It’s Asian History Month

This month is stuffed with events, presentations, talks, and webinars about Asian history. Here’s what’s on at Past-Presence.

• On Facebook in Genealogy for Asian Canadians, I’ve posted a new Chinese Immigration No. 9 tool to help us find native-born Chinese Canadians, Port of Vancouver, 1939-1952, created by Gordon Fulton
• On Instagram, you’ll see a SK campaign to ask folks to look in their drawers and attics for Chinese landing certificates. We want all the documents we can get before the Paper Trail Collection at UBC closes on June 30th.
• I’m presenting to Family Tree Webinars on “Finding the records for “impossible” genealogy – lessons learned from a Chinese genealogist,” on May 8th.
• I’ll be in Winnipeg May 6-10, researching the roots of historic Western Canadian records at the Hudson’s Bay Archives, among others.
• Please note that the May Chinese Genealogy Coffee Chat will be moved to MAY 15, 10 AM PACIFIC. This Coffee Chat is open to members of the BC Genealogical Society and my group Genealogy for Asian Canadians. (If you’re not yet a member of either group, come join the fun.)
• Finally, I’m hoping to get a special guest to join me on Zoom. If his schedule permits, you will NOT want to miss this. Come join us in Genealogy for Asian Canadians (and don’t forget to agree to the Group Rules).

A special note – two new collections were released in April 2024. See the United Church Archives’ “Digital Collections of Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian Communities,” Pacific Mountain Regional Council. Archival work by Carolyn Nakagawa and June Chow. Ancestry released the “U.S., WWII Japanese Americans Incarcerated in Confinement Sites.” Read more here.

There is much, much more than I can possibly list. Looking forward to all things #AsianHistory Month. Do you have an event to add? Let me know in the comments!