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Open Access Digital Collections & Websites

A Brief Chronology of Chinese Canadian History: from Segregation to Integration
A digital collection of a series of booklets focusing on specific Chinatowns across Canada.
Chinese Canadian Stories - University of British Columbia
This digitized collection consists of materials that document Chinese Canadian history represented in the holdings of UBC Library, SFU Library, City of Vancouver Archives, Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP) community partners, and other community contributors. The collections contain digitized photographs, audio/video recordings, manuscripts (including correspondence and diaries), and organizational documents. The collection consists of 10 sub-collections and fonds:
The Chinese Experience in British Columbia: 1850-1950
This website contains stories and photographs of the earliest generations of Chinese-Canadians, from 1850-1950, and it will also link you to the digitized holdings of the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at the UBC Library, and the Yip family and Yip Sang Ltd. fonds at City of Vancouver Archives.
Chinese-Canadian Collection (University of Victoria)
This collection contains documents drawn from the fonds of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association held in the University of Victoria Archives. Most items are handwritten in traditional Chinese script with English translations.
Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (University of Victoria)
The Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (CCAP) for the first time brings together and makes accessible in a single, searchable database over 6000 Chinese Canadian artefacts held by 16 local and regional museums throughout British Columbia.
Chinese Community in Newfoundland
The collection contains publications, government documents, images and videos about the history of the Chinese in Newfoundland from 1895 till 1990s. The publications include newspaper excerpts and magazine articles.
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
The Project coordinates research in North America and Asia in order to create an on-line digital archive available to all, along with books, digital visualizations, conferences and public events.
Digitized CI 9 (Chinese Immigration 9) Certificates
A digitized collection of Chinese Canadian head tax certificates known as CI 9s between 1910 and 1953.
Harley J. Spiller collection of Chinese restaurant menus - available through UofT Archives
The collection comprises menus from around the world featuring a variety of cuisines including Chinese ((Peking, Szechuan, Shanghai, Yunnan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunan and Jiangnan).

Digitized images:

https://archive.org/details/spiller?&sort=-downloads&page=5

https://digitalscholarship.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/dsu%3Amenus
Imogene Lim Restaurant Menu Collection
The collections below represent selected restaurant menus and ephemera from the collection of Imogene Lim. The majority of these items are associated with Chinese restaurants, primarily in Canada and the United States, but also other locations.
A video overview of the menu collections entitled, History Through A Chinese Menu Collection (Where You Live)" is available via YouTube at https://youtu.be/XbtRfxByuos
The Ties That Bind: Building the CPR, Building a Place in Canada
The website contains resources that include primary source documents, images (historical photographs, newspaper cartoons), and oral history interviews; an historical timeline; and a bibliography in Chinese Canadian history.
Counter Cultures Network: Exploring the Chinese Shopkeeping Diaspora, Ryerson University

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