A museum gallery display features a large central panel styled like an official document labeled “Dominion of Canada – Department of Immigration and Colonization,” with a smaller heading reading “Breaking the Silence.” In front of the panel, a person stands with arms crossed, while both sides of the wall are filled with red-framed grids containing historical identification documents and photographs related to Chinese immigration.

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We can’t change our world if we aren’t even aware of history.

As Canada continues to struggle with human rights, communities without clean drinking water for decades, broken or contested treaties and land rights, denialism of the atrocities conducted at residential schools, rising economic and social inequality, and the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Progress has been made, but we still have a long way to go.Continue Reading