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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Edition
- First, revised
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
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- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Responsibility
- Cecil Foster
- Edition
- First, revised
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 296 pages
- Abstract
- Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781771962612
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 08.1 F81t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Unspoken territory [DVD video]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14756
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Author
- Bociurkiw, Marusya
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Moving images distribution
- Call Number
- 08.1 Un7b DVD
- Author
- Bociurkiw, Marusya
- Responsibility
- A film by Marusya Bociurkiw
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Moving images distribution
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- 1 (60 minutes.) : sd., col. with b & w sequences
- Notes
- Depicts the "lost" unspoken moments in Canadian history told through the stories of First Nations, immigrant and Quebecois women. Partial contents: Chinese railway workers, 1915 Ukranian internment camp and Japanese internment camp. Also includes booklet "Discussion and viewing guide" pertainining to use of the film for secondary school education
- Accession Number
- 8041
- Call Number
- 08.1 Un7b DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
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White Canada forever : popular attitudes and public policy toward Orientals in British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26522
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Ward, W. Peter
- Publisher
- Montreal ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Edition
- 3rd
- Call Number
- 08.1 W21w
- Author
- Ward, W. Peter
- Edition
- 3rd
- Publisher
- Montreal ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- xxvii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Immigration
- World War II
- British Columbia
- Racism
- Abstract
- "White British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II. In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast racism."--Jacket
- Contents
- I. Sinophobia ascendant -- 1. John Chinaman -- 2. The roots of animosity -- 3. Agitation and restriction -- 4. The Vancouver riot -- II. East Indian interlude -- 5. The Komagata Maru incident -- III. The rise of anti-Japanese feeling -- 6. Japs -- 7. Exclusion -- 8. Evacuation -- 9. The drive for a white B.C.
- ISBN
- 9780773523227
- Accession Number
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 08.1 W21w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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