Righting Canadas Wrongs

Residential Schools \| Chinese Head Tax \| Komagata Maru \| Italian Internment

	Residential Schools

		Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology on behalf of the Government of Canada on June 11, 2008.

		Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin discuss Canada's attempt to commit "cultural genocide" against aboriginal peoples on May 29, 2015.

		Watch a Canadian Residential School Propaganda Video from 1955.

		Watch the closing events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

		Watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's speech at the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in Ottawa on December 15, 2015

		Listen to Minister of Aboriginal Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett on CBC The Current

		Listen to author Melanie Florence discuss the book on CBC Metro Morning

		Listen to Survivor's stories at the online exhibition Where Are the Children?.


	Chinese Head Tax


	Sid Chow talks about Chinese immigrants adopting false identities in order to reunite with their families in Canada More from Sid Chow: Chow discusses the impact of the head tax on his family, the only Chinese family in Battleford Saskatchewan in the 1950s


	*Past National Director of Chinese Canadian National Council Walter Tom discusses* his participation in the head tax redress campaign


	Pierre Berton discusses the CPR and the hardships of early Chinese immigrants in Canada

		Judi Michelle Young talks about her father's employment with the CPR.

		Keith Lock talks about his grandmother and her publicized arrival in Toronto in 1909.

		Judi Michelle Young describes her father's experience bringing his family to Canada and affording the head tax.

		Douglas Young, the first Chinese-Canadian Member of Parliament, describes the significance of the WWII era to Chinese-Canadian history.

		Hank Wong talks about Operation Oblivion, a guerilla unit dispatched to Hong Kong during the Second World War.

		Keith Lock describes his parents' immigration dilemma, as his mother – a war bride – was prevented from entering Canada.

		Albert Lee talks about his father's arranged marriage in China as a Canadian citizen, and the arrival of his mother and sister in Halifax years later.

		Vera Pon, the wife of a head tax payer, reacts to the apology from the Harper Government.

	Komagata Maru

		Listen to Dr. Brij V. Lal discuss why Indian immigrants came to Canada.

		Watch as Ali Kazimi talks about Canada’s white only policy.

		Listen to Dr. Peter Ward talk about the general public’s attitudes toward Asian immigration.

		Watch Professor Hugh Johnston set the scene for the voyage and what happened when the ship arrived in Vancouver.

		Watch as Doreen Indra talks about racism in the media and how it affected society’s perception of the immigrants, as well as the Indian community.

		Watch Ajmer Rode talk about his many forms of writing about the Komagata Maru story.

		Watch Jas Toor and Rajwant Singh Toor, pictured here, as they talk about their grandfather’s experience as a passenger aboard the Komagata Maru.

		Watch Tejpal Singh Sandhu talk about his great-grandfather Gurdit Singh.

	Italian Internment

		Watch James McCreath discuss his grandfather James Franceschini's experiences coming to Canada and his business career.

		Watch James McCreath describe his childhood.

		Watch Toni Ciccarelli describe her experience being taken away by the RCMP from her job at the post office, fingerprinted, and told she was a Fascist.

		Watch Fernanda Colangelo as she talks about the role of informants in creating fear in the Italian community and targeting individuals for arrest by the RCMP.

		Watch Doug Brombal talk about his father Nereo Brombal's experiences.

		Watch Frank Martinello discuss the impact on his family.

		Watch Antionette Olivieri as she describes her husband as a 12-year-old and his experiences visiting his father as a prisoner at the CNE grounds in Toronto and then Petawawa.

		Watch Maurice Poggi discuss his father, Vincenzo Poggi, and his experience painting in the camps and artwork during the war.

		Watch Eugene William Guagneli discuss the experience of having his mother taken away.

		Watch Attilio Girardi as he describes his father's experiences at the Kananaskis camp where Italian and German internees laboured on public works for the government.

		Watch Mary Thornton as she describes how her family changed their name to avoid trouble and help Mary get a job.

		Watch Geno Scattolon talk about his family's experience.

		Watch John Edward De Toro discuss bullying and how he was treated at school.

		Watch Gloria Costantini Giroux, who was a child at the time of internment, discuss her family situation after her father was interned and the role her older sister played.

		Watch Elio Salciccioli describe his experiences as a boy watching the RCMP raid his home; his father, a Hamilton streelworker, was locked out of his job until he was cleared by the RCMP.

		Watch Dominic Nardocchio Jr. talk about his father's experience, including the RCMP's arbitrary failure to release him.

		Watch Attilio Girardi as he talks about his father's attempt at getting released, and the reliance of government authorities on secret informants whose information was often false.

		Watch Joseph Mastromonaco as he eloquently describes the emotional impact on himself as a boy and later in life of the absence of his father due to the internment.

		Watch Antonia Maria (Ninetta) Ricci discuss her experience.

		Watch Frank Iacobucci discuss his family's experience during the Second World War.

		Watch Giulette Doganieri talk about the shame she felt about her father being interned and how she felt she could not talk about it to her children and others.


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