...
Canada Vignettes: The Dentist
[1978]
A Japanese-Canadian who practices dentistry in Montréal recalls his childhood in a...
One of Many--Dr. Nhan
[1983]
Dr. Nahn, an ethnic Chinese refugee from Vietnam, is one of the many "boat people"...
Photographs
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1947, Alexander Won Cum Yow cast the first vote by a Chinese Canadian marking the...
A Sense of Family
[1980]
During the early 1900s, the first immigrants from India arrived in Victoria and...
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