Chester Brown Hamilton, cropped from larger group photograph of students posing in front of a long belt in a mechanical lab at the School of Practical Science.
This is an excerpt of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 clearly displaying its intention to restrict Chinese immigration into Canada. The Chinese Immigration Act created the Chinese head tax, which required Chinese migrants to pay a tax to enter…
This replica resembles the chartered junk James and Sarah Endicott sailed on when they first arrived at Jiading in 1895 after travelling down the Min River from Chengdu. It is also like the junk Jim and Mary hired in early 1927, when the West China…
This screenshot captures the search results from the Chinese Migrant Database operated by Library and Archives Canada for Chong Do Dang, a ten year old boy. The records show that Chong Do Dang was registered on Feb. 11, 1922.
The Chinese puppet theater is one of the oldest arts in the world. In 300 BC, wood and mud figures were used with movable limbs for magical and funeral purposes. It is believed that these first figures gave rise to the emergence of the first puppets.…
A pamphlet written by Stepan Rudnytskyi under the pseudonim Sh. Levenko describing characteristics of the Ukrainian nationality, from race, language, history, culture, land, and the issue of Ukrainian Independence.
A reprint of an early socialist brochure from 1910-11, written by the prolific Ukrainian academic, Vadym Shcherbakivskyĭ, under the pseudonym, V. Shvachka.
Two short stories written by Borys Hrinchenko, the first a rewritten version of Lev Tolstoy's story 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus' under the title 'Chornomortsi v nevoly' to circumvent censorship, the second 'Bez khliba' about a starving peasant…