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- Title
REFRACTING PACIFIC CANADA: Seeing Our Uncommon Past.
- Abstract
Introduces a special issue of 'BC Studies,' which emphasizes the Pacific orientation of British Columbia. The author draws from the 150th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the province as a British colony in 1858 and the arrival of three Chinese merchants in 1788. Asians are thereby as original to British Columbia as the British, yet their history in this region has been insufficiently studied. If, through refraction, the anti-Asian riots of 1907 or the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway were viewed through a Pacific orientation, the perspective of the immigrants rather than those in control who left out the contributions of the Chinese and Japanese in their midst would expose the "uncommon past" of British Columbians.
- Publication
BC Studies, 2007, Issue 156/157, p5
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article