Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: In-person event at the Museum
Language: Presented in English
Cost: FREE
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This Asian Heritage Month, the Museum presents a special edition of Canada’s Storytellers featuring award winning community historian and curator Catherine Clement to explore Chinese Canadian history through her landmark book, The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act.
What to expect:
- Talk and reading examining the human impact of the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
- Insight into how a single law separated families and subjected Chinese Canadians to decades of surveillance and exclusion
- Stories revealed through C.I. (Chinese Immigration) certificates and other identity documents preserved by families for generations
- Book sale and signing to follow presentation
About the author:
Catherine Clement is an award-winning Chinese Canadian community historian, curator and author. She is known for her extensive, crowdsourced community history projects that help uncover, share and preserve the experiences of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Her books have been extensions of her history projects.
About Canada’s Storytellers:
Canada’s Storytellers is an ongoing series of programs that connects visitors with cultural works, and their creators, to explore themes of immigration, migration, multiculturalism, (in) equality and Canadian identity. Canada’s Storytellers has welcomed renowned authors such as Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien, Mark Sakamoto, Blaise Ndala, Kim Thuy; screened films like Kayak to Klemtu, Bagages, I Am Rohingya, and more.