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George Jay Elementary School students form a circle of paper hands decorated with Coast Salish art, while an Indigenous grandmother and young mother mark the day at a Camosun event
On Sept. 5, 2022, Chinese-Canadian students were removed from public school classes by a school board intent on embracing racial segregation.
Hundreds in Victoria attended events on Monday to commemorate a century since Chinese students staged a walkout and a school boycott against segregation.
It was on Sept. 5, 1922, that the British Columbia capital's more than 200 Chinese-Canadian students refused to attend Victoria School Board mandated Chinese-only schools, launching a one-year student strike that eventually saw the board reverse its segregationist policy in time for the start of class in 1923.
VICTORIA — The first day of school in Victoria one hundred years ago marked the start of a student strike over segregation that helped Chinese-Canadians solidify their place in a country that was not always welcoming, say historians and cultural expe