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About the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21--Canada’s sixth national museum--collects, shares and pays tribute to the Canadian immigration story.

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

International Archives Day Special Film Screening

The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is proud to partner with the National Film Board for the Halifax premiere of the documentary film, Unarchived.
Unarchived is a feature-length documentary about the people and places often left out of traditional archives and the communities who are challenging this erasure. Unarchived surveys the inspiring work of community museums and archives across BC, including those of South Asian Canadian, Chinese Canadian, Tahltan Nation and LGBTQ2+ communities.
In Unarchived, we see how the stories of early Chinese Canadians are told through the history of Cumberland’s Chinatown, one of the largest Chinatowns in Canada by the end of WWII, and the records now held in the Cumberland Museum on Vancouver Island; how the stories of early South Asian Canadians are told through the history of Paldi, a vibrant multicultural community founded by Mayo Singh in the Cowichan Valley in 1917, and the archives now kept at the University of the Fraser Valley; how since the 1970s Run Dutton has been the keeper of the BC Gay and Lesbian Archive in his small Vancouver west end apartment; and how in 2021, Sandra Marion, the Director of Cultural Heritage at Tahltan Central Government, traveled from Telegraph Creek to Victoria to discuss repatriation of Tahltan Nation artifacts held in the Royal BC Museum.

Le Musée canadien de l’immigration du Quai 21 est fier de s’associer à l’Office national du film pour la première haligonienne du film documentaire Unarchived.
Unarchived est un long métrage documentaire sur les personnes et les lieux souvent exclus des archives traditionnelles et sur les communautés qui remettent cet oubli en cause. Unarchived passe en revue le travail inspirant des musées et archives communautaires de toute la Colombie-Britannique, y compris ceux des communautés sud-asiatique, chinoise, de la nation Tahltan et LGBTQ2+.
Dans Unarchived, nous voyons comment les histoires des premiers Canadiens d’origine chinoise sont racontées à travers l’histoire du quartier chinois de Cumberland, l’un des plus grands quartiers chinois du Canada à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et les archives aujourd’hui conservées au musée de Cumberland sur l’île de Vancouver; comment les histoires des premiers Canadiens d’origine sud-asiatique sont racontées à travers l’histoire de Paldi, une communauté multiculturelle dynamique fondée par Mayo Singh dans la vallée de Cowichan en 1917, et les archives aujourd’hui conservées à Fraser Valley University; et comment, depuis les années 1970, Run Dutton conserve les archives des gays et lesbiennes de la Colombie-Britannique dans son petit appartement de l’ouest de Vancouver; en 2021, Sandra Marion, directrice du patrimoine culturel du gouvernement central Tahltan, s’est rendue de Telegraph Creek, à Victoria, pour discuter du rapatriement d’objets de la nation Tahltan conservés au Royal BC Museum.

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