The museum hopes to tell the 'full history.'
VANCOUVER — When the Chinese Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923, it didn't just effectively halt Chinese immigration to Canada — it extinguished the family lines of thousands of labourers already here.
Now their stories are being told at the exhibition, "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act." The museum opens its permanent location in Chinatown's historic Wing Sang Building after more than six years of planning, starting with then-premier John Horgan mandating the province's Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry to establish the institution.
Museum CEO Melissa Karmen Lee described the institution as a startup, saying that the facility's ultimate success will depend on how many visitors it can draw.
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