History & Pioneers

Multicultural Canada Project

The Multicultural Canada Project is a collaborative effort involving the Simon Fraser University Library, the University of Calgary, and several other organizations, including the Sien Lok Society, a Chinese-Canadian heritage organization in Calgary. The vision of the Project is to work with community-based organizations to gather Canadian multicultural print, oral and visual heritage materials and preserve them online, in order to correct the imbalance that exists in relation to similar English and French-language materials. The scope of the project encompasses Chinese, Doukhobour, Ukrainian, Indic, Japanese and Persian materials. One of the initial Chinese-language projects, for which a prototype has been developed, will be the digitization of the Chinese Times, complete with a corresponding index in both Chinese and English. The Multicultural Canada Project, although not primarily aimed at genealogists, could ultimately encompass a wide-range of resources, including genealogically-useful materials.

More information:

Mailing address:

Lynn Copeland, University Librarian
WAC Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
V5A 1S6

Email:

copeland@sfu.ca

Telephone:

604-291-3265

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