June Chow 周慕慈
Chinese Canadian Archivist
The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
June Chow 周慕慈 is an archivist, archival scholar, and award-winning heritage worker forging more equitable relationships between record-creating communities and public institutions. She is archivist for the community-based commemoration, The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act; her work protects this cultural memory through preservation and access to Chinese immigration records in partnership with Library and Archives Canada and University of British Columbia Special Collections. Most recently, she was at Toronto Public Library working with its Chinese Canadian Archive and local communities to safeguard their recorded histories in the city. She is co-author of From Salvage to Strategy: A Conversation with Paul Yee on Archival Consciousness and the Chinese Canadian Archival Record in BC Studies journal.
Presenting at the following sessions
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds vast records documenting the federal government's control over Chinese immigration and, by extension, the Chinese Canadian community from the late-19th century through to 1967 when Canada finally shed its race-based immigration policy. Many Chinese immigration
