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Vancouver’s Chinese Canadian Museum will open its doors on July 1 on the 100th anniversary of racist legislation known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, a...

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Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum will open its doors on July 1 on the 100th anniversary of racist legislation known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, after the province pledged an additional $10 million in funding.

Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum will open its doors on July 1 on the 100th anniversary of racist legislation known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, after the province pledged an additional $10 million in funding.

Port Coquitlam heritage museum staff and volunteers uncover artifacts from late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The province said it will provide $27.5 million for the museum and real estate marketer Bob Rennie will contribute another $7.5 million.

The former Rennie Museum and offices at 51 East Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown will be turned into the Chinese Canadian Museum.

SHARES Quan Jew Louie was Vancouver-born, a member of the influential HY Louie family and a UBC soccer champion, but the government still didn’t consider him Canadian. A flying officer during the Second World War, he was hit by enemy shells in Germany and crashed into a field. He died for a country that rejected him. Microfilm reproduction of Quan Jew Louie’s CI9 travel authorization via Library and Archives Canada. Every Remembrance Day, Cecil Yip would shine h...