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
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Professional, political and economic opportunities opened up for the Chinese after...
Entire NFB Films
Shepherd's Pie and Sushi
[1998]
Mieko Ouchi is half Celtic, half Japanese... and all Canadian. In 1993, Mieko, an...
Bamboo, Lions and Dragons
[1981]
Two families, the Changs and the Lims, tell the story of the Chinese community in...
A Sense of Family
[1980]
This one-hour film charts East Indian immigration from the early 1900s to the...
Enemy Alien
[1975]
This is about a people who dared to ask: "What are they going to do with us?" The...
Photographs
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
[2004]
In 1947, Alexander Won Cum Yow cast the first vote by a Chinese Canadian marking the...