Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP)

The Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) will soon be bringing generations together to tell the oft-untold stories of Chinese-Canadians who endured some of this country’s darker days. The federal government’s Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP) is giving $50,000 to support a UBC project that involves students interviewing elders from B.C. communities. The idea is to preserve and archive Chinese-Canadian experiences from 1885 to 1947, during the times of the restrictive Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Immigration Act. Henry Yu, professor of History at UBC, will be conducting this research as part of a ten-year initiative to build a physical and digital museum, which will study the Asian Canadian contributions to the building of a Pacific Canada.