In our most recent project we started learning more about memorials and traumatic events that took place in Canada. My group chose to work on the Chinese Head Tax. We learned about what the Chinese Head Tax was and how it effected people then, and how it effects people now a days. We learned about how wrong this event was and how it should never be repeated again.

Our final products for this project where memorials that we would Walk through and express the wrongs that were committed on the Chinese people from 1885-1947. These memorials were small but very effective. We showed where in BC we would be so that it appealed to the right communities.

a photo of our memorial

I chose to make a memorial on the Head Tax because I was interested in it, as well as it potentially could have effected my family. My grandparents came over from China to Canada a mere 10 years after this event ended. If they had decided to go any earlier they would not have been allowed in the county even though they were just trying to find a new start for their young kids, including my dad.

Overall I think that this project did educate me about this topic even though I already knew quite a bit about it. I learned more about the communities and families that were unnecessarily destroyed during this period by the Canadian government. Our memorial was a good way to represent our feelings and thoughts around this topic, and understand the effects of this.