Immigrant Experience

	1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project The 1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project celebrates the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by digitizing 400 hours of oral testimonies collected by second and third generation Hungarian-Canadians. The interviewees tell their personal stories of their involvement in the... more
	Ajaib (Jab) Sidhoo Collection Ajaib (Jab) Sidhoo was born on January 8, 1923 in the Punjab, India, when it was still ruled by Britain. Due to his father’s protestation against high British taxes on farmland in India, Jab’s father relocated to Vancouver Island in 1927, where he worked in the Kapoor sawmill. Jab was sent... more
	Bachelors and China Dolls, Sex and Race in Postwar Toronto's Chinatown,1920-1970 This collection consists of digitized materials concerning sex and race in Toronto between 1920 and 1970. It includes photographs from a private collection and newspaper articles about Chinese Canadians and white women (Chinadolls) in Toronto’s Chinatown, published in the Toronto Chinese... more
	BC Multicultural Photograph Collection at the Vancouver Public Library This collection of photographs depicts the contributions of immigrants and First Nations peoples to BC. The photographs feature significant events and activities such as the development of Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Chinese contribution to railroad construction in B.C., East Indians and the... more
	Cheekungtong Collection Note: This collection will only be available at this location until summer 2024. After that time, items in it will continue to be available in UBC Library's... more
	Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University A collection of digitized images, print materials, and ephemera relating to the settlement of the Doukhobors in Canada, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. During this time period, thousands of Doukhobors fled religious persecution in their native Ukraine. This collection,... more
	Expanded Kootenay Committee on Intergroup Relations The Expanded Kootenay Committee on Inter-Group Relations (EKCIR) was launched in October 1982. Established through the BC Ministry of the Attorney General, it included representatives from the various Doukhobor communities, including the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC); the... more
	Indo-Canadian Oral History Collection A selection of interviews conducted with early Indian immigrants to Canada, almost all of them British Columbians, in 53 audio files. In the mid to late 1980s, two groups of researchers conducted detailed interviews with early Indo-Canadian settlers in Canada, almost all of them... more
	Italian Canadian Women Oral History Collection Interviews collected in the 1970s and 1980s documenting the experiences of Italian women who immigrated to Canada throughout the first three quarters of the twentieth century. Between 1950 and 1975, over 100,000 Italian women came to Canada as sojourners and settlers. This collection,... more
	Italian Canadian Women Photograph Collection A collection of archival images dating from 1950 to 1975 celebrating the contributions of Italian women immigrants to Canadian history and culture. In 1948, Canada began accepting family-sponsored Italian immigrants. Between 1950 and 1975, over 100,000 Italian women came as sojourners and... more