Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim: 'The Chinese Canadian Museum will serve as a testament to the endurance, the triumphs, and the immeasurable contributions of Chinese Canadians to our city and our country.'
The Chinese Canadian Museum is set to open its doors on July 1 in the historic Wing Sang Building in Vancouver’s Chinatown, after years of planning.
The opening feature exhibition is The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, which focuses on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The museum also features a recreated 1930s living room in the Wing Sang Building, where Yip Sang and his family lived. And, there’s a recreation of one of Vancouver’s oldest school rooms, from 1914.
The museum’s opening was welcomed by delegates, including Premier David Eby and Mayor Ken Sim, the city’s first mayor of Chinese ethnicity. The museum’s construction was not without some controversy, as a former museum director, Bill Yee, received criticism from Chinese-Canadian groups when he dismissed allegations of a Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang, prompting concerns about how the museum could be politicized by individuals sympathetic or under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
Remembering Chinese Exclusion Act should serve education, not ideology: activist More recently, controversy stirred around the anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, after Canadian senators Victor Oh and Yuen Pau Woo likened a proposed foreign agents registry as a modern form of Chinese exclusion. The senators, often seen in the company of China's consular officials, staged a rally in Ottawa on June 24 to amplify that message.
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