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Canada's Chinese Railway Workers: Remembering their Sacrifice

During my tour through British Columbia in the summer of 2022, I stopped by Revelstoke, a city that exudes the strength and excitement that railway towns represent in the story of Canada's Confederation. The bright red, yellow and orange boxes of metal whizzing through the verdant evergreen backdrops, boast of Canada's prosperity, past, present and future. The Revelstoke Railway Museum was a wonderful place to stop by and glean more Canadian history. I was proud to find Port Moody referenced in several of the displays and also in a children's book on the history of the Railroad. I later drove to Craigellachie to visit the site of the last spike driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway on November 7, 1885. But with the glorious story of our national railway, there are some darker details that need to be told, to bring credit where credit is due, and cause reflection to amend our ways from past wrongdoings. According to the Province of BC's web site on the Legacy of the Chinese in BC, "Over the course of construction and by the end of 1882, of the 9,000 railway workers, 6,500 were Chinese Canadians. They were employed to build the B.C. segment of the railway through the most challenging and dangerous terrain." Yet their faces are excluded from the photo taken at Craigellachie when the last spike was driven. This video is a tribute to Canada's Chinese railway workers, whose sacrifice helped unite our nation with a pathway for tourism and industry, that knows no physical barriers. We are indebted as a nation to the resilience of these Chinese Canadians, who despite racism, violence, injustice, and death, laid down the tracks in Western Canada to unite our Confederation. Video clips were taken during my visit to the Revelstoke Railway Museum (July 29, 2022), Craigellachie Last Spike site (July 29, 2022), and Museum of Vancouver's Exhibit: A Seat at the Table, Chinese Immigration, and British Columbia (April 30, 2022). #craigellachie #revelstoke #chinesecanadianhistory