Journey to Canada: A Chinese Canadian Perspective

[@mmelouisemanton2756]

Thank you, Stephen. I am a BC secondary teacher and I am sharing this video with my students to help them better understand the past discriminatory policies of our Canadian government and their impact on families.

[@Josh-bf6ht]

Wow that’s amazing!

[@emmanuelalexzander304]

I dont mean to be so off topic but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my password. I would appreciate any tricks you can offer me.

[@wilkssan613]

thank you for posting. learning more about family homeland.

[@starry_eye_wanderer]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm doing research for a film and found this video very informative, heartbreaking and insightful.

[@PoetryETrain]

Stephen & Family I enjoyed this... Thank you very much for posting, added to a playlist also...

[@glennleong6307]

Just found this video. Nicely done. My parents are from Hoi Ping as well. We might be related, however we settled in Calgary.

[@labellamafia6339]

Thank you

[@nolanpam]

Thank you for the insightful history article. I am a 4th generation Chinese Canadian myself. Although my father was born in Victoria, his family received an "Immigration Paper" and not a birth certificate when he was born. His older cousins did serve in the second World War and broke through the racial barrier. When my father graduated from UBC Engineering there were only 2 coloured graduates him and an East Indian. Things have certainly changed!

[@breadtreeghfgfhftoychen203]

To much writing u did man

[@official_pierre6730]

@@breadtreeghfgfhftoychen203 than don't read it dumb shit

[@christopherfleming7848]

This video is great. You did a great job covering the broad portrait of history and tying it to the personal examples of your family.

[@rockytravels5299]

Thank you, great video - I am teaching my class about immigration in Canada and I like this personal story!

[@angelamach8119]

This is a wonderful video Stephen! It’s so great how you wove the historical aspect of the early Chinese immigration to Canada with your family’s stories. This is really quite special! And your great grandfather’s chest of kitchen tools is so neat :) thanks for sharing!

[@jgee8421]

nice

[@breadtreeghfgfhftoychen203]

U need to write more man

[@TazdeedChowdhury]

Hello cool video

[@jacobrocks7]

My grandfather and father came over from that area in China. It wasn’t easy dealing with the extreme racism and my grandmother couldn’t come. And here we are, many decades later and the anti Chinese is alive and well.

[@showlin40]

ottawa here me myself third gen canadian chinese very well done my grandfather had 7 kids with a native women my grandmother my grandfather came from xinhui guangdong

[@emoseakay4u]

good job

[@VWYL900802]

There are two people that made a huge impact for the status of the first few batches of immigrants coming to Canada: The Empress Dowager and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. In Vancouver, there's a Sun Yat-Sen Garden, and that's because Dr. Sun Yat-Sen came to Vancouver briefly. There's a batch of Chinese intellectuals in the turn of the century that went overseas to educate themselves. The Soong Sisters are an example. They went to school in England and returned to China to marry KMT founders. K, HK was given to England during Daoguang Emperor era. But his son died as the result of the burning of the Summer Palace, so his daughter in-law took over. The Empress Dowager had a very cold and distant sentiment with the West because of her dead husband and the force of many leased land as a result of debt with other Western nations. That kind of humiliation resulted in a sort of cultural humiliation and racism with the West. Sun Yat-Sen, the father of Revolution, as he was known, and his ideals of a new China, a new republic, created a different kind of relationship with China and the West, because it was at that time when China really started to modernize. But he died early, so KMT only lasted up to 1949 in China and moved to Taiwan, also made Canada's immigration laws changed with China. In the post war era, immigration with Chinese became more difficult because of PRC. Many had to go through HK to go to Canada. Which is a different wave immigrants since the gold rush, the CPR, and WW2.

[@jho4648]

This is a great video Thank you v much Stephen❤ One thing makes me curious for ages, why do Chinese prefer migration? Dislike HOME😢 This is so absurd that HOME is not safe for children.😢😢

[@greyowl7348]

Very well done! I will share this with my students. However, I will correct one detail: The Chinese Exclusion Act was not enacted in 1885, as you state in the video. It took effect in 1923. You correctly point out that the discriminatory Head Tax began in 1885, but clearly a country can't bar people from entering while charging them a tax to do so. The reason for the Exclusion Act was that despite the racist Head Tax, Chinese immigrants kept coming to Canada! They were brave, determined, hardworking people. We should never forget the sacrifices they made so that future generations could live here.

[@KennTried]

i was sent by my ela teacher

[@canman5060]

Very humble and hard working Chinese people in those days. New immigrants nowadays tends to take many things for granted and expect more and more for less and less.

[@shivamrai2886]

It's a shame that too many people don't differentiate these guys against those rich douches from Hong Kong

[@branjwong]

sick vid dawg

[@saadahmed7762]

hard

[@不能在动谷歌商家任何]

好

[@alfredchang4413]

@Brooklyn Frizzell this is mandarin words. Interesting right? Different from latino style words.

[@anthonylee2158]

why showing the subtitle ? She speaks relatively good English besides some grammar problems. I think this is racist to show what she said in words like we could not understand her English.

[@canman5060]

Now it is CCP Canada !

[@alfredchang4413]

As a chinese, I hate CCP. Just accept chinese people and dont be stereotype. Thanks!

[@RioGrandedoSuleiro]

Go back to Europe if you don’t like multicultural Canda you racist Karen 😂🤡